PFA Dental World Newsletter — July/August • 2004

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July/August • 2004

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	Foundation News
	From the desk of Foundation President Carl Lundgren
	Your PFA Foundation budgets an overall overhead of 23% of the year’s earnings and almost nothing toward raising more funds. And yet we now have a corpus of $7.2 million fair market value. Over the last nine years, we have donated about $3 million to support 250 service grants and awarded 720 scholarships to needy junior students who show leadership potential. The grants are used primarily to support organizations that provide free dental care for the underserved in the worldwide PFA sphere. How do we do that? We have an all-volunteer board with just one part-time Executive Director. We all work out of our own homes and communicate electronically. Then acting Dean Jack Stockton presented the Foundation Award to student Manjinder Kler		The investment program is a totally safe one, invested in long-term government-backed securities that guarantee an earnings amount that ensures an adequate fund for awards (about $380,000). We have never lost any money in any investment. These earnings are always freed up in time for our annual grant and scholarship awarding. The PFA Foundation Board has established a Memorial and Tributes Funds Committee that is chaired by Dr. Larry Barrett, a past PFA President. It will soon provide a framework where special gifts, large and small, can be given. This will provide a mechanism, Named Gifts, where a donor can honor colleagues or others, while at the same time support specific programs of the donor’s own choosing. By giving cash, appreciated securities, or even real estate, you can enable the Foundation to reach those who really do have a need. The Fellows of the Academy have been most generous over the years, adding donation amounts at dues paying time that has totaled $204,487 over the last nine years. Special memorial funds have been donated in the names of Dr. Fernando Brenes-Espinach, Dr. Robert Shira, and Dr. Shig Ryan Kishi, who were the first in the Memorial and Tribute Fund Program. It is more fun to give money away when you know it is working for the causes you care about the most.

	Foundation’s April Interim Board Meeting
	Canada Manitoba Western Canada Section Chair Tom Breneman reported that Acting Dean Norman Fleming of the University of Manitoba Faculty of Dentistry presented the Foundation Scholarship Award to Manjinder Kler. British Columbia Foundation Award recipient Jordan Millar, a senior at the University of British Columbia, wrote to thank the Foundation and the Academy for the honor of being recognized. Last summer, he did an externship at USC in orthodontics from which he prepared a poster presentation at the IADR Conference last Spring. He attended his second National Committee on Students Affairs Conference last August as the Canadian Dental Association’s representative from UBC. He also attended the Vancouver District and Dental Society as the student representative and is the liaison to the Association of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia. Next year, he will take up a residency program at USC in orthodontics.		Quebec CSA President Richard Azzi at the University of Montreal Faculty of Dental Medicine writes, “Avant tout, j’aimerais vous remercier pour la presentation du prix ‘Pierre Fauchard Academy Award.’ C’est par notre volonte, en tant qu’etudiants et futures dentists, de faire davantage pour donner un sens a notre role de professionnel de la sante qui nous a valu l’evolution don’t nous pouvons etre fiers. Or, c’est maintenant plus que jamais que la profession a besoin de chefs de file dynamiques en dentisterie et d’etudiant en medicine Dentaire fortement impliques. Le Pierre Fauchard Academy a par la mesure de ces implications au sein des etablissement universitaires et professionnels, contribue a creer un climat propice a l’esprit d’initiative et de collaboration. C’est alors par cette entremise que je me permet de vous remercier au nom de tous les etudiants de medicine Dentaire pour votre encouragement et votre appui inconditionnel. “J’ose esperer que vous ne cesserez d’encourager les etudiants demontrant preuves de leadership et vous prie d’accepter, monsieur, mes sinceres salutions.”


