Dr. Stephanie Ward has accepted a full time faculty position as the new Managing Partner of Brahms Clinic at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry.
Dr. Ward is a 2001 alumna of the College and was appointed as faculty in the Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences in 2006.
Dr. Ward had
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry and Loyola University Chicago dental alumni, as well as alumni of Northwestern University’s School of Dentistry and other schools, and College of Dentistry faculty, staff, and students, will gather at the 2017 College of Dentistry Reunion at Carlisle Banquets, 435 E. Butterfield Rd. in Lombard, IL, Friday, April 21, 2017.
Tickets are $100 before March 5
Story originally published 1/15/16
By Darcy Lewis
University of Illinois Alumni Association
Alice Campbell Alumni Center
Dr. Brian Homann, DDS ’12, ’08 UI, of
Dante Brown, DMD Class of 2016, has made quite an impact on oral health in Chicago, and around the world.
During his DMD program, Brown volunteered to provide much needed dental services at Goldie’s Place, a community health center serving Chicago's homeless. Seeing five to 10 patients a day, Brown performed a variety of procedures, from fillings and
As a dental hygiene student at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Nicole La Ha Zwiercan, Hygiene ’11, had an unusual sideline. Evenings often would find her rushing from the College over to the nearby United Center, where she was a Luvabull for the Chicago Bulls.
Now as a practicing hygienist, she has another unusual sideline. Zwiercan is the reigning Mrs. Illinois
Sugar Bugs, an illustrated children’s book by Dr. Sam Weisz, a 2006 alumnus of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, and his wife, Erica, tells the story of a boy named Robbie whose mouth is home to the Mutans family—the “sugar bugs.”
“It was always sprinkle donuts for breakfast, lollipops for lunch, and gummies for dinner. But then things started to go rotten…,” the book says.
“Parallel lives” is the term Dr. Samuel J. Cascio, Loyola DDS ’52. uses to describe his friendship with Dr. Joseph V. Discipio, Loyola DDS ‘52. And that friendship helped make them two of the grandfathers in the movement to bring Loyola School of Dentistry alumni into the UIC College of Dentistry family.
The two met at Loyola’s dental school in 1948. “We sat near each other because our names were close in the
Close ties between the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry and the Loyola School of Dentistry stretch back to the early part of the 20th century, when the two schools were located mere steps away from each other on Harrison Street on the Near West Side. Students from each school would sit in on each other’s classes, and several faculty taught at both institutions.
In the 21st century, alumni
Fourth-year dental student Stephen Martin and second-year dental student Caius Coretchi were named the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry’s first-ever A.C.E. Scholars.
The A.C.E. Student Scholars Fund recognizes the Achievement, Commitment, and Empowerment of the College’s dental students. This fund helps alleviate student debt, helping students to make a commitment to continuing to provide
Dr. Melissa Amundson, ’07, of Portland, OR, has become the first American oral and maxillofacial surgeon (OMFS) to be accepted as a volunteer to the world famous organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF – Doctors Without Borders).
Dr. Amundson’s first four-week deployment was to the MSF-supported Noma Children’s Hospital in Sokoto, Nigeria in October 2016. She joined an American MSF plastic
