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Burne Appointed Associate Dean for Research

Robert Burne, Ph.D. The UF College of Dentistry announced the appointment of Robert Burne, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Oral Biology, to the position of Associate Dean for Research. Dr. Burne will serve the college in this dual administrative capacity. “This…

Five dentistry faculty receive FEOs

Five UF College of Dentistry faculty received recent UF Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) awards. Congratulations to Abimbola Adewumi, B.D.S., F.D.S.R.C.S. (Eng), M.Ped., DentRSC (Eng); Sharon Cooper, M.S., M.S.Ed., Ph.D., R.D.H.; Josephine Esquivel-Upshaw, D.M.D., M.S.; Karl Soderholm, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D.; and Timothy Wheeler, D.M.D., Ph.D.

Low receives Christensen Award

From left: Gordon Christensen, Sam Low and CDS President Michael Stablein Sam Low, D.D.S., M.S., a professor in the Department of Periodontology, received the 2010 Gordon J. Christensen Lecturer Recognition Award from the Chicago Dental…

Congratulations to the new Diplomates!

Congratulations to Dr. Uma Nair and Dr. Claudio Varella for achieving their Diplomate status in April of 2010. Our Department now has four Board certified faculty members.

Hauptman, Young selected as new Team Leaders

The UF College of Dentistry announced the selection of two new Team Leaders for the D.M.D. Clinical Education Program: Joel Hauptman, D.D.S., and Henry “Mac” Young, D.D.S. “It gives me great pleasure to announce the new Team Leaders that were selected from an outstanding internal pool of candidates.  I want…

Spring Synergy Weekend

More than 275 alumni, faculty and students attended the UF College of Dentistry Second Annual Spring Synergy Weekend on April 8 – 10. The program included several continuing education programs, research poster presentations and awards, ASDA’s Annual Vendor Fair with entertainment courtesy of The Jawbreakers, the Annual ASDA Banquet and…

College dedicates renovated pediatric dental center

On March 19, the UF College of Dentistry held a dedication and ribbon cutting for an extensively renovated pediatric dental clinic, the Robert E. Primosch Clinical Education Center, that expects to serve 19,000 patient visits annually; 90 percent of those for children on Medicaid. The clinic renovations were paid…

Dental Practice-Based Research Network Presents at AADR

DPBRN practitioner-investigators and family members show their school spirit. Two practitioner-investigators from the Florida/Georgia region of the Dental Practice-Based Research Network, Dr. Craig Ajmo and Dr. Jeff Meral, presented posters at the March annual meeting of the American…

Student wins award during AADR

Dennis Beliveau Dennis Beliveau, UF College of Dentistry Class of 2013, won first place in the Clinical Science Category in the 2010 DENTSPLY/Caulk Competition of the AADR National Student Research Group during the March annual meeting of the American Association of Dental Research (AADR) in…