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12571_E.MAX PRIME_ UB.indd 1 7/1/19 12:43 PM The University at Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine is a busy, complex place. We have several important jobs. We provide an excellent education to our dental students, to our advanced education students and to practitioners seeking to stay up-to-date on the latest advances in dentistry through our continuing education programs. We advance science through our outstanding research programs funded primarily through the highly competitive grant programs of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research as well as from foundations and industry. We provide excellent oral health care to patients throughout Western New York, mainly patients who have difficulty accessing dental care. We provide outreach programs to children, veterans, and underserved patients in the U.S. and throughout the world. None of these important activities would be possible without our dedicated clinical, research and administrative staff.

There are literally thousands of important activities that must occur for our programs to run smoothly. Our staff handle everything—from assisting students and patients in our clinics, providing student support services, performing complicated analyses in our research laboratories, maintaining our facilities at the high standards expected of a health care facility and ensuring FROM compliance with an increasing number of state and federal regulations. Like all outstanding support activities, one measure of the effectiveness of our staff is THE that the less you notice the work they do, the better they are doing it. This year, the Class of 2019 focused on the outstanding service of our dental school staff by honoring two longtime staff members with prestigious awards. Senior Dental Assistant Lisa Durand received her fourth Florence Kronson Award, DEAN given by the senior class to the staff member “who has executed his/her responsibilities in a most exceptional manner and has contributed significantly to the welfare of the students.” Many of our older alumni may remember Florence Kronson who worked in the sterilization area and always had a kind and encouraging word for our students. David Miesowicz, the school’s longtime dental repair technician, won his second Staff Appreciation Award for “the time and conscientious efforts extended on our behalf.” Without the efforts of Dave over the years, we would not have been able to maintain our 30 year old dental units in the excellent condition they are in.

These two individuals are emblematic of the commitment and professionalism of all our dental school staff. As our school continues to fulfill its missions of education, research, and service, we thank our dedicated staff without whom none of these important activities could occur. As Lisa Durand and Dave Miesowicz have shown, focusing on our students and our patients is central to our success.

Joseph J. Zambon DDS, PhD Dean and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor University at Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine

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40th Anniversary attendees for the first meeting Celebration but the number has grown to over 100 dentists and dental The Chautauqua Dental hygienists. Although most Congress celebrated its attendees are practicing in 140th anniversary this year. Western New York, other recent This is an annual continuing attendees include dentists education program presented from Ohio, Pennsylvania, by the UB School of Dental New Jersey, Florida, Alabama,

Medicine as part of its Louisiana and Canada. Illustration by Jeff Dolgos community outreach program. All CE presentation topics and The intent of the meeting is content are determined by to bring the university to the feedback from attendees via community. The meeting direct suggestions from prior is held in conjunction with event evaluations, advisory programming of Chautauqua group meetings and/or surveys Institution, a world renowned sent to prospective participants. center for art, education and All lectures are presented by culture located in Chautauqua, faculty affiliated with UB’s New York. School of Dental Medicine. The meeting was established in Celebratory events this year 1980 by Dr. Sebastian Ciancio, included a winery tour, a cruise ’61, Perio Cert., ’66, and his on the Chautauqua Belle wife Marilyn who coordinated Steamboat, and a luncheon at acitivities for spouses of the Athenaeum Hotel. attendees. There were only 15

SUMMER 2019 UBDentist 5 NewsBriefs

Native American Pre-Dental The program, now in its second year, provides several Student Gateway Program students with a weeklong internship that allows participants to experience the various disciplines and specialties within the Nearly 10,500 students applied to attend dental dental profession. school in the United States this fall. Just 16 of those 2 Held this year from June 24-28, students took crash courses students are Native American, according to the American in hands-on clinical techniques using the latest training Dental Education Association. technologies, participated in an oral surgery boot camp and The Native American Pre-Dental Student Gateway Program, toured local oral health care product manufacturers. They also an initiative between the University at Buffalo School of engaged in candid conversations with current dental students, Dental Medicine and Seneca Nation Health System, aims to and received guidance on applying to dental school and for reduce the alarming disparity by introducing Native American financial aid. students to careers in dentistry. This year, the program—which is open to Native American “Simply put, there are not enough Native American students students and Indian Health Services dental staff—drew five pursuing a career in dentistry,” said Joseph Salamon, ’07, students from Idaho, Kansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. program director and dental services director for Seneca Nation “This program is a unique dental school pipeline in the Health System and clinical instructor in the UB School of Dental United States,” said Stephen Abel, DDS, associate dean for Medicine. student, community and professional initiatives in the UB “The program seeks to encourage and enhance Native School of Dental Medicine. “Reaching out to Native American American applications to dental school through exposure to communities1 not only enhances the diversity of our student various aspects of professional dental education, with the goal body, but also expands the number of caregivers sensitive to of diversifying the pre-dental application pool and extending the unique oral health issues amongst this community.” education opportunity to the historically underrepresented Native American community.”

Joseph Salamon, program director, back left, with students taking part in the Native American Pre-Dental Student Gateway Program in June.

6 UBDentist SUMMER 2019 Reading the News Today Vs. 20 Years Ago Illustrations by Gretta Tomb

Research Grant Funding to progression of oral squamous Supported by UB School of Dental Medicine cell carcinomas”; NIDCR. Foundations, Associations Romano, R., PI: “Genomic and or Institutions • During the period Supported by functional investigations of the Gonzalez-Stucker, Y., PI: from September Federal/State Funds transcriptional regulatory “Contribution of mechanobehav- 3 2018 to early July Abel, S., PI: “School-based ioral, psychosocial, and network of salivary gland 2019, $3.3 million of research dental sealant program”; NYS morphogenesis and stem cell physiological domains in the grant funding was awarded to Department of Health (yr 3). fate choices in defined genetic progression of temporoman- dental school researchers. Edgerton, M., PI: “Fellowship models”; NIDCR. dibular disorders”; Oregon • During FY2019 (July 2018 for Hannah Norris: A novel Health & Science University. Ruhl, S., PI: “Microbial recog- through June 2019), research metal-starvation candidacidal nition of sialic acid diversity in Kramer, J., PI: “Single chemo- expenditures from ongoing mechanism for Histatin 5”; the oral cavity”; NIDCR (yr 7). sensory cells in the salivary and new grants to the dental NIDCR. gland”; University of Rochester. school totaled $6.5 million, a Ruhl, S., PI: “Advanced training Kirkwood, K., PI: “Post- Scannapieco, F., PI: “Secondary reflection of the significant in- in oral biology”; NIDCR (yr 7). transcriptional control of aging- analysis of EHR data to examine crease in new grants received associated inflammation and Sabatini, C., Cheng, C., co-PIs: relative impact of oral health by our researchers in FY18 (see bone homeostasis”; NIDCR (yr 2). “Polymer-antibiotic conjugates history on incident pneumonia UB Dentist, Fall 2018). as antibacterial additives for Kramer, J., PI: “Analysis of by settings”; Marshfield Clinic dental resins”; NIDCR. • Based on data from NIH in the role of IgM in Sjögrens Research Institute. mid-June 2019, total NIH funding “Gliding motility syndrome”; NIDCR (yr 2). Sharma, A., PI: Visser-Kay, M., PI: “Fellowship to UB’s dental school researchers in Tannerella forsythia”; Kramer, J., PI: “Analysis of B cell for Megan Jones: Modulation of increased by $1.8 million from NIDCR (yr 2). activation by endogenous aortic endothelial cell signaling NIH FY17 (Oct 1, 2016–Jun 30, mediators of inflammation in and function by oral bacteria”; 2017) to NIH FY18. Sjögrens syndrome”; NIDCR (yr 2). Supported by Industry American Heart Association, Inc. • UB’s dental school moved Arany, P., PI: “SBIR: Non- Lakshmanan, S., PI: “UB Center Xu, D., PI: “In vitro synthesis of from a ranking of #22 of 47 invasive intraoral LED for Advanced Technology in recombinant heparan sulfate”; dental schools receiving NIDCR phototherapy device for the Big Data and Health Sciences”; University of North Carolina/ funding in FY17 to #11 of 47 prevention and treatment of NYS Department of Economic Chapel Hill. dental schools receiving NIDCR oral mucositis”; Lumitex, Inc. Development. funding in FY18. The group of Lakshmanan, S., PI: “UB CAT: schools ranked in the top 10 of Romano, R., PI: “Fellowship for Validation of NGS HotSpot Panel FY18 NIDCR funding was the Akinsola Oyelakin: Molecular Version 2 for clinical testing”; same as in FY17. analysis of the oncogenic role KSL Diagnostics, Inc. of p63 in the development and

