Hospital, where medical and dental students join pediatric medical and dental residents in their rotations in several family shelters. Chew’s community activities at Penn Dental Medicine have included work with an outreach program targeted to the elderly in which she created educational materials that provide detailed illustration regarding appropriate oral health products.
Li-Ping Chew (D’11) and Senthil Arun (D’11)
In addition, Chew and Matthew Miller (D’11) have been selected as 2010–11 Greater Philadelphia Schweitzer Fellows. Chew and Miller are the first-ever Schweitzer Fellows selected from Penn Dental Medicine. Over the next year, they will join approximately 200 other 2010–11 Schweitzer Fellows across the country (including two from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) in conceptualizing and carrying out service projects that address the unmet health-related needs of underserved individuals and communities. They plan to address oral health in vulnerable high school students by implementing Penn Dental Inspire, a project that promotes good oral homecare and raises awareness of dentistry as a career path. Upon completion of their initial year, Chew and Miller will become Schweitzer Fellows for Life, joining a network of over 2,000 individuals who are skilled in, and committed to, addressing the health needs of underserved people throughout their careers as professionals. 22 on campus: people
Dr. Robert Vanarsdall Named Director of Advanced Dental Education
Dr. Robert Vanarsdall, Chair and Professor of Orthodontics at Penn Dental Medicine, was promoted to Director of Advanced Dental Education, effective November 1, 2009. In this new position, he will work closely with the program directors of Penn Dental Dr. Robert Vanarsdall Medicine’s eight specialty programs to advance the School’s postdoctoral education. He will continue as a member of the orthodontic faculty, however in order to focus on this new role, Dr. Vanarsdall will in time relinquish the Chair of Orthodontics once a successor is appointed. A search for the chairmanship for the Department of Orthodontics is currently underway. AAP Foundation Establishes Cohen Scholarship Campaign
Dr. D. Walter Cohen (C’47,D’50), Professor Emeritus of Periodontics and Dean Emeritus, is being recognized by the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) Foundation with a campaign to create a named scholarship in his honor. Once the funds are raised, the scholarship will become part of the Foundation’s complement of awards. “There is no one in periodontics who has contributed Dr. D. Walter Cohen more to periodontal (C’47,D’50) education than Dr. D. Walter Cohen,” says Dr. Joseph Gian-Grasso, Penn Dental Medicine Overseer and among those instrumental in initiating the campaign. “…Dr. Cohen sets an example to which we can all aspire.”
When learning of the scholarship campaign, Dr. Cohen said, “I was very pleasantly surprised. Students graduate with such high levels of debt; having funds that will serve as a true scholarship, not a loan, will have a tremendous influence on students.” For more information on the planned scholarship or on making a contribution to the campaign, contact the AAP Foundation at 312-573-3257 or www.perio.org/give. Students Named to Matthew Cryer Honor Society
Students from the Class of 2011 have been recognized for their outstanding academic achievements as the newest inductees into the Matthew Cryer Honor Society. Membership in the Cryer Society is the highest scholastic honor conferred to Penn Dental Medicine students. The award is presented to the top 10 highest-ranked DMD candidates in each class at the completion of their second year (as determined by the general order of merit). Established in 1912, the Cryer Society honors the legacy of Dr. Matthew Cryer, a distinguished Professor of Oral Surgery, research, and clinician. The Society’s main functions are to acknowledge and honor academic achievements, while serving as a body of reference and resource to new students entering the School. This year’s inductees include Amanda M. Bayley, Christopher Chafin, Joshua A. Goldfein, Sanghun Lee, Justin R. Messina, Jacy J. Papasikos, Alexander D. Paul, Scott C. Roemer, Justin Silvestre, and Goth KF Siu. Dr. Sherrill Adams Recognized for Advancing Role of Women at Penn
Dr. Sherrill Adams, Professor of Biochemistry at Penn Dental Medicine, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the University of Pennsylvania’s Trustees’ Council of Penn Women (TCPW) — Office of the Provost Award, recognizing significant contributions by Penn faculty to advancing the role of women in higher education and research at Penn. Dr. Adams, who has taught at Penn