Florida National Dental Convention 2013
Please join the UF College of Dentistry for the meetings, Academy of Alumni and Friends Reception, and class reunions taking place on Friday, June 14 at FNDC.
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Center for Advanced Periodontics and Prosthodontics opens
On April 29, 2013, the Center for Advanced Periodontics and Prosthodontics, a dental center at the University of Florida College of Dentistry, saw patients for the first time. The center combines patient care for patients with prosthodontic and periodontal treatment needs, and graduate education for the residents in each…
Once a Gator, always a Gator
Dentistry Dean Teresa A. Dolan to step down Her footsteps herald her comings and goings — bustling into the office, greeting people along her way, the quick steps beating a rapid-fire cadence as she flits in and out of meetings or rushes into a classroom to teach freshman dental…
Diaz does it again
Submitted by Dr. Jean-Francois Roulet and Dr. Ed O’Neill If at first you succeed, you may be asked to do it again! That’s the lesson learned by Walter Dias, D.D.S., M.S., a clinical MKT dentist with Dentsply DeTrey in Germany. In October 2012, Diaz delivered a Wide Horizon Lecture…
Chan wins second UF mentoring award
For the second time this year Edward Chan, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Florida Department of Oral Biology, has received a mentoring award. The most recent one is the 2013 UF-HHMI Science for Life Distinguished Mentor Award which honors UF’s most academically talented undergraduates and the faculty…
OKU selects new student, faculty members
Submitted by: Dr. Ronald Watson The Xi Omicron Chapter of Omicron Kappa Upsilon at the University of Florida College of Dentistry announced the new nominees for membership at the American Student Dental Association banquet on April 6, 2013. Omicron Kappa Upsilon was founded in 1914 by Dean G.V. Black…
Echeto, Soderholm Teachers of the Year
Congratulations to Luisa Echeto and Karl Soderholm, voted 2012-13 Teachers of the Year at the University of Florida College of Dentistry. Each year the sophomore, junior and senior students vote to select a teacher of the year in the basic sciences and clinical sciences categories. The winners are selected for…
Wong earns prosthodontics board certification
Congratulations to Fong Wong, D.D.S., M.S., B.S.D., C.A.G.S., an associate professor in the Department of Restorative Dental Sciences, Prosthodontics Division, who recently earned board certification from the American Board of Prosthodontics. She is also a Full Fellow of the American Academy of Maxillofacial Prosthetics. Wong joined the University of Florida…
Dolwick appointed Mahan Endowed Professor
The University of Florida College of Dentistry recently appointed M. Franklin Dolwick, D.M.D., Ph.D., as the College of Dentistry Parker E. Mahan Facial Pain Endowed Professor for a three-year term in recognition of his international reputation as an outstanding educator, scientist and clinician and his pioneering work in the development…
Rey wins Enid A. Neidle Scholar-in Residence Award
Rosalia Rey, D.D.S., recently received the Enid A. Neidle Scholar-in Residence Award from the American Dental Education Association and Johnson & Johnson Healthcare. “She is the first member of the University of Florida College of Dentistry to receive this honor and we are very proud to have her as a…