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TWO STAFF MEMBERS praiseRECEIVE EVERLASTING HONORS FROM STUDENTS

STORY BY GROVE POTTER | PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOUGLAS LEVERE

hen two staff members “I wasn’t supposed to speak, but I had a lot to say,” win awards—voted by the Miesowicz said. “I called out to one student who I have been talking to all year and said, ‘Mike, Mike, Mike… what day is it students—six times between Mike?,’” repeating the Geico television commercial featuring them, it’s clear the UB School a camel walking through an office. “He wouldn’t respond so I of Dental Medicine has said ‘Mike, the food is getting cold.’ He stood up and said ‘It’s something pretty special. Hump Day.’” “He had the whole place howling,” Durand said. “The dean even gave him a hug at the end of his speech!” W Senior dental assistant Lisa Durand, who works with That over-the-top outgoing personality is what endears third- and fourth-year students in the clinic, received her Miesowicz to the students. fourth Florence Kronson Award in May. It is given to the staff “We’ll all be about to take a practical exam,” said Chris member who has “contributed significantly to the welfare Becker, who graduated in May. “The instructors are pacing of students.” making sure everything is ready, and he’ll come in and crack “We become attached to them,” Durand said. “We become a joke or start ripping everybody. And everyone goes from like family.” serious to laughing. It lightens the mood.” David Miesowicz, the school’s dental repair technician, “They call me a therapy dog. They really do,” Miesowicz said. won his second Staff Appreciation Award at the awards dinner “He’s a therapy dog for all of us, not just the students,” in May, and proceeded to grab the microphone and take over Durand said during an interview of both award winners. the podium.

8 UBDentist SUMMER 2019 Stepping Away Miesowicz, who is retiring after 38 years at the school, said he has been working on the same model of dental chair for all AWARDS HONORING STAFF that time. “That’s why I’m a superstar!” AS AWARDED BY GRADUATING But it’s not just his antics that make Miesowicz so valuable. STUDENTS (RECENT YEARS) One serious problem he solved involved the electrical chairs Dental Student Association Staff shorting out. When people came in with snow on their boots and Appreciation Award: This award is sat in a chair, the snow would melt and short out the chair. “The presented for dedicated service and chairs would start going up and down,” he recalled. a sincere interest in the education and So Miesowicz took plastic headrest covers and wrapped welfare of dental students. all the electronics boxes that were shorting—on all 378 chairs. 2018 Lisa Durand Problem solved. 2017 Roger Apps The dental school is getting new chairs in the next few years, 2016 MaryAnn Buffomante so Miesowicz is taking it as a sign to retire. “I’m like the guy 2015 Karen Stry Henry working on the ’65 Mustang. These are new cars coming in.” 2014 Mary Alice Schroeder 2013 Karen Henry Helping teach 2012 Bonny Berry 2011 Donald Hanavan For Durand, as a dental assistant in a fast-paced dental 2010 Bernadette Sinibaldi school, she and her colleagues set up the instruments for the 2009 Nicholas Sniatecki students and work alongside them. And they play a big role in 2008 Susan Harrigan the students’ educations. “We are a ‘go-between’ for the patient, 2007 Deborah Mordino student and faculty—like a kind of translator,” she said. 2006 Cynthia Flowers “There are 112 kids in every class. They come to us on the 2005 David Miesowicz 2004 Angela Kuc clinic floor in their third year. We have the third-year and 2003 Karen Miller fourth-year students. Five days a week with the seniors, and 2002 Barbara Benzinger three days with the juniors,” she said. “We help the doctors 2001 Penelope Cirbus teach them. They come eager to learn. It’s great to watch them grow. It’s a hard, hard program. They go through a lot.” Florence Kronson Award: This award Working so closely with the diverse classes provides a was started in 1974 to recognize cultural education for Durand. outstanding work and contributions “I don’t leave Buffalo, so the world comes to me through to the welfare of students. them. I learn more about the world through them than I do 2018 Mary Alice Schroeder through any media out there,” Durand said. “I learn about their 2017 Lisa Durand culture or their religion or their thoughts on politics or just 2016 Lisa Durand them as human beings. You get to learn what people are like 2015 Ann Dziedzic just by hanging out with them.” 2014 Lisa Durand MaryAnn Buffomante For Durand, the students, professors and colleagues are the 2013 2012 Mary Alice Schroeder best things about working at the dental school. For Miesowicz, 2011 Karen Stry it’s being accepted. 2010 Donald Hanavan “I’m happy they accept me for what I am. Because this 2009 Cheryl Oliver wouldn’t fly at Ford,” he said. “I couldn’t be on the assembly line 2008 Barbara Benzinger for three hours because the guy next to me would be in BryLin 2007 Bonny Berry (mental health hospital). I know he would.” Susan Harrigan 2006 Roger Apps Words of Advice 2005 Donald Hanavan Edward Sands Both have advice for incoming classes. 2004 Michael Breene “Get to the stage (for graduation), Durand said. “They go 2003 Karen Miller through a very hard program here. They take kazillions of classes, 2002 Bonny Berry and they have many, many exams. They have rotations all over Susan Harrigan the city and they have patients here.” 2001 Donald Hanavan From Miesowicz, the advice is more immediate. “Pay your Edward Sands tuition, so we can get paid.” UBD

SUMMER 2019 UBDentist 9 “SKETCHING WAS A CREATIVE RELEASE FOR ME”

“I ENDED UP WITH A SCIENCE MAJOR AND A LOT OF ART”

Dentists by day,

at other times

BY GROVE POTTER STILL ILLUSTRATING Every few years, a dental student with artistic skills Dr. Tomb has been at the VA Hospital in Bath, N.Y. for 10 and a sense of humor gets snagged into illustrating the years, following 26 years in private practice. “After 36 years yearbook. And those books seem to be the most memorable, I still enjoy it, and at the VA we do everything,” she said. with comic sketches of students and professors capturing A busy member of the Corning, N.Y., artistic community, the hectic, crazy aspects of the dental school experience. Tomb does illustrations, posters and Christmas cards for Three of those yearbook artists agreed to reprise their community groups. And she has a few of her works efforts for this edition of UB Dentist, to rekindle memories hanging in her office, including an illustration of all the of dental school and perhaps trigger a few smiles from cranial nerves. classmates. Tomb said she has always been artistic, and her Gretta Tomb, ’82, Jeffrey Dolgos, ’96,and Erin Topley, father encouraged her. She went to college planning ’09, each agreed to help illustrate this edition and to share to become an art teacher, but the abstract focus of some of their recollections of school and their experiences the art department didn’t fit her style. “So I kind since graduating. of retreated into the sciences. I ended up with a science major and a lot of art, and I took a year off and somehow I thought of dentistry. I don’t know what made me think of it.”

10 UBDentist SUMMER 2019 JEFF DOLGOS GOT STARTED SKETCHING IN HIGH SCHOOL WHILE NOT PAYING ATTENTION IN CLASS.

GRETTA TOMB IS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ARTISTIC COMMUNITY IN CORNING, NY, AND A DENTIST AT THE VA HOSPITAL IN BATH, NY.

As a student at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Dolgos now has a private practice specializing in TMJ, Medicine, Tomb recalls doodling in class to relieve stress. “I had facial pain and airway problems, like sleep apnea. a great class. I enjoyed it, actually, although it was hard. But I’m (Fanelli is a dentist in Utica.) still close to a lot of my classmates. And I loved Buffalo. I have a Dolgos said he doodles occasionally very soft spot for the city of Buffalo. I’m a big Bills fan.” now, but as a pianist and guitar player, Although Tomb says drawing comics “isn’t my strong he more often turns to music and point,” looking over her senior yearbook she’s surprised at songwriting as a creative outlet. how many sketches she did. “I don’t know how I found time His sketching started in high to do that. I don’t remember doing them.” school. “In my high school yearbook I sketched some of the teachers. So it ANNUAL ‘FANELLI-FEST’ PARTIES started with me not paying attention in class and drawing teachers.” Ask Jeff Dolgos about drawing in dental school and In dental school, the drawing was you’re sure to hear about the annual “Fanelli-fest” parties. definitely an outlet. “Everything was “When I was in dental school, I started drawing one of pretty serious. You don’t want to my classmates and that turned into this big thing,” Dolgos fail out. You’re putting a lot of time said. “Every year, we had a party called ‘Fanelli-fest’ and money into it, so the sketching because his name was Mike Fanelli and I used to draw was a creative release for me, in cartoons of him.” “IN DENTAL SCHOOL, WE WERE CONSTANTLY INUNDATED WITH TESTS, QUIZZES AND PRACTICALS ...USING HUMOR AS A RELEASE HELPED ME GET THROUGH.”

