L!"# L$%&# U%$'()*$+, Dentistry 57th Commencement Transition at the top Volume 24, Number 2 Summer / Autumn 2013 12-TDIC_CA-NDP.pdf 1 12/11/12 3:05 PM 2 Loma Linda University Dentistry Summer / Autumn 2013 Volume 24, Number 2 $ New graduates receive5 their 0first year of Professional Liability insurance for a price that’s a little surprising. TDIC New Dentist Program t Use our online short form, five minutes is all it takes t Receive 45% discount in your second year of practice and 25% in your third t Benefit from a free TDIC Risk Managment seminar during your first year of practice To enroll: tdicsolutions.com/newgrad ® 800.733.0633 | CA Insurance License #0652783 First year TDIC Professional Liability coverage rate depicted is for newly licensed and never practiced dentists in the state of California and is valid for $1M/$3M coverage amounts. Rates subject to increase per schedule in years two through eight until they reach maturity. 2 Loma Linda University Dentistry Summer / Autumn 2013 L!"# L$%&# U%$'()*$+, D!"#$%#&' V!"#$% &', N#$(%) & S#$$%)/A#*#$+ &,-. Dean Ronald J. Dailey, PhD Editor emeritus Leif K. Bakland, SD’63 Managing editor Douglas Hackleman, MA Contributing editor Edna Maye Loveless, PhD Proofreaders On July 1, 2013, Ronald Dailey replaced Charles Goodacre as School of Leigh Ann Evans Dentistry dean. Pictured here with his successor at the recent commencement exercises, Dr. Goodacre will remain at the School as professor, Department of Krista Juhl, MBA Prosthodontics. DonaJayne King, MBA Irmgart Mitchell Benjamin Palaniuk Rachel Terwillegar Carole White Purpose Loma Linda University Dentistry informs alumni, faculty, Photographers students, and other interested individuals about current School Joe Arnett programs, events, and activities, as well as accomplishments of Carmen Fernandez fellow alumni, faculty, and students. 5e journal is published Daryl Osborne twice each year by Loma Linda University School of Dentistry. Alumni Association o(cers Address correspondence to: Direct ad inquiries to: P)%/01%+*: Gary Chan, SD’89, MS’95 P)%/01%+*-%"%2*: Iris Choi, SD’10 Editor, LLU DENTISTRY LLU DENTISTRY Director: Kathleen Moore, MHIS School of Dentistry School of Dentistry Loma Linda University 11245 Anderson St. Mission Loma Linda, CA 92350 Loma Linda University Loma Linda University School of Dentistry seeks to Phone: (909) 558-4984 Loma Linda, CA 92350 further the healing and teaching ministry of Jesus Christ Fax: (909) 558-0992 Phone: (909) 558-4222 by providing an environment wherein: Students learn to provide high quality oral healthcare based To reach the School of Dentistry Admissions information: on sound scienti3c principles Alumni Association, contact: School of Dentistry Patients receive competent care, which is preventive in Jeri Fowler, assistant director Loma Linda University purpose, comprehensive in scope, and provided with LLUSD Alumni Association O6ce of Admissions compassion and respect 11245 Anderson Street Loma Linda, CA 92350 Faculty, students, and sta! value the patient relationship, Loma Linda, CA 92354 [email protected] respect diversity, and share responsibility by working Phone: (909) 558-4399 Phone: (800) 422-4558 or together toward academic, professional, spiritual, and Fax: (909) 558-4858 (909) 558-4621 personal growth Scholarly activity and research provide a foundation for evidence-based learning and enhance whole person care "e workplace environment attracts and retains a superior and diverse faculty and sta4 who motivate, educate, and serve Cover: Our communities (local, global, and pro fessional) bene3t Incoming dean, Ronald Dailey, PhD (left), shakes hands from our service, stewardship, and commitment to life- with outgoing dean, Charles Goodacre, SD’71, MSD, in front of long learning. 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Indeed, his pro3le as dean includes diverse roles including clinician extraordinaire, innovative educator, proli3c researcher and e4ective administrator. 