Association Activities

Association Activities

Board of Dentistry Appointments Announced

THE NEW YORK STATE BOARD OF REGENTS has approved the appointment of two NYSDA members to five-year terms on the State Board for Dentistry. They are Payam Goudarzi, D.D.S., of Johnson City, Sixth District, and Charles Grannum of Brooklyn, Second District. Their appointments are in effect now, through Mar. 31, 2027.

Dr. Goudarzi is a past president of NYSDA. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the New York State Dental Foundation, the NYSDA Council on Awards and is a member of the MLMIC Underwriting Claims Review Committee. A graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, he is proprietor of Goudarzi Dental in Johnson City.

Payam Goudarzi

Dr. Grannum received his dental degree from Fairleigh Dickenson School of Dentistry and graduated in 1991 from the prosthodontics program at NY-Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center. He is employed at Fort Greene Clinton Hill Dental in Brooklyn.

Council Approves Nominees for NYSDA Office

AT THEIR MEETING March 21, members of the NYSDA Council on Nominations approved its slate of officers for 2022-2023 as follows:

James E. Galati, Fourth District, was advanced to the office of president; Anthony M. Cuomo, Ninth District, was nominated for the office of president-elect; Prabha Krishnan, Queens County, was nominated for the office of vice president; and Frank C. Barnashuk, Eighth District, was nominated for the office of secretary-treasurer.

NYSDA Members Offered Help with Hiring Decisions

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Alliance offers to replace your need to hire your own complianceofficer by handling the necessary credentialing of clinical andnon-clinical staff to eliminate fraud and safeguard patient safety. Forinstance, it will routinely check the Office of Inspector General list toensure candidates for hire, as well as current employees, have notbeen excluded from receiving federal funds, such as Medicare andMedicaid. Were a dental practice to employ such a person, it couldbe subject to civil monetary penalties.

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In Memoriam

NEW YORK COUNTY

Edward Luboja

Columbia University ‘47

Alger Courts Apts, #4 Bronxville, NY 10708

February 4, 2021

FOURTH DISTRICT

Benjamin Vinciguerra

University at Buffalo ‘66

711 Union Street Schenectady, NY

February 25, 2022

FIFTH DISTRICT

Paul Michaelson

University of Detroit ‘74

1041 Macintosh Drive Rochester, NY 14626

March 12, 2022

EIGHTH DISTRICT

Robert Werner University of Pennsylvania ‘53

3060 Crown Heron Point Venice, FL 34293

February 17, 2022

QUEENS COUNTY

Edward Greenfield

New York University ‘57

22 Canterbury Lane Roslyn Heights, NY 11577

February 8, 2022