ERIN TOPLEY’S ART WORK HANGS THROUGHOUT FIVE PUBLIC HEALTH CLINICS IN MINNESOTA, WHERE SHE WORKS.

addition to playing music and some intramural sports, like other providers are unable or unwilling to see,” and her basketball and softball.” sketching does provide a release. Dolgos said he may get back to drawing to illustrate the “It’s been a hobby of mine since I was a young child. And next edition of a workbook for patients with TMJ problems when I got into high school, I got into editorial cartooning that he wrote. “A patient came in and said it needs more for my school newspaper. I actually won numerous regional pictures. I think for the next edition of the book I need to and national awards for it,” she said. “In dental school, we get into some illustrations to show people physical therapy were constantly inundated with tests, quizzes and practicals. exercise positions.” Two of his four children are artistic, so It was an overwhelming workload and using humor as a he said he may ask them for help. release helped me get through. It was cathartic.” She collected her dental school comics into a self- DENTAL CHAIR HUMOR published book entitled ‘Decalcified – Enamel Gone Wrong,’ a hilarious look at life in and around the dental chair. Comics created by Erin Topley are on the walls of five As a dental student, Topley said she would sketch public health clinics in Minnesota where she works. The Dentists By Day, Comic Artists at Other Times Other Artists at Comic Day, By Dentists while listening to lectures, stop to take notes, and resume dental cartoons tend to brighten people’s moods and can be sketching. “It works. I’m listening to what is going on, but conversation starters. I can still sketch in the background.” “I work in an office of about 200 people,” she said. “We This year’s Buffalo Niagara Dental Meeting will also be have 26 operatories, it’s rather large. I have decorated Topley’s 10th reunion, and she is planning to attend. the children’s education room, the waiting rooms, the “I’m looking forward to seeing my classmates again,” bathrooms. My work has been subtly placed all around.” she said. At the clinics, Topley, a new mother of twins, UBD subspecializes in taking care of “challenging children who

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Family members of Samuel A. free dental services monthly to the Caccamise, ’26, have gathered together Trappist Monks at their monastery in to honor their father by giving a Piffard, New York for 25 years.” significant gift to name an operatory The family’s aim in choosing to name after him. an operatory in their father’s name is to “Our father, Dr. Samuel A. Caccamise honor the memory of his dedication, was affectionately known by his patients compassion and giving for over 40 years as Dr. “Sam” and demonstrated the of dentistry in the Rochester community. highest levels of ethical values and Dr. Caccamise helped thousands of humanity,” remembers daughter Doreen people and dozens of civic, charitable Conners. “During the Great Depression and religious organizations. Honoring with a growing family of his own, he felt His four surviving children are June a moral obligation to provide dental Baker, Gwen Conners, David Caccamise their father, services for his patients even though he and Doreen Conners. Carrying on the knew many lacked the ability to pay him. family dental tradition is nephew Daniel Dr. Samuel A. In later years, he recalled that “he had a Caccamise, ’60 and grandson, Mark waiting room full of patients and not a Conners, ’89, both graduates of UB Caccamise nickel in the crowd.” Also, he provided School of Dental Medicine. UBD

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SUMMER 2019 UBDentist 13 Oral Diagnostic Sciences

The department of t was created in 1994 through the merger of the departments of Oral Medicine and Stomatology & Oral Diagnostic Sciences, Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIS). As Heidi Crow, MS Oral Sci., ’91, Orofac Pain Cert., ’91, associate now 25 years old, is so professor and department chair reflects, “It’s Iremarkable we all get along given all the varied interests in much more than oral medicine, oral radiology, oral pathology, TMD/orofacial pain and biomaterials that must be balanced and supported.” its name suggests. The origins of the department were tied tightly to local hospitals. Willard (Scott) McCall, professor and former chair, recalls the hospital relationship in the early years. “Stuart Fischman, Oral Path Cert., ’66, was running the general practice residency (GPR) at Erie County Medical Center and Alan Drinnan, ’64, Oral Path Cert., ’66, was doing the same at Buffalo General Hospital. Later the merger of three hospitals into Kaleida Health was a particularly

14 UBDentist SUMMER 2019 HEIDI CROW WILLARD (SCOTT) MCCALL MAUREEN DONLEY PATRICK ANDERS

contentious period with power struggles between service Oral Sci., 95, Orofac Pain Cert., ’96, Perio Cert., ’02), oral chiefs.” Faculty also had a presence at the other medical radiology (Maureen Donley, ’80, Anne Meyer), biomaterials centers, either being on staff or teaching in the GPR (Meyer), and dentistry for special needs (Anders), and programs. Specifics of these hospital associations have geriatric patients (Albert Cantos, ’81). “We have several changed over the years, but faculty still remain active with faculty also on the curriculum revision committee, and are Alfonse Gambacorta, ’97, GPR Cert., ’98 at Kaleida Health, well-poised to move into more case-based teaching,” Crow Nicole Hinchy, ’12, at ECMC and Guy DiTursi, ’86, at Veterans says. “Already the faculty have worked to reduce Administration Memorial Hospital. Crow herself is at redundancy, added small group seminars and created Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center leading our training videos to enhance student learning.” co-sponsorship of the GPR program. “A major contribution of the department during the past There are fewer hospital dentistry rotations for dental 25 years was the introduction of digital dentistry to the students now, but the patient population in Squire Hall school through oral radiology under the leadership of clinics has changed significantly to one with more chronic Maureen Donley, clinical associate professor,” Crow says. disease and a much higher pharmaceutical use. This Donley oversaw the transformation of radiology from film prompted the first chair of the merged department,Norman to digital processing in her role as Director of Radiology. Mohl, ’56, to bring faculty from the hospitals, like Di Tursi, This work included software feature adjustments, hands-on Raymond Miller, ’85, GPR Cert., ’86, Patrick Anders, ’86, workshops and calibration for faculty, development of GPR Cert., ’87, Joseph Capuana, ’79, GPR Cert., ’80, and monitor calibration tools, and researching new equipment Nora Townsend, ’81, GPR Cert., ’82, to teach in the clinics in resulting in the purchase of a digital panoramic (pan) Squire now joining Elizabeth Kapral, ’13, and Joel Paull, ’68. cephalometric unit with transverse slice acquisition feature, “We are teaching students now how to safely treat patients 2 digital pan units, a digital pan/cephalometric unit, a that 20 years ago would never have been a teaching case,” medium field view Cone Beam CT and a combination Cone says Anders, clinical professor and former Director of the Beam CT/digital pan unit. Besides managing the almost 50 Kaleida GPR. “The closure of several GPR programs has pieces of equipment and radiology staffing, she directs the exacerbated this.” bulk of the clinical courses in radiology with contributions The department faculty have significant didactic and from Graci Bax, ’05, Joseph DeLuca, ’07, Amy Gallo, ’05, clinical teaching across all four years of the pre-doctoral Gambacorta, Hinchy, and Vallikanthan Nadarajah, ’99, MS curriculum directing courses in areas as varied as critical Oral Sci., ’95, AEGD Cert., ’00. “Working here I learn thinking (Elaine Davis), oral medicine (Anders), oral something new everyday and I get to share it with the pathology (Jose Luis Tapia, ’12, Oral Path Cert., ’03, MS Oral students. They are the reason I love to teach in the clinic. It’s Sci., ‘03), orofacial pain (Yoly Gonzalez-Stucker, ’05, MS a great reward to be able to watch their progress. Helping

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ALFREDO AGUIRRE ELAINE DAVIS

PICTURED ARE SOME OF THE ODS FACULTY MEMBERS.

