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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY DENTAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINEy y SPRING 2016 VOLUME 16 ISSUE 1 Significant Collaborations Innovative Teaching Community- Curriculum Centered Renowned Outreach World- Trail Blazing Clinical Leading Technology Excellence Research Interprofessional Outstanding Education Patient Care Philanthropy CONTENTS Spring 2016 y volume 16 y issue 1 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY on the cover Dean Kenneth Chance, DDS ’79 DENTAL From “strength to strength” is (216) 368-3266 SCHOOL OF [email protected] MEDICINEy y SPRING 2016 VOLUME 16 ISSUE 1 an apt adage to describe the path Significant Collaborations of the School of Dental Medicine. Director of Alumni Relations & Innovative Teaching As you read this issue of the Editor-in-Chief Sara Y. Fields Community- Curriculum Centered magazine, we encourage you to Renowned Outreach World- Trail Blazing [email protected] Clinical Leading Technology Excellence Research consider the many pieces that Interprofessional Outstanding Education Director of Development Patient Care come together to ensure our Megan Juby Philanthropy excellence. For every facet, our [email protected] goal is not to simply meet the challenge, but to lead the way. Assistant Dean, Development and Alumni Relations David Pratt [email protected] Contributing Writers features Jackie Best, Ohio Dental Association Whitney Bohan Jordan Fatoki Ron Rajecki Daniel Robison, CWRU Senior Writer, Editor and Media Relations Representative Photography Andrew Jordan Photography Emil Chuck Laura Huffman Michael F. McElroy Daniel Milner Ohio Dental Association Give Kids A Smile Ohio Design & Production 4 11 Bringing Virtual Academy Graphic Communication, Inc. kickoff provides free Reality to Dentistry: care to more than The Microsoft Contact 350 children in need HoloLens Office of Development & Alumni Relations CWRU School of Dental Medicine 10900 Euclid Avenue departments Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4905 3 Message from the Dean 12 Faculty and Staff News [email protected] Phone: 216.368.3480 4 On Campus 14 Student News Fax: 216.368.3204 8 In the Community 21 Philanthropy Update Toll free: 877.468.1436 9 Global Update 24 Alumni News 10 Research Briefs 31 In Memoriam 11 Technology 35 Upcoming Events MESSAGE from the dean Alumni and Friends, When I joined the School of Dental Medicine The leadership of these institutions are as Dean in July 2014, our initial focus was interested in working with us not just on collaboration. We wanted to ensure that because of what we are doing right now, the school was open to new opportunities but because of what we have been doing for collaborative programs with like- for many years. Our alumni, faculty, minded, forward-thinking partners. students, and staff have been so consistent in their level of excellence that In addition, we then turned our attention to we have attained a stature that makes connectedness, meaning that we examined others feel that our association with them how we could improve our academic would be additive to them – and we know curriculum by better connecting our they benefit us as well. didactic and pre-clinical programs with our clinical programs, through technology and Other things we consistently celebrate are other means. Performing this necessary our faculty and alumni. Our faculty due diligence on our curriculum is an members and alumni are making great ongoing challenge, but we took accomplishments all over the world. Our connectedness even further by its faculty lecture and have been appointed to application between our interests in editorial boards and numerous leadership Cleveland, nationally, and globally; between positions within organized dentistry. They our students, faculty, and staff; and are the best in the business. And we all between our alumni. know that the enthusiasm and support of our alumni is unparalleled. The theme now turns to celebration – not only because we’re proud of what we’ve Finally, we celebrate our students, because accomplished, but also because we’re proud they are the reason for everything we do. to bear the mantle we have been given. The arrival of every new class is an exciting This November we have our accreditation, event, and that is particularly true of the and we welcome the opportunity to show class that joined us last year. The class of everyone that we are up to the challenge. 