5ank you, Charlie, for your e4ective service and commitment to the the e4ort to see the institution from the perspective of the purposes and programs of the School of Dentistry. faculty, sta4, and students, even as I encourage each of you During the next several months, I am meeting with to collaborate as you consider issues that a4ect the School faculty from nine clinical and basic science departments, at an institutional level. eight programs as well as various clinics in the School of My sincere thanks go to those of you who have Dentistry. I will also be meeting with students. We have participated thus far. To those with whom I have yet to meet, a lot to talk about, and I’m anxious to hear your concerns, I look forward to talking with you. In addition to visiting answer your questions, and discuss our collective future. and answering questions, I plan to share your feedback 5ese discussions are representative of wider themes in a follow-up “What I Heard” memorandum, so conversations—and initiatives—taking place throughout that everyone in the dental school can become aware of the Loma Linda University. For example, we are introducing challenges facing your colleagues in di4erent departments, a very important self-study process associated with programs, and clinics. For our alumni, I hope this journal accreditation that will help us chart the optimal path to a serves as a conduit to the important issues being addressed reinvigorated curriculum. In addition, we will be launching within your alma mater, and I always welcome the input a process to explore methods by which we can integrate that your real world perspectives provide. the clinical, basic, and behavioral sciences in preparation Driven by innovation, strengthened by collaboration, and for an integrated national board examination scheduled encouraged by open, consistent communication, together for implementation sometime in the next six to eight we are launching a signi3cant shift in our programs. I want years. Beyond that, our research team will be working this critical dialogue between the dean’s o6ce, faculty, collaboratively to develop a 3ve-year Research Roadmap students, sta4, and alumni to continue and thrive. Please for the School of Dentistry. join me in this e4ort by sharing your suggestions about With so much revision and augmentation under how to sustain this dialogue for the future. And, as always, advisement, and all with clear bene3ts to the School of thank you for everything you do to sustain and improve Dentistry, I want to be sure you are part of the process, that Loma Linda University and the School of Dentistry. your voices are being heard, and that your expertise helps to shape our decisions. I have met with four departments so far and I am not surprised to have received questions and comment from at least that many perspectives. 5e fervor and discernment represented by the feedback I have received thus far impresses on me just how invested in the School you are and how critical it is that I have the Ronald J. Dailey, PhD bene3t of your perspectives. As the dean of an incredible and profoundly complex institution, I have a unique point of view. To adequately represent the School, I need to understand thoroughly all of its disciplines, departments, and programs. 5at is why it is imperative that I hear from so many of you in Volume 24, Number 2 Loma Linda University Dentistry 5 Alumni president’s message: Are you living “out of phase?” he day at the o6ce had been busy, but one patient made Tthat day uniquely di4erent. Although tired, my mind seemed energized by what a patient said. He was a WWII veteran who had recently lost his wife to complications associated with diabetes just shy of their 60th wedding anniversary. His face lit up every time he reminisced and spoke of her, especially how they 3rst met on a blind date at a soda shop when he was in the Navy in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. As he 3nished his last story, he smiled, sighed contentedly, and then said it all: “I have no regrets.” I considered what was embodied in his statement with an almost reverent, envying awe. I thought further about how often we wish that we might choices that de3ne how we relate to our family, our work, and to have the chance to do things over again, di4erently. But this those around us—though the dynamics are not always obvious. man had “no regrets.” He would not change anything. He had How can we turn things around so that we are not hit it out of the park when it actually counted. I purposed to among those who get to the end of life with our list of goals make some changes. accomplished—only to 3nd that we never really lived, that we Typically, health professionals are driven individuals who never really appreciated the passage of time, that we misdirected regularly set goals. Patterns begin early in life as we observe and our energies and we lived our life “out of phase?” Opportunity emulate people who are goal motivated. 5ere is a tendency to and choice are on a continuum, but it requires the realization adopt the strategies and behaviors to which we are exposed.