GUY DITURSI JOSEPH DELUCA MICHAEL HATTON

them become better clinicians makes me a better clinician,” Donley reflects. The ODS department also has a significant presence in advanced education with three programs directed by faculty: Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology— Alfredo Aguirre, ’01, MS Oral Sci, ’83, Oral Path Cert., ’83, Professor; Orofacial Pain—Yoly Gonzalez-Stucker, Associate Professor; Biomaterials—Anne Meyer, Research Associate Professor. Michael Glick is contributing to curriculum in The department evidence-based dentistry and critical thinking for graduate students and dental professionals. works as a team. The faculty are also heavily involved in research People just jump in mentoring and didactic teaching in the oral sciences to work as a team.” curriculum, particularly Elaine Davis and Scott McCall who direct required core courses. PATRICK ANDERS The MS Oral Sciences program was created by Norman Mohl to provide a core curriculum in research training that could apply across all disciplines. The most recent addition in advanced education, the orofacial pain program, began as a research focus in 1978, grew into a training program and was recognized with accreditation in 2011 under the direction of Crow. It is one of only 12 programs in the U.S. In addition to Crow and Gonzalez, the program has been supported by Jeffery Goldberg, ’03, MS Oral Sci., ’13, TMD Cert., ’13, and Seiji Ohtake, and the research efforts of McCall and Richard Ohrbach, MS Oral Sci., ’89, Orofac Pain Cert.,’89, professor, who has a lengthy history of NIH funded research. Whether basic, clinical or educational, research and scholarship have been key components of the department’s mission. Early interests of Joseph Natiella, Oral Path Cert., ’68,

16 UBDentist SUMMER 2019 Oral Diagnostic Sciences Oral Diagnostic Sciences

RAYMOND MILLER JOSE LUIS TAPIA ALFONSE GAMBACORTA

ANNE MEYER MIRZDA NEIDERS RICHARD OHRBACH YOLY GONZALEZ-STUCKER

and Michael Meenaghan, ’67, Oral Path Cert., ’72, in the Miller in forensic dentistry, has been really impressive,” area of implant dentistry and integration of materials with Crow states proudly. oral tissues brought Robert Baier and later Anne Meyer to So what’s next? Crow answers, “These are challenging UB resulting in a broadening of research to understand the times. Budgetarily, we are in survival mode, but we need surface dynamics at the interface of materials and host more than ever before to educate students for practice in an tissue. A strong early focus on identifying and documenting environment where they will see patients with more medical cases of oral pathology by George Greene, Alan Drinnan, complications. We need to focus on differential diagnosis Mirzda Neiders, Perio Cert., ’74, clinical professor and and treatment of orofacial diseases and disorders. Patients others, and extended by Aguirre and Tapia has resulted in are more than their mouths. Patient assessment and one of the finest collections of cases in the world. Aguirre treatment planning must be based not only on the patient’s also created the Bulletin Board of Oral Pathology, BBOP, an dental needs, but also on their medical, physical, behavioral internationally respected forum for oral pathology case and social situations.” discussion. Alan Ruttenberg with expertise in bioinfomatics “Treating special needs patients also must be more of a and ontology is Director of Clinical and Translational Data focus. We need a clinical facility here at the school equipped Exchange. Health education and services research is the for sedation,” says Anders, a founding member of the New newest area of focus. Systematic reviews are being York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental conducted on assessment of critical thinking skills in Disabilities Task Force on Special Dentistry. Good news on dentistry by Anders, Davis, and McCall. Scholarship on the that front as the School recently received word of a capital mode and effectiveness of glucose monitoring, infection investment from UB to create such a clinic. control and AIDS testing in the dental school environment With such diversity of interests, how can a department has been a focus of Michael Hatton, ’82, MS Oral Sci., ’86, move forward? “I and past chairs have given people room to GPR Cert., ’88, Oral Maxillofac Surg Cert., ’88, clinical do their jobs, allowed space to do their jobs,” Crow says. “We professor, Anders and Davis. Anders has been working have regular seminars where faculty present what they are collaboratively with faculty from the School of Nursing to working on. And there are regular meetings, sometimes implement interprofessional education and practice, raucous but not hostile, sometimes agreeing to disagree.” training nurses and nurse practitioners to work together “The faculty in the department were really cooperative,” with dentists and to do oral health assessments with the goal says McCall about his time as chair. Anders chimes in, of screening large numbers of people for oral disease. “In “The department works as a team. People just jump in to addition to the clinical faculty, the scholarship of the work as a team.” part-time faculty, including Lakshmannan Suresh, Oral Diversity. Inclusiveness. Team work. Success for Path Cert., ’05, MS Oral Sci., ’06, in oral pathology and Oral Diagnostic Sciences. Here’s to the next 25 years! UBD

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DOCTOR OF Summar S. Amin Christopher G. Becker tt Farid A. Cumplido DENTAL SURGERY University of California Veterans Administration Medical Woodhull Hospital San Francisco, CA Center Brooklyn, NY ENTERING GENERAL PRACTICE Buffalo, NY RESIDENCY OR ADVANCED Doris Baclija Michael J. DeLucia EDUCATION IN GENERAL St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center Arielle Christine Burkavage Rochester General Hospital DENTISTRY PROGRAMS Hartford, CT Veterans Administration Medical Rochester, NY Center Jesse Joseph Adamson t Amanjyot Kaur Bains ttt Wilkes-Barre, PA Mindy D. Dogmanits U.S. Army-Fort Lewis Community Medical Center University of Rochester Tacoma, WA Fresno, CA Rossana G. Cruciata Rochester, NY Lehigh Valley Health Network Bethlehem, PA

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Alaina M. Doiron Caleb J. Holmes t Dzung H. Le Eli Moradi St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center Rochester General Hospital St. Charles Hospital Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center Syracuse, NY Rochester, NY Port Jefferson, NY Brooklyn, NY

Matthew C. Fenigstein David A. Hornak Hyung Won Lee Josiah J. Most Hartford Hospital U. S. Army-Fort Jackson Erie County Medical Center Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare Hartford, CT Columbia, SC Buffalo, NY New Hartford, NY

Robert S. Ferguson Alisa M. Johnson Gabrielle Maria Leo Eric Michael Niles New York University Langone Health Erie County Medical Center Erie County Medical Center Veterans Affairs Medical Center New York, NY Buffalo, NY Buffalo, NY Albany, NY

Kelsea E. Flannery tt Martina E. Khalek David Anthony Lewis Nina R. Olivieri St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center Harlem Hospital Center Albert Einstein Medical Center Denver Health Care Center Syracuse, NY New York, NY Philadelphia, PA Denver, CO

Janae N. Garofalo tt Rafael Khavis Derek Lin Anokhi A. Patel Veterans Administration Medical University at Buffalo University at Buffalo New York University Center Buffalo, NY Buffalo, NY Langone Health Buffalo, NY Brooklyn, NY Rachel W. Kim Ashleigh M. Maciejewski Francisco Gomez-Chaves Albert Einstein Medical Center Erie County Medical Center Reena Patel Penobscot Community Dental Philadelphia, PA Buffalo, NY Temple University Bangor, ME Philadelphia, PA Christopher D. Klee Michael E. Mackney Peter C. Gonzalez New York University State University of New York Elizabeth A. Patrick New York University Langone Langone Dental Medicine Stony Brook, NY Rhode Island Hospital Roseman University Health Sciences Phoenix, AZ Samuels Sinclair Dental Center South Jordan, UT Vincenzo Giuseppe Marino t Providence, RI Michael D. Kleeman Rochester General Hospital Juliane Elizabeth Harmon New York University Rochester, NY Troy Robinson Erie County Medical Center Langone Dental Medicine SUNY Upstate Medical University Buffalo, NY Phoenix, AZ Lincy Markose University Hospital Ellis Hospital McClellan Campus Syracuse, NY Umair Hassan Ozgur Kocaman Schenectady, NY St. Charles Hospital State University of New York Bradley J. Rogge Port Jefferson, NY Stony Brook, NY David Kenneth Marple t Veterans Administration Hudson Kings County Hospital Center Valley Healthcare System Elizabeth Rose Hatton Jasmin C. Koleini Brooklyn, NY Wappingers Falls, NY Erie County Medical Center Bellevue Hospital Center Buffalo, NY New York, NY Keith P. Mesidor Jenna L. Rogge Veterans Administration Medical Veterans Administration Medical Benjamin Steven Hietanen Brian R. Lawson Center Center Erie County Medical Center New York University Washington, DC Wilkes-Barre, PA Buffalo, NY Langone Dental Medicine Nashville, TN Laura C. Millan Kelsey Lorraine Romanowski Woodhull Hospital Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare Brooklyn, NY New Hartford, NY

