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Karen Rhodenizer

Dental Students Form Ethics Club

The University of Florida College of Dentistry Student Professionalism and Ethics Club (SPEC) held its first meeting on Aug. 20. The inaugural meeting was well-attended with about 55 students, plus faculty members, on hand to learn more about the new ethics club. Raymond Klein, a senior dental student…

New CT Scanner in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology

Madhu Nair, D.D.S., Ph.D., M.S. Dr. Madhu Nair, chair of the newly established Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences, has been awarded a state-of-the-art, high resolution Cone Beam Volumetric CT scanner in the form of an equipment grant from PracticeWorks Systems…

2009 Student Summer Research Program

2009 Student Summer Research ProgramMay 29 through August 3 How did you spend your summer vacation? Do you have memories of the scent of Coppertone and the grit of sand between toes? Not the participants in the 2009 University of Florida College of Dentistry Student Summer…

Burks Completes UF Academy

Jacob Burks, M.B.A., coordinator of research programs and services and assistant director of the Center for Molecular Microbiology in the Department of Oral Biology, was recently recognized for completing the UF Academy, a year-long program that provides training and leadership tools for emerging leaders at the university. Burks first…

11th Annual White Coat Ceremony

Crisp white coats, happy D.M.D. students, proud friends and family, and a strong sense of responsibility and the importance of ethics – all marked the University of Florida College of Dentistry 11th Annual White Coat Ceremony on July 11 in Gainesville, Fla.

Faculty Promotions & New Faculty

Promotions & Tenure Announced Indraneel Bhattacharyya, D.D.S., M.S.D. Indraneel Bhattacharyya, D.D.S., M.S.D. Bhattacharyya was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences.  He earned his B.D.S. in India, his D.D.S. from the University of Nebraska,…

Echeto receives FDA’s Educator of the Year Award

Luisa F. Echeto, D.D.S., M.S. Luisa F. Echeto, D.D.S., M.S., a clinical assistant professor in the UF College of Dentistry’s Department of Prosthodontics, recently received the Florida Dental Associations Dental Educator Award. Echeto was nominated by student members of the Class…

Lovell Selected as ADA Delegate

Adrian Lovell, D.M.D. Adrian Lovell, D.M.D., Class of 2010, has been selected to serve as a Delegate to the 2009 American Dental Association’s (ADA) House of Delegates during the ADA’s annual meeting, Sept. 30 – Oct. 6 in Honolulu. Lovell, chosen from a competitive…

Nguyen Wins AAO Award

Dr. Vo Danh M. Nguyen, a 2009 graduate of the University of Florida College of Dentistry Orthodontic program, won 3rd place in the basic science category of the Charley Schultz Resident Scholar Award Competition sponsored by Dentsply GAC at the recent American Association of Orthodontics (AAO) annual meeting in…

Lamont Receives Prestigious NIH Award

Richard Lamont, Ph.D., a professor in the UF College of Dentistry Department of Oral Biology, recently received a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an honor bestowed on less than 5 percent of NIH-funded investigators. The highly selective NIH MERIT Award (Method to Extend Research in…