PFA Dental World Newsletter — Sept/Oct • 2003

Table of Contents - September/October • 2003

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PFA Annual Meeting Schedule

San Francisco, California
24–26 October 2003—San Francisco Marriott Hotel

Friday, 24 October

8 am–9:30 am, ADA Opening Session—Moscone West Building

10 am–11 am, PFA Executive Board Session, Pacific H Room

10 am–11:30 am, Section Chair Caucus, Pacific J Room

11:45 am–noon, Section Chair Caucus report to PFA Board, Pacific H Room

noon–1:30 pm, PFA working lunch, Pacific H Room

1:30 pm–5 pm, PFA Board Meeting, Pacific H Room

Saturday, 25 October

7:30 am–11:30 am, Foundation Board Meeting, Pacific H Room

11:30 am–2 pm, PFA Awards Luncheon, Salons 14 & 15

2:30 pm–5 pm, Foundation Board Meeting, Pacific H Room

6:30 pm–8 pm, President’s Reception, Pacific J Room

Sunday, 26 October

8 am–5 pm, Foundation Board Meeting, Pacific H Room

1 pm–5 pm, Academy Board Meeting, Pacific Room

6:30 pm–10:30 pm, PFA Dinner Party, Nob Hill Room A

All Section Chairs are invited to attend the Academy Board Meetings, the Section Chair
Caucus, the Awards Luncheon, the President’s Reception, and the no-host Sunday Dinner Party.

Spontaneous oral reports during the meeting will not be allowed.
Anyone wishing to address the Board verbally will need to inform the Central Office
by 1 October to be placed on the agenda. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Annual PFA Awards Luncheon

PFA Annual Awards Luncheon will be held on Saturday, 25 October 2003, at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel in Salons 14 and 15 from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. during the ADA Session.

Installation of the new PFA Officers for the 2003-2004 year will be held at that time with past PFA President Michael Cripton doing the honors.

The Luncheon Address will be presented by ADA President T. Howard Jones.

Trustee James Englander, Awards Committee Chair, will present the candidates for awards:

President T. Howard Jones

Dr. Jones practices general dentistry in Carrollton, Georgia. He has completed a four-year term on the ADA Board as Fifth District Trustee. His other previous ADA activities include serving as a Delegate and as a member of the Council on Dental Benefit Programs.

He is past President of the Georgia Dental Association and past member of the Georgia Education Foundation Board of Directors. In 1995, he was honored with a Georgia Dental Association Presidential Citation, and in 1998, he was the recipient of the Georgia Dental Association Award of Merit. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Coalition for Health, and on Governor Zell Miller’s task Force to reform Medicare.

Dr. Jones earned his dental degree from the University of Alabama School of Dentistry. He is also a Fellow in PFA, ACD, and ICD.

He and his wife Lois have three children.

The Pierre Fauchard Gold Medal will be presented to Dr. Harald Loe

Honorary PFA International Fellowship will be bestowed upon Helen MacKenzie Cherrett, Director for the ADA Center for International Development and Affairs.

The Dental Trade and Industry Award will be presented to the Patterson Dental Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. President and CEO Peter L. Frechette will be accepting the honor on behalf of his company.

Retiring Trustee Howard Mark will be honored along with Rhode Island Chair Richard Walsh and Trustee Mamoru Sakuda of Japan.

	Dr. Harald Loe
	Dr. Harald Loe was born and raised in Norway where he graduated from the Norwegian Military Academy in 1947. In 1952, he earned his dental degree from Oslo University. Following a decade as a research associate at Oslo University and private practice there, he received a Fulbright Research Fellowship at the University of Illinois School of Dentistry in Chicago where he graduated with his PhD in Orthodontics in 1961. The following year, he was appointed Professor and Chair for the Department of Periodontology at the Royal Dental College in Aarhus, Denmark, where he became Dean in 1972. That same year, he accepted a position as Director of the Dental Research Institute at the University of Michigan. In 1986, Dr. Loe became Dean for the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, where he served until 1994. In 1997, the UConn Board of Trustees named him Dean Eemeritus as well as Professor Emeritus. He is also a visiting Professor at the University of Berne (Switzerland) School of Dental Medicine. During 1966-1967, Dr. Loe was a Hirschfeld Scholar to the Hebrew University. In his 40-year career on three continents, he has authored some 350 scientific articles, edited several books, and lectured in 35 countries. He was the Founder and Editor of the Journal of Periodontal Research as well as serving on many editorial boards.		He served as President of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), as Chairman of the Dental Drug Products Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), chaired the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Advisory Panel, and was member of their Special Panel on a blueprint for oral health in the 21st century. He was a member of the Danish research Council and a consultant to the British and Canadian Research Councils. And he served on many FDI Committees and working groups. In the 1960s, Dr. Loe was a Trustee of the Danish Dental Association. Dr. Loe has been honored by President George Bush with the Meritorious Presidential Executive Rank Award, by King Olav with the Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, and by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe’s Knight of Danebrog. He has received the ADA’s Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Dental Research, the U.S. Surgeon General’s Medallion, the Scandinavian Public Health award, the Swedish Dental Society’s International Prize, the Harvard SDM Medal, the UConn Medal, the William J. Geis Award, the Alpha Omega Achievement Medal, the Massachusetts Dental Society’s International Award, the Connecticut State Dental Association’s Fones Medal, the University of Gent Gold Medal, the Norwegian Dental Association’s 75th Anniversary Prize, and the International Association for Dental research Award for Basic Research in Periodontology.

