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Mark Your Calendar...Continuing Dental Education Courses
January 10, 2006 (Tuesday)
Kenneth J. Ryan, DDS Memorial Seminar –The Christiansen Bottom Line
The Power Center or the Perorming ArtsUniversity o Michigan, Ann Arbor
Thi s course promises to be exc it ing, humorous, andeducational with numerous “take home” ideas andsuggestions you can use in your practice. It will be a ast-moving, pragmatic, clinical, and fnancial appraisal o manycurrent popular concepts and controversies in dentistry,based on clinical observation and research. Using conciseexplanations, demonstrations, clips rom new DVDs, andcritiques o new techniques and concepts, Dr. GordonChristiansen will provide the “BOTTOM LINE” on theconusing array o “advancements” in the proession.
April 21, 2006 (Friday)
Excellent Adventures with Children, the Team ApproachRackham AmphitheaterUniversity o Michigan, Ann Arbor
This seminar will provide an inormative and humorousexperience or dentists, hygienists, dental assistantsand ront ofce sta who requently answer questionsabout treatment. Since the dentist-patient relationshipis established most eectively in a dental operatory, whatyou say and how you say it is just as important as what youdo and how you do it. Using movie clips and videotapes,Dr. Marvin Berman, an internationally recognized Chicago-based pediatric dentist, will demonstrate a myriad o do’sand don’ts that build patient confdence.
More information about
these and other continuing
dental education courses
m a y b e o b t a i n e d b y
contacting the University
o f M i c h i g a n S c h o o l of Dentistry, Office of
Continuing Dental Education
at 1011 N. University Avenue,
Room G508, Ann Arbor, MI
48109-1078 or by visiting the
School of Dentistry Web site:
www.dent.umich.edu.
On the homepage, put your
cursor on “alumni” and then
click “continuing dental
education.”
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It’s interesting to think about how technology has prooundly alteredour lives in recent years.
Considered “esoteric” just 10 or 15 years ago, the Internet, laptopcomputers, cell phones, and e-mail are “necessities” to most o ustoday.
Technology is playing a major role in shaping education at theUniversity o Michigan School o Dentistry. It’s inluencing how studentslearn, how aculty members teach, and how members o our sta interact.
This issue o DentalUM contains some ascinating stories thatdescribe what we’re doing.
One o the major changes that has taken place during the past yearwas inspired by one o our dental students, Jared Van Ittersum, and asta member, Trek Glowacki.
In a story that begins on page 10, you will learn more about howthey worked with a group o dental students to solve a learning problemby using technology so dental students can listen to classroom lecturesanywhere at any time. Their eorts caught the attention o one o theworld’s major technology companies, Apple Computer, and resulted ina collaboration that has the potential to not only beneit our students,but our alumni as well (pages 6-7).
Another story (pages 18-23), describes how a sotware program thatbeneits our students, aculty, sta, and patients has been introduced ina comprehensive care clinic and our orthodontics clinic.
Digital imaging, now being used at our Michigan Center or OralHealth Research, could play a major role in how patient care is provided(pages 15-16).
Other stories describing our use o technology ocus on our uniqueDigital Learning Laboratory (pages 27-28), where aculty, students,and sta learn how they can use technology to enhance learning andeducation; digital video on demand (pages 29-30); and a continuing dentaleducation course we are oering online in a novel way (pages 30-31).
To make all o this happen requires the eort o our technical supportsta (pages 24-26).
I think Dr. Lynn Johnson, our director o Dental Inormatics, put itbest when she said, “With technology, you can never stand still. Youeither move ahead or you don’t. We’re leaders in many areas and wantto lead in our innovative use o technology to enhance student learning,
patient care, and research. We don’t intend to be let behind.”I couldn’t agree more.
Sincerely,
Peter J. Polverini, Dean
Dental UM magazine is published twice a year by theUniversity o Michigan School o Dentistry, Oice o
Alumni Relations and Continuing Dental Education.
Mail letters and updates to: Jerry Mastey, Editor, Schoolo Dentistry, Room 1205, 1011 N. University Ave., AnnArbor, MI 48109-1078. Or you may send your letters andupdates via email to: jmastey@umich.edu.
Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Polver iniDirector o External Relations and
Continuing Dental Education . . . . . Richard FetchietWriter & Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry MasteyDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chr is Jung
Photography . . . . . . Per H. Kjeldsen, Keary Campbell
Member publication o the AmericanAssociation o Dental Editors
The Regents o the University:David A. Brandon, Laurence B. Deitch, Olivia P. Maynard,
Rebecca McGowan, Andrea Fischer Newman, Andrew C.Richner, S. Martin Taylor, Katherine E. White, Mary SueColeman, ex oicio.
University o Michigan School o DentistryAlumni Society Board o Governors
Terms Expire 2005:
Joseph T. Barss ‘80, Chicago, ILEli Berger, ‘57, ‘61, West Bloomield, MI (Chair)
William E. Brownscombe, ‘74, St. Clair Shores, MIJanet Cook, ‘81 DH, Whitmore Lake, MI
Thomas C. Pink, ‘69, Jackson, MI
Terms Expire 2006:
Daniel L. Edwards, ‘97, Ann Arbor, MI
Gerald L. Howe, ‘61, Monroe, MIGary R. Hubbard, ‘78, Okemos, MIMichel S. Nasi, ‘72, Lansing, MI
Janet Souder Wilson, ‘73 DH, Northville, MI
Terms Expire 2007:
Samuel Bander, ’81, Grand Rapids, MIRichard L. Pascoe, ’70, Traverse City, MISusan Pritzel, ’67 DH, Ann Arbor, MI
Terry Timm, ’71, Saline, MIJosephine Weeden, ’96, ’99, Saline, MI
Student Representative: Casey Tenniswood (D3)
Ex Officio Members:
Peter Polverini, DeanJanet Souder Wilson, ‘73, DH, Northville, MI
Alumni Association LiaisonSteve C. Graton , Executive Director, Alumni Assoc.Richard R. Fetchiet, Director o External Relations and
Continuing Dental Education
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DentalUMFall 2005 Volume 21, Number 2
How Technology is Shaping Dental
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PARTMENTS
Fall 2005
55 Lunch & Learn Program Oers Insights into Lie ater
Dental School Dr. Daniel Edwards, a member o the School’s Alumni Society Board o
Governors, is giving ourth-year dental students opportunities to learn
more about what to expect in “the real world” beore they actually
receive their dental degree. The program was so well received its rst
year that it’s being oered again.
57 Graduation DayFormer U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Antonia Novello returned to Ann
Arbor this spring to deliver her ourth commencement address
to School o Dentistry graduates. In her inimitable speaking style, she
congratulated, counseled, and challenged students.
62 Lollipops May Help Pediatric Dentists Will a lollipop have a place in a pediatric dentist’s oce in the uture?
It may, thanks to the collaboration between a U-M School o Dentistry
pediatric dentist and the Mott Children’s Health Center.
36 Faculty News
49 Development 49 – Dr. Raymond Gist Gifts $100,000 for Dental Student Scholarships
50 – Drs. Jed Jacobson and Wayne Colquitt Spearhead Creation of the
H. Dean Millard Scholarship Fund
53 – Dental Students Seek Mentors
64 Dental Hygiene
67 Department Update Oral and Maxilloacial Surgery and Hospital Dentistry
71 Research News
71 – School #2 in NIDCR Grants71 – Microarrays – Linking Laboratory Science and Technology
73 – School of Dentistry Researcher Inspired by Death of Family Member
74 – The Dziewiatkowski Award , Recognizing the Next Generation of
Scientists
76 – Scientists Discover More about How Cancer Cells Form and Grow
79 Alumni News
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igniicant investments in technology at
the University o Michigan School o Dent-
istry in recent years are beneiting students,
aculty, sta members, and patients.
Sparked by rapid changes in hardware andsotware, the explosive growth o the Internet, and
aster and novel ways o delivering inormation,
the new technology appeals to students who are
as comortable using laptop computers,
iPods and MP3 players, personal
digital assistants, and cell
phones as their parents were
with t ransistor radios ,
eight-track tapes, electric
typewriters, and rotary
telephones.Under the direction o
Dr. Lynn Johnson, director
o Dental Inormatics, the
changes have been grad-
ually rolled out ollowing
e x t e n s i v e c o l l a b -
oration among
d e p a r t m e n t
a d m i n i s t r a -
tors, aculty,
and sta mem-bers through-
out the dental
school.
Students are
also p lay ing
an active role.
They have been
New Software, New Technolog
using technology in a way that caught the
attention o one o the world’s major technology
companies, Apple Computer.
How technology is being used throughout
the School is described in detail in this issue o DentalUM.
“Our investments in technology are enhancing
student learning, enabling aculty to become
more creative in their teaching, and helping our
billing oice get more comprehensive and timely
statements to our patients. As a result, dentists in
our clinics will also be able to provide more timely
inormation to patients when they provide care,”
Johnson said.
Technology: Very Importantto Dental Students
Students considering the U-M School o
Dentistry not only look at the caliber o the
School’s aculty and programs “they are also
considering, as never beore, what kind o
technology we oer and how they can use that
technology in ways that supports or enhances
their education,” she said. “And it doesn’t matter
whether they’re studying or a dental degree or
a bachelor’s degree in dental hygiene, a master’s
degree in one o our specialties, or a doctorate.” Johnson’s statistics prove her point .
As Figure 1 illustrates, nearly all irst-year
U-M dental students own a computer.
Nearly two-thirds own a laptop computer, a
gure nearly 20 percentage points more than the
students who made the same claim in 2002 (Fig. 2).
Meanwhile, the number o students who say they
Everyone AectedRevolutionizin
SDr. Lynn Johnson
Director, Dental Informatics
K e a r y C a m p b el l
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own a desktop computer has declined sharply.
High-speed connections to the Internet are
also important.
This summer, more than 80 percent o irst-
year dental students said they use high-speedconnections (cable and DSL) to connect to the
Internet rom home. The use o telephone (dial-
up) to connect to the Internet ell sharply rom 60
percent rom 2002 to about 5 percent in 2005.
“Waiting 15 or 20 seconds
to download an
i l l u s t r a t i o n , a
d o c u m e n t , o r
anything else, is
an eternity to them
and to aculty too,” Johnson said. “They
want the same speedy
access at home they
have here.”
T h e c h a n g e s
d e s c r i b e d i n t h e
ollowing pages are only
the beginning.
“With technology, you can never stand still,”
she continued. “You either move ahead or you
don’t. We are a leader in many areas and wantto lead in our innovative use o technology to
enhance student learning, patient care, and
research. We don’t intend to be let behind.”
New Technology: Roberts Preclinic
Some o the new ways technology is being used
have been described in earlier issues o DentalUM.
the School of DentistryStudents, Faculty, Sta, Patients
In the Roberts Preclinical
Laboratory, or example,
i n s t r u c t o r s a r e u s i n g
computers, the Internet,
DVDs, an intraoral camera,a telestrator, and other
devices as instructional
tools.
Previously, students gathered
around an instructor who would
demonstrate a procedure. Then
the dental students returned to
their seats to try to replicate
what they observed.
Technology now gives
each dental student a rontrow seat to watch any and
all procedures up close.
W i t h a l a t - s c r e e n
monitor at each o 110
workstations, students
can watch
instructors
televise live demonstrations
using mannequin heads to illustrate
preparing teeth or restoration,
crown preparation, or otherprocedures. To emphasize a point,
the aculty member can use small
television cameras and zoom in
on an object, zoom out, or rotate
the camera up to 360 degrees.
[ DentalUM, Spring & Summer
2004, pages 11-14.]
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F i g. 3
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U-M School o Dentistry and Apple
The University o Michigan School o
Dentistry and Apple Computer have entered into
a partnership that is designed to provide dental
students with access to education-related content
virtually anywhere, any time. The venture may
be the irst o its kind with any proessional
school in the nation. The program was oicially
launched Sept. 19 during a program at the School
o Dentistry.
Using a special iTunes Music Store interace
rom Apple Computer, students will use their Macs
or PCs to download classroom lectures, transer
the inormation onto an iPod or an MP3 player,
and then listen to the lectures in their apartments,
walking around on campus, or even while jogging
or working out. Access is or students with valid
University o Michigan names and passwords.
Future collaboration with Apple may result in
new study aids, such as videos, photos, and other
educational material, being added to the School
o Dentistry’s iTunes Store.
iTunes Music Store toA Major Shit
Dr. Lynn Johnson, the School’s director o
Dental Inormatics, said the approach taken by
the School in collaboration with Apple Computer
is a major shit in how technology is used to
support and enhance student learning.
The learning issue was raised last year by
Jared Van Ittersum, now a second-year dental
student, who wanted to reinorce what he learned
in the classroom by listening to recordings o
classroom lectures as his schedule allowed. He
collaborated with a sta member in the School’s
Oice o Dental Inormatics, Trek Glowacki, to see
what could be done to help him and hundreds o
other dental students.
During the past year, Van Ittersum and
Glowacki conducted three pilot studies with as
many as 60 dental students to ask or their ideas
and eedback. The overwhelming majority o
students said they preerred listening to audio
recordings o classroom lectures using their iPods
or other portable listening devices. Students
Celebrating the launch o a partnership between the School o Dentistry and Apple Computer onSept. 19 were Dr. Lynn Johnson (let), the School’s director o D ental Inormatics; John Couch,
vice president o dental education or Apple Computer; and Dean Peter Polverini. A specialposter created or the event was designed by the School’s graphic artist, Chris Jung.
Rick Getchell (let) explains to John Couch, Apple’s vice president o education, how dental students such as Chen Chen (lower right) are usingtechnology in the new Roberts Preclinic to enhance their education. Alsolistening are Lynn Johnson and Steve Rychly, the company’s regionalmanager o higher education.
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said the portable devices gave them maximum
lexibility that allowed them to listen to lectures
at their convenience and regardless o location.
However, Johnson emphasized that listening
to classroom lectures does not replace going to
class. “Being physically present in the classroom
is the starting point, the oundation,” she said.
“Listening to the lectures on the iPod allows you
to build on that oundation.”
“The Michigan Dierence”
Johnson said the initiative “is another
example o ‘The Michigan Dierence’ in three
important respects.”
The irst is the approach that was taken.
“Until now, one would take a new technology and
see how it can be used to enhance teaching and
learning,” she said. “We reversed that. We started
with a learning challenge and then researched
various options until we arrived at a solution
that uses new technology.”
The second major dierence, Johnson noted,
is that the initiative was driven rom the bottom-
up, not the top-down. “Students started the
project, supported it, and showed aculty and
sta its potential. To have as many as 60 students
involved in a pilot study and giving constant
eedback during the past year, given their class
schedules, is absolutely incredible,” she said. “It
clearly demonstrates they knew there was a need
and that they would take an active role in coming
up with a solution that would beneit them and
other students throughout the School.”
Finally, the third dierence is that the project
involved not only collaboration among dental
school students, aculty, and sta, it also involved
the University’s Inormation Technology Central
Services unit. “As we worked with ITCS and kept
them posted on our progress, we also discussed
Apple to OfferDiscountsto Students,Faculty, Staff,
and AlumniThe University of
Mich igan Scho ol of D entistry’s
par tnership with Appl e Co mput er extends beyond the classroom.
Apple is oering
dental school
students, aculty,
sta, and alumnidiscounted prices on
its desktop and laptop
computers, iPods, and
other products. To
take advantage o the
discounts, visit the
School’s Web site,
www.dent.umich.
edu/itunes. Then
click “store” to place
your order using avalid credit card.
Computer in Partnership
Help Provide Inormation Access 24/7
how this approach might be used elsewhere
throughout the University o Michigan,” Johnson
said.
James Hilton, U-M associate provost or
academic, inormation, and instructional
technology, said, “The School o Dentistry has
always strived to provide our students with the
best education possible. That includes the latest
technology and resources. Apple Computer,” he
continued, “has developed an innovative and
powerul resource or the School, and I look
orward to seeing how it will expand teaching
and learning.”
John Couch, Apple’s vice pre sident o
education, praised the School o Dentistry or
its initiative and leadership. “You’ve created a
digital learning environment or this generation
o students. We look at technology as a tool, but
they see it as an environment,” he said.
Following a special program that launched the partnership between theSchool o Dentistr y and Apple Computer, second-year dental student Kyung-Hong Kim (right) and Apple’s U-M representative Joshua Tishhouse discusshow technology can enhance learning.
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As cellular telephone use has skyrocketed in
recent years, a similar trend has emerged among
millions who are logging on to the Internet without
using a cable or other “wired” connections.
At the U-M School o Dentistry there are
several “hot spots” where students, aculty, and
sta no longer need to be in an oice sitting at a
desktop computer to connect to the Internet.
One is the Student Forum. Others include the
library and some research laboratories.
At each location, anyone with a properly
equipped portable computer or personal digital
assistant can access the Internet using wireless
idelity or “Wi-Fi.”
The “Wi-Fi” concept is similar to what’s used
or cellular telephone conversations or radio and
television broadcasting.
However, unlike radio or TV signals, which
can travel hundreds o miles, the range o a Wi-
Fi signal is much shorter, typically 100 to 300
eet.
In areas known as “hot spots,” a user within
range o an Wi-Fi antenna can connect to the
Internet to check e-mail, visit Web sites, or
download documents.
To prevent unauthorized access or guard
against potential security breaches, saeguards
such as user authentication and data encryption
are used. There are also restrictions on who can
use the network and what inormation can be
obtained.
Outside the School, there are Wi-Fi hot spots
in coee shops, restaurants, bookstores, hotels,
and at airports. Many homeowners have also
installed it.
The Student Forum has been a “hot spot” as a
social venue. Now it’s a hot spot in another way
– a place where one can wirelessly connect to the
Internet.
This sign shows the location o wireless “hot spots”in the School o Dentistry.
“Wi-Fi”in the School
The Student Forum is not only a place or students to have lunch andsocialize, it’s also one o several locations in the School where they can use a
wireless connection to log-on to the Internet.
Jerry Mastey
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The School o Dentistry’s alumni magazine,
DentalUM, is now available on the School’s Web
site, www.dent.umich.edu. The publication is
the irst o several that will appear online in the
uture.
The School’s approach to posting the
magazine’s contents is dierent than the methods
used elsewhere.
Too oten, readers have to click the online
version o a publication one page at a time to
ind a story o interest. Typically, this rustrates
readers, especially i a magazine is lengthy.
Since the Web is dierent than print, the
School took the print version o the magazine and
adapted it to make it easier or those going online
to ind stories and eatures that interest them.
What’s New
At the top o the DentalUM Web site are
pictures o the major stories that are in the Table o
Contents section with direct links to those stories.
Ater clicking a picture, a PDF (portable document
ormat) ile is sent to a user’s computer.
Or, visitors can scroll down to see a list o major
stories in the Table o Contents that appear on the
let. Beneath each headline is a one- or two-sentence
narrative describing each major story.
What’s Dierent
However, i individuals want to see a list o
all the stories in the publication, they do that by
looking at the rame on the right. There, they will
ind a subject label or each group o stories. The
stories are grouped into categories such as “School
News,” “Alumni,” “Faculty News,” etc. When a
subject label is clicked, a PDF ile is sent to the
user’s computer containing all the stories.
Individuals can also go directly to an article
School’s Alumni Magazine Now on the WebDentalUM First o Several Publications to be Added
without scrolling through others in a particular
section.
More Efcient
“It’s a much more eicient way o getting the
inormation you’re interested in than what you
typically see,” said Dr. Lynn Johnson, director o
Dental Inormatics.
Richard Fetchiet, director o Alumni Relations,
said, “This approach will allow our alumni new
opportunities to both read the publication online
and pass along items o interest to colleagues who
are not ailiated with our School, or even young
men and women who are thinking about studying
at Michigan to earn a dental, dental hygiene, or
a specialty degree.”
An added beneit o having the magazine
appear on the Web is that most o the pictures
on the Web site are in color. In the magazine,
pictures on the inside appear in black and white
to minimize printing costs.
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dent.umich.
edu/
alumni/
dentalum/
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It’s a project unlike any other in recent
memory at the School o Dentistry.
It was the result o a suggestion rom a dental
student who once ran his own sotware company,
collaboration between the student and a part-
time sta member now working or his master’s
degree at the School o Inormation, eedback rom
60 dental students, as well as support rom dental
school administrators and aculty.
The student-led initiative also caught the
attention o one o the world’s premier technology
companies, Apple Computer.
“We’re seeing a signiicant change in how
learning takes place in courses where inormation
is oten presented in dierent ways and how
technology can be used to help students become
better learners,” said Dr. Lynn Johnson, director
o Dental Inormatics.
What’s Dierent
“Previously, the typical approach was to take
a new technology to see how it could be used in
teaching and learning,” she said. “Here, that
approach has been reversed. We started with
a student learning dilemma and solved it using
technology.”
Instead o a top/down approach, this one is
driven rom the bottom up.
“What we’re seeing at Michigan is that
students, in eorts to improve their learning, are
working together and developing novel solutions
that use technology to address a range o learning
issues and challenges. It’s a signiicant shit,”
Johnson said.
The central igures in this story are twenty-
somethings – Jared Van Ittersum and Trek
Glowacki.
Van Ittersum, a second-year dental student
A Technology Sea Change
rom Spring Lake, Michigan, earned a bachelor’s
degree in general psychology rom U-M in 2002.
Ater graduating, he took a two-year
sabbatical to establish a sotware company.