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Marc Joseph Salme Aniruddha S. Wagh ENTERING SPECIALTY PROGRAMS Kathleen Reyes Gonzales Sacred Heart Hospital New York University Pediatric Dentistry Residency Jasmin Aiman Abdel-Malek Allentown, PA Langone Dental Medicine Cohen Children’s Medical Center of Pediatric Dentistry Residency Phoenix, AZ New York, Long Island Jewish Montefiore Medical Center Drew A. Satnick New Hyde Park, NY Einstein College of Medicine New York Presbyterian Simon H. Weinstein Bronx, NY Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Kings County Hospital Center Paul A. Herrmann Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn, NY Periodontics Residency Uzma Adnan University at Buffalo Pediatric Fellowship Krunal Shah Jamal T. Wells Buffalo, NY Nationwide Children’s Hospital Veterans Administration Medical Erie County Medical Center Columbus, OH Center Buffalo, NY Elizabeth Ashley Lenchner Philadelphia, PA Pediatric Dentistry Residency Reeya R. Boolchandani Graham David Whinery University at Buffalo Pediatric Dentistry Residency Alexander Joseph Sikora t St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center Buffalo, NY Children’s National Health System University of Cincinnati Medical Syracuse, NY Washington, DC Center Ariana Christine Mendel Cincinnati, OH Jasper K. Wu t Prosthodontics Residency Connor M. Capobianco tt Veterans Administration Medical University at Buffalo Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Inderbir Singh Center Buffalo, NY Residency Montefiore Medical Center Buffalo, NY Thomas Jefferson University Hospital New York, NY Dylan G. Racha t Philadelphia, PA Jiwon Jay Yoon t Oral Surgery Residency Ryan David Smith Veterans Administration Medical Louisiana State University Health Sean D. Challenger U. S. Army Center New Orleans, LA Pediatric Dentistry Residency Fort Campbell, KY San Antonio, TX State University of New York Lubomyr Ravlyk tt Stony Brook, NY Mark A. Tardugno t Sumra Zaidi Orthodontics Residency SUNY Upstate Medical University Swedish Medical Center University at Buffalo Eun Jung Cho t University Hospital Seattle, WA Buffalo, NY Pediatric Dentistry Residency Syracuse, NY University of Illinois Hadjer Sahraoui t Chicago, IL Robinson Vega LEGEND Prosthodontics Residency University at Buffalo University of Texas Health Adrian Farsaii Buffalo, NY Science Center Orthodontics Residency San Antonio, TX t CUM LAUDE Montefiore Medical Center Haani Mohammed S. Virjee tt MAGNA CUM LAUDE Ellis Hospital McClellan Campus Einstein College of Medicine ttt SUMMA CUM LAUDE Schenectady, NY Bronx, NY

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Michael Robert Simon t Juhi Dilipkumar Hirpara DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ORAL SCIENCES Prosthodontics Residency Chicago, IL State University of New York ORAL BIOLOGY Hajar Abdulaziz Albanyan, BDS Amir Ali Karimi Stony Brook, NY “In vitro evaluation of virulence Potomac, MD Andrew Ying Hui Ng, BS characteristics of lipopolysaccha- Taylor B. Squires tt Jai Krishna Srikanth Kolliboyana “Decoding the osteoclast proteome ride from two different clinical Orthodontics Residency Peoria, IL and the novel RGS12 function in strains of Tannerella forsythia” University of Rochester redox biology” Major Professor: Ashu Sharma, PhD Yating Luo Eastman Institute for Oral Health Major Professor: Jun Qu, PhD Vancouver, BC, Canada Rochester, NY Hajer Ali I Aldulaijan, BDS Nitender Kumar t Ornella Mafalda Salvatori, DDS “Periodontitis severity and its Cincinnati, OH “Factors affecting Candida albicans association with hypothyroidism” ENTERING PRIVATE PRACTICE survival within phagocytic cells Major Professor: Lisa Yerke, DDS, MS Neha S. Patel Major Professors: Mira Edgerton, Bergen County, NJ Ahmed Tarek Almetwally Abdelaal tt DDS, PhD and Jason G. Kay, PhD Hazar Saad T Alharbi, BDS Rhode Island Parthiv B. Patel tt “Levels of monocyte/macrophages Dayton, OH differentiation cytokine IL34 in a Mounika Akula MASTER’S DEGREES mouse model of Sjögrens syndrome” Orlando, FL Yonathan Pevzner Major Professor: Jason G. Kay, PhD Austin, TX Omar Albasha BIOMATERIALS Bridgewater, NJ Prejith Philip Varghese Saleh Sami S Aloraini, BDS Abilene, TX Aya Ahmed Gneady Ali, BDS “Comparing interactions of Shaimaa Baqai “Effect of glow-discharge commercial and pathogenic oral Frederick, MD Diorgis Manuel Sarmiento treatment of materials” microbes with phagocytic cells” Palm Bay, FL Chayanika Bhattacharjya Major Professor: Anne Meyer, PhD Major Professor: Jason G. Kay, PhD Massachusetts Ammar Fawzi Shano Jacksonville, FL Khaled Mohamad Katmeh, BDS Maram Alsantli, BDS Mitchell Lynwood Cardillo “Non-contact optical correlations “Streptococcus gordonii binding to Southington, CT Christian Silva Silveira with periodontal treatment” dental biofilm components: role Fort Lauderdale, FL Vidya Cuddalore Arivudainambi t Major Professor: Anne Meyer, PhD of different adhesins” Toronto, ON, Canada Smita Singhal t Major Professor: Pennsylvania Alejandra Flores Arellano Stefan H. Ruhl, DDS, PhD Big Spring, TX Ambar Tripathi Maha Talal Y Alsharif, BDS Canada Niraj Gadhavi “In vitro comparison of four bone- Essex County, NJ Manogna Deepthi Yakasiri height-measurement techniques” Mount Vernon, I Hamidreza Ghorbaniparvar Major Professor: Frank A. Los Angeles, CA Educator of Scannapieco, DMD, PhD the Year – Shahad Bakheet A Alsharif, BDS Patrick Battista “Development of strontium alginate Illustration by Erin Topley scaffold to improve gingival fibroblast function” Major Professor: Michelle B. Visser, PhD

Tariq Aqili, BDS “Biocompatibility of MTA mixed with human platelet lysate” Major Professor: Rosemary Dziak, PhD

Nadia Abdulaziz M Basha, BDS “The effects of vitamin D metabolites on titanium surfaces” Major Professor: Rosemary Dziak, PhD

Manab Muhammadsaleh T Benten, BDS “Relationship between oral behaviors and jaw functional limitation for individuals with painful temporomandibular disorders” Major Professor: Yoly Gonzalez-Stucker, DDS, MS

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Gyula L. Forgo, DMD Paige Erika Covington Riddle, DDS ENDODONTICS PROSTHODONTICS “Comparison of titanium disinfection “Mechanobehavior and methods” mandibular posterior vertical Saif Kargoli, DDS Gyula L. Forgo, DMD Major Professor: height in adults of different Majd Bakheet A Alsharif, BDS Daniel Andrew Pinto, DDS Violet I. Haraszthy, DDS, PhD facial types” Major Professor: Mariel Webber, DDS Donna Katherine Scott, DDS Dalia Mohammed M Nourah, BDS R. Scott Conley, DDS “The effect of insulin-like growth ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL TEMPOROMANDIBULAR factor-2 and chromeceptin on Dina A. Shibeika, DDS PATHOLOGY DISORDERS AND OROFACIAL PAIN osteoblast cells” “The correlation between upper Major Professor: body length and the vertical face Yaser Ali H Alhazmi, BDS Manab Muhammadsaleh T Rosemary Dziak, PhD dimension in growing individuals” Benten, BDS Major Professor: Daniel Andrew Pinto, DDS Thikriat Al-Jewair, DDS, MS ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL “Evaluation of the shear bond strength SURGERY of denture base materials to polymer Khaled Taha, BDS Neel Patel, DMD, MD and CoCr RPD framework material” “Effects of vibrational appliances Major Professor: on orthodontic tooth movement Billy B. Laun, II, DDS Hyeongil Kim, DDS, MS and perceived pain. A prospective randomized clinical trial” HONORS Mahmoud Talal M Tallab, BDS Major Professor: ORTHODONTICS FOR FACULTY “A mechanistic approach for clinical Thikriat Al-Jewair, DDS, MS translation of photobiomodulation Ghadeer Khaled I Abubotain, BDS therapy in peri-implantitis Sami Tawila, BDS James Milton Fraser II, DDS management” “Upper airway dimensions in adult Kevin Michael Kurtzner, DDS Major Professor: Praveen Arany, PhD African patients treated with four first premolar extraction” Paige Erika Covington Riddle, DDS Rofida Abdulsattar M Wali, BDS Major Professor: Dina A. Shibeika, DDS “Development of strontium-alginate Thikriat Al-Jewair, DDS, MS scaffolds to improve gingival Khaled Taha, BDS fibroblast function” Sami Tawila, BDS Major Professor: POSTGRADUATE Michelle B. Visser, PhD CERTIFICATES1 PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY ORTHODONTICS ADVANCED EDUCATION IN GENERAL DENTISTRY Robert Garfield Cox, DDS Ghadeer Khaled I Abubotain, BDS Carly Greene, DMD “A retrospective CBCT study of the Abdulaziz Saud A Albabtain, BDS maxillary sinus dimensions and David A. Hallenback, DDS Akash Bansal, DMD pneumatization in adults with Hai Hyunh, DMD Class II skeletal anterior open bite” Lawrence L. Cronyn, DDS Joseph Johnson, DMD Major Professor: Robert A. Davis, DDS Thikriat Al-Jewair, DDS, MS Patrick Anthony Micaroni, DDS Hina Desai, DDS Vineela Redla, BDS James Milton Fraser II, DDS Chelsea M. Gerace, DDS “Alveolar bone thickness and incisor Joel Williams, DDS position: A CBCT Analysis” Courtney Nosak, DDS Major Professor: Sara Josephine Perrone, DDS David A. Covell Jr., DDS, PhD PERIODONTICS Rofida Abdulsattar M Wali, BDS Majd Sameer Mohammad Hajer Ali I Aldulaijan, BDS Hasanin, BDS Khaled Mohamad Katmeh, BDS “A CBCT assessment of craniofacial morphology malocclusion and airway in orthodontic patients with ADHD” Major Professor: Thikriat Al-Jewair, DDS, MS

