The College of Dentistry’s relationship with China has gotten even stronger thanks to a visit there by Dr. Brad Johnson, Endodontics ’91, MHPE ’05, Head and Director of Postdoctoral Endodontics, and Dr. Kent Knoernschild, Professor, Restorative Dentistry, and Director of the Advanced Specialty Program in Prosthodontics.
For Pan-Asian Student Dental Association (PASDA) president, Timothy Ng, volunteering to improve oral health in communities of need, is close to home. “Growing up in a low-income family myself, I understand the huge disparity in dental education and care,” says Ng. “I want to be able to help these people out. They deserve to have proper oral health.”
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) and the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation (OMSF) awarded Dr. Michael Markiewicz, Assistant Professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, its Faculty Educator Development Award (FEDA).
The College of Dentistry sponsored a Chicago River-based Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) Tour of the Chicago skyline and a reception on the riverbank for members of the UIC Dean’s Council on October 1, 2017.
Dr. Daniel M. Laskin, who earned his MS in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from the College of Dentistry, along with two other outstanding UIC alumni, were honored by the University during the UIC Alumni Awards Luncheon.
A total of 122 students, 70 members of DMD Class of 2021 and 52 members of the DMD Advanced Standing Class of 2019, received their white coats, marking their eligibility to enter the patient care environment, on Sept. 22, 2017.
More than 800 low-income Illinois children with immediate dental needs are on a two-year waiting list for procedures that require general anesthesia at the College’s Department of Pediatric Dentistry.
Orofacial pain expert Dr. Jasjot Kaur Sahni has joined the Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences (OMDS) as a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor.
The American Association of Orthodontics Foundation has provided a Research Aid Award of $5,000 for a project at the College, “Characterization of a Biomimetically Enhanced Bio-OSS for Bone Regeneration Applications.”