It was a bold decision that would beneit
those in business and in academia.
Van Ittersum’s ability to help corporations
with their technology needs would help him
develop a keen eye or identiying problems and
developing solutions at the dental school.
However, prior to earning his bachelor’s
degree, Van Ittersum worked part time as a
research assistant or Dr. Helena Ritchie, an
assistant proessor in the Department o Cariology,
Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics.
“I’ve always wanted to be a dentist, and
talking to amily, riends, and working in Dr.
Ritchie’s lab convinced me that this was the best
school in the country to attend to get a dental
degree,” he said.
Van Ittersum, who oten uses an electronic
notebook to take notes during lectures, began his
dental studies last summer.
Glowacki, a Michigan native, was an English
and communications studies major who earned
his bachelor’s degree in 2003. He never set oot
in the School o Dentistry until he applied or the
part-time position.
However, he did work at the U-M computer
store in the Michigan Union and also ran the
largest U-M summer program or the U-M Housing
Department.
Just as Van Ittersum displayed initiative by
establishing his own business, Glowacki was also
proactive.
“I needed another job so I could eat and pay
my bills,” he said with a laugh. “I was willing
to do just about anything, even stocking shelves
How a Dental StudenPer Kjeldsen
Trek Glowacki discusses theresults o three pilot programs
he conducted with dentalstudents that allowed them
to download audio fles o classroom lectures rom the
Internet to their iPods andMP3 players. Thirty students
participated in the frst twopilot programs. That number
doubled to 60 or the third andfnal pilot program.
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at a store.” Glowacki ound his opportunity in
the all o 2003 in the School o Dentistry’s Digital
Learning Laboratory.
“The atmosphere was dierent than other
places,” he said. “I thought Dan Bruell and Sarah
Brittain would be great people to work with.
What really appealed to me, though, was the
variety o assignments I would have.”
Initially, Glowacki helped aculty with
scanning and other technical needs.
Later, he helped Bruell i lm classroom
Integrated Medical Sciences lectures. The IMS
lectures were established to help irst- and second-
year dental students see the connections between
dentistry and various medical disciplines.
[ DentalUM, Fall 2004, pages 60-61.]
An Instructional Problem Leads to aTechnology Solution
Glowacki and Van Ittersum crossed paths
last all, nearly three years ater Apple Computer
introduced a revolutionary piece o hardware – the
iPod. The device allows individuals to download
music rom Apple’s Internet site (iTunes) and
then play back those recordings whenever and
wherever they choose.
Van Ittersum, a irst-year dental student
last year, recognized the challenges he and other
dental students aced. He suggested videotaping
lectures might help students with their studies.
Based on his business background and
technology experience, Van Ittersum told Johnson
it could be done and that it would be popular with
students.
This is what Johnson meant when she talked
about reversing the traditional approach to learning
and technology – starting with a student need and
ending up with a solution using technology.
“Typically, schools will give students a
computer or another type o technology and say,
‘See what you can do with it.’ Then they will ind
an instructional problem that the technology will
solve. It’s like giving someone a hammer and
saying, ‘Go ind a way to use it’,” she said.
“But that is not what we wanted to do. Nor
is it what we did. We took the opposite approach.
We wanted our students to be better learners.
So we investigated i technology, speciically
videotaping lectures, could help students become
better learners.”
Johnson assigned Glowacki to work with Van
Ittersum to determine what needed to be done.
“I thought this could be a great opportunity or
us to develop a content management system, a
library, i you will, that mimics Apple’s popular
iTunes music store,” she said.
“The typical
approach was
to take a new
technology
to see how it
could be used
in teaching anlearning. Here,
that approach
has been
reversed. We
started with a
student learnin
dilemma and
solved it using
technology.”
Dr. Lynn Johnson
and Staffer Sparked Innovation
Jared Van Ittersum,seen here takingnotes on an electronicnotebook in a School
o Dentistry classroom,realized the learningchallenges acingdental students andproposed a solution.
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“But instead o downloading music rom an
Internet site, we would have an electronic library
o classroom lectures that could later be expanded
to include videos and images.”
Johnson approached Dr. Dennis Lopatin,
senior associate dean, who agreed to become
the irst dental school aculty member whose
lectures would be recorded and Internet accessible.
However, the lectures would be available only to
students ater entering their personal identiier
and a password.
Surprising Results o Pilot Program
Glowacki began videotaping Lopatin’s
lectures last October and hosted a ocus group to
get student reaction.
Ater each lecture, Glowacki spent nearly
nine hours a week making technical adjustments
so the inormation could be available in three
dierent ways — as a video, as a PowerPoint
presentation with accompanying audio, and as
an audio recording only.
But to make the inormation available in
the three ormats, Glowacki had to teach himsel
how to use AppleScript. “I was teaching mysel
a whole new set o skills, he said. “Learning that
was essential because it’s ‘the glue’ between
many dierent applications.”
The results o the pilot program surprised
everyone.
O the 30 students who participated in the
pilot program, nearly 70 percent said they preerred
listening to audio o the lectures because it was
quicker to download rom an intranet site.
There was another reason the audio was
preerred – Apple’s iPod. It’s portability and ease o
use helped students to better manage their time.
“Every minute o every day counts or every
dental student,” Van Ittersum said. “So we take
advantage o those learning opportunities when
they arise, whether it’s in a car, at the breakast
table, going to and rom classes, or even working
out in the CCRB (Central Campus Recreational
Building),” he said.
The iPod also oered another distinct
advantage to students – a speed up/slow down
eature. With it, students can slow down portions
o a lecture to hear remarks that are important to
them. But they can also quickly bypass sections
o a lecture they already understand.
A second test pilot program involving 30
students began a month later, in November.
Since students in the irst pilot program
overwhelmingly preerred audio, the second pilot
program was “audio only.”
Students were equally divided about using
an iPod or MP3 player to download lectures rom
a Web site.
By the time the third pilot program began in
this January and ended in April, the number o
students who were participating doubled to 60.
Lectures Now Available in Four Minutes
For the third pilot, Glowacki wrote sotware
that allowed students to record lectures and put
the audio iles on the Internet.
Once again, students moved the project
orward.
Glowacki was no longer recording lectures and
posting them on the School’s Web site. However,
the time he spent making technical adjustments
so students could retrieve the inormation dropped
more than 97 percent – rom nine hours a week to
15 minutes. Students could download a lecture
only our minutes ater a lecture ended.
Meanwhile, the volume o lectures students
can now listen to has increased ive-old rom 3-
1/2 hours to 15 hours.
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“Not Designed to Replace Going to Class”
However, everyone is emphatic about one
point.
“Listening to a recording o a classroom
lecture is not designed to replace going to class,”
Van Ittersum said. “Students must attend to get
a basic understanding o a thought or concept
that’s being conveyed.”
Johnson agreed, saying, “Being there, being
physically present in the classroom is the starting
point, the oundation. The audio allows you to
build on that oundation.”
Van Ittersum, Glowacki, and Johnson said
they have been impressed with the way the
University o Michigan embraces technology to
enhance learning.
Apple Computer was too.
In September, the School and Apple launched
a partnership. [See story, pages 6-7.]
Other Enhancements
New technology and new ways o using
existing technology allows dental students to
not only retrieve lectures rom the Internet, but
to also “subscribe” so lectures are automatically
delivered to them.
One application is “podcasting” (as in iPod).
Instead o a student retrieving or “pulling” a
lecture rom a Web site, the lecture would be
automatically “broadcast” or “pushed” to the
student’s iPod or MP3 player.
Another application is the use o RSS or
“Really Simple Syndication.”
Basically, an RSS eed is a communications
tool that allows a user to collect inormation rom
various Web sites. The inormation is automatically
made available to individuals, based on their
preerences, in an easy-to-use and understandable
ormat. The inormation can range rom a headline
to sentences or paragraphs o inormation, or an
audio recording o an entire lecture.
“It’s a new way o delivering inormation to
students that will become more popular because
students can customize the types o inormation
they want to receive and when,” Johnson said.
“For our current students, their preerence is
clear – they preer to receive audio recordings o
lectures by downloading and through RSS.”
The trend is clear.
Technology and how it is used now, and
how it will be used in the uture, is playing an
important role in the education o students at the
University o Michigan School o Dentistry.
Look or students to continue being in the
vanguard.
“What we’re
seeing at
Michigan is
that students,
in eorts to
improve their
learning,are working
together and
developing
novel solutions
that use
technology
to address
a range o
learning
issues and
challenges.”
Dr. Lynn Johnson
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Among those attending the announcement o the partnership was U-MPresident Emeritus James Duderstadt who is seen here with Apple’s vicepresident o education, John Couch. Duderstadt directs t he U-M MillenniumProject, a collaborative educational research “incubator” where creativestudents, aculty members, and those outside the university are exploringinnovative approaches to education.
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new tool at one School o Dentistry site
may one day help dentists and specialists
get precise inormation about the smallest
o changes in a person’s bone mass, tissue
densities, and height o structures in the oral
cavity.
Dentists have been limited in their ability toprecisely measure those changes. Typically, two
or more x-rays are taken and the dentist then
places “beore” and “ater” radiographs near a
light to see what changes, i any, have taken
place.
Using digital technology, the School’s
Michigan Center or Oral Health Research may
help change that practice.
Exquisite Digital Imaging
The Center is enhancing a technique known
as “Digital Subtraction Radiography” so dentists
can precisely quantiy changes that occur. The
technique may one day be used in all School o
Dentistry clinics.
“I call this ‘exquisite digital imaging’ because
we will be able to see changes as small as a
pixel on a computer screen,” said Dr. William
Giannobile, MCOHR director. He said the procedure
will allow dentists to see changes ranging rom
ractions o a milligram in bone mass or density
to microns in height.
Innovative Technology, Pioneering ResearchMeasuring Changes by the Pixel
“It’s an important tool,” he emphasized,
“because it will allow us to precisely quantiy
changes beore they’re apparent. For example, i
we know there’s been a speciic amount o change
in a patient’s bone mass over a period o time,
we may then be able to tell a patient, ‘based on
what has already happened, this is what you canexpect to happen weeks or months rom now’,”
he said.
Being able to precisely see and measure
changes that are taking place could give the
dentist an opportunity to provide low-cost or
minimally invasive procedures beore a patient’s
oral health urther deteriorates, Giannobile said.
“This would be very valuable inormation to have
in treating patients with long-term problems,
such as periodontal disease.”
Seeing What the Eye Can’t
Helping Giannobile develop the technique is
Dr. Christoph Ramseier, a visiting proessor rom
the University o Bern, Switzerland.
“With this digital imaging technique, we
hope to be able to see changes that the human eye
can’t,” he said. “Having this precise inormation
could lead to modiying current intervention
techniques, or even developing new ones, in
specialties that include periodontology, cariology,
orthodontics, or even implant dentistry.”
A
These three photosillustrate the same areabeore therapy (let),ater therapy (center),and how subtraction
radiography can beused to show bonemineral density gain.
Photo courtesy o Dr.Christoph Ramseier
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The shrinking size o electronic components
has allowed Giannobile and Ramseier to capture
and measure those minute changes.
How it Works
A small transmitter, about hal the thickness
o a 9-volt battery, is covered with a thin ilm
o plastic and then inserted into a patient’s
mouth.
The transmitter is attached to a rod several
inches long. At the end o the rod is an “O” ring.
An x-ray cone placed near the “O” ring allows
or more precise targeting o the area the dentist
wants to check initially and, i necessary, duringollow-up visits.
As the x-rays are taken, the transmitter in the
patient’s mouth not only captures images o the
patient’s oral cavity, it also sends those images to
a computer or electronic storage and retrieval.
There’s another advantage, according to
Ramseier.
“The radiation rom the digital x-ray is only
one-tenth the level o a conventional x-ray, which,
I think will also interest dentists,” he said.
When it opened earlier this year, the
Michigan Center for Oral Health Research
(MCOHR) began using technology in a novel
way.
Dr. William Giannobile, MCOHR director,
wanted the facility to become a “paperless
office.”
That dream is becoming a reality.
In each of the four operatories is a
computer monitor that allows a clinician to
display a patient’s digital radiographs as well
as intraoral images. That’s a major change
from the past when information was available
on photographic negatives.
But that’s only the beginning.
In the future, digital videos being
developed by the School’s Digital Learning
Laborator y will be used. The videos, for
example, could show patients the proper wayto brush and floss their teeth. Other videos
may display a new scientific procedure.
“We’re trying to use new technology in
ways that will benefit not only patients who
come here, but also members of our staff,”
Giannobile said. “We’d like to use the digital
technology so that paper records will not have
to be physically transported between the
Center and the School of Dentistry on the U-M
Central Campus.”
Located at Domino’s Farms on PlymouthRoad near U-S 23, the Center provides patient
services that are central to clinical research,
including oral exams, some oral surgeries, and
major restorative procedures.
The 3,500 square foot facility the dental
school is sharing with the U-M Health System
can handle as many as 7,800 patient visits and
conduct between 15 and 20 studies annually.
With help rom dentalassistant Theresa Bogarin,
Dr. Christoph Ramseier getsready to place a transmitterinto the mouth o a patientthat will send an electronic
image to a computer orstorage and analysis.
Digital images arecaptured using electronic
components that areabout the size o a
quarter. On the let is thesensor. In the center is
the battery that transmitsthe images.
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Proessor Niklaus Lang. Dr. Major Ash.
Both names came up when Dr. Christoph
Ramseier was being interviewed and photographed
or the story about subtraction radiography
(pages 15 and 16).
Ramseier earned his dental degree rom
the University o Bern, Switzerland in 1995 andgraduated with a master’s degree in periodontics
in 2004. Currently a visiting proessor in the
Department o Periodontics, Prevention, and
Geriatrics, he is working with Dr. William
Giannobile at the Michigan Center or Oral Health
Research.
“Proessor Lang, my mentor at the University
o Bern, strongly suggested I come here i I wanted
to advance my career,” Ramseier said.
Lang, a clinical instructor and assistant
proessor at U-M in the 1970s, has been a proessorat the School o Dental Medicine at the University
o Bern since 1980. In January, he returned to Ann
Arbor as guest speaker or the annual Kenneth J.
Ryan Memorial Seminar. [ DentalUM, Spring &
Summer 2005, p. 23.]
“I’m glad I l istened to him,” Ramseier
said, “because this dental school is doing some
exciting things.” Following the summer photo
session, Ramseier showed some o his pictures
o Switzerland to School photographer Per
Kjeldsen.“Do you know Dr. Major Ash?” Kjeldsen asked
Ramseier. “He would really be interested in seeing
these,” Kjeldsen advised.
Ramseier said he didn’t know Ash personally,
“I only know o him rom the books he’s written
that I read during my dental studies.”
In September, Ramseier had the opportunity
to meet his mentor’s mentor at MCOHR oices.
Meeting Dr. Ash “A Big Moment or Me”Says Visiting Proessor
Lang was also present as he began his three-
month sabbatical in Ann Arbor.
“Major was my mentor and it was good to seehim again. He’s one o a ew who have received an
honorary doctorate rom the University o Bern,”
Lang said. Ash received the honorary degree in
1975 or his contributions to dentistry.
“To inally meet Dr. Ash was a privilege I
couldn’t think o when I was a dental student
studying the concepts o occlusion ten years ago,”
Ramseier said. “I knew about the connection
between Dr. Lang and Michigan, but seeing him
now with his mentor , Dr. Ash, was a big moment
or me. I could eel the transer o knowledge rommentor to mentor.”
Ash said i t was a p leasure meet ing
Ramseier.
“His Swiss-English style and genuine interest
in people and places reminded me o the time o
my irst sabbatical leave at the University o Bern
where the Swiss people like him were so helpul
to me and my wie, Fayola,” Ash said.
Some might call it “The SwissConnection,”and why not?Dr. Christoph Ramseier (let),
rom the University o Bern,is now a visiting proessorat the School o Dentistry.Dr. Niklaus Lang (center), aormer U-M proessor whohas been at the Universityo Bern since 1980 and ison sabbatical leave at U-M,urged Ramseier to come toU-M to urther his career.Ramseier said meeting Dr.Major Ash (right) “was aprivilege I couldn’t thinko when I was a dentalstudent.” Ash was awarded
an honorary degree in 1975rom the University o Bernor his contributions to thedental proession.
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ur ultimate goal is to have a computer
at every chair, in every cubicle, in every
clinic at the dental school,” said Dr. Mark
Fitzgerald as he talked about a new
sotware program being tested this summer in
one o the School’s comprehensive care clinics.
A similar test is also underway in one o the
School’s graduate clinics.
I the pilot programs succeed, use o the
sotware system could transorm the process o
how patient care is provided at the U-M School o
Dentistry.
Paper records would be a memory.
In their place, inormation about virtually
everything – records o a patient’s visits, the care
and treatments they received, payment history,
account balances, radiographs, and more – would
be stored and retrieved electronically.
Having a wealth o inormation instantly
A Gain or Students, Faculty, Sta, and Patientsavailable to individuals with authorized access
would save valuable time and lead to greater
eiciencies beneiting everyone – patients, dental
students, residents, clinical aculty members who
supervise the students, and sta.
Fitzgerald, who is also vice chair o the
Department o Cariology, Restorative Sciences,
and Endodontics, is a member o a committee
that, or the last ive years, has been investigating
how the sotware, known as “axiUm,” can be
customized or use by dierent departments and
clinics throughout the School.
A Thoughtul, Methodical Approach
The School o Dentistry has taken a series o
measured steps in moving toward its ultimate
goal o a paperless environment, beginning with
the Clinic Billing Oice and several other acilities
in May 2001.
The work has involved extensive collaboration,
not only within the dental school, but also with
another dental school that is using the system.
[See page 23.]
“AxiUm has been used in other ways elsewhere
throughout the School in recent years,” Fitzgerald
said. “But now it’s time to get this great resource
into the hands o the end users, the students
and the aculty, who are in our clinics providing
patient care.” [See axiUm Timeline, page 21.]
Developed by Exan Academic, a Canadian
sotware company, axiUm is a niche product
being used by about two dozen dental schools
across North America, including, the U-M School
o Dentistry.
Following a two-year search by a School
committee, a contract was signed with Exan
Academic in October 2000 to provide the sotware
system.
axiUm
“O
Keary Campbell
The School’s 2 BlueComprehensive Care Clinic
is the site o a pilot programthat may lead to a changein how inormation about
a patient’s treatmenthistory is provided.
Instead o paper records,virtually everything would
be stored and retrievedelectronically. Dr. Donald
Heys (let), director o the2 Blue Clinic, and Dr. MarkFitzgerald review a charton a computer screen inthe clinic. Fitzgerald is a
member o a committeethat has been investigating
how the “axiUm”sotwarecan be customized or use
throughout the School.
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Major Benefts
Why axiUm?
Several reasons.
Perhaps the overriding one is that no single
system was available to meet the various needs o
many departments throughout the School. AxiUm
does.
Another important reason is that the core
academic mission o the School, educating and
training dental students to provide care in clinics,
did not have to change. Instead, what did change
were ineicient clerical and administrative
processes.
Another strong eature o the sotware
system was axiUm’s abi l i ty to del iver a
comprehensive package o data – billing and
collection inormation, patient records, inancial
management, and more. How that inormation
is delivered can also be customized.
Dr. Donald Heys, proessor o dentistry and
director o the 2 Blue Comprehensive Care Clinic,
said axiUm allows students to see a patient’s
treatment record and give them an idea o the
patient’s payment record.
“Our comprehensive care clinics are designed
to mimic a private practice, where everyone works
together,” he said. “In addition to providing care,
part o being a dentist is the business side, the
inances. The two go hand-in-hand. Sometimes
you have to talk inances with a patient and with
your sta. I think axiUm will help dental students
see those connections and help them long ater
they graduate.”
Finally, security can be customized, allowing
only certain individuals to see speciic items o
inormation.
AxiUm’s rollout began in May 2001, at several
locations including the Clinic Billing Oice, all
ront desks, Central Records, Hospital Dentistry/
Oral Surgery, and graduate clinics. Since then,
it has been introduced elsewhere throughout the
School.
Comp Care Clinic Pilot Program
This summer and all axiUm became “more
visible” with the launch o two pilot programs in
two clinics – the 2 Blue Comprehensive Care Clinic
and the Robert W. Browne Orthodontics Clinic.
Heys said axiUm has been tested in 14 cubicles
in his clinic.
In 12 cubicles, students use their laptop
computers to schedule patient appointments
and retrieve patient treatment records. Dierent
hardware is being tested in the other two
cubicles.
A touch screen, similar to those at checkout
lines in grocery stores, is being tested in one. A
“privacy monitor” is in the other. A student and/
or aculty member must stand directly in ront o
it to see the inormation they are retrieving and
entering. I they’re o to the side, even slightly,
none o the inormation can be seen.
The inormation that can be retrieved includes
patient treatment plans and appointment
schedules. Eventually, digital images will be
added. “These are steppingstones in the School’s
eorts to eventually becoming a paperless, all-
electronic environment,” Heys said.
The pilot program in the comprehensive care
clinic will try to answer two questions, Fitzgerald
said.
The irst – what equipment works best or
accessing inormation on axiUm in a clinical
environment? Laptop computers? Something
else?
The second involves ergonomics – what is
Eventual Goal – Paperless Ofce“The
inormation
that can be
retrieved
includes
patient
treatment plans and
appointment
schedules.
Eventually,
digital
images will
be added.”
