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Oral Surgeons Society Elects New Officers
Oral Surgeons Society Elects New Officers
GUENTER JONKE of Stony Brook, Suffolk County, has been elected president of the New York State Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Dr. Jonke, who also serves on the NYSDA Board of Trustees, assumed the office following NYSSOMS’s Spring Meeting, which took place April 13-14 at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He will be joined in leadership roles by Ali Payami of Yorktown Heights, president-elect; Michael Turner of New York, vice president; John Vorrasi of Rochester, secretary; and Gwendolyn Reeve of New York, treasurer.
The Spring Meeting, a collaboration between NYSSOMS and Osteo Science Foundation, featured two continuing education programs: “Defending the Specialty: Collaborative Patient Safety Principles,” which provided strategies and resources to reduce risk in the oral and maxillofacial practice and improved defensibility in oral surgery-related professional liability claims; and “Updates in Implant Dentistry for the Practicing Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon,” presented by Tara Aghaloo, D.D.S., M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Aghaloo, professor in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the UCLA School of Dentistry, updated attendees on achieving the most ideal and successful implant outcomes, avoiding and managing complications, and utilizing new materials and technologies.
