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Clark invited to serve as faculty mentor for MedEdPORTAL

Nereyda Clark, D.M.D., has been asked to serve for MedEdPORTAL’s Faculty Mentor Pilot Program.  The pilot MedEdPORTAL Faculty Mentor program aims to increase familiarity with, and use of, the MedEdPORTAL suite of services – Publications, iCollaborative and the CE Directory. Clark was one of 20 faculty…

DMD student wins national scholarship

Congratulations to University of Florida College of Dentistry DMD student Jacqueline Garcia, Class of 2015, who recently received an Underrepresented Minority Predoctoral Dental Student Scholarship from the American Dental Association Foundation in the amount of $2,500 for the 2012-2013 academic year. Garcia was one of 19 students from across…

Voices as lovely as their smiles

Members of the Student National Dental Association leveraged their non-dental talents to help raise money for their group. For the second year, they sold singing valentines in the college. This year the Dean’s Office was treated, courtesy of Dr. Sposetti, to a lovely acapella rendition of “Lean On Me.”…

Take the $21,000 Swish and help children’s oral health

Oral Health America & Listerine team up for children’s oral health Listerine and Oral Health America (OHA) launched a charity partnership on February 5, “The $21,000 Swish,” aimed at improving access to dental care for children in need to combat tooth decay. Listerine has launched a 21-day challenge on…

Making a difference for Collier County children

The 2013 Naples Winter Wine Festival on Jan. 25 and 26, a fundraiser for the Naples Children & Education Foundation (NCEF), began with an event to showcase the difference the program has made in the lives of children in Collier County. The University of Florida College of Dentistry was…

Dr. Stan Lotzkar passed away

Dr. Stan Lotzkar, who was a faculty member at the college from 1972 to 1989, passed away on January 15, 2013. He had a long career in dentistry before becoming one of the first faculty members at our college and was passionately committed to dental public health. “Stan helped recruit…

A caring article from a DMD Class of 2014 in ASDA’s Mouth magazine

Making patients with special needs a part of your practice. That’s the title of an article written by Roshan Patel, a member of the college’s DMD Class of 2014, that was published in the Winter 2012 edition of ASDA’s national magazine, Mouth. “I was so proud when I read…

State’s dental grade improves from F to D

By Kristine Crane, Gainesville Sun Staff writer   The Pew Children’s Dental Campaign Report released last week gave Florida a slightly better grade than two years ago after the state passed a law allowing children to get sealants from dental hygienists without a dentist exam. The grade improved from…

D.M.D. curriculum revision underway

Drs. Marc Ottenga and Luisa Echeto are happy to be working on the curriculum revision! Those skills we learned in kindergarten, things like cutting and pasting, can come in handy for the…