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 Stuart Segelnick books on dentistry and been recognized 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.

Stuart Segelnick

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.

Members wishing to submit nominations for any of these positions must do so no later than March 12, 2022. Nominations should be sent to Dr. Craig Ratner, Council on Nominations, NYSDA, 20 Corporate Woods Blvd., Suite 602, Albany, NY 12211.

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).

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 recruitment 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 Rochester. In this role she led a comprehensive capital campaign, was responsible for the organization and implementation of highend donor recognition and stewardship events, volunteer recruitment, budget oversight and strategic planning. She has served as a Board member and president for several nonprofit and educational 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).

Becky Herman

In Memoriam

NEW YORK COUNTY

Irving Markowitz

New York University ‘55 210 Central Park South, #15D New York, NY 10019 August 17, 2021

SECOND DISTRICT

Mark Fishman

New York University ‘71 206 Augusta Court Roslyn, NY 11576 September 13, 2021

Leonard Weingarten

New York University ‘67 235 Pepperidge Road Hewlett, NY 11557 June 10, 2020

FOURTH DISTRICT

Robert Westcott

University of Pennsylvania ‘57 84 Glenwood Avenue Queensbury, NY 12804 September 2, 2021

SIXTH DISTRICT

Dennis DeStefano

University at Buffalo ‘76 RR 1, #110F Equinunk, PA 18417 July 30, 2021

SEVENTH DISTRICT

Buddhi Shrestha

Foreign Dental School 760 Plank Road Penfield, NY 14526 October 3, 2021

EIGHTH DISTRICT

Donald Galley

University at Buffalo ‘54 8 Litten Way Greenville, SC 29615 October 3, 2021

Norman Mohl

University at Buffalo ‘56 5601 Dunrobin Drive, #5305 Sarasota, FL 34238 November 23, 2020

Mindy Paticoff-Weinman

University at Buffalo ‘81 60 Forestglen Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 October 2, 2021

Michael Talluto

St. Louis University ‘59 3904 Seneca Street, Apt C Buffalo, NY 14224 September 16, 2021

NINTH DISTRICT

Robert Hales

Georgetown University ‘71 1124 Main Street Peekskill, NY 10566 August 20, 2021

Robert Prindle

University of Maryland ‘60 5435 Morse Road, #132 Columbus, OH 43230 January 24, 2020

Neal Riesner

University of Pennsylvania ‘55 5 Merlot Drive, #526 Highland, NY 12528 September 28, 2021

NASSAU COUNTY

Ralph Fleishman

Columbia University ‘71 13201 Aspenwood Drive Plainview, NY 11803 August 23, 2021

SUFFOLK COUNTY

William Tinkler

New York University ‘54 18 Williams Avenue Holtsville, NY 11742 July 7, 2021