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Faculty/Department News org/10/1016/j.joms.2016.06.042. Grant: American Society of TMJ Surgeons, Outcomes of total prosthetic TMJ replacement surgery, Sukotjo C (PI), Mercuri L, Miloro M (CPI). $5,000
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Dr. Blase Brown. Dr. Blase Brown, Clinical Assistant Professor, is a delegate to All Together Better Health VIII, an international inter-professional education meeting at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, with other delegates from 33 nations. In the photo he is in front of a poster titled: Values-Based Collaborative Learning Through a Dentistry and Nursing Partnership, which he presented on Wednesday, Sept. 7. Dr. Michael Colvard, Loyola ’85, UIC MS Oral Sciences ’00, Professor, and Director, Dental Medicine Responder Training, and his College of Dentistry Oral Medicine and
Pharmacognosy Research (OMPR) Laboratory have a received a State of Illinois Schedule 1 Drug License, which permits Dr. Colvard and his colleagues to hold, study, and research the effects that small amounts of various Drug Enforcement Administrative (DEA) designated Schedule 1 plants and other natural products, and their chemical compounds, may have, when advocated for dental and oral and maxillofacial pain treatments. Dr. Alison Doubleday, Assistant Professor, Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, was the featured speaker at the UIC 2016 TechTeach event. Her keynote talk was “Technology and Learning: How a Student’s Perspective can help teachers reach beyond challenges.” Dr. Mohammed M. Hindy, Clinical Assistant Professor, was named an Associate Fellow in the American Academy of Implant Dentistry. Dr. Anne Koerber, Professor and Educational Assessment Director, discussed the DMD curriculum at the UIC 2016 TechTeach event.
Dr. Mohammed Hindy was honored by the American Academy of Implant Dentistry.
Department of Orthodontics Dr. Phimon Atsawasuwan, MS Orthodontics ’11, Assistant Professor, presented “Calvarial bone development and suture closure in Dicer deficient mice” at the Consortium for Orthodontic Advances in Science and Technology meeting in West Palm Beach, FL, in September. Dr. Rory Chong, third-year orthodontic postgrad, and his faculty sponsor, Dr. Laurence A. Golden, Clinical Assistant Professor, placed third in the 2016 Invisalign Gallery University Challenge. Dr. Chong’s case was showcased at the iPad kiosk at the Invisalign Ortho Summit in November, and later published in the Invisalign Gallery/University Challenge book. An honorary plaque and a monetary award of $1,000 also recognized the achievement. A clinical trial conducted by Kim Fasula, Director of Clinic Operations, was recently published in the American Journal of Medicine, entitled “Randomized trial of plaque identifying toothpaste: Dental plaque and inflammation. The article was co-authored by Dr. Carla Evans, Professor and former Head, and Dr. Ben Belavsky, ’13, MS Ortho ’16, Graduate Clinical Assistant. Dr. Maria Therese S. GalangBoquiren, ’09, MS Oral Sciences ’04, Orthodontics ’07, Assistant Professor, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Sleep Society and invited world-renowned speaker Dr. Christian Guilleminault from Stanford University to speak at the group’s annual meeting in October. Dr. Ernest J. Goodson, Department of Orthodontics, University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, wrote an article about
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