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MUSC names dental school in honor of Dr. James B. Edwards New clinical and teaching facility dedicated to Edwards’ service, guidance
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early 800 people turned out to help the Medical University cut the ribbon to its new dental clinical education center and re-name South Carolina’s only dental school as a lasting tribute to James B. Edwards, D.M.D., MUSC president emeritus. Edwards has contributed much to South Carolina and the country in his long-standing career as a dedicated oral surgeon, state senator, governor, U.S. presidential cabinet member and MUSC president, and was honored by MUSC faculty, staff, students and dental medicine alumni during the school’s alumni weekend festivities. “With the state’s only dental school, MUSC plays a critical role in providing the dentists who serve all South Carolinians,” said Ray Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., MUSC president. “With the opening of the new building, our students are being taught in the most advanced facility of its kind in the country. The school also honors the legacy of Jim Edwards, who began his career as an oral surgeon and ended it by leading MUSC through a remarkable two decades of growth and development.”
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Charles E. Volpe October 5, 1937 - March 16, 2010 IT IS WITH DEEP REGRET THAT WE ANNOUNCE THE PASSING OF CHARLES E. VOLPE, A BENEFACTOR AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE HEART & VASCULAR CENTER’S BOARD WHO DIED ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 16, 2010.
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native of Manchester, N.Y., Mr. Volpe was the retired president and COO of Greenville-based KEMET. Upon his retirement in 1996, he and his wife, Andrea (“Andi”), moved to Charleston and became deeply involved with the city’s civic, educational, health care and cultural communities. Together, they were generous supporters of many organizations in Charleston, including the College of Charleston, Spoleto Festival USA, the Gibbes Museum of Art and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Volpe was especially supportive of healthrelated causes, stemming largely from his family’s
experiences with poor health. When he was 5 years old, his sister died at age 16 from the effects of multiple sclerosis. A year later, his father died of a heart attack at age 54. His five brothers also died of heart attacks, each before age 65. In his inimitably proactive fashion, Mr. Volpe worked to address the state’s leading health care challenge – heart disease – through his volunteer service on the advisory board of the Medical University’s Heart & Vascular Center, a position that he held from the board’s inception until the time of his death. He also played an early leadership role in establishing the Michael E. Assey Endowed Chair in Clinical Cardiology and the Dr. Peter C. Gazes Endowed Chair in Clinical Cardiology. In 2006, he and Mrs. Volpe quietly made a major donation to the Medical University – one of the larger in the institution’s history – to help it build a new institute for prevention of and intervention for heart disease. On a personal level Chuck Volpe was a remarkable humanist. A good communicator and an even better listener, he was flexible and in possession of a great sense of humor. His goal in life was to help other people, to make their lives better. He gave of himself to his friends and especially his family. Many people will miss him.
MUSC President Emeritus James B. Edwards and his wife, Ann.
During Edwards’ tenure at MUSC, the university increased its campus size from 1.5 million square feet to 5 million square feet, strengthening every aspect of its three-part mission of education, patient care and scientific discovery in the process. During his 17-year tenure, Edwards and his wife, Ann, helped MUSC forge a national reputation for health care excellence, setting a pace for growth and progress that continues to build momentum today. “His entire life stands as a testament to the values of integrity and service, which we hope to instill in each of our students,” said Jack Sanders, D.M.D., James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine dean. “It is a privilege to rename the college in his honor. I want to emphasize that this new building would not have been possible without the support of hundreds of individuals, businesses and organizations who have brought us to this exciting point in history, especially the dentists and alumni who work and live in South Carolina.” Student Government Association President and dental student Sheldon Bates also acknowledged the school’s track record and how things are changing. “We are learning with new technologies and state-of-the-art equipment which will launch us, and future graduates, into a higher echelon of performance in the field of dentistry,” he said. “As a student at this time in the development of the dental program here at MUSC, I can see a glimpse of where we have been and can begin to envision what the future of dentistry holds in the state of South Carolina. This is indeed an exciting time.”
“His entire life stands as a testament to the values of integrity and service, which we hope to instill in each of our students. It is a privilege to rename the college in his honor.” Jack Sanders, D.M.D., James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine dean
Gift puts dental school on leading edge of technology
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ental patients at MUSC will enjoy quicker service, better outcomes and a broader array of highly advanced services, thanks in large part to a gift by Henry Schein Dental to the James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine. The company, which distributes dental products and technologies, teamed up with its strategic business partners to provide the school with $1.6 million in supplies and technologies, including digital radiography machines, cone-beam scanners and E4D CAD/CAM systems. Schein also installed, licensed and networked all of the new technologies throughout the entire college, making it possible for many
students and dentists to access and use it at the same time. Thanks to these contributions, the college is now among the most technologically empowered dental schools in the country. It also is one of the more efficient, able to treat more patients and train more students in a fraction of the time than was previously possible. “More importantly, we’re able to achieve better outcomes,” noted the college’s dean, Jack Sanders. “The technologies we’ve acquired give us control over variables that were previously beyond the dentist’s control. They also allow us to treat patients in fewer steps and with fewer people, which further reduces the margin for error.” TECHNOLOGY (continued on page 3)
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