Dr. Don Heys
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the best way to use the system that causes the
least amount o strain or physical discomort ondental students and clinical aculty members who
supervise the students?
Security is another issue as required by
the ederal Health Insurance Portability and
Accountabili ty Act (HIPAA). What items o
inormation about a patient an individual can
see is careully controlled.
“Students using their computers in the clinic
will ind that their units are simply a conduit
to retrieve and send inormation. They will not
be able to store and leave the clinic with anysensitive patient inormation on their laptops,”
Fitzgerald emphasized.
Training Program
The irst eorts to train students to use axiUm
to schedule appointments began last summer
with ourth-year dental students. Following
the training, students took a competency test.
This summer, the two-hour training session was
expanded to include third-year dental students.
Mary Garrelts, a patient care coordinator
and member o the Clinical Implementation Task
Force, said nearly all the students who went
through the training did so without any major
problems. “They’re comortable using computers
and were able to quickly learn what they needed
to know.”
As a patient care coordinator (there are our,
one or each clinic) Garrelts is an intermediary
between students and patients. She works with
clinical directors to ensure that patients receive
the care they need and that students get the
support they need.
One o the major advantages students realize
is that scheduling appointments will become
more eicient.“Currently, students must walk to another
part o the building and hand in an appointment
card or each patient. However, i a patient
cancels an appointment, the student has to turn
in a second card. That’s another trip, another
inconvenience,” she said. “Being able to do all o
this electronically saves a lot o steps and a lot o
time.”
First- and second-year dental students may
also learn how to schedule appointments using
axiUm. But that’s probably a year or two away.Clinical aculty will also be taught to use the
system, she said. “They’ll need to learn how to
use axiUm because they will have to review the
work o students, check to make sure all data
has been entered correctly, and then sign o on a
student’s work.”
Third- and ourth-year
dental students havebeen trained to useaxiUm. Dr. Donald
Heys shows ourth-year student Crystal
Marciniak a chart o apatient’s treatment
plan that can beelectronically retrieved.
Keary Campbell
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Ortho Pilot Program
The pilot program in the Robert W. Browne
Orthodontics Clinic began ollowing a successul
six-month “test drive” o axiUm in the orthodontics
area o the Dental Faculty Associates Clinic in the
School.
Clinical aculty in the DFA entered inormation
at chair side or ater an appointment. They also
noted any problems with treatment, key clinical
indings, and analyzed results.
Dr. Siew-Ging Gong, who worked with the
technical support sta to help set up axiUm in
both the DFA clinic and the graduate orthodontics
clinic, said 22 orthodontics residents are currently
trying the system compared to only three in the
DFA.
She cited several beneits using axiUm in the
orthodontics clinic.
“Since it’s a common system used throughout
the School, our residents will have a better idea
about other dental treatments a patient may have
had,” she said.
That inormation will be useul in scheduling
patients who will be treated in the clinic over an
extended period o time, typically two or three
years.
“More timely inormation will be available,
including a patient’s payment history, when they
were treated, the treatments they received, and
more,” she added. “Knowing that will lead to
more eicient scheduling and treatment planning
which will be good or patients, residents, and
sta.”
That’s something Dr. Sunil Kapila is eagerly
anticipating.
“We’ve been using two dierent sotware
programs – axiUm, or inancial purposes, and
the other, an orthodontic-speciic program, to
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schedule patient appointments,” said Kapila,
chair o the Department o Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry.
“It’s very ineicient because there’s so much-
double entry o inormation as a person shits
rom one program to another. AxiUm will allow
us to eliminate that which, in the end, will lead to
a more eicient way o doing things,” he said.
Like Heys, Fitzgerald, and Gong, Kapila said
that the ultimate goal is to have a completely
digital clinic so that residents not only schedule
appointments, but also retrieve digital x-rays and
other visual data.
Digital x-ray technology was being introduced
in the orthodontics clinic during the summer.
However, digital images have been used or some
time at another acility, the Michigan Center or
Oral Health Research. [See sidebar, page 16.]
Praise or Tech Support
Making sure the axiUm sotware works as it
should is the responsibility o Roger Gillie and his
ive-member Programming Services unit.
“We’re like the mechanic who’s under the
hood o the car tweaking the engine to try to
ind ways to make it run even better,” he said.
“We’re working with dierent groups o people
throughout the School to make sure that the
system works the way they want it to work so
they can do their jobs better.”
Jean Thompson, administrative associate
in the School’s Oice o Patient Services and a
member o the Implementation Task Force, praised
Gillie and Rick Getchell, leader o the School’s
Desktop Support unit.
“I can’t praise Rick and Roger and their teams
enough or the work they’ve done,” she said. “It
seems we give them challenges every single day
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S t u d e n t
grading and
e v a l u a t i o n s
may be another
option.
“The system
h a s a l o t o
lexibility,” Heys
said, “and part
o deciding what
we might want
to do rom here
on will be based
on eedback rom
students, aculty,
and sta.”
Funding will
also be a actor.
“It’s probably
going to cost one- totwo-thousand dollars to equip each cubicle with
a computer, to say nothing o replacing that
equipment every three- to ive-years due to wear
and tear,” Fitzgerald said.
Additional equipment may also be needed.
“I digital imaging and digital radiography
are used in all the clinics, that’s going to put
signiicant demand on our network and servers
which will mean more hardware,” he added.
But the beneits could be more signiicant.
“The more axiUm is integrated into the
School’s daily activities, the more eicient we
become,” Fitzgerald said. “That connection,
between what we do here and ‘real world
dentistry,’ I think, will resonate with not only
our current students, but prospective students
who may ultimately decide to come to Michigan
to get their dental education.”
There has been significant collaborationamong administrators, faculty, and staff membersthroughout the School of Dentistry prior to therollout of axiUm. Staff and faculty from the Schoolalso worked extensively with their counterparts atthe University of Maryland School of Dentistry.
“There were substantial benefits to everyone,”said R oger Gi l l ie , d irector of programmingservices.
The major benefit was financial.“By working together, we were able to save a
considerable amount of money as well as reduce theamount of trial and error we probably would havealso experie nced,” he said.
Gillie and Dr. Mark Fitzgerald toured clinicsat the dental school in Maryland and talked toadministrators, computer programmers, andothers prior to launching the chairside program atMichigan.
“In short, we didn’t have to re-invent thewheel,” Gillie said. “They gave us details on thechallenges they faced, what we were likely to face,what they did to make their system work at thechairside, and what we had to do to make axiUmwork in our clinics.”
In return, Gillie gave his counterparts at theMaryland dental school templates of complexfinancial reports from Michigan so they wouldn’thave to begin their efforts from scratch.
Collaboration between the two schools wasimportant...and will become increasingly importantin the futur e...said Dr. Christian Stohler, dean of theUniversity of Maryland dental school and formerchair of the Department of Biologic and MaterialsSciences at U-M.
“The market for software used by dentalschools is a very limited market,” he said. “Dentalschools need to share their experiences as well astheir vision for what they want that software to doin a clinical environment, otherwise we could facemore significant problems in the future. If we don’tcollaborate, our curricula may soon become limitedby software constraints.”
Roger Gillie
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So you think keeping your personal computer
running properly is a challenge?
How would you like to be in Rick Getchell’s
shoes? Or Roger Gillie’s?
They have more than 800 units to worry
about.
Getchell and Gillie head teams that are
responsible or making sure that computers
throughout the School o Dentistry and those
at o-campus sites, and the sotware that runs
those computers, unction smoothly and that i
something goes wrong, the problem is quickly
ixed.
But computers are not their only concern.
They’re also responsible or collecting
mountains o data generated daily, storing it,
transerring it, making sure it’s accessible onlyto authorized users, protected rom loss, and
unassailable by hackers.
Collectively, these responsibili ties are labeled
“technical support.”
Getchell heads a six-person Desktop Support
unit responsible or the reliability o the network,
all server hardware, and the operating system on
desktop computers and servers.
Gillie leads a ive-member Programming
Services unit responsible or making sure all the
applications sotware that runs on the hardwareand the network unctions as it should. His team
also works with students, aculty, sta, and
administrators to make sure sotware systems,
such as axiUm, continue to improve.
Responsibility or some o the desktop and
server sotware is shared by Desktop Support and
Programming Services.
The Indispensable Role ofCollaboration Essential
In essence, their interrelated roles remind one
o the classic conundrum: which came irst, the
chicken or the egg? Or, in this case: can hardware
run without sotware? Or, can sotware run
without hardware?
Neither group has the luxury o working in
a vacuum.
“Many times we ind issues or problems
overlap, so quite oten one group relies on the
other or their expertise to address a problem,”
Getchell said.
Both groups not only respond to problems.
They also pride themselves on being proactive
and anticipating problems.
Gillie puts it this way. “I my team is too
visible, it usually means there’s trouble,” he saidwith a smile.
Requests or “technical support” can range
rom 15 to 20 on a “slow” day, to as many as 50 on
a busy day. The requests arrive by phone, e-mail,
and in ace-to-ace conversations.
The problems the groups deal with also
vary.
They range rom registering computers so
they can be used on the dental school’s network,
to technical advice, installing and/or upgrading
sotware, or removing viruses and spyware.“Depending on the workload, we try to ix
these problems as soon as they’re brought to our
attention,” Getchell said. Oten the problems
are quickly resolved, typically in less than a day.
However, in more complex cases, more time is
needed.
Most CommonRequests for
HELP12% –registeringcomputers to use onthe dental schoolnetwork
11% –how-to/technical advice
10% – user accountissues (passwords,creating accounts, etc.)
10% –newcomputersetup
8% –axiUmrelated
8% –install/upgradesoftware
7% –printertrouble-shooting/setup
6% –failedhardware
6% –virus/software
22% –Miscellaneous(other programs, othersoftware)
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Experience and Low Turnover
“We’re able to quickly solve many o the
problems because o our group’s experience,”
Getchell said.
He said another actor is working in his
group’s avor – low turnover.
At some places technical support staers
spend a couple o years at an organization and
then leave. But that’s not the case at the School
o Dentistry.
“John Squires has been providing technical
support or nearly twenty-ive years, Matt
Vuocolo has been doing it here or seven years,
John Strode or ive years, Mark Personett or two
years, and Oral Molden, almost a year, and I’ve
been doing it or about eight years,” Getchell said.
“Each one o us brings a certain set o skills to
the table that enables us to solve just about any
problem that’s brought to our attention.”
Gillie concurs about his group – “Ed Steinman
is a veteran o ourteen years; Lane Hoy, ive years,
and supports both teams; Luchuan Cai, our years;
and Mike Bleed supports the newest programming
eort or grants and research projects.”
Not long ater arriving at the dental school more
than a year ago, Gillie said he was surprised to learn
23 dierent sotware systems were in use.
“It seemed there was a dierent sotwareprogram or just about every dierent job or
unction,” he said. “We had to streamline our
systems so we could be more eicient and work
across dierent units at the School. AxiUm
allowed us to do that. We are actually increasing
the program’s unctionality, improving support,
decreasing costs, and retiring old and sometimes
broken systems.”
ware, Software, and Security“Tech Support”
Roger Gillie (right), andmembers o his teamdiscuss progress beingmade in introducingaxiUm throughout theSchool o Dentistry.Working with him aremembers o his team(let to right): LuchuanCai, Lane Hoy, Mike
Bleed, and Ed Steinman.
Data security is aparamount concern atthe School o Dentistry.Rick Getchell requentlyresearches digitaltechnologies in aneort to stay ahead o potential threats.
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Members o the TechSupport team also fxcomputer hardwarewhen the needarises. John Strodereinserts memory
in a computer andreinstalls connectionsprior to startup.
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Paperless Ofce
Getchell’s group and Gille’s group also pride
themselves on their ability to work together to
serve aculty, students, sta, and patients within
the School o Dentistry and at sites o campus.
A good example involved preparations at the
Michigan Center or Oral Health Research.
As Getchell’s Desktop Support team was
setting up the hardware in the new acility,
Gillie’s Program Services unit was simultaneously
working on a challenge rom the Center’s director,
Dr. William Giannobile, to create a paperless
oice.
Ater extensive collaboration, a sotware
system was set up allowing those with authorized
access to retrieve a patient’s digital x-rays. It’s
the irst time this has been done there. The group
also devised a system allowing access to paperless
patient records by authorized individuals.
“Rick and his team spent a lot o time
designing the hardware setup and the network
to make sure they worked,” Gillie said, “and
that made our job o installing the sotware and
making sure it ran properly that much easier.
Instead o our group needing two months to
complete its work, we inished in less than a
week.”
Giannobile said Getchell and Gillie “were
instrumental in getting us network and IT
capabilities at this o-site clinical location.” He
praised both Getchell’s and Gillie’s teams or their
eorts.
“Roger and his programming sta played
key roles in setting up electronic patient charts
through axiUm and linking it to the digital
radiography system as well as setting up digital
imaging capabilities.”
As this issue o DentalUM was going to press,
both teams were evaluating the results o the
axiUm pilot programs in the Blue Clinic on the
second loor and in the orthodontics clinic.
I the past is any measure, don’t be surprised
i Getchell, Gillie, and members o their teams ind
new ways in the uture that will help students,
aculty, sta, and administrators become even
better at what they do.
Ater installing a newsotware program onher computer, Oral
Molden provides Dr.Marilyn Lantz, associate
dean or academicaairs, with instructional
suggestions on variousapplications o the
sotware.
John Squires’amiliaritywith products rom
Apple Computer makeshim a valuable resource
or students, aculty,and sta. Here he oers
dental student TyraJeerson some tips on
how to get the best useo an Apple notebook
computer.
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P er K j el d s en
P er K j el d s en
One o the most commonservices the School’sTechnical Support
sta oers is providing“how to”advice. Here,Matt Vuocolo is on the
telephone explainingto a sta member how
to create a portabledocument ormat (PDF)
fle that can be e-mailed.
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DLLhat used to be a television studio on the
third loor o the dental building has been
transormed in recent years.
Constructed at the time the “new” dental
school building was being built in the early 1970s,
the 1,800 square oot studio was the site where
hundreds o videos on dental education and oral
health topics were produced.
Then came desktop computers, the Internet,
the World Wide Web, and digital photography.
In the mid-1990s, Dr. Paul Lang began
investigating ways aculty could use the Internet
and World Wide Web to help students access
course syllabi, notes, and selected readings or
particular courses. He also looked at how dentists
were using what was then “new” technology,
such as e-mail and video conerencing, to see i
these technologies could be used to supplement
classroom education.
Lang also created the School’s irst Web site.
It has been substantially improved, most recently
earlier this year. [ DentalUM, Spring & Summer
2005, pages 6-7.]
In 1999, Dr. Scott Pelok, a clinical assistant
proessor, assumed responsibility or what was
known as “dental inormatics,” the dissemination
o dental inormation using technology.
With technology advancing at a breakneck
pace, dierent hardware and sotware systems oten
made communications dicult. Ater spending a
year resolving hardware and sotware issues, he
also had to look to the uture, including developing
an intranet or the School o Dentistry.
Unlike the Internet, where inormation is
accessible to anyone with a Web browser, obtaining
inormation rom an intranet site, by design, is
restricted. A irewall prohibits individuals rom
obtaining conidential or proprietary inormation
such as course materials, clinical handbooks and
The Digital Learning Laboratory“The Ultimate Core Facility”
manuals, syllabi, or newsletters. Only persons
with special accounts and passwords can obtain
the inormation.
Using the TV Studio
Since hardware and sotware updates were
rapidly coming to market, and the production
o new television videotapes all but abandoned,
Pelok in late 2000 suggested a new use or the
ormer TV studio – as an instructional computing
center – where aculty and students could learn
how to use new technology.
Today, about two-thirds o the 1,800 square
oot acility is being used as a “Digital Learning
Laboratory.” Faculty, students, and sta learn
to use new sotware programs, scanners, digital
cameras and digital videotape recorders to
enhance clinic and classroom instruction.
Two ull-time staers, Sarah Brittain and
Dan Bruell, and one part-time employee, Trek
Glowacki, help those throughout the School who
come to the third loor to use the equipment.
“It seems that more students use the
equipment, but they don’t need a lot o help
because they’re already so comortable using
technology,” said Brittain, who also manages the
School’s Web site.
Services•Scanning(slides,
radiographs, papers)•Videotapingandeditin
•DVDcreation
•Webservices
•Databasedevelopmen
•Photography,illustratigraphics
•Desktoppublishing
•Largeformatprinting
•Consultingservices
Equipment•3workstations
(12 Macs, 1 PC)•1atbedscanner
•2slidescanners•2DVDrecorders
•2digitalvideocameras
•1digitalstillcamera
•Soundbooth
WA major portion o theold television studioin the dental buildingis now being usedas a Digital LearningLaboratory. Faculty,students, and sta canget help to preparelectures or othermaterials, or usehardware and sotware
they may not have ondesktop units in theirofces.
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“Most o the aculty who come here to usethe equipment are also pretty comortable withit, but there are cases, where we may have to dosome hand holding,” she said.
Brittain said aculty oten come to the acilityto use the equipment to prepare PowerPointgraphics or classroom instruction or scanradiographs or periodontal charts or classroomuse.
“The Digital Learning Lab oers side-by-sideattention to those users,” said Lynn Johnson,director o Dental Inormatics. “Sarah, Dan,and Trek help aculty members and others gainproiciency using the resources that are here sothat the aculty or sta can ultimately do thework by themselves.”
Digital Video Use GrowingDigital video is increasingly being used.Bruell worked closely with Dr. Samuel
Zwetchkenbaum to develop a novel continuing
dental education course that gives oral healthcare providers an opportunity to learn abouttreating patients with developmental disabilitiesrom their home or oice using a high-speedconnection to the Internet.
Several hours o video were digitally recordedand edited. Streaming technology allowsthose taking the course to view seminars anddemonstration o techniques. [See story, page30.]
As more students, aculty, and sta learnabout the equipment that’s available in the
Digital Learning Lab and the personalized supportthat is available, use o the acility is expected toincrease.
“Currently, we are seeing growing demandor digital video, but we know that technologyand learning needs will always be changing,” Johnson said. “We’re always listening to the needso students and aculty so we can meet those
needs.”
About two-
thirds of the
1,800 square
foot television
facility is
being used
as a “DigitalLearning
Laboratory.”
Faculty,
students, and
staff learn to use
new software
programs,
scanners,
digital cameras,
and digital
videotape
recorders to
enhance clinic
and classroom
instruction.
Dr. Michael Ignelzi is a big fan and a frequent
user of the Digital Learning Laboratory.
“It’s the ultimate core facility,” he said.
“Thepeoplethere–DanBruell,SarahBrittain,andTrekGlowacki–areincrediblyhelpful,
competent, and very service oriented. They
make the technology available in a useful and
user-friendly way.”
An associate professor of dentistry in
the Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric
Dentistry, Ignelzi said he often uses the lab to
make digital photos and digital videos. H e also
scans materials and has converted hundreds of
35-mm slides into other formats for use in his
lectures.The digital video clips seem to have the
biggest impact on students. “It’s one thing to
talk about or describe a procedure in a classroom.
But when you show it, it reinforces what you
said,” Ignelzi said.
The approach has paid dividends.
In 2002, Ignelzi received the Charles Craig
Teaching Award , the highest honor bestowed
by Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the national dental
honor society, for his innovative teaching
methods to educate and motivate students tobecome life-long learners.
“The Digital Learning Laboratory is the best
of both wor lds,” he said. “I don’t have to stay on
top of all the latest developments i n technology.
I can focus on what I enjoy doing, teaching.
With ideas from Dan, Sarah, and Trek, I can use
technology to be an even better teacher.”
Sarah Brittain moves study model castsinto position as Dr. Michael Ignelzi prepares
to take digital photos that he will use in aclassroom lecture.
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We’re all amiliar with locating inormation
on the Internet using one or more o today’s
popular search engines. Type in a word or phrase
and you get documents or pictures that match,
or nearly match, what you were looking or.
But consider this situation.
A aculty member is preparing a lecture on
a particular topic, or example, how to properly
administer local anesthesia to a ive-year-old.
Short o actually going into a pediatric
dental clinic, what is the best way the instructor
could visually convey the correct way to perorm
the procedure? Also, could that procedure be
displayed in dierent ways, such as in a video
clip or a computer animation with an audio
description?
In the not-too-distant uture, that could be
possible because o the eorts o Dan Bruell and
others with something called the Digital Asset
Management System (DAMS).
Since digital content is being created daily,
eectively managing it and harnessing it or use
throughout the School is an issue that must be
addressed.
Applying Internet Searchingin a New Way
DAMS mimics the approach used to search
or inormation on the Internet.
However, in the case o DAMS, the items that
are searched, retrieved, and delivered to the desktop
would not be text. Instead, they would be videos,
audio les, and images. All would be “tagged” so
that only rightul users would have access.
Bruell, in the Digital Learning Laboratory,
is leading the School’s eorts in a project
that involves other schools and colleges on
the U-M campus: Education, Pharmacy, LS&A,
Nursing, Social Work, the University Library, and
Digital Video on Deman
Inormation Technology Central Services.
“Although we have hundreds o videotapes
that were produced here and used extensively
during the past 20 or 30 years, many o them are
no longer useable today,” Bruell said.
The reason?
Nearly all o the videotapes are “old”
technology, that is, analog. Digital is today’s coin
o the realm.
In addition, many o the old videos do not
relect today’s realities, or example, dentists
must wear masks and surgical gloves when
working on a patient.
