Dental World® PIERRE FAUCHARD ACADEMY President’s Message
	I recall opening my Dental World articles with “An Attitude of Gratitude” theme as I looked forward to the opportunity of serving as President of the Pierre Fauchard Academy. This past year has added greatly to my awareness of the tremendous dedication and commitment to the vision of the Academy that is so richly held by its leadership and Fellows. I now conclude my year as President of the Academy with an “expanded” Attitude of Gratitude. I am grateful for all the Section Chairs who presented annual awards meetings recognizing the outstanding contributions of existing Fellows and inducting many new Fellows who had qualified themselves through their dedication and contributions to the dental profession. I am grateful for the Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees for faithfully leading the progress of the Academy forward as they completed their assignments to strengthen the Academy’s purpose and vision in their respective Regions of the world and to fulfill their specific assignments for the Academy. I am grateful for the Foundation of the Academy and their faithful dedication to processing the flood of new grant applications, which numbered almost three times what they have been in the past. Special recognition is due the Foundation’s Executive Director, Dr. Shig Ryan Kishi, for his tireless efforts so ably given in the past and so aptly given now at tremendous personal sacrifice. I am grateful for the work of the standing committees of the Academy whose efforts have created the presence of the Pierre Fauchard bust and informational kiosk at the ADA Headquarters Library (Dr. Ray Klein, Hall of Fame Committee Chair), the revision of the Academy’s Constitution and Bylaws with legal review (Dr. Mike Perpich, Constitution and Bylaws Committee Chair), the budgetary reconciliation to a status of current and projected annual financial stability (Dr. Kevin Roach, Budget and Finance Committee Chair), the nominations and presentations of the annual awards of the Academy, which included the Elmer S. Best Memorial Award honoring Dr. Gunnar E. Carlsson of Sweden and the Pierre Fauchard Gold Medal honoring Dr. Harald Loe, former Director of the National Institute of Dental Research (Dr. James Englander, Awards Committee Chair),		and the continued stabilizing service of the other standing committees and chairs whose efforts assure the success and excellence of the Academy. I am grateful for the leadership and dedication of our Executive Director, Dr. Richard Kozal, and his wife Judith—who are known and loved worldwide for their service to the Academy. As a result of their enthusiasm and dedication, the day-to-day functions of the Academy roll forward providing countless services of the Academy to the Fellows in all Sections throughout the world. Also, Richard has led the way, with the assistance of the Academy Webmaster Mark Stanley, toward upgrading our premier Web site, www.fauchard.org with reproductions of the Academy’s new brochure, multi-lingual translations of Academy literature, and Web site information, historical articles, and the inclusion of individual Section web page capability. I am grateful for our Editor, who assimilates and prepares all of the information submitted from all over the world to create the Dental World insert to Dental Abstracts for publication and mailing internationally and for reproduction on the Academy Web site. It seems to me that this “Attitude of Gratitude” thing is both infectious and contagious. Once infected by the feeling it creates, the carrier possesses the ability to turn tiring tasks into tremendous blessings. When it spreads to others, both the carrier and the recipient who experience the hard work, dedication, and service, become joyful. The rewards are satisfying, and ever present in countless ways. Once infected, there are no recommended cures. In fact, it becomes the cure for many other life ailments, which obscure our vision of being all that we were created to be in whatever endeavor. Excellence and success are then the natural consequences of a life filled with gratitude. I thank you all, most sincerely, for your support and for being the great leaders and professionals that I know you are.
			Gary Lowder, DDS President

	Table of Contents - September/October • 2003
	Presidents Message		President T. Howard Jones
	Dr. Shigeo Kishi Succumbs to Cancer		Dr. Harald Loe
	The President’s Journey		Patterson Dental Company
	PFA Helps Plan 2004 S India Tour		Foundation President Carl Lundgren
	Association Bus Social Dentaire		Central Office Report
	2003-2004 Calendar		Our Foundation Makes a Difference
	The Elmer S. Best Award Ceremony		Desk of the Executive Director
	Best Award Recipient Address		Foundation News
	PFA Annual Meeting Schedule		Section News- International
	Annual PFA Awards Luncheon		Section News- United States
	Dental World	—	Page 1 2 3 4 5 6