2019 is among the most accomplished This type of positive mindset is not just classes we have ever welcomed, based on helpful but critical, and we want to use it as overall grade point average, science grade energy for the efforts we have before us. point average, and Dental Admissions Test academic average. It is also among the We also are preparing to mark the 125th most diverse: it is comprised of 40 women anniversary of the school in October 2017. and 35 men, and includes five African- The kickoff to the year-long celebration will American and five Hispanic students. be during this fall’s Homecoming and Reunion - October 13-16, 2016. At the other end of the spectrum, graduation is always a time for celebration, In March, we signed two significant and this year we were honored to have the agreements: one with Future University in president of the American Dental Egypt, and the other with Qassim Association, Dr. Carol Gomez Summerhays, University in Saudi Arabia. At Qassim as our speaker at our commencement University our obligation is to help build ceremony. She was excited about coming capacity for that region. This includes here and seeing firsthand what we’re doing. utilization of faculty in Saudi Arabia trained This is another example of the infectious in post-graduate instruction by our school, enthusiasm we are generating on campus and a 250-chair facility. that is stretching throughout the nation. In Egypt, we’re working with Future So it is a time for celebration at the School University to ensure that the curriculum is of Dental Medicine. But keep in mind doing exactly what it is intended to do, and celebrations are the reward for good work. helping in evaluating teaching modalities And as the saying goes, the reward for good that provide a level of quality from our work is more work. Let’s continue working school to their programs. hard, together, and good things will Kenneth Chance, DDS ’79 continue to keep happening and the legacy [email protected] These international agreements were of the dental school will carry on for the earned based upon our legacy in excellence. next 125 years. Spring 2016 x 3 ON CAMPUS Give Kids A Smile Ohio kickoff provides free care to more than 350 children in need Volunteer dentists from the Greater Cleveland Dental our children deserve a health care system that addresses their dental health,” said ODA President Dr. Chris Connell. “Oral health Society and dental students from Case Western is essential to good overall health. And we know that dental Reserve University School of Dental Medicine disease is linked to other systemic health issues, which is why it is critical that children have positive experiences with seeing a provided free dental care to children in need Feb. 5 dentist early in life. And that is part of what Give Kids A Smile is at the Give Kids A Smile Ohio kickoff event. all about: ensuring children and their parents understand the importance of good oral health and seeing a dentist twice a year.” This event was the official launch of the Ohio Dental Association’s At the event, dental students and volunteers from the Greater 14th annual Give Kids A Smile program. Through the Give Kids A Cleveland Dental Society provided care to more than 350 Smile program, created by the American Dental Association, elementary students from Alfred A. Benesch, Artemus Ward and dentists and dental professionals statewide and nationally Louis Agassiz elementary schools at the CWRU School of Dental volunteer their time throughout the year to provide screenings, Medicine and on the University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & treatment and oral health education to children. Children’s Hospital Ronald McDonald Care Mobile. Many of the children were pre-screened in their schools and received the “Give Kids A Smile has two purposes—helping children get the preventive and restorative care they needed. More than $90,000 dental care they so desperately need and raising awareness that in free dental care was provided through the kickoff event. 4 x School of Dental Medicine ON CAMPUS “The kickoff embodies institutional leadership from volunteer dentists with the Greater Cleveland Dental Society, who mentor Dignitaries who spoke at the event included: dental students to recognize their responsibility to eradicate the • U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, MA crisis by providing critically needed screenings, treatment and oral • William “Bud” Baeslack III, MS, PhD, provost and executive health education to nearly 400 children,” said Ohio Rep. John vice president of CWRU Barnes - D-Cleveland, who attended the event. “Denied access to • Chris Connell, DDS, president of the Ohio Dental Association dental care is one of the ‘at risk’ factors that contributes • Patricia DePompei, RN, MSN, president, University Hospitals significantly to students not performing to their best in school. I’m Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and MacDonald honored to have participated in the Give Kids A Smile kickoff.” Women’s Hospital • Eric Gordon, MEd, CEO of Cleveland Metropolitan Schools Over the last six years, volunteer dentists with the Greater • Kenneth Chance, DDS, dean of CWRU School of Dental Cleveland Dental Society and dental students from the CWRU Medicine School of Dental Medicine have joined together to provide more • Alex Jones, RN, Ohio Department of Health director of than $550,000 in free dental care for more than 2,000 children in nursing the Cleveland Metropolitan Schools. “Dental problems can affect a person’s health, interrupt a child’s For 2016, an estimated 17,300 children are expected to be seen by education, and impact a person’s confidence in interacting with more than 380 dentists at more than 75 Give Kids A Smile events their peers,” said Ohio Sen.