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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: [email protected].

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

Education






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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57

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62



Dental UM Fall 20054

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

F ig. 2




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.

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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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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.”

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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




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




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.

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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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The Importance o DentalSchool Collaboration




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)

Making Sure “It” All Works – Hard




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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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J er r y M a s t e y

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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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.




t

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.





“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.

OneFacultyMember’sView:“It’s The Ultimate Core Facility”

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t

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.

DAMS




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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t

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

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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.”




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.

Keary Campbell

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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)





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

Dr. Jan Hu




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

Dr. Nisha D’Silva




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

Per Kjeldsen




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.

Jerry Mastey

Jerry Mastey

Jerry Mastey




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.

I

Jerry Mastey






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: [email protected]

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.






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





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.

During the academic year, ourth-year dental studentsprovide oral health care at eight community clinicsacross Michigan as a part o their education. AEGDresidents provide oral health care in Jackson.

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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.

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Alumnus Profle


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

Photo courtesy o U-M School o Public Heal th and Peter Smith



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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.”




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.

Photos courtesy o Dr. Joel Egnater





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

Photo courtesy o Dr.Wayne Colquitt








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



Dental UM Fall 200554 Dental UM Fall 200554

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) _____________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

2ndName___________________________________________________________

ClassYear(s) _________________________________________________________

Address(ifknown)______________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

I you nominate yoursel, please send your biography (45 words or less) on a separatesheet o paper. However, because o time constraints on our sta and limited

sp ac e in th e ma ga zi ne, we cann ot ac ce pt a CV . Instead, please take a ew moments to highlight what you consider are major achievements, whether personal or proessional.

Returntheballot,andyourbiographyifyou’renominatingyourself,to:

Amy ReyesOffice of Alumni RelationsUniversity of Michigan School of Dentistry1011 N. University AvenueAnnArbor,MI48109-1078

Nominations must be received at the School of Dentistry by December 31, 2005.

Please

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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: [email protected].

“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

U-M DentisPer Kjeldsen




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?

Photo courtesy o the American Academy o Pediatric Dentistry




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.

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DH Student Awards




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

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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.




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

more susceptible to certain periodontal diseases.

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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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RESEARCH NEWS

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.




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.”




RESEARCH NEWS

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.




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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Dr. Cun-Yu Wang




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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