	Dr. Shigeo Ryan Kishi Succumbs to Cancer
	On 15 August, at 1:30 a.m. PDT, our great friend, a PFA past Academy President, the Foundation Executive Director, slipped away in his long dark fight against the cancer that had ravaged his body for more than a year. Never the one to complain, he fought the disease daily as he carried out his duties. L-R, President Gary Lowder with past Presidents Shig Kishi and M. David Campbell For those of us who knew this great man from his actions, and not just his laurels, Dr. Shig Kishi was an outstanding contributor to his profession and to the Academy/Foundation particularly. He graduated with honors from USC’s School of Dentistry in 1969 and had been elected to Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Honor Society. As an undergraduate, he was awarded the first Fellowship from the National Science Foundation for cancer research. In 1991, he returned to USC to do a postdoctoral study in clinical and theoretical applications of computers in dentistry. This knowledge he also applied to the Academy as well as serving USC as a clinical Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Imaging. He maintained a faculty relationship with USC as a clinical Assistant Professor in Restorative Dentistry. Dr. Kishi maintained a dental practice since 1969 and served as Expert Dental Consultant for the California Board of Dental Examiners. He was Chairman of the Peer Review Panel of the Orange County Dental Society, as well as being an active member of the Society’s Ethics Committee. Dr. Kishi was Deputy Executive Director and Secretary for the Academy of Dentistry International (ADI). He was a member of the California Dental Association’s Council on Scientific Sessions, USC’s Jones Gold Foil and Cast Gold Study Club, USC’s Century Club Board of Directors, and served on the Board of Directors for the Southern California Section of the American College of Dentists (ACD). He was an Associate Member of the Chicago Dental Society, a USC Golden Life Member, a member of the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry, the International Academy of Gnathology, the American Prosthodontic Society, the Academy of Operative Dentistry, the Newport Harbor Academy of Dentistry, the International Academy of Computers in Clinical Dentistry, the Federation Dentaire Internationale (FDI), as well as the ADA and the California Dental Association. Dr. Kishi’s honors and awards were as numerous as were his activities. He received the 1998 Conseil National de l’Ordre des Chirurgien-Dentistes Gold Medal. He was a Fellow in PFA, ACD, ICD, AGD, and ADI. Shig co-authored the book Legacy, which is still available from PFA, which highlighted professional success and dental leadership qualities. Dr. Kishi’s activity in our Pierre Fauchard Academy started as Chairman of the Southern California Section, then served a term as International Trustee from Region V (Western USA). He was elected to serve as Academy President for 1997-1998. Many consider this a turning point in the Academy’s progress to attain international leadership status with the other dental honor societies. Under Dr. Kishi’s leadership, his background in computers permitted him to upgrade the Central Office system (which has continued even today), to computerize the production of Dental World (which had been done entirely by typewriter/galley sheets until that time), and to use his own skills later to computerize the PFA Foundation. These were major innovations for their time. Under Shig’s able leadership, the Pierre Fauchard Academy established a Web site for the Academy that created an instant link with members from all over the world directly to the Central Office and to the Academy publications. L-R, President Shig Kishi making Elmer Best Award presentation to Professor Robert Weill with Trustee Pierre Marois at Paris Hall of Fame		During his PFA officerships, he realized the importance of actually having the officers, on all levels, get out to the different Sections personally to make contact with the Academy Fellows. He instituted more travel for the Central Office staff and directed the Dental World staff to cover important events on site, so as to establish a continuing personal relationship with international Fellows and their international publications. These far-reaching changes, still in effect today, have enhanced the status of the Academy globally and have made maximum usage of their ongoing area leaderships in representing the Academy. The Academy staffs provide the familiar contact (and background history) during far-flung visitations in introducing the changing officers from year-to-year to the many hard working Section Chairs around the world. Shig also suggested to such travelers to undertake cultural studies of the various countries that PFA serves. I t was under Dr. Kishi’s initial duty as incoming President, with outgoing President C. F. Larry Barrett, that the U.S. venue for the International Dental Hall of Fame was established at the Samuel Harris National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore. Drs. Kishi and Barrett lead a delegation of contributing PFA International Officers to Baltimore (in three buses from Washington, DC) to formally establish our Wall of Fame on the Museum’s third floor. That year of Dr. Kishi’s leadership was one of tremendous activity for PFA. He initiated the European Tour of active Sections to encourage their full development. He was a large influence for our first International Continuing Education Course in London. He commenced the staff training in bringing them along and had many of the events videotaped for the first time for our archives, a feature that has been continued to this day. He made the site of our the Wall of Fame at the Paris Conseil National de L’Ordre des Chirurgien-Dentistes a place of formal PFA ceremonies, presenting the Elmer Best Award at the site. He attended the huge Japan Section Meeting on our behalf. Shig was one of the major supporters of moving our PFA Central Office to Las Vegas to become established in a teaching institute. This was accomplished during his term of office. L-R, Belgium Chair Jose Dahan with Honorary Fellow Guido Vanbelle and President Shig Kishi in Brussels All the while, he did double duty as Executive Director for the Foundation in helping to establish its priorities, grants programs, and dental school scholarships under the late General Robert Shira. Dr. Sigeo Ryan Kishi was a quiet man complemented by his wonderfully supportive wife Emily. What words he had to say were precise and cutting to the core of the situation. He had the ability to sort through the rhetoric, to get to the heart of the problem, then address the major concern to arrive at a solution. His logic was so exacting that all debate was eliminated as his conclusion became evident to all. This was Dr. Kishi’s personal battle against cancer. He did not want sympathy or to show any weakness. Part of his fight against the forces attacking him was to do his many jobs just as capably as always, right up to the day he left for the hospital. We can close such a eulogy with the following wisdom—”the faults of our friends we write upon the sand, their virtues upon stone tablets of love and memory.” But the spirit of Shig will still be with us all. He had some things he wanted to see finished and he will finish them. President Scott Welch being counseled by Foundation Director Shig Kishi Memorial Services were held on 23 August at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that a donation be made in his name to the Foundation’s Shig Kishi Memorial Fund. Send the check to PFA, P.O. Box 80330, Las Vegas, NV 89180-0330.

The PFA Foundation needs your support! If you’d like to help the Foundation fund grants for good causes and scholarships for good students, please send a check to: Foundation of the Pierre Fauchard Academy Dr. Frederick J. Halik , Acting Executive Director 30 Spruce Ridge, Fairport, NY 14450-4278 585-218-9393 phone, 585-387-9519 Fax E-mail the foundation Our mission as Fellows in the Pierre Fauchard Academy is to consistently focus on professionalism, integrity, and ethics worldwide, by our own conduct as worthy role models, by the advancement of dentistry to the highest level, by supporting and honoring colleagues for their distinguished work, research, contributions, and public service, and by providing excellence in programs, education, and example.

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