Bruell said that in addition to developing
new digital videos, eorts are also underway to
develop audio transcripts or each video.
The Present and a Look into the Future
“When portions o a video become a part o
DAMS, each segment is analyzed and a track o
text is generated which can then be searched,” he
One way the Digital AssetManagement System will
be used is or showingprocedures duringclassroom instruction. Inthis example, an instructortypes in a phrase o aprocedure he or shewants to show a groupo students. Instead o using the entire video, theinstructor will be able toelectronically edit the videoto the 15 or 20 secondsthat will be viewed.Although the video hasbeen electronically edited,
the original remains intactor uture use.
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A new continuing dental education
course now being oered by the School o
Dentistry could become a model or similar
courses in the uture.
The course, De nt al Ca re for Peop le
with Disabilities, gives dentists, specialists,
and other oral health care providers an
opportunity to learn rom their home oroice using a high-speed connection to the
Internet.
Although the School currently oers
ive online courses, this course breaks new
ground by blending content with technology
in several ways that are all interrelated.
Major Benefts
One o those major beneits is that all
course materials are immediately available
on the Web ( www.dent.umich.edu/con_ed)
ater registration.
Instead o signing up and then waiting
several days to receive study materials that
must be physically delivered to a home or
oice, one can immediately begin taking the
course ater successully registering.
A second major breakthrough is that
video or the course is streamed.
Several hours o video have been recorded
and digitally edited. Streaming technology
allows participants to view seminars and
demonstrations o techniques.
Interactive Case Studies
Another unique eature o the course
involves our case studies.
A New Approacsaid. “In the uture, one might be able to do
both a video and a text search.”
Copies o the or ig inal v ideo are
automatically created or the user that
would allow him or her to connect to the
Internet at dierent speeds (cable, DSL).
The beneits o developing a transcript
that accompanies each video may not
be apparent , but they are not to be
underestimated.
For example, i an instructor has an
8- or 9-minute video about a particular
subject, but only wants to use 15 or 20
seconds or a lecture, DAMS would allow the
instructor to locate the entire video, isolate
the speciic segment he or she wanted to
use, electronically edit that segment, and
then use the inished version in the lecture
and possibly e-mail it...all without altering
the original video.
“We’re still trying to get some o the kinks
out o the system we’re experimenting with
that involves trying to develop transcripts
rom the video,” Bruell said. “For example,
the phrase ‘dental plaque’ might appear in a
transcript as ‘dental lag.’ Obviously, that’s
not correct, but it’s an example o what still
needs to be worked on.”
A demonstration o DAMS was “a
smashing success” at this spring’s meeting o
the American Dental Education Association,
said Dr. Lynn Johnson, director o Dental
Inormatics.
“Dentistry is highly visual and dental
schools have always struggled with storing
and retrieving images and video. The
reaction we received at ADEA shows that we
are leaders in solving this problem.”
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Ater viewing each case study, participants
are asked, based on what they have seen and
heard, to develop a treatment plan or each
patient.
Participants electronically submit
that plan to course director, Dr. Samuel
Zwetchkenbaum, a clinical assistant proessor
in the Department o Oral and MaxilloacialSurgery and Hospital Dentistry.
A t e r r e v i e w i n g t h e r e s p o n s e s ,
Zwetchkenbaum e-mails his evaluations to
each participant one or two business days
later. I a section is successully completed
(scoring 70 percent or higher), the course
participant can proceed to the next case
study.
For all Dentists
“I would encourage all dentists to take
this course to learn more about the best way
to treat disabled patients,” Zwetchkenbaum
said. “By watching each case study, submitting
their own treatment plans, and having each
plan individually evaluated, dentists have
an opportunity to see how they can improve,
or at least consider treating these patients
with special needs i they’re not doing so
already.”
Zwetchkenbaum said the course will
beneit dentists whose patients have cerebral
palsy or other motor impairments. “It
may also provide guidance when working
with patients with acquired neurological
conditions, such as Huntington’s disease or
closed head injuries,” he added.
Extensive Collaboration
What also makes this course unique,
according to Dr. Lynn Johnson, director o Dental
Inormatics, is the extensive collaboration that
has taken place.
“Our department has been working with the
Oice o Continuing Dental Education and the
Department o Oral and Maxilloacial Surgeryto provide an educational experience that goes
beyond the typical classroom experience and can
be made available to every practicing dentist,”
she said. “I hope they take advantage o the
unique opportunity this course oers.”
Working with Zwetchkenbaum to develop the
course were Dr. Daniel Jolly, a proessor o clinical
dentistry at Ohio State University and Dr. Clive
Freedman, an associate clinical proessor at the
University o Western Ontario, Canada. Jolly andFriedman are past presidents o the International
Association or Disability and Oral Health.
Course Overview
In his pioneering report oral health in America issin 2000, the U.S. SurgeonGeneral noted disparitiesin oral health and care fothose with development
disabilities. Caring for thindividuals is challenginfor practitioners. Howevsuccessfully meeting thochallenges can provide agreat deal of satisfactionto everyone involved.Dental Care for Persons w
Disabilities covers subjecimportant to oral health practitioners including tphilosophy of care, inform
consent, examinations,and the use of protectiverestraints.
to Continuing Dental Education
Much o the content orthe continuing dentaleducation course oered onthe Internet, Dental Care for People with Disabilities, wasdeveloped in the School’sDigital Learning Laboratory.Dan Bruell (seated) andDr. Sam Zwetchkenbaumreview a section which
allows participants to submittheir treatment planningsuggestions.
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When he graduated with his dental degree rom the University o Michigan
School o Dentistry twenty-our years ago, Dr. Jose Kolling said he never gave
any thought to becoming the president o any dental organization, much less a
state-wide group.
In May, Kolling became the irst U-M School o Dentistry aculty member
in nearly a quarter century to become the president o the Michigan Dental
Association. The last dental school aculty member to lead the statewide
organization was Dr. Robert Doerr who assumed the presidency o the MDA in April
1981. At the time, Doerr was a proessor o dentistry and an associate dean.
Since earning his DDS in 1981 and a master’s degree rom Michigan three
years later, Kolling has been active in dental organizations at local, state, and
national levels. Beore becoming MDA president, Kolling was president-elect, vice
president, secretary, and served on both the Executive Committee and the Board
o Trustees. [See Selected Highlights, page 35.] “So I’ve had plenty o time to
get ready or the issues I’ll be acing,” he said with a laugh during an interview
shortly beore his term as president began.
How it Began
“Getting involved in organized dentistry was something that was expected
o me when I began working with my mentor and practice partner, Dr. Hugh
Cooper (DDS 1951; MS, prosthodontics, 1954),” Kolling said. “Since then, I have
ound that being involved in organized dentistry has been a great way or me to
give something back to the proession.”
First Schoolo Dentistry
FacultyMemberin Nearly25 Yearsto Serveas MDA
President
Faculty Profle
Dr. Jose Kolling
K e a r y C a m p b e l l
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The irst member o his amily to
earn a college degree, Kolling said his
interest in dentistry was sparked by his
amily dentist, Dr. Sidney Weber (DDS
1948), o Bloomield Hills.
“When I was 12 or 13, he gave me an
opportunity to look over his shoulder as
he worked on my younger brothers who
came to him or their appointments.
By the time I entered Notre Dame High
School in Harper Woods, I knew that
this is what I wanted to do with my
lie,” Kolling said.
Also inluencing his decision was
“the enjoyment I got out o working
with my hands and ixing small
appliances around the house. That gave
me opportunities to diagnose problems
and develop creative solutions, which
is what dentists do all the time.”
Kolling entered the U-M School o
Dentistry in 1977 prior to completing
his studies or a degree in chemistry at
the University o Detroit.
Great Teachers at Michigan
“Looking back, what continues
to amaze me is the caliber o the
instructors we had,” he said. “At the
time, I don’t think many o us who
were students ully appreciated who
was teaching us until we got out into
the real world and began talking to
colleagues who then became a bit
jealous o our good ortune when we
told them where we went to school.”
He said the list o instructors
“included Dr. Major Ash who taught
occlusion; Dr. Sig Ramjord, who taught
periodontics; Dr. Brien Lang, who
taught removable prosthodontics; and
Dr. Gerald Charbeneau, who taught
operative dentistry. They were just a
ew o the giants o the proession who
taught here when I was a student.”
Kolling said others instructors who
infuenced him included Drs. Robert Lorey,
George Myers, and Joe Clayton. “I credit
both Drs. Lorey and Myers or encouraging
me to become a clinical instructor, and Dr.
Clayton or urging me to become involved
in academic dentistry, even i or only a
ew hours a week,” he said.
What made a lasting impression on
him, Kolling said, “was the way they all
taught and how they treated students
and patients. They treated everyone
with respect and were always sharing
their knowledge with those o us who
were new to dentistry. Their example,
in turn, inspired me to do the same in
my role as a clinical instructor,” he
said.
Watching Change Unold
Three days a week, rom 9:00
a.m. unti l noon, Kol l ing teaches
prosthodontics to third- and ourth-
year dental students in the 3 Blue Clinic.
When he’s not there, he’s practicing
general dentistry in Ann Arbor. Ater
practicing downtown with Cooper or
24 years, Kolling established a new
practice this summer, Oak Valley Dental
Associates, in southwest Ann Arbor.
With him are two U-M graduates, Dr.
Daniel Edwards (DDS 1997) and Dr.
Deborah Lisuall (BS, dental hygiene
1979; DDS 1983). Edwards, who is
a member o the School’s Board o
Governors, also teaches part-time at the
School o Dentistry. [See story, pages
55-56.]
“It’s the best o both worlds,”
Kolling said about his dual role as
a clinical instructor and private
practitioner. “Many times I ind that I
can apply what I’ve learned or taught
in one setting in the other environment,
and that works out nicely or everyone
involved,” he said.
Teaching at the School o Dentistry
has also given Kolling a ront-row seat
to watch the continuing evolution
o the proession. The changes are
something he has mentioned on many
occasions.
“Dentistry is now more diverse
than when I was a student,” he said.
“Today you see almost as many women
as men entering our School studying
to become dentists. You also see the
number o minority students entering
the proession is higher than it was
beore, and you also see how technology
continues to evolve and how it’s appliedin novel ways in classrooms and clinics.
As a aculty member who sees this
taking place day in and day out, I oten
tell our members, ‘this is the reality
o what’s taking place now, so as an
organization, let’s be prepared or the
uture’.”
“Getting involved in organized dentistry was something that was expected o mewhen I began working with my mentor and practice partner, Dr. Hugh Cooper.
Since then, I have ound that being involved in organized dentistry has been
a great way or me to give something back to the proession.”
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Don’t Wait
Kolling is aware o the challenges
he aces as MDA president.
One is workorce issues that
involves dentists who are retiring or
about to retire, as well as those who
are entering the proession. Another is
disparities in oral health care. Others
include how the state’s inances andbudget cuts will aect the dental
school’s programs, personnel, and
its ability to attract highly qualiied
students to Michigan.
K o l l i n g ’ s p h i l o s o p h y i s
straightorward. “My attitude is: I
there’s an important problem that
needs to be addressed, deal with it now,
don’t wait,” he said.
Not only does he hear about the
challenges acing dentistry rom thoseat the dental school and other dentists
across Michigan, but Kolling also gets
a dierent proessional perspective
rom his wie, Barbara, who earned
a Bachelor o Science degree in dental
hygiene rom U-M in 1983. She served
or six years on the Board o Directors
o the School’s Dental Hygienists’
Alumnae Association, including a one-
year term as president.
“We met at a dance group in Detroit
the summer beore I began dental
school and not long ater she inished
high school,” he said. “But it wasn’t
until ater we began dating that welearned we both were interested in a
career in dentistry.”
Kolling said his wie has provided
some valuable insights about the dental
proession, but rom the perspective o
a dental hygienist. “Those are insights
I may not have received, and they’re
helpul because they are always ocused
on what’s best or the proession and
the patient,” he said.
“The dental proession has itsshare o challenges now, and there will
be challenges in the uture,” Kolling
said. “But students here at Michigan
have many opportunities ahead o
them. It’s a great time or a student
to become a dentist, just as it was or
me in 1981.”
Acknowledging Schoolof Dentistry Leaders
In his MDA Presidential acceptance speech,
Dr.JosefKollingpaidtributetoadministrators
and faculty members who have mentored him.
Excerpts of his remarks are below...I also need to acknowledge the support
and encouragement given to me by Deans Be rnie
Ma ch en , Bi ll Ko to wi cz , an d Pete r Po lv er in i,
as well as my department chairs Brien Lang,
Christian Stohler, Robert Bradley, and Paul
Krebsbach who were my bosses at the U-M
dental school for the past eight years I served on
the MDA board. I have been a part-time faculty
member . . . and these men all assured me that
my involvement with MDA was important, and
it would never jeopardize my teaching position.Without that support, I could not have done this.
So f or al l who beli eve t hat fu ll-ti me f acult y and
school admi nistrators don’t care about orga nized
dentistry, I can tell you that they do.
I also want to thank my students who were
impacted by my absences from the clinic. I know
it was inconvenient for them, and I would like to
think they understood. My current students think
it’s pretty cool having the MDA President as an
instructor. I think it’s pretty cool seeing so many
former students in this House of Delegates.
I must acknowledge and thank Dr. Hugh
Cooper who has been my biggest mentor and
friend for 24 years. He accepted me into his
practice as an ass ociate rig ht out of dental school
in 1981. I was the last in a long line of associates
who worked for him while completing graduate
stu die s at U-M ... Hug h urg ed me to bec ome
involved in organized dentistry. ...Thank you,
Hugh, for everything you have done for dentistry,
and for me. I doubt I would be standing up here
today if you had not become a part of my life and
star ted m e on this path.
I want to thank my wife, Barb, and my
children, Joe and Christina, who understood the
importance of a dentist’s active participation
with the profession and supported my decision
to get involved with the MDA.
Prior to starting an initial clinical examination o her patient, dental student Kathy Verhay reviews the patient’s medical anddental history with Dr. Joe Kolling.
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Education
• DoctorofDentalSurgery,UniversityofMichigan
School of Dentistry (1981)
• MasterofScience;RestorativeDentistry,Crown
andBridge;UniversityofMichiganSchoolof
Dentistry(1984)
Academic Appointments
• ClinicalInstructor,U-MSchoolofDentistry
(1981-1982)
• AssistantProfessor,U-MSchoolofDentistry
(1984-1991)
• AdjunctAssistantProfessor,U-MSchoolofDentistr y
(1991-1996)
• AdjunctAssociateProfessor,U-MSchoolofDenti stry
(1996 to present)
Professional Affiliations and Leadership Roles
• SeniorDentalClassO fficer,VicePresident(1980-1981)
• OmicronKappaUpsilon,ChiChapter(1981topresent)
• AmericanDentalAssociation(1981topresent)- Alternate Delegate from Michigan to ADA House of
Delegates ( 1995, 1997, 1998)
- Delegate to ADA House of Delegates (1999-2005)
- Chair, Michigan Delegation to House of Delegates
(2004)
• MichiganDentalAssociation(1981topresent)
- Peer Review Committee (1990-1996), Chairman
(1995-1996), Consultant (1996-1997)
- Chairman, House of Delegates Credentials
Committee (1995)
- Finance Committee (1999-2002)- Board of Trustees (1997-2005)
- Executive Committee (2002-2005)
- Secretary (2002-2003)
- VicePresident(2003-2004)
- President-elect(2004-2005)
- President (May 2005 to May 2006)
Dr. Josef KollingProfessional Achievements
Selected Highlights
• WashtenawDistrictDentalSociety
(1981 to present)
- Chairman, Public Relations Committee
(1987-1988)
- Executive Board liaison to Committee on
Insurance (1993-1995), Peer Review Ethics
Committee (1993-1995), Membership
Committee(1994-1995)
- WDDS Delegate to MDA House of Delegates
(1991-1996);Chairman,WDDSdelegation(1992)
- Chair, Nominations Committee (1997-1998)
- Treasurer(1993-1994)
- Secretary(1994-1995)
- President-elect (1995-1996)
- President (1996-1997)
• F.B.VedderSoc ietyofCrownandBridge
Prosthodontics(1984topresent)
- Chair, Local Arrangements Committee
(1993-1994)
- Treasurer (1995-1996)
- President-elect (1996-1997)- President (1997-1998)
Honors and Awards
• Clinical Instructor of the Year Award , Class of 1990
• Alumni of the Year Awa rd , Alpha Chapter of Delta
Sigma Delta (1991)
• Clinical Instructor of the Year Award , Class of 2001
• AmericanCollegeofDentists(1998)
• InternationalCollegeofDentists(October2005)
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Faculty NEWS
Dr. Jan Hu recently became the new director o pediatric dentistry ollowingthe retirement this summer o Dr. Lloyd (Bud) Straon. Dr. Sunil Kapila, chair o
the Department o Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, made the announcement
this spring.
“With her exceptional research and teaching credentials, I am certain Dr.
Hu will lead the pediatric dentistry section o our department to even greater
heights,” Kapila said. “I look orward to working closely with her to continue
building on our already strong clinical and academic programs and to urther
develop our department’s research.”
Education Background
Hu received a Bachelor o Dental Surgery degree rom National Taiwan Universityin 1985. Three years later, she received a specialty certicate in pediatric dentistry
rom USC and, in 1990, a PhD in cranioacial biology rom the same school.
Following her training, Hu was a postdoctoral ellow in cranioacial molecular
biology and a clinical assistant proessor at USC. In 1993, she joined the Department
o Pediatric Dentistry at the University o Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
Six years later, she was named an associate proessor with tenure.
She came to Ann Arbor in 2002 as an associate proessor with tenure.
Research Interests and Service
Hu’s research ocuses on the regulation o tooth ormation and genetic
mutations associated with dental structures. Her clinical interests are in the area o
cranioacial anomalies and special patient care among pediatric dental patients.
In addition to her research and teaching, Hu holds several positions in
proessional societies, including the Science Aairs Committee o the American
Association o Pediatric Dentistry, and on two editorial boards, the Journal of
Dental Research and the Journal of Pediatric Dentistry . Hu is board certiied by
the American Academy o Pediatric Dentistry and is a member o the Omicron
Kappa Upsilon, the national dental honor society.
This spring, Hu received one o the nation’s most prestigious awards or dental
research, the Gies Award, or the best paper published in the Journal of Dental
Research. [ DentalUM, Spring & Summer 2005, pages 62-63.]
Straon PraisedKapila praised Straon or his years o service to the School o Dentistry. “I
want to thank Dr. Straon or his 37 years o selless service, dedication, and
contributions to our department and the dental school,” Kapila said.
Straon said he and his wie plan to continue to live in the Ann Arbor area,
but may venture to a warmer climate during the winter months. Some travel,
both in the U.S. and overseas may also take place, including trips to the Denver
area to visit their two sons.
Johnston to ReceiveAAO Award
Dr. Lysle Johnston will receive
th e Lo ui se Ada Ja raba k Me mori al
International Orthodontic Teachers
and Research Award next spring. The
award will be presented during the
AAO’s 106th annual session that runs
rom April 28 to May 3.
The award rom the American
Association o Orthodontists Foundation
honors individuals who have made
signiicant contributions to teaching
and research during their careers as
orthodontists.
This spring, Johnston received the
School’s Distinguished Service Award.
[See story, page 59.]
Jan Hu New Director of Pediatric Dentistry
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Bagramian ExternalExaminer in Singapore
Dr. Robert Bagramian spent two
weeks in Singapore this June as one
o three external examiners at the
National University o Singapore. He
was invited by the school to help test a
group o 35 graduating dental students.
The other two external examiners were
rom Maryland and London, England.
“Graduating dental students at
the National University o Singapore
take a series o rigorous examinations,
including a written exam, a clinical
exam, and a combination oral and
clinical exam,” he said. “It’s a pretty
intense period o time or the students
since the exams are spread out over two
weeks.”
However, it wasn’t Bagramian’s
irst time at the National University.
In 1992, he spent three months there
as a visiting proessor and returned onseveral occasions years later.
Nor was it the irst time Bagramian
was a national examiner in Asia. He
participated in a similar event at the
dental school in Malaysia in 1997.
D’Silva in ADEA Leadership Institute
Nisha D’Silva, an assistant proessor in the
Department o Oral Medicine, Pathology, and
Oncology, will be participating in the ADEA’s
Leadership Inst itute during the next year. She
was selected or the 12-month course in March.
The program, now in its sixth year, is designed
to develop the nation’s most promising dental
aculty to become uture leaders in dental and
higher education.
Three years ago, D’Silva collaborated with
others to create the School’s “Digital Microscopes”
initiative. Using the World Wide Web, the School
o Dentistry’s intranet, and a computer, dental
students use their monitors as surrogate microscopes and view images o more
than 50 dierent tissues. The tissues, which had been collected rom patients who
have been treated or an array o maladies at the School’s clinics since 1940, can
be viewed at any time and at any place there’s a computer, rather than during
a designated three-hour lab session.
This approach to education has saved signiicant time or students and aculty
and has also eliminated the need or physical laboratory space and saved money
since microscopes no longer need to be repaired or replaced.D’Silva also has a major role in the Specialized Programs o Research Excellence
(SPORE) grant as director o the head and neck cancer tissue core. In this role, she
co-manages development o a patient database and the collection, storage, and
distribution o patient tissue and blood samples to gain a better understanding
o the genetic and molecular mechanisms behind malignant tumor behavior.
