Association Activities Stuart Segelnick Heads Dental Editors Organization BROOKLYN periodontist Stuart Segelnick, D.D.S., M.S., was installed as president of the American Association of Dental Editors and Journalists at AADEJ’s Annual Meeting in October in Las Vegas. Dr. Segelnick is editor of the Second District Dental Society Bulletin, as well as the Bulletin of the Northeast Society of Periodontists. He has co-edited five books on dentistry and been recognized Stuart Segelnick twice for excellence in journalism by the International College of Dentists. He is also a winner of the NYSDA Bernard P. Tillis Award for editorial achievement. Dr. Segelnick is adjunct clinical professor, Department of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry, New York University College of Dentistry.
Seventh District Names New Executive Director BECKY HERMAN, a recruitment and communications specialist with close to 20 years of experience in dental education and healthcare administration, is the new executive director of the Seventh District and Monroe County Dental societies. Ms. Herman is only the third permanent ED of the Seventh District in the past Becky Herman
50 years. She is taking over from the interim ED, Dr. Andrew Vorrasi.
Ms. Herman brings to her position more than 25 years of experience in developing and implementing innovative strategies for successful recruitment, fundraising and communications programs. Nineteen of those years were in dental education and healthcare administration. Since 2015, she has served as director of recruit-
Call for Nominations THE NYSDA COUNCIL ON NOMINATIONS will meet on Monday, March 21, 2022, at 1 p.m. to make its selections for President-Elect, Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Association in 2022. Nominees for President-Elect must be members of the Ninth District Dental Association. Nominees for Vice President must be members of the Queens County Dental Society. Nominees for Secretary-Treasurer may be members of any NYSDA component.
ment and community outreach for New York University Langone dental medicine postdoctoral residency programs. In this role, she engaged and supported leadership, faculty, residents and staff within more than 100 dental program/health center sites across 27 states and the Caribbean. She joined Lutheran Medical Center (now NYU Langone Dental Medicine) in 2012 as its director of alumni relations and development to establish the vision and direction of philanthropic efforts for the department. From 2007 to 2012, Ms. Herman was director of advancement for the Eastman Institute of Oral Health at the University of
Members wishing to submit nominations for any of these posi-
Rochester. In this role she led a comprehensive capital campaign,
tions must do so no later than March 12, 2022. Nominations should
was responsible for the organization and implementation of high-
be sent to Dr. Craig Ratner, Council on Nominations, NYSDA, 20
end donor recognition and stewardship events, volunteer recruit-
Corporate Woods Blvd., Suite 602, Albany, NY 12211.
ment, budget oversight and strategic planning. She has served as a Board member and president for several nonprofit and educational
Dental Foundation Approves Board THE NEW YORK STATE DENTAL FOUNDATION has selected the following to lead the Foundation in 2022: G. Kirk Gleason, chairman; Michael Breault, vice chairman; Lawrence Volland, treasurer; Mark Feldman, secretary. Named to positions on the Board were: Martin Dominger and Mario Silvestri (one-year terms); and Chad Gehani, Robert Peskin, Donald Tucker and Lawrence Volland (three-year terms).
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organizations in the Rochester area. Ms. Herman received her Master’s Degree in Education and a Certificate in Dental Education from the University of the Pacific, following completion of a dental fellowship through the Academy for Advanced Learning (AAL) and the American Dental Education Association (ADEA).