	United States California, Southern Section President Carl Lundgren announced that three Foundation grants had been awarded to projects in Southern California. Amigos de Los Californios, an all-volunteer organization founded in 1996, provides dental care to isolated people living in the Sierra de San Francisco area of Baja California, 700 miles south of San Diego. Dr. Roger Kingston leads 24 volunteers traveling the two days in their own vehicles transporting equipment and supplies to the remote area. The Foundation provides $10,000 to acquire portable dental equipment and supplies for the program. The second $10,000 grant for supplies and small equipment to improve their conscious sedation program at The Venice Dental Center, associated with UCLA, which provides care for a large underserved community. Dr. Naomi Bement is the principal. The third grant of $10,000 went to the Salvation Army’s Oxnard/Port Hueneme Dental Clinic led by Robin Campos. This program has been expanding its coverage to provide free oral health care in Ventura County for people with low incomes, the uninsured, and the homeless adults and children. It is the only such service in the area to include x-rays, preventative and restorative care, extractions, dentures, endodontics treatment, and dental education. L-R, Chair Glenn Maihofer, scholarship recipient Barrett Straub, and PFA Trustee James Englander		Dr. Rangarajan receiving certificate from PFA president Kevin Roach Florida President Kevin Roach attended the graduation ceremonies for Nova Southeastern University’s Faculty of Dental Medicine’s Graduation Cere-mony for his daughter Maureen. He also congratulated our Foundation Scholar-ship Awardee Dr. Shrinivas Rangarajan. Dr. Rangarajan, doing a residency at the U.S. Navy Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, plans on pursuing a career in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. *Nebraska* Chair Francis J. Cavolvic announced the Foundation scholarship winners as Creighton’s Anthony Zambito and of UNMC’s Cally Adams during their annual Luncheon Meeting last April. The Academy’s Senior Student Awards were announced as Paul Feit from Creighton and Mart Killian from UNMC. *Wisconsin* Chair Glenn Maihofer honored the Foundation Scholarship Awardee, Marquette University senior Barrett Straub, at their annual Luncheon Meeting last May. Dr. Straub will be starting his postgraduate work in orthodontics at Marquette.

	Massachusetts Chair Norman Becker reports the outstanding success of the Foundation grant for the CHIP Program. In May of this year, simultaneously 67 CHIP events were held in the six New England States and New York reaching more than 14,000 children with over 1000 dentists participating. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children declared this PFA co-sponsored event the largest child ID Project ever conducted in the United States. The CHIP Program was first introduced in 1998 in Milton, Massachusetts. This year, ADA President Eugene Sekiguichi attended along with many civic, professional, and government officials. The Chip Program has received a $5000 grant from our Foundation. Fellow Dr. David B. Harte, now CHIP Director emeritus, has been instrumental in organizing the Section’s participation. Other groups participated, such as the Masonic Lodges of the 8th District, the Massachusetts Dental Society, the police departments, the sheriff’s departments, the Wollaston Rainbow Assembly, the Rotarians, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The Milton Times noted that “The Milton Rotary Club and the Pierre Fauchard Academy, an international dental honor society, based out of Paris, France, are sponsoring the Milton event.” The Milton Record-Transcript reported the event as well. Dr. Jay Sullivan at CHIP booth		Boston University dental student Amelia Grabe receiving the Foundation Scholarship Award 14,000 children were “CHIP’ed” throughout New England that day. The CHIP Program (reported in Dental World, May/June 2002 issue) is now operational in 11 States and is being implemented in 19 others, approved in 13 more, and is being considered in Mexico and 13 Provinces of Canada. It is recognized as the most comprehensive recovery and identification program in the country. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children notes that a child is reported missing every 41 seconds! This identification program includes a three-minute TV-quality videotaped interview, fingerprints, a tooth print with salivary scent tracer and DNA, and a DNA cheek swab. More than 190,000 children have gone through the program. Mari Megias, Associate Director of Communications for Boston University’s Henry Goldman School of Dental Medicine reports doing the news release for our PFA Scholarship Awardee junior student Amelia M. Grabe of Plainfield, New Hampshire. Amelia is active in the American Student Dental Association where she serves as the National Consultant in Membership, Marketing and Service. She is also the student representative on three ADA Councils. Her father, Dr. George Grabe, is a practicing dentist in Charlestown, NH.

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.


			2004 Calendar
	10-13 September 5 September 30 September-3 October 30 September-5 October 30 September 1 October 2 October 3 October 22-23 October 23 October 29 October 30 October		92nd FDI World Congress, New Delhi, India Deadline for all annual Meeting Agenda packet reports 145th Annual ADA Session, Orlando, Florida PFA Academy/Foundation Annual Board Meetings, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Orlando, Florida Executive Board Meeting PFA Board Meeting/Section Chair Caucus Foundation Board Meeting Annual Awards Luncheon/President’s Reception Foundation Board Meeting/Academy Board Meeting Presidents Dinner Implantology Congress, Berlin, Germany Elmer Best Award Ceremony, Beijing, China 20th General Meeting of the Japanese Association for Dental Sciences, Yokohama, Japan PFA Hall of Fame Award installation for Dr. Morinosuke Chiwaki, Yokohama, Japan (Have your PFA Event date put here. E-mail Editor Brophy at PFADWJMB@aol.com)

Table of Contents - July/August• 2004

Presidents Message

Annual Meeting Events

Hall of Fame Ceremony

The President’s Award

Dr. Frederick S. McKay

Award of Excellence

Dean Art Dugoni

PFA Fellowship Award

PFA Awards Luncheon

Section News- International

Distinguished Service Citation

Section News- United States

Dental Trade and Industry Award

Dental World

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