The irst phase o the leadership program began in June with a sel-study on
organizational theory and leadership in higher education.
The second phase, which began in September, ocused on legislative issues
aecting dental education and included visits to congressional and senate
oices.
The third phase, which begins in mid-January, will address administrativeskills needed to become eective leaders. The inal phase takes place next spring
at the ADEA’s annual program in Orlando, Florida.
“The Leadership Institute will provide me with tools I will be able to use
presently and in the uture as my career develops,” D’Silva said. “I am excited to
be a part o the program and to be mentored by Drs. Peter Polverini and Marilyn
Lantz.”Dr. Robert Bagramian
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Ma Featured in WhitakerFoundation Annual Report
The research being conducted in the
laboratory o Dr. Peter Ma, an associate
proessor in the Department o Biologic
and Materials Sciences, was eatured
in this year’s annual report rom the
Whitaker Foundation. The oundation is
the country’s largest private sponsor o
biomedical engineering and biomedical
research and education.
The story eatures Ma’s work that
involves creating synthetic scaolds.
The eature is available on the Web at:
www.whitaker.org/news/peterma.
html.
Taylor on IADR/AADRPublications Committee
Dr. George Taylor has been elected
as an AADR representative to the
IADR/AADR Publications Committee.
As a member-at-large, Taylor and other
committee members review the quality
and inancial status o the Journal of
Dental Research and other publications
owned jointly by IADR/AADR. His term
ends in 2008.
Under the leadership o Dr. Amid Ismail, a proessor in the Department
o Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics, the Detroit Oral Cancer
Prevention Project has launched a citywide campaign to lower the oral cancer
death rate in that city.
Detroit has one o the highest rates o oral cancer in the nation.
According to a recent study, 46 percent o all deaths rom oral cancer in
Michigan occur in the Detroit area. In Arican-American men, Detroit reported
an oral cancer rate o 31 cases per 100,000 people, which was the highest rate
reported among all states.
With one o the highest incidence and mortality rates o oral cancer in the
state, the Detroit area had only 35 percent o its oral cancer cases detected at an
early stage.
“Our best hope or decreasing the rate o oral cancer is to get Detroiters in
or a screening,” Ismail said. “I caught early, oral cancer has a 90 percent cure
rate.”
By contrast, the eects o later-stage oral cancer treatments can be
devastating. Some patients require ull or partial removal o the tongue, teeth,
gums, or oral tissues.
Among the risk actors o oral cancer are tobacco use, moderate or heavy
alcohol use, a diet low in ruits and vegetables, lack o access to early screening
and dental care, and poor oral hygiene.
The Detroit Oral Cancer Prevention Program seeks to reduce the death rate
or oral cancer by hal in the next ive years.
The campaign, Get Checked Before It’s Too Late, includes billboards, radio,
and newspaper ads all urging Detroiters to call a toll-ree number (877-7CHECKED)
or an oral cancer screening. The
screenings provided through the
project are painless and ree o
charge.
“Bottom line, we want everyone to
know that oral cancer is preventable.
It’s treatable,” Ismail said, “but it
must be caught early.”
Funding or the oral cancer project
has been provided by a ive-year
grant rom the National Institute o
Dental and Cranioacial Research.
Oral Cancer Campaign UrgesDetroiters to Get Checked
Faculty NEWS
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Dental and dental hygiene students worked with
School o Dentistry aculty members in mid-July to
make mouth guards or 125 student athletes rom
across Michigan. Third-year dental student Erica
Frando who coordinated the event, said more than
60 registered during the irst 10 minutes.
Student athletes ive and older came rom
Ann Arbor, Saline, Whitmore Lake, Belleville, West
Bloomield, and other communities. They plan touse their customized protective gear this all and
winter or sports including ootball, soccer, and ice
hockey.
U-M students who participated in the annual
event said they enjoyed providing the service to the
community.
“I’m doing this because I enjoy volunteer work,
and this seemed like it would be a un thing do,” said
third-year dental student James Powell.
Another third-year dental student, Kim Dao, said
this was her irst time helping at the annual clinic.
“I heard it was un and I wanted to be involved,” she
said.
Parents were equally enthusiastic.
For Sheila Monroe’s son, Andrew, it was the
third time he had been to the clinic to be itted or
a customized mouth guard. “He plays travel ice
hockey, and the other two he’s had made here in
the past have worked out, so we’re back again,” shesaid.
Also during the event, the dangers o using spit
tobacco were mentioned to the young athletes. In
addition to a poster board displaying adverse eects
rom using spit tobacco, Joan McGowan, associate
proessor o dental hygiene, talked to the student
athletes and answered their questions.
125 Get Fitted at Annual Mouth Guard Clinic
Third-year dentalstudent GwendolynBuck tells 13-year-oldRoyce White how hismouth guard will bemade ater taking hisimpression.
Third-year dentalstudent James Powellprepares the compoundthat will be used totake an impression or a
student athlete.
For Andrew Monroe,this summer’s mouthguard clinic was thethird time he has beento the U-M School o Dentistry to be ftted.Fourth-year dentalstudent Emily Da Silvashows him his oralimpression and explainshow the mouth guardwill be made.
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t was a week they will alwaysremember.
Three ourth-year dental students
– Erin Kloostra, Jennier Larson, and
Aimee Snell – and two third-year
pediatric dental residents – Dr. James
Thomas and Dr. Aleco Tujios – will
never orget providing oral health
care to physically disabled children
and adolescents at the Bay Cli Health
Camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
The memories o their experiences,however, will include more than the
care they provided in the camp’s three
operatories.
They will also remember the
good-natured banter with patients...
conversations with counselors and
patients on many topics in the camp’s
18,000 square oot dining acility
reerred to as “The Big House”...and
seeing smiles on the aces o more
than two dozen teens nattily attired
in tuxedos and dresses or a ormal
dinner at a nearby landmark and prom
in the camp’s gymnasium that was
transormed into a dance hall in late
July.
About 30 minutes northwest o
Marquette, the Bay Cli Health Camp
Bay Cliff Health Camp
The Experiencewas originally built
as a dairy arm in the
early 1900s. Abandoned
d u r i n g t h e G r e a t
Depression, the 180-acre
site was purchased by
Bay Cli and reopened
in 1934 with the intent
to serve malnourished children who
lived in the Upper Peninsula.
With the outbreak o polio in the
1940s, the camp adopted a mission o
improving the lives o children and
young adults with orthopedic, speech,
hearing, visual, or other physical
disabilities. That mission continues
today.
“For seven weeks, rom mid June
to early August, more than 160 personswith disabilities, ranging in age rom 3
to 17, come here or an opportunity to
develop the skills they need to become
independent and to learn to live a uller
lie,” said camp director, Tim Bennett.
M o r e t h a n 1 2 5 i n d i v i d u a l s ,
including sta members, therapists,
physicians, nurses, pediatric dentists,
and dental students provide services
at the site.
The Personal Touch
“About 80 or 85 percent o the
children who come to Bay Cli only
see the dentist when they are here. So,
or most o them, this means receiving
oral health care only once a year. That’s
why it’s important or us to work hard
to try to address all their oral health
needs during the short time we are
here,” said Tujios, who was at the camp
as a dental student in the summer o
2002.
Kloostra, Larson, and Snell each
treated between our and six patients
daily.
“The pace here is dierent than at
the clinics in Ann Arbor,” Larson said.
“Depending on what needs to be done,
here you can treat patients rather
quickly. But i you need help or have a
question, the residents are only a ew
eet away.”
Talking to the kids in language they
understand is important.
One morning, 10-year-old Dylan
sits down in a dental chair. As Larson
moves the chair into a reclining position,Thomas tries to explain to Dylan what
will happen.
“We’re going to ix a big hole in
one o your teeth caused by the sugar
bugs,” Thomas says. “I we don’t take
the sugar bugs out, your tooth will
hurt, just like your inger does when it
gets a sliver. Does that make sense?”
“Uh-huh,” Dylan responds. The
work begins.
But there are moments o humortoo.
Ater Thomas inishes his work, he
positions the dental chair so Dylan can
now sit up and leave.
But Dylan says he eels dizzy.
“I hear you, Dylan, but I think you’re
dizzy because you put your shoes on the
wrong eet,” Thomas says with a grin.
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date, Emily Gretens, talk about “the
event” – dinner and the prom. It was
a “irst” or both.
Andy, who is 15, has been coming
to Bay Cli or 12 years. “But this is the
best year yet because o the prom,” he
says smiling.
Ater dinner, the couples returnto the gymnasium which has been
transormed into a dance hall.
“Walking without a Walker”
Upon entering the gym, each
couple is greeted by applause rom
nearly 30 individuals. The couples are
instructed to pause briely so they can
be introduced by name and have their
pictures taken.As the couples enter, lashes rom
dozens o digital cameras pierce the
darkness. The lashes o light rom the
cameras remind one o the paparazzi
taking pictures o Hollywood movie
stars. However, Hollywood movie stars
can’t hold a candle next to the smiles o
these kids who are absolutely radiant
and enjoying their all-too-brie moment
in the spotlight ater working day in
and day out or years to combat theirphysical disabilities.
“For many o these kids, it will be
the only time in their lives that they
will have an opportunity to get dressed
up, go to a ormal dinner, and then go
to the prom,” Bennett says.
As 17-year-old Ryan Scaggs enters
the gym with his date, Bennett’s eyes
begin welling with tears.
“He reached his goal. All week he
practiced or this moment. It was theirst time he walked without his walker
and with a pretty girl in his arms,”
Bennett says.
School o Dentistry Alumnusand Wie Help
Watching with more than passing
interest is School o Dentistry alumnus,
Dr. Bud Kipka (DDS 1973), and his wie,
Kris.
“I came to Marquette to start adental practice ater spending two
years in the Navy,” he said. “They
needed a dentist to help at the camp,
so I said I’d be willing to lend a hand.
I’ve been at it ever since.”
Kris , a Sal ine native with a
background in ood service, became
the camp’s baker not long ater Bud
became the camp’s dentist. She was
also instrumental in designing BayCli ’s new dental oices which opened
earlier this summer. During the past 30
years, the couple has provided dental
care, served as consultants, and helped
recruit sta.
Bennett hopes Bay Cli Health
Camp can be open more than ive or six
months. To make that dream a reality,
a $7.5 million undraising campaign
is underway. Funds will be used to
winterize the camp’s acilities so theyare usable 12 months a year; upgrade
acilities to meet all requirements o
the Americans with Disabilities Act;
update and renovate all o the camp’s
therapy, living, and camping acilities;
and expand the number o Michigan
residents who can be served.
As they discussed their experiences,
Kloostra, Larson, Snell, Tujios, and
Thomas oered nothing but praise or
the camp’s administrators, counselors,and patients.
Thomas perhaps summed it up
best.
“As a dental student, I thought Bay
Cli was the best outreach program
the dental school could oer,” he said.
“My experiences here prompted me
to consider a career as a pediatric
dentist.”
Thomas graduates in January and
will become an associate at a practicein Seattle. He would also like to return
to Bay Cli every our or ive years or
one week to provide care.
“He’ll be welcome with open arms,”
said Bennett. “So too will others rom
the University o Michigan dental
school.”
For More Information about Bay Cliff Health Camp:Web site: www.baycliff.org E-mail: baycliffhc@aol.com
Write: P.O. Box 310, Big Bay, MI 49808
Phone: (906) 345-9314
“For many o these kids, this is the only time in their lives that they
will have an oppor tunity to get dressed up, go to a ormal dinner,and then go to the prom,”said camp director Tim Bennett.
J er r y M a s t e y
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For more than forty years, the U-M School of Dentistry has been providing oral health care services to
the developmentally disabled at the Bay Cliff Health Camp just outside of Marquette.
A School of D entistry alumnus, Dr. Richard Mathewson (DDS 1959), was one of those who provided care
duringthesummerof1964.
“It was a wonderful clinical experience and a turning point in my pediatric dentistry profession,” hesaid.
From1963to1965,MathewsonwasaMottfellowinpediatricdentistry.Inthesummerof1964,Mott
Children’s Dental Clinic asked him to go to the camp to expand the screening program that emphasized
“dental repair,” that is, first treating those needing emergency care and later correcting other oral health
problems.
“The first time I provided dental care to these children with developmental disabilities I was apprehensive
internally, but kind and confident outwar dly,” Mathewson said. “And although I was using what is n ow
considered primitive equipment, the approach I adopted bolstered my enthusiasm and confidence and
became a lifetime clinical philosophy.”
Memories of the Experience Still VividThe experience at Bay Cliff is still etched in Mathewson’s mind. “After forty-plus years, I can close my
eyes and still see the clinical setup,” he said.
Mathewson said an opthalmologist donated the origin al large “dental chair ” that was used. “ To adjust
the height of the children who were in the chair, a lift insert, made from wood and canvas, was used. We
also used a beautiful donated cherrywood mail cabinet from the post office to store dental supplies.”
Aportablex-rayunitwasused,aswasanewprocedure–usingaleadapronatthetimex-rayswere
taken. “To develop the x-r ays,” Mathewson s aid, “we made a ‘developing tan k’ from an old truck motor
battery and used a bathroom as our ‘dark room’,” he added.
Mathewson’s experiences at Bay Cliff Health Camp were memorable for another reason. He and his
wife, Alice, a registered nurse, premedicated those needing ext ra help and, after completing t he dental care,
“she would take the children next door to o ur ‘suite’ and care for t hem.” Attheendofthesummerprogramin1964,MathewsonandhiswifereturnedtotheLowerMichigan.
“During the fall and winter, the staff that lived in the Detroit area had several potluck reunions and had a
great time recalling our experiences.”
“The Bay Cliff Health Camp dental patient care experiences, and camp experiences with the staff,
influenced the life-long care I provided for children and adults with developmental disabilities,” he said.
This spring, Mathewson, a professor emeritus of pediatric dentistry, was honored by the Oklahoma
Association of Pediatric Dentists and the faculty of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry for his contributions
to the profession and that university’s dental school.
Proessor EmeritusRichard MathewsonRecalls Experiences at Bay Cli
In this photo,
taken during the
summer of 1964, Dr.
Richard Mathewson
(left) works on a
youngster at the Bay
Cliff Health Camp.
Note the lift insert,
made from wood
and canvas, under
the child.
Photo courtesy o Dr.Richard Mathewson
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ow much o a dierence is the School o Dentistry’s
outreach program making in communities a cross
Michigan?
Consider the numbers.
From July 2004 through April 2005, ourth-year
dental students treated 6,345 patients and perormed
12,312 procedures at eight dierent sites across Michigan.Procedures included general restorative dentistry, emergency
care, extractions, sealants, and more.
During a presentation to members o the School’s Alumni
Society Board o Governors this spring, Dr. Stephen Steanac,
associate dean or patient services, whose responsibilities
include supervising the outreach program, said the program
is very popular.
“Even beore being admitted to Michigan, prospective
dental students want to know how they can participate in
the community outreach program,” he said.
Dental students now in the program, he said, are soenthused that the amount o time they spend providing oral
health care outside the School’s clinics in Ann Arbor may
increase rom three weeks to our weeks.
Why the Program is Popular
There are many reasons the program is popular.
One is demographics. “Our students requently provide
oral health care to patients they typically don’t see in clinics
here in Ann Arbor,” Steanac said. “So they get broader-based,
real world experiences that prepare them or what they will
experience once they graduate.”
The program is also successul because o “the two-way
evaluations that are conducted at all the sites. Students
evaluate the sites and the people they work with. In turn,the people at the sites evaluate our students,” he said.
Earlier this year, Dr. Robert Bagramian, a proessor
o dentistry who directs the Summer Migrant Dental
Clinic Program in the Traverse City area, visited the eight
sites to evaluate each site and get eedback rom clinic
administrators.
Tremendous Confdence
“Dental students who return to Ann Arbor ater being
at these clinics come back with a tremendous amount o
conidence,” he said. “They take charge and become moreproductive.”
J.P. Miller, the student’s representative on the Board,
agreed.
“The students I know who have been to these sites do
great work and help two to three times more patients once
they return,” he said. Miller, who graduated in May, is now
a public health dentist in Philadelphia.
6,345 Patients.
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Outreach Partners Praised
It’s the highlight for many dental and dental hygiene
students as well as AEGD residents during their studies at the
U-MSchoolofDentistry–treatingpatientsatcommunityclinicsthroughout the state.
That sentiment was voiced to the School’s community
outreach partners during a retreat last fall at the Michigan
League. The annual event gives both School and outreach
administrators an opportunity to discuss the highlights of the
program as well as ways to enhance the program so that the
experience is even more meaningful for students, outreach clinic
administrators and their staff, and patients treated at those
clinics.
Among those participating in the one-day program were
clinic administrators from Muskegon Heights, Grand Rapids,Saginaw,TraverseCity,Jackson,andBaldwin.
“You’re very important to our dental education program,”
said Dr. Stephen Stefanac, associate dean for patient services,
who is in charge of the outreach program. He said the program
gives dental school students new opportunities to meet and
treat a different demographic of patients than they typically
encounter at the School’s clinics.
Dr. Marilyn Lantz, associate dean for academic affairs, told
the outreach par tners, “Your cooperation is incredibly important
to our School and our students. In fact, when they return after
being at your site, our students rave about their experiences.We can’t thank you enough for what you’re doing.”
She noted that some students have changed their career
paths as a result of their experiences. [Dental UM,Fall2004,
pages22-25;Spring2003,pages15-17.]
Fourth-year dental students treat patients at clinics at
selected sites across Michigan in three, one-week rotations.
Dental hygiene students are also involved, participating in a
single, one-week rotation.
“I think the reason I’m now in public health dentistry
is because o my outreach experiences in Traverse City and
Saginaw,” he said. “It was a valuable experience or me.
I hope it gets other students to consider careers in public
health dentistry.”
The program is also popular among those who are at
the clinic sites.Steanac said he oten receives requests rom ocials
at community clinics asking i they can become sites where
U-M dental students can help. “However, beore we say ‘yes,’
we ask these ocials to come here to see what we do and
how we do it,” he said. “We also tell them there are certain
bedrock principles that we have and certain things that will be
expected o an outreach site beore they’re ocially added.”
More outreach sites may be added in the uture.
The outreach program oers an array o experiences
or all levels o students within the dental school, including
dental, dental hygiene, and graduate students.The School o Dentistry is involved in other community
outreach initiatives during the year. Once the academic year
ends, dental students also have an opportunity to participate
in other outreach initiatives including the Summer Migrant
Dental Clinic in the Traverse City area and the Bay Cli Health
Camp northwest o Marquette. [See story, pages 40-43.]
Dr. Stephen Steanac,associate dean or
patient services, thankscommunity outreachpartners rom across
Michigan or participatingin the School’s outreach
program.
12,312 ProceduresThose in Need
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Dr. Joel Egnater will be very busy
between now and March 2007 i he
hopes to realize his dream o opening agroup o dental clinics in South Arica
to provide oral health care to AIDS/HIV
patients.
His dream received a major boost
this spring when it was endorsed by
our very inluential groups in that
country — the government o South
Arica’s Department o Health and
Human Services, the Lions Club o
South Arica, the Community Dentistry
branch o the University o Western
Cape, and the University o Stellenbosch
Dental School. The two universities
are approximately 5 and 25 miles,
respectively, rom Cape Town.
“My dream is coming true!,” he
exclaimed when he learned o their
endorsement.
“They want the clinics to be up
and running around the time I will be
completing my course requirements
next all or my master’s in public health
here at the University o Michigan,” he
said.
Egnater not only wants to establish
the clinics and run them, but eventually
teach in the doctoral program at the
University o Western Cape.
Joel EgnaterDDS 1983
Reaching Out...in Southeast Michigan
and South Africa
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Egnater, who earned his DDS rom
the U-M School o Dentistry in 1983, is
a man in perpetual motion.
In addition to working on his
master’s degree in public health, he
also runs a ull-time solo practice in
Huntington Woods, Michigan, and is
the director o the Southeast Michigan
HIV/AIDS Coalition. He was nominated
to the board o directors last year.
From Huntington Woods to
South Arica
Since several o his riends have died
rom HIV/AIDS, Egnater said he has tried
to help these patients as much as he
does his other patients. Over the years,
riends as well as other dentists rom
across Michigan have reerred HIV/AIDS
patients to him.
However, Egnater’s work extends
beyond Southeast Michigan. It now
reaches to South Arica.
About every three months, he
boards a plane or South Arica to
provide oral health care, usually or
two or three weeks, to help patients
with the same malady.
A saari vacation Egnater took two
years ago spurred him to action.
During the rst day o the vacation,
Egnater went to Soweto in Johannesburg.
“I was shocked at what I saw,” he said.
“The lack o services or people in need,
the destitution, the poverty, they were all
overwhelming. Most o those in Soweto
live in shacks that have tin roos, dirt
foors, and no indoor plumbing.”
Ater the saari ended, Egnater
traveled to Cape Town. He ound it to
be an area ull o contrasts.
Purchasing a Home in Cape Town
The geography and beauty o
the area were oset by the living
conditions. “A amily o our lives on
about $50 a month, so the chances o living a better lie are pretty slim or
most people,” he said.
A plan to do something about what
he had seen was already percolating
because beore leaving, Egnater
purchased a home in Cape Town.
“Seeing the conditions, I wanted to
return and ind a way to make a
dierence,” he said.
