In January, members of the Hispanic Student Dental Association (HSDA) volunteered for the St. John’s Migrant Information and Service Fair and provided free dental screenings for some of the 80 migrant workers onsite at a migrant camp in Spuds, Fla. Volunteering were D.M.D. students Sophia Resposo, Carla Kontax, Barbara…
Katherine Karpinia, D.M.D., M.S. Three UF College of Dentistry faculty received UF Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) awards – the first time these awards have been given. Of 15 applicants for the first round of FEO award at the university, 12 were funded with…
Roger Fillingim, Ph.D., will receive the 2009 Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award from the American Pain Society at their annual meeting in May 2009. The award recognizes individual excellence and achievements in clinical pain scholarship and is presented to a pain professional whose total career research achievements have…
Henrietta Logan, Ph.D. On Oct. 22, the National Institutes of Health announced a five-year, $5.3 million grant to the University of Florida College of Dentistry to fund a new research center aimed at reducing disparities in head and neck cancer survival through prevention and early detection in low-income, minority men.
Jennifer Watson, Ph.D., recently received a $10,000 grant for a pilot research project to teach mothers in WIC clinics about oral health and caries prevention. Funding for the project was provided by a UF College of Dentistry seed grant. Early childhood caries (ECC) is a serious health problem that…
Henrietta Logan, Ph.D., a professor in the department of community dentistry and behavioral science, has won an Award of Merit from the American College of Dentists. The award, given since 1959, recognizes and acknowledges specific, outstanding achievements of non-dentists that link to the ACD’s mission of promoting excellence, ethics,…
It’s been a busy year for Linda Bartoshuk, Ph.D., a tenured faculty member and a presidential endowed professor in Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science at the UF College of Dentistry. And it looks as if things are going to get even busier. In February she was appointed to a…
Dr. Barbara Hastie is a junior faculty member in the department of community dentistry and behavioral science, having joined the college in 2003. In addition to her responsibilities within the college, she is a co-facilitator for the Pain Coping Skills Group at the VA Medical Center. Hastie earned a…
Give Kids A Smile (GKAS) is a national outreach sponsored by the American Dental Association (ADA) in association with Children’s Dental Health Month. The goal of the program is to reach dentally at-risk children through educational and restorative programs to promote lifelong oral and systemic health. While GKAS is…
LINDA BARTOSHUK, Ph.D., a professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, was recently elected to a three-year term on the Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The NAS is charged with providing independent advice, outside the framework of government, to the nation’s leaders on science, technology and…
