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LLU School of Dentistry class of 2015 dental students Jason Joo and Kyle Poulsen each have been awarded $5,000 grants by the American Dental Association Foundation to assist with their continuing efforts to deliver oral health care to the underserved.   Kyle Poulsen (left) with his classmate, co-laborer, and fellow award recipient, Jason Joo Both Joo and Poulsen have been especially active in the School’s service learning programs. Poulsen was granted the American Dental Association Foundation’s E.

Attendees of the 55th School of Dentistry Alumni Student Convention at the Loma Linda University Centennial Complex enjoyed the opportunity, Thursday, February 5, of witnessing the annual research project presentations initiated months earlier by third year dental students and senior dental hygiene students under the guidance of faculty mentors.

Susan Roche, DDS’93, MS, MA, associate professor, Department of Oral Diagnosis, Radiology and Pathology, was elected as a Fellow of the American Headache Society (AHS) at the Society’s annual symposium, November 2014, in Scottsdale, Arizona.   Dr. Susan Roche Founded in 1959, AHS is a professional society of health care providers dedicated to the study and treatment of headache and face pain.

It was a dark and rainy morning, but two hundred eight adults and 14 children received free dental care on Sunday, January 11, 2015, at the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry’s (LLUSD) student clinics, during the School’s annual Clinic With A Heart.   Patients wait under tented shelters before dawn. It was the silver anniversary for this event during which the School most visibly demonstrates its motto, “Service is our calling,” by delivering as much dental care as its faculty and students can provide needy members of the surrounding community on one Sunday each Januar

Dentistry Class of 2018 Kathleen Aguilar, Devin Bower, Adrien Charles-Marcel, Brian Choi, Minna Chun, Evert Cowan, Dustin Davis, Alyssa DeWenter, Rene DeWenter, Ross Emerick, Douglas Gammenthaler, John Hegazin, Jieun Hwang, Paul Jung, Jamie Kim, Sean Kinard, Allison Lee, Brian Lee, Jason Lee, Lidya Lee, Ouk Lee, Timothy Lee, Alison Perez, Katimarie Ralston, Christopher Rodas, Kylin Sager, Carlisle Salcedo, Colt Sicher, Morgan Steely, Elisabeth Stout, Darlene Teddy, Milton Vega, Safina Waljee, David Weber, Michael Weis, Jessica Wyrostok Dentistry Class of 2017 Evan Agnetta, Stephen Bar

The LLU School of Dentistry acquired the services of Kristi Herrmann, beginning November 2014, to fill the School’s need for a second development officer.   Ms. Kristi Herrmann   Ms. Herrmann joins Tim Sherwin, MS, in the effort to advance the School’s strategic plan and forward-looking mission by securing major gifts from alumni, grateful patients, and friends of the School. Ms.

The LLU School of Dentistry held an early evening December 3 open house for prospective students to its Associate of Science degree program in Dental Hygiene at the School’s Dental Hygiene Program and Clinic in Palm Desert, California.   The LLUSD Dental Hygiene AS program in Palm Desert is full of Christmas cheer. The open house featured catered Mexican food, a variety of giveaways, and personalized admissions consultations provided by Esther Valenzuela, MBA, MA, director, Admissions and Marlise Perry, assistant director of Admissions and Recruiting.    

LLU School of Dentistry alumnus Jim Wood, DDS’86, was elected in November 2014 to represent California’s 2nd Assembly District, which comprises all of Del Norte, Trinity, Humboldt and Mendocino counties, plus northern and coastal Sonoma County, including the northern half of Santa Rosa.   Dr. Jim Wood with his family including canine members Dr. Wood has lived in Northern California since 1987 when he opened his family dental practice, one of four in Cloverdale.

Since the 2009 establishment of a professional education program in dental assisting at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in Hangzhou, China, LLU School of Dentistry clinic faculty members have provided continuing education (CE) courses to the hospital’s dental staff, dental assisting students, and dentists from the surrounding community.   Picture from left are: Dr. Andy Lieping Sheng, assistant director of the dental clinic; Dr. Kenneth Abramovitch; Linda Arnett; Dr. Les Arnett; and Dr.

Fourteen students from the School of Dentistry’s Associate of Science dental hygiene classes of 2015 and 2016 volunteered their time, October 25, 2014, to walk the track at Palm Desert High School in the American Cancer Society’s 24-hour Relay For Life.   LLU dental hygiene students emphasized the need for oral cancer screenings and provided oral hygiene instruction. During the Relay event, the LLUSD dental hygiene students provided basic tooth maintenance instruction to Palm Desert high school students and gave away between two and three hundred goody bags containing toothbr