Searching the Internet back in
Michigan, Egnater was dismayed to
learn that little, i any public health
dentistry was available to those needing
it most. “I decided I would try to do
something, no matter how small,” he
said. “As I began thinking about it more,
I thought about some o my experiences
here and the eeling I had knowing that
I was making a dierence in someone’s
lie, especially those with HIV/AIDS, who
were coming to me or help.”
As the months passed, Egnater’s
plan began taking shape.
Developing a Plan to Provide
Oral Health Care
“I remembered that mobile vehicles
or dentistry were used extensively in
America, especially Appalachia, during
the Great Depression, and that they
were later used at Native American
reservations, dustbowl towns in the
Midwest, and some o the poorest urban
areas o large American cities. I began
thinking the same approach could work
in South Arica,” he said.
To provide the care he envisioned,
Egnater had to create a oundation.
“I didn’t have a clue about how
to set one up,” he said with a smile,
“so I began asking a lot o questions
o people I knew. Fortunately, one o
the courses I’m taking or my master’s
degree addresses some o those issues,
such as writing grant proposals.”
In time, Egnater developed the
ramework o a plan that would
provide emergency dental care, dental
maintenance, and early prevention o
dental disease.
“This is not the irst dental
intervention project proposed in the Cape
Town area,” he said. “Clinics already
exist to serve the poor. Unortunately,
even simple transportation and
geographic unamiliarity, as well
as social bias toward HIV inected
individuals, have let many o the
poorest and unhealthiest South Aricans
without any dental care at all.”
University, Government,
Community Collaboration
What his plan attempts to do is
involve a group o diverse organizations
– universities, government agencies,
community leaders, and others – that
will work together to provide basic and
emergency dental treatment to people
in their own neighborhoods.
“This is the kind o dentistry I love to do. It’s so rewarding,
especially when I’m working with impoverished people and I
can see the dierence I’m making.”
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Egnater’s plan has ive major goals:
• Introducingdentistrytopeople
who have not received oral health
care.
• Alleviatingdentalcrisissituations.
• Allowingpublichealthresearchers
opportunities to gather inorm-
ation about the oral health care o
those being treated.
• Involvingdentistsanddental
students in a program that
exposes them to people in socio-
economic situations they may not
have experienced.
• Bringingcommunityvolunteers
together to gain experience in
establishing and running
oral health care clinics in their
communities.
When he presented an outline o his
plan to oicials at the two universities,
Egnater said “they were amazed” with
the concept and the scope o what he
was trying to achieve. So too were
government oicials and the leaders
o the 18 dierent chapters o the Lions
Club he addressed.
With their approval, Egnater
will spend time meeting community
leaders when he returns to South
Arica. “They have credibility with
the local population that will help
create awareness o the program and
encourage them to come or the care
they need.”
He est imates the cost to run
the program will be about $40,000
annually.
Funds will be used to purchase and
equip vehicles, maintain them, as well
as purchase needed dental equipment
and supplies.
Dr. Joel Egnater he said he was so struck with the povertyhe saw in Soweto that he decided to establish dentalclinics in South Arica to provide oral health care topatients with HIV/AIDS.
His Cape Town home may also be
used. “It has enough space to create
an administrative oice, i needed, and
will be able to house visiting dental
sta as well,” he said.
“It’s So Rewarding”
In addition to recruiting dentistsand dental assistants rom the two
universities, Egnater wants to recruit
volunteers worldwide rom dental
organizations in the U.S., Arica, and
other parts o the world.
“I would love to set up more
oundations like this elsewhere and
teach others to do what I am doing,”
he said. “My ondest hope is that i
people see this program succeeding,
then others will be inspired to create
similar programs elsewhere.”
Despite geographical distances,
Egnater inds there is a common thread
in volunteering to provide oral health
care to needy patients in parts o
Southeast Michigan and South Arica.
“This is the kind o dentistry I love
to do. It’s so rewarding, especially
when I’m working with impoverished
people and I can see the dierence I’m
making,” he said. “I’ve also noticed that
people who go beyond their personal
comort zone and volunteer to help
others are always happier than i they
do something only or themselves.”
Will Egnater slow down? I the
past is any indication, the best response
to that question is summed up in two
words: no way.
“Being this busy is not a hardship
at all. In act, this kind o dentistry
is a source o joy, whether I’m helping
in South Arica, the Cass Corridor in
Detroit, or helping with the Ryan White
Foundation,” he said.
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DEVELOPMENT
Remembering the past and trying to make a dierencein the uture.
Those are the reasons Dr. Raymond Gist (DDS 1966)
has gited $100,000 to the U-M School o Dentistry or
scholarships.
Gist, who earlier served a one-year term as President o
the Michigan Dental Association and was recently elected to a
our-year term as an ADA Trustee, said he began considering
the git last all.
“I was the irst in my amily to go to college and
graduate, so I know rom personal experience about
student debt. Except today, the amounts are so high they’re
staggering,” he said.
Gist said minority students will be the recipients o the
scholarship that bears his name.
“I want minority students to have the same chance I had,
or even a better chance, o realizing their dream o becoming
dentists and, in turn, go on to help others, especially those
here in Michigan,” he said.
In addition to running a private practice in Flint, Gist
has been extensively involved in organized dentistry locally,
state wide, and nationally. [ DentalUM, Spring & Summer
2003, pages 29-32.] In October, he began service as the ADA’s
Ninth District Trustee. During his our-year term, Gist will
represent Michigan and Wisconsin.
He has also returned to the dental school on many
occasions including delivering the keynote address to irst-
year dental students at their White Coat Ceremony in the all
o 2003. [ DentalUM, Spring & Summer 2004, pages 65-67.]
Dr. Raymond Gist Gits $100,000
or Dental Student Scholarships
“Dramatic Dierences”
Addressing that group o students and talking to many
o them aterwards made a lasting impression on him.
“I was struck by what I saw,” he said. “There was a
dramatic dierence in the number o minority students and
women aspiring to become dentists compared to when I was
a student. I want my git to continue encouraging diversity
at the dental school.”
Dr. Raymond Gist addressed frst-year dental students at the School o Dentistry’sWhite Coat Ceremony in 2003.
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DEVELOPMENT
e made an indelible impression on
students and aculty members who
worked with him and or him.
That’s why they wanted him to be recognized
and remembered orever at the School he loves.Earlier this year, Drs. Jed Jacobson and Wayne
Colquitt created the H. Dean Millard Scholarship
Fund. Millard, who earned his dental degree at
Michigan in 1952, and who was the irst to receive
a master’s degree in oral diagnosis in 1956, taught
at the School o Dentistry rom 1952 to1989. [See
sidebar, page 52.]
Serving Two Purposes
The idea o creating the scholarship und
suraced about our years ago.
“When Wayne and I got together to talk about
our days at the dental school, the conversation
inevitably turned to the rising cost o dental
education and the dierence Dr. Millard made in
our lives,” said Jacobson (DDS 1978, MS 1982) who
is now vice president and dental director or Delta
Dental Plans o Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.
“We thought establishing a scholarship in
his name that would help students meet some o
their inancial obligations, as well as honor thelegacy o a man who was a great person and a
great instructor, was the perect way to do both,”
Jacobson said.
Colquitt (DDS 1968, MS 1975), a proessor
emeritus who practices part-time near the dental
school, agreed.
“Opened Doors o Opportunity”
“He had a signiicant impact on my lie,”
Colquitt said. “But I never thought o Dean Millard
as my boss. To me, he was a great mentor who
opened doors o opportunity that I probablywouldn’t have had without his help.”
One o those opportunities was with Project
Hope.
“Dean arranged or me to take a year’s leave o
absence rom the dental school rom 1975 to 1976
so I could go to Egypt and teach at dental schools
at the University o Cairo and the University o
Alexandria as a part o Project Hope,” Colquitt
said. “Interestingly, both universities were using
the textbook on oral diagnosis that was written
by Dean Millard, Major Ash, and Don Kerr.”Jacobson recalled how Millard played a
similar role in his proessional growth.
“In 1986, I received a Robert Wood Johnson
postdoctoral ellowship or health services
research at UCLA,” he said. “His enthusiasm and
support or me are something I will never orget.
Even though he knew he would be losing a aculty
member or two years, Dean Millard phoned,
wrote letters on my behal, and told me that he
wanted me to take that ellowship because it was
in my best interest.”
Colquitt said another overseas opportunity
later aected one o his children.
In the late 1970s, graduate students in Nigeria
invited Millard to be an external examiner in oral
diagnosis and radiology. “Ater Dean inished the
irst o three years there, he asked me i I would
Former Students CreateH. Dean Millar
H“He wasa great
mentor who
opened doors o opportunity
that I probably wouldn’t
have had without his
help.”
Dr. WayneColquitt
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Dental students are asking U-M School o Dentistry alumni to
serve as mentors.
At their spring meeting, members o the School’s Alumni
Society Board o Governors learned that nearly three-quarters
o second-, third-, and ourth-year dental students expressed an
interest in shadowing a dental school graduate in their private
practice. More than 88 percent o the members o the Class o 2008
expressed interest in job shadowing.
Dental students Rajeev Prasher and Matt Martin said dental
students are interested in shadowing general practice dentists and
specialists.
“We need the help o dental school alumni to serve as mentors
and to help us develop networks with other proessional colleagues,”
Prasher said. “This would broaden our experiences and help us
with job opportunities or associateship possibilit ies.” Prasher is
president o the Alpha Chapter o the recently resurrected dental
raternity, Xi Psi Phi. [ DentalUM, Spring & Summer 2005, page
70.]
In an eort to connect students and alumni, the School’s Oice
o Multicultural Aairs joined orces with the Michigan Dental
Association several years ago to launch a mentoring program or
dental students.
Led by Dr. Todd Ester, OMA director, and Dr. Raymond Gist, who
was MDA president at the time, students and potential mentors
were given the option to participate in the program. Thirty-ive
students belonging to the Student National Dental Association
participated according to Dr. Marilyn Woololk, assistant dean
or student services. The OMA/MDA program solicited mentors
through a mailing to alumni who were involved with the MDA andin programs sponsored by the OMA.
During the Board o Governors meeting, both students and
Board members agreed developing a questionnaire to send to alumni
who would complete the orm and returning it to the School o
Dentistry would be a way to help dental students. The inormation
would be compiled and made available to students.
I you are interested in mentoring, please take a moment to
complete the orm and return it to the School o Dentistry.
Dental Students Seeking Mentors
You Can Be a Mentor
Yourname:___________________________
Degree(s) and
year(s)received:_______________________
Address:____________________________
E-Mail:_____________________________
Preferred daytime
telephonenumber:______________________
I am willing to....
Allow students to shadow me at my office.
Talk to students on the telephone about careers.
O ther _________________________
_________________________
Pleasereturnto:
University of MichiganSchool of Dentistry
Office of Alumni Relations
1011 N. University
AnnArbor,MI48109-1078
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Alumni Society Board o Governors
Here’s your chance to make a di fference.In September 2006, five new members will be elected to the U-M School of Dentistry’s Alumni Society
Board of Governors. The group will include four dentistry graduates and one dental hygiene graduate. Allwill serve a three-year term.
During the past two year s, the Board has heard, first hand, from School admini strators, faculty, and staff about a range of projects and initiatives.
This is a perfect oppor tunity for you to become involved with the School, build relationships with students,faculty, and staff, and perform a worthwhile and satisfying public service.
If you’re interested in serving, or if you would like to nominate someon e, send in the form below. In theevent more than 10 individuals are n ominated, the Board’s nominating committee will select a repr esentativeslate.
Nomination Ballot
InominatefortheBoard: __________________________________________________
ClassYear(s) ________________________________________________________
Address(ifknown) _____________________________________________________
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2ndName___________________________________________________________
ClassYear(s) _________________________________________________________
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A m e m b e r o t h e Sc h o o l o
Dentistry’s Alumni Society Board o
Governors is giving ourth-year dental
students opportunities to learn more
about what to expect in “the real
world” beore they actually receive
their dental degree.
Dr. Daniel Edwards (DDS 1997),created a Board o Governors-sponsored
Lunch & Learn Program last summer
to help students become more amiliar
with some o the “outside the classroom”
experiences they are likely to encounter
ater graduation.
As chair o the Board’s Student/
Alumni Relations Committee, Edwards
invites individuals rom outside the
School to discuss an array o nuts-
and-bolts issues that are uppermostin students’ minds. A question-and-
answer session ollows.
The program was so well received
its irst year that it’s being oered
again.
Residency Programs
On July 12, Edwards and two
School o Dentistry graduates talked
about their experiences, as well as
the advantages o GPR and AEGDprograms.
Dr. Emily Shwedel (DDS 1998),
said the year she spent in the GPR
program in Texas “gave me well-rounded
experiences in areas that included
dentistry, anesthesiology, and oral and
maxilloacial surgery. Because o that,
I ound I enjoyed dentistry a lot more
Lunch & Learn Program
Oers Insights into Lie ater Dental School
aterwards and highly recommend it.”
Another beneit she cited was thatthe residency program allowed her to
deer repaying her student loans or
a year while also oering continuing
education credits.
Dr. Sara Collins Schneidwind
(DDS 2000), who
spent a year in
the GPR program
at the Veterans
A d m i n i s t r a t i o n
Hospital in AnnArbor , sa id the
program “gave me
a great opportunity to work with great
mentors, ask questions, and have a
great dialogue with a diverse group o
proessionals.”
She also told students to do some
serious sel-evaluation. “Decide what
Dr. Daniel Edwards OrganizesProgram Popular with Students
you’re looking or with a program
because all have dierences,” shesaid.
Other Factors to Consider
Edwards agreed. “There isn’t a
perect program. You have to decide
which is best or you,” he said.
But he also suggested students
think not just about a program, but
also about the community where the
program is being oered.
“I looked at programs in 17 dierent
As part o the Lunch & Learn Program, Drs. Emily Shwedel (let) and Sara Collins Schneidwind talked to dental students thissummer about their experiences in residency programs ollowing graduation rom the U-M School o Dentistry.
“Dental students love to hear people from outside
the School talk about their experiences in the real
world. Their response to this program has been
awesome.” Dr. Daniel Edwards
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communities and, rom experience, I
can tell you that it will be a diicult
year with many challenges. When youhave the opportunities, you’ll want
to take advantage o them, so be sure
the community environment matches
some o your interests, whether they
involve sailing, mountain climbing, or
something else,” he said.
Edwards, who works in two private
practices and teaches part time at
the School o Dentistry, said, “a year’s
residency gives you an opportunity to
build your skills and improve yoursel.And ater that year, you’re more
conident.”
As a ormer assistant director o the
GPR program at the Loyola University
Medical Center in Chicago, Edwards also
oered some other advice.
“Your letters o recommendation
are very important, especially rom
clinical, classroom, or aculty members
that you have worked with on a daily
basis,” he said.When he was assistant director,
Edwards said he looked or “common
themes in the letters – things like
being a team player or being well
organized.”
He also emphasized the importance
o a strong opening paragraph in a
student’s personal statement. “You
have to begin with a strong statement
in your irst paragraph so that the
person wants to read on.”
Positive Response
Jill Johnson, one o nearly 60 dental
students who attended the July 12
program, said it was helpul.
“I’ve been thinking about what I
want to do ater graduation and have
been looking at several possibilities
One o those tak ing notes, on an electronic notebook, duringthe program was dental student Jared Van Ittersum.
since April. It can be overwhelming
at times to think about the dierent
programs and the dierent options, sothis helped me sort some o that out,”
she said.
Although she hasn’t made any
inal decisions, Johnson said she’s
currently leaning toward an AEGD
or GPR program. She suggested that
uture programs be held earlier, perhaps
in early- to mid-June, so students have
more time to evaluate the inormation
beore inally deciding what to do.
Drew Eason, assistant executivedirector o membership services or
the Michigan Dental Association who
was present or the event co-sponsored
by the MDA, said he thinks the Lunch
& Learn Program provides useul
inormation to students. “They have
so many questions and being able to
connect names and aces with the
inormation that’s presented is very
helpul to them,” he said.
A July 19 program ocused onprivate practice valuation. A July 26
program addressed associateships and
how to review a contract.
Two other programs are held during
the year, some in the all, and others in
the spring, including one program or
dental hygienists.
Edwards said he is always seeking
speakers and sponsors or the Lunch
& Learn Program. Programs can be
sponsored with a git o $300. Thoseinterested should contact him via e-
mail at: dewards@umich.edu.
“Dental students love to hear people
rom outside the School talk about their
experiences in the real world,” Edwards
said. “Their response to this program
has been awesome.”
Dr. Dan Edwards, a member o the School’s Alumni SocietyBoard o Governors, created a Board o Governors-sponsoredLunch & Learn Program last summer to help studentsbecome more amiliar with some o the proessionalexperiences they are likely to have ater graduation. Theprogram was so popular last year that it was oered again.
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It’s sae to say that everyone listens when Dr. Antonia Novello speaks.
In May, the New York state health commissioner, who was the irst woman
and the irst Hispanic to serve as U.S. Surgeon General (1990-1993), returned to
Ann Arbor to deliver her ourth commencement address to School o Dentistry
graduates at Hill Auditorium.
Ater earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University o PuertoRico, Novello completed her internship and residency in nephrology at the U-M
Medical Center. She remained at Michigan (1973-1974) on a ellowship in the
Department o Internal Medicine.
In a quick-tempo, 30-minute address, Novello congratulated, counseled, and
challenged students.
“This is a great occasion,” she told graduates, their amilies, and riends. “Not
only are you celebrating your graduation, but you’re also celebrating the 130th
anniversary o the creation o the University o Michigan School o Dentistry.
Hail to you, Michigan, the best and the brightest.”
Saying “the uture is already here,” Novello joked, “Tomorrow you start paying
your student loans.”
Counsel and Challenges
Turning serious, Novello said she was impressed with the graduates, especially
their community service. “There’s no more noble mission in lie than helping
others,” she said.
She counseled graduates that they will have to be lie-long learners. Citing
advances in science and technology in recent years, she said that knowledge will
continue to advance and that change will be constant.
Graduation Day – May 7, 2005
Novello Delivers Rousing
Commencement Address
Dean Peter Polveriniwelcomes Dr. AntoniaNovello to the School
o Dentistry’s springcommencement.
Graduation on the Web
You can listen the remarks of
graduation speakers on the School
ofDentistry’s Website: www.
dent.umich.edu.
O n the homepage, c l ick the
headline “Listen to Graduation
2005.” You will see headlines and
photographs of the speakers. The
times for each audio segment are
listed. You can listen in any orderyou choose.
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“You have demonstrated that
it’s never too late to learn,” she said,
“because the average age o your class
is 26 and the oldest graduate is 40.”
She challenged students to set loty
goals as proessionals and to serve their
communities and their proession.“Riches, ame, and power will not
make you totally happy. The happiest
people are those doing good or others
without asking, ‘What’s in it or me?’,”
she said. “A heartelt ‘thank you’ rom
a patient, the smile rom a kid whose
teeth you ixed, a discovery in the
laboratory, the dental proession oers
many paths to happiness.”
In her remarks, Novello presented
ive challenges to graduates.The irst, to eectively respond to
the health care needs o an increasingly
diverse population whose demographics
are quickly changing.
The second, to eliminate disparities
in oral health that aect minorities.
The third, to ind ways to rapidly
respond to meet the oral health care
needs o those in rural areas and inner
cities.
The ourth, to integrate oral health
care into the mainstream o total health
care, including insurance.
The ith, to be proessional, “whichmeans putting the interest o patients
irst.”
“Never Forget”
“As you leave today, may you seize
this day and those that ollow to bring
honor to your alma mater, joy to your
amily and riends, and true happiness
to yoursel,” she said.
“But above all, I pray that you
never orget who you are, where youcame rom, who is responsible or
you to be here and, above all, don’t
ever orget the impact o this great
institution in molding your lie and
your proessional uture.”
Dean Peter Polverinicongratulates
graduatesduring spring
commencementceremonies at Hill
Auditorium.
The Class of 2005
Includes those who completedformal requirements and those
to receive degrees or certificatesafter completing formalrequirements.
106–DDSdegrees
29–BSdegrees,DentalHygiene
23–Master’sdegrees
3–Certificates
3–OralHealthSciences,PhD
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A legend in the ield o orthodontics
was honored by the University o
Michigan School o Dentistry at spring
graduation ceremonies.
Dr. Lysle Johnston, who chaired
the Department o Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, and who directed
the orthodontics program rom 1991
until his retirement last year, received
the Distinguished Service Award or
his contributions to U-M, the School,
and orthodontics.
Dr. Eli Berger (DDS 1957; MS,
orthodontics, 1961), chairman o the
School’s Alumni Society Board o
Governors, presented the award. Berger
said that when he asked Johnston what
accomplishments he was proudest o
during his career, Johnston replied,
“Just say I contributed to the education
o more orthodontists than any other
teacher in the country.”
“The Brightest ResidentI Taught”
Johnston earned his DDS rom U-M
in 1961, and a Master o Science degree
in orthodontics in 1964.
Berger, who taught or more than
three decades in the orthodontics
department, said o Johnston, “He was
the brightest resident I had the honor
to teach during my 35 years on the
aculty. Later, he became my boss,
showing that the student oten exceeds
the accomplishments o his teacher,
which is as it should be.”