Kevin Michael Kurtzner, DDS “A longitudinal study of the effects ® of Invisalign treatment on upper 1 DEAN ZAMBON WITH ANNE MEYER pharyngeal airway dimensions in RECEIVING THE CHARLES S. LIPANI adult patients with Class II AWARD. 2 THE RICHARD A. POWELL malocclusion: A CBCT pilot study” AWARD WENT TO SAMIR EL- Major Professor: CHEHABI, ’81. 3 WILLIAM M. FEAGANS AWARDEE, DR. FERDINAND G. Thikriat Al-Jewair, DDS, MS RUOCCO, ’86.

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SDM 2019 SENIOR AWARDS

Academy of Dentistry for Persons with American College of Dentists Outstanding Disabilities Award Student Leader Award Rafael Khavis Kelsea E. Flannery

Academy of General Dentistry Award American College of Mitchell Lynwood Cardillo Prosthodontists Award Michael Robert Simon Academy of Operative Dentistry Award Krunal Shah American Dental Society of Anesthesiology Award-Horace Wells Senior Student Academy of Osseointegration Award Award Michael D. Kleeman Nina R. Olivieri

Dr. Joseph A. Accardo Eighth District American Student Dental Association Dental Society Award Award of Excellence Ashleigh M. Maciejewski Jesse Joseph Adamson

Alpha Omega Fraternity Award Barrett Foundation Award Taylor B. Squires Taylor B. Squires

American Academy of Braessler USA Award Esthetic Dentistry Award Mark A. Tardugno Eun Jung Cho Eleanor Bushee Award International College of Dentists Student Humanitarian Award American Academy of Implant Elizabeth A. Patrick Dentistry Award Marc Joseph Salme Ariana Christine Mendel James Collord Memorial Award International Congress of Oral Eun Jung Cho American Academy of Oral and Implantologists Award Maxillofacial Radiology Award Dean’s Award Caleb J. Holmes Rossana G. Cruciata Eric Michael Niles Edwin C. Jauch Award Omicron Kappa Upsilon Research Award American Academy of Delta Dental Student Award for Krunal Shah Michael Robert Simon Oral Medicine Award Leadership Donald Kozlowski Memorial Award Omicron Kappa Upsilon Elizabeth Rose Hatton Rachel W. Kim Dr. Lata Shenoy Award David Anthony Lewis American Academy of Orofacial Pain Delta Sigma Delta Award Shaimaa Baqai Robert B. Levine Award Peter C. Gonzalez Diorgis Manuel Sarmiento Pediatric and Community Dentistry Rafael Khavis Department Award American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Dental Alumni Award New York State Association of Mindy D. Dogmanits Certificate of Merit Predoctoral Student Aniruddha S. Wagh Endodontists Award Award Richard A. Powell Award Reeya R. Boolchandani Dentsply Sirona Merit Award in Remov- Dzung H. Le able Prosthodontics Amir Ali Karimi New York State Society of Oral and American Academy of Periodontology Jasper K. Wu Quintessence Awards Award Maxillofacial Surgeons Student Award Research Achievement: Paul A. Herrmann Erie County Dental Society Chester A. Connor M. Capobianco Glor Award Omar Albasha The Northeastern Society of American Association of Endodontists David Kenneth Marple Restorative Dentistry: Award Periodontists Award Hadjer Sahraoui Matthew C. Fenigstein Dr. Marshall Fagin Prosthodontic Award Caleb J. Holmes Periodontics: Sumra Zaidi Ariana Christine Mendel American Association of Oral and Omicron Kappa Upsilon Award Lester Schatz Memorial Award Maxillofacial Surgeons Award The Pierre Fauchard Academy Award Ahmed Tarek Almetwally Abdelaal Hamidreza Ghorbaniparvar David A. Hornak Janae N. Garofalo Jesse Joseph Adamson Amanjyot Kaur Bains George B. Snow Awards Fonzi Dental Study Club, Anthony S. American Association of Oral and Christopher G. Becker Complete Prosthesis: Jasper K. Wu Maxillofacial Surgeons Implant Award Gugino Humanitarian Award Connor M. Capobianco Fixed Prosthesis: Lubomyr Ravlyk Vincenzo Giuseppe Marino & Dylan Christopher G. Becker Eun Jung Cho The Harvey D. Sprowl Award G. Racha Victor A. Fumia Award Kelsea E. Flannery Shaimaa Baqai American Association of Orthodontists Rafael Khavis Janae N. Garofalo Caleb J. Holmes St. Apollonia Guild Dental Student Lubomyr Ravlyk Hanau Prosthodontics Award Parthiv B. Patel Service Award American Association of David Anthony Lewis Lubomyr Ravlyk David A. Hornak Public Health Dentistry Award International College of Dentists Award Alexander Joseph Sikora Elizabeth Ashley Lenchner Student Affairs Recognition Award Neha S. Patel Taylor B. Squires Krunal Shah

SUMMER 2019 UBDentist 23 School of Dental Medicine Office of Continuing Dental Education CE course calendar SEPT 19–20 NOV 8 UB IMPLANT STUDY WEDNESDAY EVENING (9 A.M. TO 4 P.M.) (9 A.M. TO 4 P.M.) CLUB 2019–2020 LECTURE SERIES THURSDAYS (6 TO 9 P.M.) (6 TO 9 P.M.) HANDS-ON WORKSHOP HANDS-ON WORKSHOP Stress-Free Endodontics Understanding 3D Printing SEPT 12 Intraoral Scanner OCT 9 TBA Adham Abdel Azim, BDS in Dentistry Hands-on (members only) OCT 23 You and Your Patients’ UB School of Dental Medicine Lee Kalman, DDS Terry Reilly Medications ALUMNI MEMBER: $995 UB School of Dental Medicine OCT 17 Robotic Implant Sebastian Ciancio, DDS NONMEMBER DENTIST $1195 Surgery ALUMNI MEMBER: $395 NOV 13 “Oh No, You Didn’t”... Limited Enrollment NONMEMBER DENTIST: $495 Donald Pitcher, DDS, Oral ALL OTHERS: $125 Maxillofacial Surgery Cert. Why Patients Keep Breaking 12 CE HRS Restorations Limited Enrollment NOV 21 Hitting the Target: John Maggio, DDS 12 CE HRS The History, Outcome and OCT 25 Outlook for Guided Implant Baldy Hall, Room 200G, UB Surgery North Campus (live lecture) (9 A.M. TO 4 P.M.) DEC 20 Paul Mozer, DDS, MS Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Distance learing sites: (9 A.M. TO 4 P.M.) DEC 19 Review of Bone Binghamton, Canton, James- Case Workshop Grafting Techniques town, Norwich, Watertown Jill Kramer, DDS, PhD HANDS-ON CADAVER LAB Sebastiano Andreana, DDS, MS TUITION: $65 (BUF) Jose Luis Tapia, MS, DDS Bone Grafting Techniques SPRING 2020 TENTATIVE Distance learning surcharge UB School of Dental Medicine Charles Severin, MD, PhD DATES: FEB. 20, MAR. 19, applies, please contact site. ALUMNI MEMBER: $395 Sebastiano Andreana, DDS, MS APR. 23, MAY 21 NONMEMBER DENTIST: $495 UB Jacobs School of Medicine NOW AVAILABLE AS SELF-STUDY ALL OTHERS: $125 UB School of Dental Medicine ON-LINE ($45). WATCH LIVE OR and Biomedical Sciences, UB AT YOUR LEISURE UP TO 7 DAYS Limited Enrollment South Campus IMPLANT STUDY CLUB RETURNING AFTER LECTURE. 12 CE HRS UB DENTAL ALUMNI OR IMPLANT MEMBERS: $995 STUDY CLUB MEMBER: $1195 3 CE HRS ANNUAL NEW MEMBERSHIP FEE: NONMEMBER DENTIST: $1495 $1395 STAFF (AUDIT ONLY): $225

SINGLE MEETING NONMEMBER Limited Enrollment FEE: $225, LIMITED ENROLLMENT 9 CE HRS

3 CE HRS/MEETING COURSE REGISTRATION Confirmation notice will be emailed upon receipt of your tuition payment.

TO REGISTER PHONE: (716) 829-2320 Annamarie Phalen Toll-free (800) 756-0328 Associate Director, ONLINE: Complete Continuing Dental Education course details and online registration available on the UB dental events course calendar at BuffaloCE.org

24 UBDentist SUMMER 2019 TRAVEL COURSES Travel opportunities with UB and through collaborations with other university dental schools. Please reference UB!