Patterson Dental Company

Peter Frechette, President and CEO of Patterson Dental Company

Patterson Dental Company is a value-added dental supply distributor serving North America. The company supplies a complete range of consumable dental products, clinical and laboratory equipment, and other services to dentists, dental laboratories, institutions, and other healthcare providers. Patterson has the largest direct sales force in the industry totaling over 1100 sales representatives and equipment/ software specialists serving the United States and Canada.

Webster Veterinary Supply, acquired by Patterson in 2001, is the leading distributor of veterinary supplies to companion-pet veterinary clinics in the eastern United States. It is the third largest supplier nationally.

Peter L. Frechette, Patterson’s CEO, has been President of the company since 1982 and Director since 1983. Prior to joining Patterson Dental Company, Peter Frechette was employed by American Hospital Supply Corporation for 18 years, the last seven of which he served as President of its Scientific Products Division. He earned his BS degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin, and his MBA from Northwestern University.

Foundation President
Carl Lundgren Report

We have all lost a real friend in Shig Kishi’s passing. We miss him a great deal. Shig had been battling cancer for a year, and despite the disease, the chemotherapy, the radiation, and the severe pain in his coccyx, he was devoted to the task of processing the awarding of last year’s grants awards and then the extensive task of screening 160 inquiries and the resultant grant applications. He was devoted to getting his work completed. He did—just one day before he was hospitalized in July. A heroic effort that I shall never forget.

He wanted us to move on through. His Executive Director’s place will be impossible to duplicate, but we will try. He preferred that Dr. Halik replace him. The Executive Committee is in unanimous accord, and the Board will need to confirm that in San Francisco in October.

Dr. Carl Lundgren

	Central Office Report by Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal

	Our Web site is continually being updated to make it more informative and attractive. Some of the following are the new additions for the site, which I ask that you check out for yourself. Any suggestions you have for more improvements are welcomed. Please contact me at the Central Office address, or e-mail them to me. 1) Download pages for members are found on the “Inquiries Page.” This new addition allows anyone to download the PFA logo for their Section use, a Nomination Form for recruiting, the new PFA booklet, and the new Constitution and Bylaws once they are finalized by the Board. 2) Translation Link for Europe and Latin America can be found on the Main Page and on the “Inquiries Page.” 3) Music has been added to the International Hall of Fame pages. 4) Historical Dental Lithographic Slide Show is being developed for adding to the site. As of the first of June, our recruitment goal for the year, which is 600 new members, has not kept the same pace as last year’s achievement. Region 1–Europe has inducted 43 new Fellows, including 8 in Kenya and 5 in Bulgaria. Region 2–Northeastern United States has inducted 51. Region 3–Southeastern United States has inducted 23 in Georgia under Chair Karyn Stockwell’s leadership. Louisiana’s nominations are being processed. Region 4–Midwest United States has inducted 26, with Indiana and Ohio pending processing. Region 5–Western United States has inducted 17. Region 6–Canada has inducted 26.		Region 7–Latin America has inducted 11. Region 8–Australasia is holding their induction this September for 37 members. Region 9–Asia has inducted 67 members. Region 10–Central United States has inducted 23 with the Minnesota applications pending. This represents 324 new members completed or pending—only half our goal. The Autumn usually hosts a number of State dental meetings. This is a good occasion for our Sections to hold their meetings to bring up those recruitment numbers. The “graying” of the current PFA membership requires that we take a long hard look at the younger dental leadership to select those quality perspectives that would add to our own leadership activities. PFA has more to offer new Fellows than ever before. We have updated much of our organizational materials and made them more available to the Section leadership. The Foundation has been very cooperative in helping to fund Section projects to provide Section activity for the membership. Their dental scholarships throughout the world have raised the dental perspective of PFA to a global level. All we need now is for the local Fellows to recruit. This is essential to continue to generate our programs that serve our profession and the general public. The stronger you make our Academy, the larger voice we have in global dentistry as a proactive dental organization. Each member has the ability to do this, to magnify their service in our profession, and to extend their talents into infinite regions. It is all up to YOU.