O Johnston, Berger added, “He’s
been an ambassador o the best in
dentistry. He has brought great honor
to the School o Dentistry with his
Dr. Lysle Johnston – Distinguished Service Award
Dr. Eli Berger (let), chairman o the Schoolo Dentistry’s Alumni Society Board o Governors, presents the Distinguished Service
Award to Dr. Lysle Johnston at graduationceremonies at Hill Auditorium.
extensive, writing, teaching, lecturing,
and research.”
During his career, Johnston has
been a member o numerous local, state,
regional, national, and international
orthodontic and dental associations;
has published chapters or more than 50
books; and has given nearly 400 lectures
worldwide in countries on nearly every
continent. In 1994, he received a plaque
o recognition rom the Crown Princess
o Thailand or his work.
Ater receiving the Distinguished
Service Award, Johnston told graduates,
“Experience tells me there’s a silver
thread that draws Michigan alumni
back home. In my case, it drew me back
to the Department o Orthodontics andbrought me back here to receive this
wonderul award or which I am truly
appreciative.”
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Graduation Day – May 7, 2005
Janet SouderWilson, DH 1973
Outstanding Alumnae Award
The University o Michigan School o
Dentistry’s Dental Hygienists’ Alumnae
Association presented its Outstanding
Alumnae Award to Janet Souder Wilson
during graduation ceremonies.
The award honors a graduate
o the dental hygiene program thatthe association believes has made
signi icant contributions to the
proession.
A more detailed story appears in
the “Dental Hygiene” section beginning
on page 64. The remarks o DHAA
president Jemma Allor, who presented
the award, and Wilson can be heard on
the School o Dentistry Web site: www.
dent.umich.edu.
Dr. Kelly Cottrell
Paul Gibbons Award
The Dental Class o 2005 presented
the Paul Gibbons Award or outstanding
teaching to Dr. Kelly Cottrell, an adjunct
clinical assistant proessor in the
Department o Oral and Maxilloacial
Surgery and Hospital Dentistry.
The award honors an instructor the
students deem to have had the greatest
inluence on them during their our
years in the predoctoral program.In presenting the award, class
president Justin Smith said that Cottrell
“pushed us every day in the oral surgery
clinic, academically and clinically. She
demanded excellence and taught us the
importance, as doctors, o treating the
entire person, not only their mouth and
teeth.”
Excerpts o her remarks to students
appear in the “Department Update”
eature on pages 67-68. They can alsobe heard on the School o Dentistry Web
site: www.dent.umich.edu.
Dr. Kelly Cottrell
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School News
A g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t i n
periodontics is the irst rom
the U-M School o Dentistry
to receive a major ellowship
in implantology rom the
American Association o
Periodontology Foundation.
Dr. Brandon Sang
Park, a third-year resident,
won the $50,000 Richard J.
Lazzara Fellowship Award in advanced implant surgery
this spring.
Park will use the award to learn the most current
techniques in implant dentistry, both in the classroom
and in clinics.
The Fellowship is named or Richard J. Lazzara,
one o the specialty’s innovators whose works have
been published and who has lectured worldwide on
surgical and prosthetic applications o implant dentistry.
Lazzara is a clinical associate proessor at the University
o Southern Caliornia School o Dentistry and associate
clinical proessor at the University o Maryland’s
Periodontal and Implant Regenerative Center.
Park, who earned his dental degree at the University
o Toronto three years ago, said he was attracted to
U-M because o its “well known integration and balance
between basic science and clinical training.”
He said his mentors in Toronto spoke highly o
U-M’s programs and the number o articles published by
researchers showed “this School as one o the leaders in
our proession,” he said.Ater earning his master’s degree, Park will spend
12 months studying at U-M as required by the Lazzara
Fellowship.
Park’s research background ocuses on tissue
regeneration around dental implants.
Only one Fellowship is awarded annually. The
program began in 2003.
Brandon Park Wins $50K
Fellowship Award
It may, thanks to the collaboration between a
U-M School o Dentistry pediatric dentist and the Mott
Children’s Health Center in Flint.
However, when it is, it won’t be your typical
lollipop.
The pediatric dentist, Dr. Heather Gormley,
was searching or a way to help dentists saely andeectively deliver a sedative to young children who
need extensive dental care, but who are unable to
cope with the stress that’s associated with a dental
procedure.
Pharmacists in Flint ormulated the lollipop used
in Gormley’s research. Her study ollowed up another
study conducted several years earlier by Vanessa
Velilla, another graduate o the U-M pediatric dental
program. Both used an ingredient in the sucker,
entanyl, that has sedative eects. A lavoring agent
was also included.Although lollipops are commercially available or
youngsters prior to painul medical procedures, these
were the irst times they were tried in a pediatric dental
setting.
During Gormley’s two-year study, more than 30
youngsters between the ages o 3-1/2 and 5 were given
the lollipop ater a parent or guardian approved.
The children took the “medication” willingly and
most o them inished it within 20 minutes. There was
signiicantly less crying in the young patients when
they were given the entanyl.While drowsy, all patients could respond to verbal
commands. Some youngsters reported mild nausea, but
only one vomited. This was attributed to the addition
o the anti-emetic, Vistaril. The sole incident is much
lower than the rate o post-operative nausea and
vomiting noted in studies using the lollipop alone.
Lollipops May Help
Will a lollipop have
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For her work, Gormley received the American
Academy o Pediatric Dentistry’s Ralph McDonald Award
as the best graduate student research presentationduring the organization’s annual convention in Orlando
in May. A $500 cash award was given to the School’s
pediatric dental unit.
Dr. Jan Hu, director o pediatric dentistry at
the School o Dentistry, said, “Heather’s research
demonstrates that it is possible to develop a sedative
that pediatric dentists can use to help their young
patients that is sae and eective and one that is also
acceptable to parents.”
Gormley’s mentors were Dr. Daniel Briskie, the
director o pediatric dentistry at Mott Children’s HealthCenter in Flint; Dr. Michael Ignelzi, associate proessor o
pediatric dentistry; Dr. Robert Majewski, adjunct clinical
assistant proessor at the School o Dentistry and director
o the graduate program in pediatric dentistry at Mott;
and Dr. Paul Reynolds, chie o pediatric anesthesiology
at the U-M Medical Center.
Two Other PediatricResidents Recognized
Two other pediatric dentists from the U-M
School of Dentistry were recognized during the
AAPD’s annual meeting.
Dr. Shannon Butler received an award from the
American Board of Pediatric Dentistry for achieving
the highest score of all candidates who completed
the ABPD’s comprehensive written sectionexamination last year.
Dr. Catherine Hong also received an award from
ABPD for being in the top three percent of those who
took the exam.
About 150 to 200 pediatric dentists take the
exam which is administered twice each year.
Heather Gormley wasrecognized by theAmerican Academyo Pediatric Dentistryor a presentationdescribing her work
that seeks new waysto help pediatricdentists administeranesthetics to youngdental patients.With her is RalphMcDonald, past-president o AAPD.
Pediatric Dentists
Cites Benefts at National Meetingplace in a pediatric dentist’s office in the future?
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DENTAL HYGIENE
“She exempliies what a graduate
o this program should be – bright,
hard working, active, dedicated, and
most important, caring,” said Jemma
Allor shortly beore presenting the
Outstanding Alumnae Award to JanetSouder Wilson (BS, DH 1973) during
spring graduation ceremonies.
The award, presented by the
School’s Dental Hygienists’ Alumnae
Association (DHAA), honors a person
the group eels has made signiicant
contributions to the dental hygiene
proession.
Allor, DHAA president, said that
Wilson, in addition to being employed
as a clinical dental hygienist in aprivate practice or the past 32 years,
has been active in dental hygiene
organizations, served as president o the
Michigan Dental Hygienists’ Alumnae
Association, served or 15 years as a
member o the Board o Directors o
the Washtenaw Children’s Dental Clinic
including two terms as president, and is
serving her second term on the School
o Dentistry’s Alumni Society Board o
Governors.Wilson, who said she was humbled
to receive the award, urged graduates
“to keep serving and giving back.
Always make the eort to give back to
your proession, to your community,
and to your school,” she said.
Janet Souder Wilson ReceivesOutstanding Alumnae Award
Graduation 2005
Professional Service
•BoardofGovernors,
U-M School o Dentistry
(1992-1995; 2004 to present)
•BoardofDirectors,WashtenawChildren’s Dental Clinic
(1981-1986)
• President,BoardofDirectors,
Washtenaw Chi ldren’s
Dental Clinic
(1987-1995)
• Executive Board member,
U-M Dental Hygienists’
Alumnae Association
(1985-1990)
• MichiganDe legate to the
American Dental Hygienists’Association
(1985-1990)
• O ffi ce r,M ichigan Dental
Hygienists’ Association
(1984-1990)
• President,Washtenaw
District Dental Hygienists’
Association
(1981-1983)Dental hygiene graduates Lindsay Thompson, Melissa Wasley, and AlainaWhiteoot chat with Proessor Wendy Kerschbaum, director o the dental
hygiene program, prior to graduation ceremonies at Hill Auditorium.
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Jemma Allor (let), president o the School o Dentistry’s DentalHygienists’Alumnae Association, details Janet Souder Wilson’scontributions to the proession at this spring’s commencementceremonies.
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Gracie Buhagiar – Pauline Steele Student Leadership Award
Named or the second director o the dental hygiene program at the School o Dentistry (1969-1988), this award recognizesa senior student who demonstrates outstanding leadership skills while at U-M.
Buhagiar was class president (2004-2005) and was instrumental in organizing and conducting the irst Advancement
Ceremony or dental hygiene students. [ DentalUM, Spring & Summer 2005, pages 53-54.] She was also a student teacher
in both oral anatomy and clinic with irst-year dental hygiene students.
Jennifer McNamee – Washtenaw District Dental Hygienists’ Society’s Community Service Award andthe American Association of Public Health Dentistry’s Special Interest and Achievement in Community
Dentistr y/Dental Public Health Award
The award recognizes a graduating dental hygiene student who has been active in community service during the three
years they were a student in the School’s dental hygiene program.
McNamee chaired the Class o ’05s undraising drive. Ninety-seven percent o the class raised more than $4,500. [ DentalUM,
Spring & Summer 2005, page 59.] She was class representative to the Student American Dental Hygienists’ Association
and active in Give Kids a Smile, Dental Health Day, and the March o Dimes Health Fair at the School o Dentistry. She
participated in the irst Diabetes Expo in southeast Michigan and coordinated a dental clinic or battered women.
Marianne Jabero – Colgate Oral Pharmaceutical Student Total Achievement Recognition (STAR) Award
The recipient o this award has demonstrated dedication to the dental hygiene proession, displays compassion in patient
care, exhibits enthusiasm or community service, and realizes the contributions a dental hygienist can make in providing
oral health care to patients.
Jabero demonstrated outstanding qualities in all areas. She was a member o the School’s Honor Council or three years,
participated in a research project her inal year and won a second-place award during the School’s Research Table Clinic
Day program earlier this year.
Nicole Beadle, Melanie Lemanski, Alaina Whitefoot – Sigma Phi Alpha (Nu Chapter)
Graduating dental hygiene students are selected or this national dental hygiene society based on their academic
achievements and potential or uture proessional growth and contributions to the proession.
All three excelled academically.
Beadle also worked with Dr. George Taylor on a research project examining the relationship between diabetes and periodontal
disease. She also was a student teacher in the clinic with irst-year dental hygiene students.
Lemanski was co-chair o the Class o ’05s undraising drive and also served as a student teacher in clinics.Whiteoot was a student teacher in preclinic and clinical courses or irst-year dental hygiene students.
Kelly Hresko and Melissa Wasley – The Hu-Friedy Outstanding Clinician Award
This award is given to students who excel in patient care.
Hresko and Wasley were selected by dental hygiene clinical aculty or exempliying the highest qualities and skills as
dental hygiene students. Both demonstrated a thorough understanding and application o the science and art o dental
hygiene care.
DENTAL HYGIENE
DH Student Awards
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he Department o Oral and Maxilloacial Surgery and Hospital
Dentistry has had some notable achievements that I’m proudo and want to bring to your attention in this report.
Those achievements have involved every aspect o our
department’s mission – education, patient care, and research.
DEPARTMENT UPDATEOral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Hospital Dentistry
Kelly Cottrell Receives
Paul Gibbons Award
Dr. Kelly Cottrell (DDS 1999, OMFS
Class o 2002), and ormer director o the predoctoral oral surgery clinic at
the School o Dentistry, received the
Paul Gibbons Award rom graduating
dental students in May.
The award honors the instructor
students believe has had the greatest
inluence on them in the predoctoral
program.
Presenting the award at this
spring’s graduation, Justin Smith,
president o the Class o 2005, saido Kelly, “She pushed us every day,
both academically and clinically. She
demanded excellence and taught us the
Dr. Joseph Helman,Chair
T
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Dr. Kelly Cottrell addresses School o Dentistry graduates
ater receiving the Paul Gibbons Award rom them.
importance, as doctors, o treating the
entire person, not only their mouth and
teeth.”
Ater receiving the award, Kellyexpressed her “deepest appreciation”
to the class or bestowing the award.
Excerpts o her remarks appear on this
page and the next.
You can also listen to her remarks
on the School o Dentistry’s Web site,
www.dent.umich.edu.
Others Receive Awards
Dr. Brent Ward, residency programdirector o oral and maxilloacial
surgery, recently received the Faculty
Educator Development Award rom
the American Association o Oral and
Maxilloacial Surgeons. The award
is given to only our young surgeons
nationwide who have demonstrated
potential or proessional impact as
clinicians, researchers, and academic
leaders.
Dr. Stephen Feinberg, associatechair o research, was awarded the Oral
and Maxilloacial Surgery Foundation’s
Re sea rc h Re cogn itio n Aw ar d last
year. The award is given to the most
prominent and productive investigator
within the specialty. He has also been
appointed co-chair o the Research
Committee o the Internat ional
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Excerpted Remarks by Dr. Kelly Cottrellafter Receiving the
Paul Gibbons Award
Addressing the chair of the Department of Oral and
MaxillofacialSurgery:Thank you to the chairman of oral and
maxillofacial surgery, Dr. Joseph Helman, my
mentor. Sir, thank you for entrusting in me the
responsibility to guide the surgical education
of this class. It has been an outstanding and
unforgettable experience.
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Association o Oral and Maxilloacial
Surgeons.
In addition, he is a member o the
Advisory Committee on research and
technology assessment o the American
Association o Oral and Maxilloacial
Surgeons, is a member o the Scientiic
Advisory Board o the Regenerative
Medicine Initiative in the Technology
Transer Oice here at U-M, and is also a
member o the Biotechnology Advisory
Board, AO-ASIF (Association or the
Study o Internal Fixation) Foundation,
Davos, Switzerland.
Dr. Feinberg and mysel were both
honored with Guest Proessorships with
the School o Stomatology, Shanghai
Second Medical University in China.
I was also inducted recently as
Founding Fellow o the International
Academy o Oral Cancer. Members o
this select group include some o the
world’s leading researchers, clinicians,
radiotherapists, and surgeons involvedin the ield o management o malignant
tumors.
Dr . Carol Anne Murdoch -
Kinch, who is Board Certiied in oral
medicine and oral and maxilloacial
radiology, is in the second year o a
NIH unded K12 award, which is a
mentored clinical research training
program rom the Medical School. The
principal investigator o this award is
David Schteingart (Internal Medicine).Dr. Murdoch-Kinch’s K12 mentor is
Dr. Avraham Eisbruch (Radiation
Oncology). I also want to add that
this year she served as president o the
Organization o Teachers o Oral
Diagnosis
Dr. George Upton recently
completed his tenure as president o
Department Update
Acknowledging thecontributionsofothers:
Thank you to Dr. Lina Karam who has
done a wonderful job as new clinical
director. And while it is my name
on that plaque, I absolutely must
honor and share this award with four
of my dearest colleagues who have
helped me to provide the foundation
of your oral and maxillofacial
surge ry educa tion – Dr. Maximili ano
Diamante, Dr. Kyle Pullen, Dr. Allen
Weiss, and Dr. Sheldon Mintz.
Acknowledging the parentsofthegraduates:
Parents, thank you for sharing your
sons and d aughters with us. I do not
have to tell you, you have raised them
well. And we have been carefully
helping them to build upon the
foundation that you have helped to
establish. We hope you are pleased.
Tograduatingdentalstudents:
As a represen tati ve f or the o ral surge ry depa rtm ent, I spea k fo r al l
of the faculty and staff when I say it
has truly been our pleasure to work
with you. We are so proud. You have
inspired us, challenged us, challenged
us, and challenged us. (Laughter.)
And we ha ve a dmire d th e way in
which you have grown and the way
you h ave m ature d person ally and
professio nally.
...I offer my congratulations, my grati tude for your commi tment,
for challenges conquered, for goals
achieved, and for goals surpassed.
You will always be a part of the
Mich igan famil y an d, as su ch, we
will follow your careers with genuine
interest.
the C.J. Lyons Academy o Oral and
Maxilloacial Surgery, a nationwide
academy that requires members to
have direct academic lineage rom Dr.
Chalmers J. Lyons, the irst chairman
o our department (1917) at U-M.
Dr. Steve Edlund , one o our
residents and the irst recipient o the Ravitz Foundation Research Award
under the mentorship o Dr. Paul
Krebsbach, presented his indings on
The Eects o Bone Morphogenetic
Proteins on Oral Cancer Cells at the 6th
International Conerence on Head and
Neck Cancer in Washington D.C.
Residency ProgramAn ongoing continuing education
lectureship has been established by Dr.Brent Ward, director o our residency-
training program. The program,
Updates in Oral Surgery, is a weekly
course speciically designed or residents
and aculty.
The course eatures dental and
medical proessionals, as well as oral
surgeons rom the region who train
Dr. Stephen Feinberg
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ellows, residents, dental and medical
students.
Three individuals were invited to
speak during the last academic year as
Chalmers J. Lyons lecturers. Dr. Robert
Gorlin, with the University o Minnesota,
lectured on the genetic aspect o
syndromes o the head and neck. Dr. James Sciubba, rom Johns Hopkins
Medical School, provided an illustrative
and intellectually challenging clinic-
pathological conerence. Dr. Jerey
Posnick, rom Georgetown University,
delivered an overview o cranio-
maxilloacial surgery during the
residents’ graduation banquet.
The two graduating residents rom
the Oral and Maxilloacial Surgery
(OMFS) Program are Drs. Sean Edwardsand Jeffrey Collins. Sean will continue
his education as a Cranioacial Fellow
at the University o Pittsburgh under
the direction o Dr. B.J. Costello. Je is
joining a private practice in Chicago
and planning to teach part time at the
University o Illinois.
We welcomed three new OMFS
interns to our residency program this
year. Two o them, Matt Pinski and
Reynaldo Rivera, earned their dental
degrees this spring rom the U-M School
o Dentistry. The other, Nick Mahoul,
earned his DDS this spring rom McGill
University in Montreal.
The Section o Hospital Dentistry
says arewell and wishes success to
the outgoing general practice residents
(GPRs): Drs. Aditi Bagchi, Diane Lee,
Irene Renieris, and Erika Tyler .
However, we welcomed three
new GPRs: Drs. Adam Feinman rom
University o Michigan, Dahlia Hadad
rom University o Detroit-Mercy, and
Seema Joseph rom UT-Houston Dental
Branch.
Faculty Notes o Interest Dr. Upton continues his clinical
research that includes comparing
means o rigid ixation associated
with LeFort I maxillary osteotomies,and comparing the outcomes o scalpel
versus electro surgery in sot tissue
incisions or orthognathic surgery. He
is also trying to identiy biomarkers or
temporomandibular joint pathology by
looking at several pro-inlammatory
cytokines: Interleukin 1-Beta, Interleukin
6, and Interleukin 10. Groups looked
at included controls, right and let
side in symptomatic patients, and
symptomatic patients over time.
Preliminary data suggests that none
o these pro-inlammatory mediators
may become reliable objective markers
or symptomatic TM joints.
Dr. Ward has completed two years
on the aculty. He has been actively
involved in the clinic and operating
room, his research endeavors, and as
program director o the residency and
Head and Neck Oncology ellowship.
A s a m e m b e r o t h e U - M
Nanotechnology Institute or Medicine
and the Biological Sciences and the
University o Michigan Head and
Neck SPORE (Specialized Programs o
Research Excellence), his lab is working
with nanostructures targeted at head
and neck cancer or more eective and
sae chemotherapy.
This endeavor is being undertaken
with the goal o uture clinical trials
using this technology to enhance
patient care. He is also assisting tocoordinate the University o Michigan
as a site or an upcoming clinical
trial rom Johns Hopkins oering
chemoprevention treatment or pre-
cancerous dysplasias.
Continuing to bridge the work
that’s taking place in both dentistry and
medicine, Brent has acilitated creation
o a pilot program to train medical
doctors in dentistry preparing them or
“Our department continues to be productive and
successful thanks to the hard work of our faculty, ou
support staff, the unconditional help of the adjunct
faculty, and last but not least, great support from the
University of Michigan.”
Dr. Brent Ward
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oral and maxilloacial surgical residency
so that our dual degree program will
one day be a true “two-way” street or
students graduating rom either thedental school or the medical school.
Dr. Murdoch-Kinch is studying
oral health in patients ater parotid-
sparing radiation therapy o head and
neck cancer. Unlike patients who receive
standard radiation therapy (RT) and
suer rom permanent xerostomia,
patients treated with parotid-sparing
RT developed at University o Michigan
experience recovery o salivary unction
over time. She hypothesizes that this willlead to better oral health or patients.
