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dental school news, continuedMembers of the HSDM faculty wererecently elected to office at the AmericanSociety for Bone and Mineral Research.ROLAND BARON, chair and professor oforal medicine, infection, and immunity atHSDM, was elected president-elect for the2014 term, and BEATE LANSKE, associateprofessor of oral medicine, infection,and immunity, was elected a councilor.BARON and SUTADA LOTINUN, anHSDM instructor in oral medicine,infection, and immunity, were amongthe authors of the presentation “Role ofSelective HDAC6 Inhibition on MultipleMyeloma Bone Disease” at the AmericanSociety of Hematology annual meetingand exposition in December.MARC BERNARD ACKERMAN, anHSDM instructor in developmentalbiology and director of orthodontics atBoston Children’s Hospital, was namedby the Special Care Dentistry Association(SCDA) as the next editor-in-chief ofSCDA’s peer-reviewed journal, SpecialCare in Dentistry. Ackerman assumedthe role in January 2013. Special caredentistry is the branch of dentistry thatprovides oral care services for peoplewith physical, medical, developmental,or cognitive conditions that limittheir ability to receive routine dentalcare. In his new role, Ackerman willreview the literature and evidence toguide best practices for oral health careproviders who treat patients with specialneeds in their everyday practice.MARTIN NWEEIA, a clinical instructorin restorative dentistry and biomaterialssciences at HSDM and a researcherstudying the narwhal tusk, was named aNational Geographic Explorer of the Weekin September 2012. Nweeia and colleaguesalso published an article in the AnatomicalRecord entitled “Vestigial Tooth Anatomyand Tusk Nomenclature for MonodonMonoceros.”KAUMUDI JOSHIPURA, an HSDMlecturer on oral health policy and epidemiology,was a speaker at the WorldCardiovascular, Diabetes, and ObesityOnline Conference in September.ROBERT WRIGHT, director of theAdvanced Graduate Education Programin Prosthodontics at HSDM, noted thefollowing news from the New EnglandSection of the American College ofProsthodontists (ACP) in October andat the Annual Session of the ACP inNovember: JUNHYCK KIM (MMSc 2013,prosthodontics) won second prize for hispresentation “The Effect of DifferentThe late summer always brings exciting energy and fresh perspectives to the School with the arrival of the new classes ofDMD students and advanced graduate residents. Below and on the following page are the most recent members of theHSDM community.1478111215161920212324252829323523569101314171822262730 313334Harvey WillsonMembers of the DMD Class of 2016. 1: Kristen Huber. 2: Hillary Lathrop. 3: Elizabeth Ng. 4: Carly Park. 5: Jessica Saliba. 6: Christine Min. 7: Lily Liu.8: Miguel Roque. 9: Helen Yong. 10: Yasmin Chebbi. 11: Lauren Hum. 12: Nickolaos Kallis. 13: Lisa Lian. 14: Tina Ren. 15: Justin Sheinbaum.16: Kenneth Kufta. 17: Cameron Lee. 18: Renee Fan. 19: Anthony Testa. 20: Sina Hedayatnia. 21: Justin Partridge. 22: Nicole Bollinger. 23: Cliff Lee.24: Maryann Vlahos. 25: George Chen. 26: Gina Gill. 27: Richard Ngo. 28: Martin Berger. 29: Pouya Vakilian. 30: Raina Chandiramani. 31: MariaBaquerizo. 32: Daniel Brein. 33: Michael Forman. 34: George Koch. 35: Hanna Heck.24 winter 2012–13 • harvard dental bulletin
dental school newsSurface Treatments on Shear-BondStrength of Interim Restorative Resins” atthe New England Section of the ACP andwent on to compete nationally at the ACPin Baltimore. This presentation representsjoint research between DMD andadvanced graduate prosthodontics residentsand faculty, as well as global researchamong HSDM advanced prosthodonticsresidents, Seoul National University,and Korea University. JASON LEE(MMSc 2013, prosthodontics) presented“Maxillary Ceramo-Zirconia OpposingMandibular Acrylic-Titanium Prostheseson Guided Immediate Loaded Implants.”CHAN CHEONG (DMSc 2014, prosthodontics)presented “Effects of SurfaceCharacteristics of Denture Base Resinson the Adhesion of Candida Albicans toPrevent Denture Stomatitis: A Case Study.”STEPHAN YOON (DMD 2013) presented“Total Occlusal Convergence of CrownPreparations by Dental Students” at theACP Annual Session.At the Greater New York Academy ofProsthodontics meeting in December2012, DAVID S. KIM (MMSc 2013,prosthodontics) presented the poster“Two-Visit CAD/CAM Denture withImmediately Loaded Implant SupportedBar.” A presentation and a submittedpublication are required for HSDMgraduation. Kim’s poster presentationrepresented HSDM at the national/internationalmeeting.HAWAZIN ELANI (MMSc 2015, prosthodontics)published the paper “SocioeconomicInequalities and Oral Healthin Canada and the United States” in theJournal of Dental Research in July. Elani alsodiscussed the article in the Journal of theCanadian Dental Association in December.JEFFREY T. SLOVIN, a member of theHSDM Dean’s Advisory Board, wasappointed chief executive officer of SironaDental Systems Inc., a leader in dentaltechnology, effective February 20, 2013.KEYVAN SOHRABI (MMSc 2013, dentalpublic health) was selected by the boardof directors of the American DentalEducation Association to serve on theADEA PASS (Postdoctoral ApplicationSupport Service) Task Force for a threeyearterm beginning in March 2013.COLLEEN GREENE (DMD/MPH2013), president of the American StudentDental Association, was profiled inthe Summer 2012 issue of the Journalof the Massachusetts Dental Society.continued1356710111214161820 21232426293024891315171928 31252227Jan ReissNew advanced graduate residents posed during their orientation in July 2012. 1: Marcelo Freire. 2: Maria Cuevas Nuñez. 3: Anna Yuan.4: Michal Kuten-Shorrer. 5: Brandon Beaudoin. 6: Rosa Mathai. 7: David Guthrie. 8: Nithya Chickmagalur. 9: Jamie Chung. 10: BrendanÓ Niadh. 11: Jessica Lee. 12: Rachel Turner. 13: Wichaya Wisitrasameewong. 14: Henry Ohiomoba. 15: Yau-Hua Yu. 16: Eric Young. 17:Hawazin Elani. 18: Michael Kang. 19: Dayana Escobar. 20: Jessica Wilson. 21: Ana Andrada. 22: Mariana Alves. 23: Negin Katebi. 24: MichaelSunwoo. 25: Soomin Jung. 26: Megan Swanson. 27: Hend Alqaderi. 28: Victoria Park. 29: Chun-Teh Lee. 30: Joshua Lee. 31: Melanie Yuen.harvard dental bulletin • winter 2012–1325
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