Marquette University School of Dentistry CE LAND TOUR TO PORTUGAL October 25–November 2, 2019

CE Program–Dr. Denis Lynch, Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Marquette University School of Dentistry, and Professor of Dermatology and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin; Dentist/Doctor: $495, 12 CE HRS. Lecture Topics: Oral cancer and related premalignancy: Big tobacco’s dirty little secret about ‘safe’ alternatives to cigarettes. Diagnosis and treatment of recurrent oral ulcers, or, if I knew I was going to see this stuff, I would have studied it harder in school. Infectious hazards in dentistry, or, What you never thought you’d have to worry about after you passed national boards. Spit happens (and sometimes it doesn’t): The diagnosis and treatment of salivary gland disease.

Tour Highlights: • Tuk Tuk Lisbon City Tour • Saint George Castle • Sintra Palace • Portuguese Cooking Experience • Obidos and the Douro Valley • Minho and Braga

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UB*CDE is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. UB*CDE designates these activities for continuing education credits. Updated 7/11/19 All information correct as of press time…UB CDE reserves the right to change tuition, dates, topics and/or speakers as necessary.

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October Brings the 42nd Annual Buffalo Niagara Dental Meeting

Mark your calendars and complimentary door-to-door, park plan to attend the 42nd Annual & ride shuttle bus service. Park at Buffalo Niagara Dental Meeting Buffalo Riverworks and we’ll drop on October 2–4, 2019 at the you off at the front doors of the Buffalo Niagara Convention Buffalo Niagara Convention Center. Pre-registration is ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Center. This premier dental event SUPPORTS TOURNAMENT has continued to stay strong and required, so sign up early to steady while attendance at dental reserve your seat. No more The UB Dental Alumni Association served meetings around the world are parking hassles or fees! refreshments at their sponsored Tee Table at vastly declining. If you or your company would the 2019 William C. Knauf, Jr. Memorial Golf We kickoff the meeting with a like to be a sponsor of the Buffalo Tournament on Thursday, June 6, 2019 at the “Smile in the Aisle” party on Niagara Dental Meeting, please Fox Valley Country Club in Lancaster, NY. Wednesday, October 2, 2019 from contact Sherry Szarowski at: 5:30–8:00 pm. Your entire dental (716) 829-6419. office is invited to attend our Each year we strive to bring celebration on the exhibit floor. our attendees engaging speakers Mingle with friends and colleagues, and courses to attract dental visit with exhibitors, all while professionals from all areas of enjoying appetizers, cocktails, dentistry: dentists, hygienists, and listening to live music by the dental assistants, office managers dental band Central Groove. and staff. Robert E. Marx, DDS, New this year, we will have a will present on behalf of the “Money Booth” on the exhibit Robert J. Genco Distinguished floor. Attendees will have the Speaker Series; Van B. Haywood, opportunity to win a chance to DMD, will speak on Smile step inside the “Money Booth” and Analysis, Recontouring and win CASH and prizes! Composite Bonding; Laura Hatch Back by popular demand, will teach you how to Build a Team attendees will once again have a that Rocks! Teresa Duncan shares HEALTH SCIENCES chance to win a BMW Spa and Spin her Dental Insurance in a Day APPRECIATION NIGHT Weekend Lease courtesy of Towne program, and Amber Riley, MS, AT THE BALLPARK BMW. Towne BMW will wash and RDH, will speak on Practical Oral UB Dental Alumni attended the Buffalo detail your personal vehicle while Pathology for the Dental Team. Bisons game hosted by Randall Loftus, MD you take their BMW for a ride! All Visit our website: BNDMeeting. ’92 and Mrs. Tami Loftus on Tuesday, June you need to do is visit 10 exhibitors com for a complete list of all 18, 2019 at Sahlen Field. Everyone enjoyed (including our sponsors) and have speakers, course descriptions and food and drinks during the game and saw your Car Pass checked. biographies. a fantastic firework show post-game. Need a lift to the meeting? We really do offer something Returning this year is our for everyone. Hope to see you there!

26 UBDentist SUMMER 2019 REUNION Buffalo Hosts SCHEDULE OF EVENTS The New York Celebrating the UB Dental Classes of 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, State Dental 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014.

Remember When Reception Association Hyatt Regency Sungarden Thursday, October 3, 2019 5:30–7:00 pm Meeting Business Casual Attire/ Complimentary for Reunion Classes The New York State Dental Association (NYSDA) held its Reunion Dinner Dance annual meeting in downtown Hyatt Regency Ballroom Friday, October 4, 2019 Buffalo at the Hyatt Regency 6:30 pm cocktails from June 6th through June 8th 7:30 pm dinner Black Tie Optional/Tickets cost $100 each and this year. The meeting is held once can be purchased by calling (716) 829-2061. every thirteen years in the Eighth District Dental Society, which covers Western New York. NYSDA has 12,500 member dentists from throughout UB School of Dental Medicine Tour the state and has been in existence for over 150 years. Dr. Brendan Dowd Meet in the Lobby of Squire Hall Saturday, October 5, 2019 completed his year as President and had the honor of giving the oath 10:00–11:30 am to the new President, Dr. Payam Goudarzi. Dr. Dowd is a 1986 graduate of the University of Buffalo School of Dental Medicine and Dr. Goudarzi UB Bulls Football Game and Pre-party graduated from UBSDM in 1996. UB Arena Saturday, October 5, 2019 NYSDA’s House of Delegates, which consists of 102 Delegates, deliberated Limited Tickets Available— Call (716) 829-2061 to reserve your seat. for two days on many of the issues that affect the profession of dentistry in New York State. Delegates also enjoyed a welcome event at the Pierce Arrow Museum,the Wm. Knauf golf tournament at Fox Valley Country Club, REUNION CHAIR LIST and a celebration to conclude the meeting at the Statler City Hotel. 1959 Dr. Paul A. Kendall Dr. Norman A. Roswick 1964 Dr. James W. Olson Dr. James T. Strychalski Dr. Ronald F. Zielin 1969 Dr. Peter C. Procopio 1974 Dr. Joseph J. Zambon Dr. Walter T. Zimdahl 1979 Dr. Charles W. Kohout Dr. Charles A. Marchetta 1984 Dr. Priscilla J. Adams Dr. John V. Lucchese Jr. Dr. Beth E. Reilly Dr. Louis J. Schiumo 1989 Dr. John N. Athans Jr. Dr. H. Sonny Spera 1994 Dr. Deborah A. Wisholek-Fischer 1999 Dr. Christopher W. Amadori Dr. Thomas M. Scibor Dr. Matthew R. Young 2004 Dr. Kristen M. Alexander DR. BRENDAN DOWD AND NYS ASSEMBLYMEMBER CRYSTAL D. PEOPLES-STOKES 1 Dr. Ryann M. Bevilacqua, DEDICATING THE PLAQUE COMMEMORATING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ADA IN Dr. Amanda M. Cryan NIAGARA FALLS IN 1859; OUTGOING NYSDA PRESIDENT BRENDAN DOWD, ’86 WITH 2 2009 Dr. Leah M. Capozzi DR. CHAD GEHANI, ADA PRESIDENT-ELECT AND WIFE, DR. REHKA GEHANI, CHAIR OF Dr. Andrew J. Carmosino THE ADA COUNCIL ON DENTAL EDUCATION AND LICENSURE; 3 NEW NYSDA PRESIDENT – Dr. Jennifer L. Frustino PAYAM GOUDARZI, ’96 2014 Dr. Kelly A. Burch Dr. Matthew L. Valerio

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Owais A. Farooqi, DDS ’06, was recently appointed Director of Dental Operations Illustration by Gretta Tomb Gretta by Illustration in the Department of Veterans Affairs. In the position at VA’s headquarters, Farooqi has operational oversight of 233 dental clinics across the nation, from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Anchorage, Alaska. VA operated dental clinics serve the nations’ heroes—our veterans—honoring them by providing exceptional oral healthcare which contributes to their overall health.