Dr. Lina Karam is our newest
aculty addition. She obtained her
DMD rom the University o Florida
in 1999, completed an internship in
OMFS at Medical College o Virginia
in 2000, and trained in Oral and
Maxilloacial Surgery at the Sinai/
Henry Ford Residency rom 2000-2004
in Detroit. Dr. Karam is in charge o the
pre-doctoral teaching program in Oral
and Maxilloacial Surgery. In her own
words, “I like the students and I love
teaching!” She is presently a member
o the Curriculum and the International
Program Committees.
In addi t ion to my dut ies as
department chair, I continue my
research ocus on the surg ical
management o oral cancer as well as
orthognathic surgery in patients with
obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
I am especially interested in clinical
outcome measures. Current projects are
recurrence rates in the management
o odontogenic keratocysts (OKC),
success rates in the surgical treatment
o obstruct ive s leep apnea, and
maxilloacial indings on patients with
Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome
(Gorlin Syndrome).
In addition, collaborations are also
underway with the National Instituteo Dental and Cranioacial Research
in areas o proteomics o OKCs as well
as proteomics and genomics o oral
cancer.
Dr. Wen-Xiang Zhang, co-director
o our Microsurgical Training Center,
continues to train residents and
specialists rom around the world
in the art o vascular and neural
microsurgery. He is collaborating on a
ederally unded research project with
Drs. David Humes (Internal Medicine)
and Dave Brown (Plastic Surgery)
developing an experimental model or
a tissue engineered kidney.
Dr. Samuel Zwetchkenbaum,
the director o our GPR Program,
and Dr. Stephen Minehart, assistant
program director, are providing didactic
training and clinical experience in
advanced areas o dentistry, including
care o medically compromised and
developmentally disabled patients,
management o dental emergencies,
and restoration o dental implants.
Members o our aculty are taking
programs that will help our department
become even more eective in the
uture.
Dr. Zwetchkenbaum is one year
into the Executive Master’s Program in
Health Management and Policy at the
School o Public Health. Dr. Minehart
participated in the Academy o Dental
Sleep Medicine conerence in Denver
as we continue to provide services
or patients with sleep disordered
breathing.
Dr. Stephen Feinberg maintains
his clinical activities and also has an
active NIH-unded research program in
tissue engineering. His main project is
in the ex vivo development o a human
ull-thickness oral mucosal tissuethat is suitable or intraoral grating
procedures.
The long-term objective o his
research is to produce a “smart”
transduced oral mucosal grat that will
be used or reconstruction o major oral
deects secondary to oncologic resection,
traumatic events or developmental
disturbances. The grat would act both
as a material or reconstruction and as
a repository or in situ transmucosal
delivery o recombinant growth actors
or cytokines.
The goal is also to establ ish
expanded cultures o an enriched
population o oral mucosa progenitor/
stem cells, using only physical and
p h a r m a c o l o g i c a l m e a n s , u n d e r
chemically deined conditions consistent
with FDA guidelines that will be the
oundation or our advances into cell
replacement therapy. His next step is
to perorm a FDA-approved Phase I/II
clinical trial through the U-M General
Clinical Research Center in 2006.
Dr. Feinberg’s other area o
research is in the development o
3-dimensional biomimetic scaolds
or tissue engineering o bone and/or
cartilage or reconstruction o the
temporomandibular joint.
In short, our department continues
to be productive and successul thanks
to the hard work o our aculty, our
support sta, the unconditional help
o the adjunct aculty, and last but not
least, great support rom the University
o Michigan.
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RESEARCH NEWS
School of Dentistry #2in NIDCR Grants
Throughout its history, the U-M
School o Dentistry has been one o the
nation’s premier research institutions.
In recent years, the School has been
consistently ranked among the top ive
dental schools across the country in
ederal unds awarded or research.
New statistics show that during
ederal iscal year 2004 (October 1, 2003
to September 30, 2004), the School wassecond in terms o grants awarded by
the National Institute o Dental and
Cranioacial Research.
“Our research is designed to
achieve two objectives,” said Dean Peter
Polverini. “The irst is to develop new
knowledge in oral health sciences and
related ields. The second is to apply
that knowledge to improve the health
and well being o patients.”
The days when a dentist diagnosed periodontal disease with nothing more
than a probe and a hunch may some day be just a memory.
Using the latest tools rom biotechnology, U-M School o Dentistry aculty
members Drs. Russell Taichman, Cun-Yu Wang, William Giannobile, and graduate
student Debby Hwang, are trying to identiy a tell-tale genetic signature that
would show which patients are more susceptible to the hidden inection at the
tooth’s roots.
Every patient has 300 to 500 dierent species o bacteria in their mouth. For
about hal o these people, the bugs stay in a balanced ecosystem, held in check
by each other and by the host’s immune responses (and good hygiene). But in
the other hal o patients, something gets out o whack and a subtle inectioninds a ertile niche below the gum line.
The association with obesity, pregnancy, diabetes, smoking, heart disease,
and other conditions is an intriguing clue to the underlying nature o periodontal
disease, said Taichman, an associate proessor o periodontics. But it would be
hard to say which condition aggravates the other. “Maybe it’s the same molecular
issue behind both,” he speculates.
Linking Laboratory Science with TechnologyHow School of Dentistry’s Use of Microarrays May Help Patients
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Dr. Debby Hwang (let) and Taocong Jin look at a “heat map”that shows, in this instance, which gene may make patients
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“What are some o the actors
that make people susceptible?” asks
Giannobile , the Najjar proessor
o periodontics and director o the
Michigan Center or Oral Health
Research. “It’s not just certain bad
bacteria. It’s clearly genetic.”
Trying to Solve the Puzzle
The irst step in solving this puzzle
is to understand the genetic dierences
that may exist between healthy and
diseased patients.
All o a person’s genes are present
in each o their nearly 100 trillion cells,
but only certain genes are turned on
or “expressed” at any given time in
a particular tissue. Being able to see
these patterns o expression in gum
tissue and contrast them in healthy and
diseased patients should help reveal
which genes play a role in periodontal
disease, Taichman said.
This is easier said than done, o
course. The experimental procedure
irst involves collecting tissue samples
rom healthy and diseased patients and
then extracting and puriying RNA, the
message-bearing cousin o DNA, rom
the samples.
The RNA in the solution represents
genes that are actively being expressed
in the tissue sample because genes that
aren’t being expressed don’t make RNA.
Next, the researchers rely on a new
technology, called a microarray, that
melds computer chips and laboratory
science.
The microarray is a thumb-sized
computer chip made with the same
sort o lithography that is used to
etch computer circuits onto chips. But
instead o transistors, the “gene chip”
holds a orest o more than 20,000 short
lengths o single-strand human DNA
with very speciic sequences.
When single-strand RNAs rom the
gum tissue meet their complementary
DNA on the gene chip, they orm a pair,
releasing a tiny signal o luorescence.
The dental school’s microarray
core acility prepares the samples that
Hwang brings rom patients and injects
them into a small port on the back o
the microarray chip. Ater stirring
overnight at 45 degrees Centigrade in
a machine that looks like a sped-up
hotdog cooker, the chips are placed into a
rectangular tabletop machine that reads
more than 60 megabytes o data o each
microarray chip.
The chip reader is looking or spots
on the microarray that emit a aint
glow, indicating that a length o the
unknown RNA has bound to a sequence
o DNA on the chip. Specialized sotware
that knows what DNA sequence is at
each precise spot on the grid then turns
that pattern o tiny splotches into a
readout o what genes were ound in
the sample o RNA.
Other studies have ound someintriguing clues about the role an
immune system signaling molecule
called Interleukin-1 in periodontal
disease. But clearly, there are more
genes at work than just this one,
Giannobile said.
Better Treatments Ahead?
In act, this microarray study
may point out genetic dierences that
indicate there are several kinds o
periodontal disease. Such knowledge
would lead not only to better tests, but
better treatments, Giannobile said.
“We have people that we throw
the kitchen sink at, and nothing
works,” Taichman said. “Sometimes
our response might even be making
things worse.”
RESEARCH NEWS
Drs. Russell Taichman (let), Debby Hwang, and William Giannobile are using a new technology, called a microarray, that
melds high technology and laboratory science to reveal which genes play a role in certain diseases.
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that had never been seen in head and
neck tumors. These receptors have
been shown by Henson and others in
the laboratory o Dr. Nisha D’Silva, an
assistant proessor, to be signiicantly
involved in head and neck cancer cell
growth.
What the Research Could Mean
The discovery may one day play an
important role in treating individuals
with head and neck tumors.
“Our abi l i ty to ident i y the
dierences between cancers that spreadand those that don’t is important, so
these receptors may serve as objective
biomarkers that help doctors to identiy
aggressive tumors,” Henson said.
“Since these receptors are signiicant
in head and neck cancers, we may later
learn that they also play an important
role in other cancers in other parts o
the body,” he added.
“Eight years o clinical training and
research investigations have given mean exciting, yet sobering opportunity
to prooundly aect peoples’ lives,” he
said. “Perhaps most importantly, my
work during the past two years has
heightened my interest in conducting
oral cancer research with a translational
ocus.”
Ater receiving his PhD, Henson
plans to continue his research and to
become a aculty member at a dental
school.The Dziewiatkowski Award ,
which recognizes excellence in student
research, was irst presented in 1989
to honor the memory o Dr. Dominic
Dziewiatkowski who directed the
Dental Research Institute rom 1967 to
1972 and who also was a department
chair rom 1967 to 1977.
The Dziewiatkowski Award
Recognizing “The Next Generation of Scientists”
“I my ather were alive today
and had the opportunity to talk to the
students who have received the award
that was established in his name, I
think he would be so pleased to see
the caliber o the students who have
received this award that honors not
just his memor y, but also his love o research,” said Jane Damren.
Damren is the daughter o the
late Dr. Dominic Dziewiatkowski, who
taught at the School o Dentistry or 18
years and directed the Dental Research
Institute rom 1967 to 1972. In 1988, she
and her husband, Samuel, established
the Dziewiatkowski Award to honor
his memory and recognize dental
students or their research excellence.
In addition to the recognition, recipientso the award receive $800.
Beore his death in September 1987,
Proessor Emeritus Dziewiatkowski,
“Dr. J,” as he was aectionately known
to many, was known nationally and
internationally or his research on bone
and cartilage metabolism, connective
tissue, and the role o complex proteins
in bone calciication. He also led
many scientiic organizations, served
on numerous School committees, andwas a consultant to state and ederal
agencies o government.
Dziewiatkowski was also among the
rst 18 School o Dentistry alumni and
aculty members who were posthumously
inducted into the School’s Hall o Fame in
September 2003. [ DentalUM, Fall 2003,
pages 12-24.]
Living and Breathing Research
“As a kid, you couldn’t help but live
and breathe research because dad was
so enthused not only about his research,
but also his teaching and mentoring
students,” said Damren, a clinical
nurse specialist in behavioral health in
Detroit. “He was always encouragingthem to publish their work and get
some recognition or what they were
doing.”
Ater her ather died, Damren
said she and her husband discussed
establishing an award with her ather’s
ormer colleagues that would honor
students or their research. “There were
some clinical research awards being
given,” she said, “but nothing or basic
science research. We thought that anaward, given in dad’s name, would be
a way to not only carry on his legacy,
but also honor students at the dental
school or their basic research.”
The Damrens have not been
disappointed . “I’ve been impressed
with the students I have met over
the past 17 years. In many ways, I
think their work is building on the
oundation that dad was establishing,”
she said. “These student researchers arethe next generation o scientists who
will be making important contributions
in the years ahead.”
Although she doesn’t possess her
late ather’s research background,
Damren said she reads the papers
submitted by dental students being
considered or the award.
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Previous Dziewiatkowski Award Winners
Below are the individuals who have
received the Dziewiatkowski Award since
it was irst presented in 1989. When it
was established, the award was presented
to students in the predoctoral program.
However, in recent years, recipients have
been those in the Oral Health Sciences
PhD program.
• 2005-BradleyS.Henson
• 2004-AndrewM.Fribley
• 2003-AbrahamSchneider
• 2002-DomenicaSweier
• 2001-SolaimanAlHadlaq
and Catherine Kuo
• 2000-Dr.EricaDeBoever
• 1999-Dr.HongjiaoOuyang
• 1998-Dr.JacquesNör
• 1997-KanwalChawla(D3)
• 1996-SandeepSood(D3)
• 1995-KathrynW.Feng(D2)
• 1994-Noaward
• 1993-YanAnSu
• 1992-JohnC.Wataha
• 1991-WilliamC.Robson(D3)
• 1990-JamesP.Lee
• 1989-MichaelA.Smith(D4)
Impressed with the Winners
“I dad had the chance to talk to
the award winners, he would be excited
to learn what major advances have
taken place in research,” she said. As
an example, Damren pointed to DNA
sequencing which was only something
that was talked about three decades
ago, but now is commonplace.
“ I also bel ieve he would be
impressed with Brad Henson, not only
or his research, but because their
backgrounds were similar in manyways,” she said. Henson, a candidate
in the School’s Oral Health Sciences PhD
program, received the Dziewiatkowski
Award earlier this year or his discovery
o two cell surace receptors that had
never been seen in head and neck
tumors.
Dziewiatkowski, the son o Polish
immigrants, grew up on the south
side o Chicago. Ater graduating rom
high school, “which many did not doin the late 1920s or early 1930s,” she
said, he attended what is now Western
Michigan University and earned a
bachelor’s degree in chemistry and
biology in 1939.
“As a student in Kalamazoo, he
helped to pay or his college education
by working as a janitor and a lab
technician,” Damren said. “He knew
that kind o hard work would lead to
better things, not just or himsel, butothers later.”
In 1942, Dziewiatkowski earned a
master’s degree rom U-M and a PhD in
biochemistry a year later.
“Dad grew up in a blue-collar
community and earned a bachelor’s
degree at another university beore
coming to Michigan,” she said.
“Brad Henson, this year’s award
winner, reminds me o dad in some
respects. Brad came to Michigan with
the intelligence and a strong desire to
learn and better himsel, which dad
would appreciate and would have been
very pleased to see,” she said.
The Future o the Award
Damren said the Dziewiatkowski
Award will continue to be presented
to an outstanding dental student
researcher or the next 10 years. When
she and her husband retire, “it will be
up to our children to decide i they want
to continue unding the award.”
Each year, an award is presented
to a dental student. A companion
award is presented to a student in the
Department o Biochemistry at the U-M
Medical School.
“The success and prestige that
has grown to be associated with the
award is the result o the commitment
and dedication o past and present
department chairs and aculty in the
Department o Biologic and Materials
Sciences to ensure the highest quality
research is recognized,” Damren said.
“I appreciate all the help I have
received and want to thank John Drach,
Christian Stohler, Don Clewell, Robert
Bradley, and Charlotte Mistretta or
their commitment and dedication.
Working with me, they have helpedme to recognize, understand, and
appropriately award outstanding
students or the basic research being
conducted at the dental school.”
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AADR Research Fellow-
ships to 5 from U-M
Five U-M School o Dentistry
students were awarded ellowships
at the AADR’s annual spring meeting.
They were among 18 rom across the
country who were recognized or their
research. The ellowships give the
students an opportunity to continue
their research and travel to AADR and
IADR meetings.The ive School o Dentistry
students, their mentors, and research
projects are:
•AishaAkpabio,ChristineKlausner,
Preventing Early Childhood Caries
- Pregnant Mothers’ Knowledge,
Attitudes & Behavioral Intentions
•ErinLynnEalba,JamesSimmer,
Enamel Proteomics
•RichardKoh,GiseleNeiva, Finishing
Systems on the Final Surface
Roughness of Composites
•KeynaPeterson,KeithKirkwood,
Squamous Cell Carcinoma-derived
RANKL in Osteoclastogenesis
•JohnThomas,MaritaInglehart,
Child Abuse & Neglect - Dental Care
Providers’ Knowledge and Actions.
Scientists Discover More About How
Cancer Cells Form and Grow
Colleen Newvine, U-M News Service
U-M researchers have igured out one more component in cancer cells’
aggressive growth. They hope that knowledge can help kill the cells.
In the July issue o Cancer Cell, the scientists explain how cancer tumor cells
attach themselves to a protein on the surace o cells lining blood vessel walls.
When this attachment occurs, it tells the cancer cell to grow and develop blood
vessels which eed the cell.Cun-Yu Wang, senior author o the article, said this discovery could help in
the ight against cancer.
“The blood supply is key or tumor growth and tumor development,” said
Wang, the Richard H. Kingery Endowed Collegiate Proessor at the U-M School o
Dentistry. “I you cut o the blood supply, you stop cancer development.”
Wang collaborated with researchers Qinghua Zeng, Shenglin Li, Douglas
B. Chepeha, Jong Li, Honglai Zhang, Peter J. Polverini, Jacques Nör and Jan
Kitajewski.
Searching or Answers
Scientists have extensively studied how cancer cells secrete proteins to ormblood vessels. But Wang said when researchers tried to turn o that process,
some tumors responded. Others did not. That made him curious about how to
develop a better treatment.
Rather than simply looking or a better way to interrupt the protein secretion,
Wang and colleagues looked or other ways that tumor cells might develop their
blood supply, a process called angiogenesis.
Wang’s team has studied hepatocyte growth actor (HGF) to better understand
its unction in orming cancerous head and neck tumors. Part o what HGF does
is to get neighboring blood vessels to grow toward the tumor and then into it.
What they did not know was how HGF launched angiogenesis.
So they looked at head and neck cancer cells to see i growth actors promptedthe release o angiogenesis-related proteins. That led to an exploration o direct
interaction between the tumor and endothelial cells which line blood vessels.
Examining data on the genes HGF activates, the team ound a speciic gene,
called “jagged1,” is among the most expressed. Jagged1 binds to a speciic protein
on the surace o the endothelial cells.
Wang speculated that i jagged1 is not secreted, but ound on the surace o
tumor cells, then perhaps HGF gets jagged1 levels to increase which then prompts
a connection between the tumor and endothelial cells.
Ealba New President of StudentResearch Group
Erin Ealba, now a second-year dental student,
was recently elected President of the AADR’s
National Student Research Group. She began
her one-year term during the AADR meeting in
Orlando in March. Her term ends at next year’s
IADR/AADR meeting.
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Wang said he that although much research has looked at cancer cells’ secretion
o proteins to orm blood vessels, notch’s unction in cancer angiogenesis has
not received the same attention. Notch, Wang said, pulls this whole complex
operation together.
A Two-Progned Approach?
Ater this contact stimulates angiogenesis, the tumor receives nutrition and
grows aster, Wang said. He hopes blocking the signaling pathway can cut o
the tumor’s nutrition and stop its growth.
I this development pans out as a treatment, Wang said he envisions a two-pronged approach that attacks the protein secretion and the cell contact to kill
cancer cells.
The next question Wang wants to explore is how these connections lead
to metastasis, the spread o cancer throughout the body. He speculates that
inlammation could trigger that pathway, and wants to look at the potential or
controlling inlammation to stop tumor development.
“Head and neck cancer is understudied,” Wang said. “The ive-year survival
rate hasn’t improved in decades. We want to change that.”
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Receiving 10 Year Service Awards were (let to right):
Barbara Wolgang, Department o Periodontics, Prevention,
and Geriatrics (PPG); Donita Ehnis, Patient Services; Thomas
Davis, Patient Services; Kim Hun er, Oice o Research; Sywe-
Ren Chang, Department o Cariology, Restorative Sciences,and Endod ontics; Vicki Walda, PPG; and Amy Koh, PPG.
Not pictured were three others who were also recognized or
10 years o service: Vernon Rie, Kristi Ocenasek,
and Deanna Nellis.
Receiving 20 Year S ervice Awards were Dan Bruell, Oice o
Dental Inormatics; Wanda Snyder, Department o Biologic
and Materials Sciences; and Judy Crat, Patient Services.
Three individuals received 30 Year Service Awards: Per
Kjeldsen, Educational Resources; Mirian Brockie, Department
o Cariology, Restorative Services, and Endodontics; and
Marsha Meyer, Patient Services.
Sixteen sta members with the School o Dentistry
were recognized or their long-term service to the
University o Michigan earlier this year.
The School o Dentistry is helping the Michigan Dental
Association get ready or next year’s celebration marking
the 150th anniversary o the MDA’s ounding.This summer, Shannon O’Dell, the School’s Sindecuse
Museum curator, and Dr. Michael Maihoer, chair o the
MDA’s 150th Anniversary Task Force, spent several hours
reviewing dental artiacts in the museum’s storage
area.
“We have an incredible number o interesting and
valuable artiacts in the museum, many o them going
back one hundred or more years,” O’Dell said. “So when
an opportunity, such as this one, presents itsel that
allows us to showcase what we have, we’re ready to lend
a hand.”About the collaboration, Maihoer said, “All o us at
the MDA are excited about partnering with the U-M School
o Dentistry’s Sindecuse Museum or this special part o
our anniversary celebration.”
The dental artiacts will be on display next May
during the MDA’s annual session in Lansing.
Helping the MDAGet Ready for 150
Keary Campbell
Shannon O’Dell, curator o the School o Dentistry ’s Sindecuse Museum, and Dr. MichaelMaihoer, chair o the MDA’s 150th Anniversary Task Force, look at some o the ountainspittoons that were commonly used in late 19th century dental practices. Near the thespittoons are oot pedal dental engines rom that era.
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