Sheldon Winkler, Pros. Cert. ’71, has published the third edition of his book, “The Music of World War II: War Songs and Their Stories,” which was released in May 2019 by the Merriam Press. He is currently Senior Editor of the Journal of Oral Implantology and Execu- tive Director of the American Academy of Implant Prosth- odontics. Dr. Winkler’s textbook, Essentials of Complete Denture Prosthodontics, also in its third A group of 24 students and four faculty members provided $144,000 of dental care to the less edition, has been one of the fortunate at a recent BOCA event. They performed over 500 extractions and 280 fillings in an most popular and widely used airport hangar at Mountain Empire Airport, Rural Retreat Virginia. Dr. Kevin D’Angelo ’81, is dental textbooks in the world always proud of how hard the students work on these BOCA trips. Many years later, students and is well-established as a often recall the trips as among the most rewarding events during their time at dental school. standard reference. KEVIN D’ANGELO ’81, VIOLET HARASZTHY ’02, RAYMOND MILLER ’85, JOHN DOBOS ’79

28 UBDentist SUMMER 2019 Daniel Schiavone, ’94, recently returned InMemoriam from his 10th annual trip to the Peruvian Amazon where he volunteers for the Chicago-based, Yantalo Peru Foundation. Access to dental care is very limited there. A diet high in simple sugars and starches adds to the community’s oral health problems, and it’s not uncommon to see children under age 6 with rampant caries and abscesses.

Dr. Schiavone funds the trips himself, packing several suitcases with all the necessary supplies and instrumentation. The foundation provides an operatory with compressed air, vacuum and a basic Ritter dental chair. The green clinic in the remote Amazon often hosts medical volunteers and surgical teams Ronnie J. “RJ” Holland, Pediatric from various Dent Cert., ’18, 33, died suddenly parts of the US. on April 26, 2019. He was practic- Anyone interested ing dentistry in the Jonesboro, in donating or Arkansas area. He received his volunteering can DDS from the University of Ten- learn more at www. nessee before joining UB’s Ad- Yantalo.org. vanced Education in Pediatric Dentistry program. He was kind, caring and compassionate. He also had a love for music, travel- ing and hiking. Our thoughts are with not only his family, but also the residents, faculty and staff who worked with him so recently.

Kevin J. Hanley ’78 received the Harvey Sprowl Leadership Award at the Eighth Richard A. Brunea, ’59, died District Presidents reception. The award August 18, 2018. He was the beloved was established to recognize the long husband of the late Allene M. term contributions of members of the (nee Lathrop), father of Bradley and Jeffrey (Gloria) Brunea, and Eighth District Dental Society to loving grandfather of seven. organized dentistry. Richard A. Bullock, ’76, passed DR. BRENDAN DOWD PRESENTED THE AWARD TO DR. KEVIN HANLEY. away unexpectedly on March 23, 2019 at age 69. He lived in Yucca Valley, California, and is survived by a son, Connor. He served as a

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dentist in the Navy in San Diego Cristiana B. Gaton, ’80, died De- Joseph J. Massaro, ’58, of Floral Jerome T. Scholl, ’60, 82, died May before being accepted into the cember 1, 2018 at age 75. She Park, N.Y., died on March 18, 2019 10, 2019. While attending UB, Jerry UCLA Prosthodontics program. opened her own dental practice at age 86. He practiced general met and married Betty Jean Cline, He remained there to teach in Amsterdam, NY in the 1980s, dentistry in the Navy. He estab- his wife and best friend of 61 prosthodontics at both UCLA and and ran it successfully for over 30 lished a home office practice for years. He joined the Navy as as adjunct professor at USC. He years. To many people in Amster- 34 years in Floral Park. He be- a Dental Officer. and served on also served at USC County Medical dam, she was known for being a came an accomplished tennis the USS Enterprise in the Vietnam Center before opening his first happy person and was called the player and won numerous Senior War. Discharged in 1966, he private practice in Santa Monica. “singing dentist”. Tournament Awards. Joseph served in the Navy Reserves for In the late 1980s he moved his served over 50 years in the Knights 25 years, retiring as a Captain. Roger J. Goergen, ’47, 93, a re- practice to Palm Springs and Ran- of Columbus, attaining the Office He operated a dental practice in tired dentist who helped write the cho Mirage. Dr. Bullock’s patients of Chapter Chairman of Nassau & Westfield, N.Y., for nearly 50 years. ethics code for the Town of Am- included two U.S. presidents, am- Suffolk. On the State level he at- Upon retiring, they moved to herst, died May 17. He served in bassadors, actors, comedians and tained the office of District Depu- New Hampshire to be close to their the U.S. Naval Medicine and Den- athletes. But he was most known ty. He was an avid Barbershop three daughters, Heather, Re- tal Corps, attaining the rank of for his pro-bono work for hundreds singer and sang with the Long becca and Lynnea. lieutenant. He earned the Ameri- of patients. He created devices Island Harmonizer can Defense Service Medal and Burton Spiller, ’56, 87, died on to replace ears, eyes and major Chorus for 20 years. He served in was named an honorary citizen of March 13, 2019. He is survived by portions of patients’ faces resulting an Honor Guard Regiment of the the Republic of Korea. Dr. Goer- his brother, Jerome S. Spiller from cancer, accidents and even U.S. Volunteers and participated gen maintained a dental practice of New York City. Dr. Spiller was birth defects. He also was skilled in in over 500 missions of Final for 52 years, retiring in 1998. A a prominent orthodontist in Roch- the area of bite-mark identification. Military Honors at burials of committeeman for the Amherst ester, NY, for almost 30 years. He His forensic work was critical to a Military Veterans. Conservative Party, he was chair- was an avid collector number of criminal convictions man of the Amherst John M. Messinger, II, ’97, 60, of early American bottles, history including the notorious Hillside Government Study Committee died suddenly on Oct. 14, 2018, flasks and antique American ad- Strangler case in Los Angeles. and led its Subcommittee on doing what he loved, racing kay- vertising. His collection was Frederick Cushing, Ortho Cert., Ethics, which updated the ethics aks with friends. John and known throughout the country and ’64, 83, died on August 2, 2018. He code for the Town of Amherst Susan own Main Street Dental had been pictured and written served as the Chief Dental Officer in 1990. He subsequently was which they opened in Plymouth, about in various publications. In with the Navy on the USS Consti- named to the town’s first Board of N.H., in 2002. John and family the late 1980’s his collection was tution. He returned to Mobile, Ethics, which administered and moved to Plymouth in 1998 from featured on a segment of Good Alabama, to start his private enforced the code. their hometown of Buffalo. John Morning America. orthodontic practice that thrived received his Ph.D. in organic Vincent E. Jagodzinski, ’52, for over 30 years. He was most chemistry from the University of passed away May 5, 2019 at age proud of his volunteer work and Buffalo in 1985, and was a tenured 90. Dr. Jagodzinski served in the the progress made in the treat- professor in chemistry at Buffalo Navy and was a musician playing ment of cleft pallet patients. State College before making a the clarinet, saxophone and the career change to become a Lawrence B. DiBona, ’66, 80, organ and a member of the Sing- dentist. He was an avid hiker and died May 25, 2019. He served ing Doctors Choir. He also served had received an award for climb- three years active duty on the as Past President and member of ing 111 4,000-foot mountains in USS Yosemite (AD-19) and the St. Apollonia Guild where he WE WANT TO HEAR New England, including all 4,000- interned at the Chelsea Naval donated free dental services. FROM YOU! foot mountains in the state of New Hospital. He also devoted 29 Submit your classnotes Joseph W. Martin, ’51, 92, died Hampshire. years to the US Navy Reserves. to Sherry Szarowski at March 30, 2019. He practiced He practiced dentistry in Joseph B. Pantera, ’59, a longtime [email protected] and dentistry in Rochester until his Wellesley, Mass., for over 50 dentist, resident and proud mem- let your classmates know retirement in 1983. He was a WW years and had a vast array of ber of the City of Lackawanna what you’ve been up to! II Veteran and served as a navi- professional involvements and community, passed peacefully at gator on the U.S.S. Chicago. honors. his Orchard Park, NY, residence on April 5, 2019.

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