PFA Dental World Newsletter — March/April • 2005

Table of Contents - March/April• 2005

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	Central Office Report by Secretary General Richard Kozal
	With the initiation of the New Year, the Spring Schedule will be starting at the Community College of Southern Nevada and my teaching duties there will resume. Since our main headquarters office is located there, I will not be far from the phone. However, if I am in class and cannot be reached, please leave a voice message and I will get back to you promptly. On 18 January, the Management Committee held their quarterly conference call including the Academy’s CPA Dan Jonkers. All the finances were reviewed and found to be in perfect order. The 2005 budget was discussed and will be finalized at the March Meeting in Palm Springs.		The Web site was discussed and new plans for updating its service to our members is ongoing and will have a new appearance in April. President Mike Perpich and President-elect Howard Mark have met with our Webmaster Mark Stanley to go over the new changes in responding to many of the requests from the Section Chair Caucus Meeting at the annual Board Meeting last October. The Elmer Best Award Ceremony in Montreal was brought up. We are all excited about the ceremony and the arrangements by Canadian Trustee Barry Dolman to make this an outstanding occasion for all Fellows to attend and to explore the beauty of Montreal. If you have any questions, call me at 1-800/232-0099, or e-mail the office.

	Foundation News
	From the Desk of Foundation President Carl Lundgren… Free Pain Relief in Honduras There are long lines of people in pain, some of whom have walked a long distance for dental care and maybe waited overnight. We are talking about poverty-stricken people in Honduras, most of whom are from small villages. One of the Foundation’s Service Grant awardees in 2003 was the Medical, Eye, & Dental International Care Organization (MEDICO) that is based in Texas. Five or six teams of a 19 to 22-person mix of medical, dental, nurses, and lay volunteers spend a week in a site treating patients. A team can treat 1500 to 2300 patients in that week at no cost to the patient. The dental group uses portable dental chairs that were paid for by a grant of $16,000 from the Foundation of the Pierre Fauchard Academy. They also use portable units, generator, and air compressor. The name of their dental program is “Give Honduran Friends a Smile” and is headed by Dr. Anthony Ciccariello and Dr. Peter Winkler. MEDICO has treated 120,000 people since 1990. Along with the emergency dental treatment, the MEDICO teams stress the importance of prevention.		This is just one of about 285 service grants that have been provided by our Foundation over the last nine years. These service grants have totaled well over $3 million. Huge numbers of dental volunteers are out there providing free dental care. For their contributions to their underserved patients, these volunteers cannot be thanked enough. Our grant team works diligently to evaluate the applications that come to us. In 2004, we provided 35 service grants and 81 scholarships totaling more than $427,000. Later, we want to tell you about our grants treating lepers in Japan, Victims of Torture, free cleft palate treatments in Viet Nam and Mexico, care for the homeless, an AIDS Resource Center, and other dental clinics where direct care is provided for the underserved.

From the Desk of Foundation
Executive Director, Dr. Fred Halik...

Please note that the Grants Chairman Gary Lowder has insisted that all applications for grants be submitted by the 1 June 2005 deadline, or they will not be considered in the 2005 grant submissions to the Board.

	Foundation Section News
	France European Trustee Hubert Ouvrard presented a Foundation grant for the mobile dental clinic to President Pierre Yves Mahe of the French National Board of the Le Conseil de l’Ordre des Chirurgiens Dentistes of Paris on behalf of PFA. The grant goes to support the “Bus Dentaire Social,” which serves the indigent of the Paris metropolitan area and prominently displays our name on each side of the clinic.		The Foundation check was presented at a ceremony held at l’Ordre headquarters where our Hall of Fame is located. The Foundation Scholarship Award for France was presented to dental student Ana Peschin by Paris 7 Dental University Dean Marie-Laure Boy-Lefevre, who is the Section Chair for France. Many Fellows, friends, and a patient of Ana Peschin participated in the presentation ceremony.
	Drs. Hubert Ouvrard, Yves Mahe, Pierre Marois, and the French National Board


	United States Georgia Chair Karyn Stockwell reports presenting the Foundation Scholarship to dental student Brian R. Babb at the Fall Welcome Back Assembly at the Medical College of Georgia by PFA Fellow Carole Hanes. They also awarded their Excellence in Dental Education Award to Dr. Kevin B. Frazier. L-R, Dean Marie-Laure Boy-Lefevre, Ana Peschin, Past Trustee Pierre Marois, and current Trustee Hubert Ouvrard This award consists of an appropriate Certificate and an all-expense covered attendance at their Annual Leadership Conference and Convocation. The Award was presented by the Eastern District PFA Chair James Reynierson. The 2004 PFA undergraduate Certificate of Merit was awarded to dental school senior Ronnie D. Wilson by PFA Fellow Wayne Herman at the Medical College of Georgia Senior Awards Ceremony. Nebraska Chair Francis Cavolvic announced the PFA Scholarship awardees as Creighton’s Anthony Zambito and the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Cally Adams. The PFA Senior Student Award recipients were Creighton’s Paul Feit and UNMC’s Marty Killian. A thank you letter from Dr. Kristin Fornander, last year’s PFA Senior Award recipient, was read to the membership at their annual Luncheon Meeting.		Wisconsin Chair Glenn Maihofer announced presenting the Foundation Scholarship Award to Marquette senior dental student Barret Straub. Dr. Straub will be staying at Marquette in the Orthodontics Program. Tennessee One of the Foundation grants that was approved a few years ago was for the Tennessee Section for the Volunteer Ministry Center of Knoxville, which includes a dental clinic. The Clinic is still successfully serving the indigent of eastern Tennessee. Location of the Clinic Clinic entrance (photos courtesy of Juliet Brophy, University of Tennessee)

Table of Contents - March/April• 2005

President’s Message:

Foundation Section News

Montreal

Section News

Dr. Zarb

Section News Continued

Patient Stroke

Calendar

Central Office Report

Section News - USA

Foundation President

Officers & Trustees

Foundation Executive Director

Dental World

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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.

Central Office Report

by Secretary General Richard Kozal

Foundation News

From the Desk of Foundation President Carl Lundgren…

Free Pain Relief in Honduras

From the Desk of Foundation Executive Director, Dr. Fred Halik...

Foundation Section News

France

Drs. Hubert Ouvrard, Yves Mahe, Pierre Marois, and the French National Board

United States

L-R, Dean Marie-Laure Boy-Lefevre, Ana Peschin, Past Trustee Pierre Marois, and current Trustee Hubert Ouvrard

Location of the Clinic

Clinic entrance (photos courtesy of Juliet Brophy, University of Tennessee)

Stay connected! Visit the PFA Web site at www.fauchard.org/

From the Desk of Foundation
Executive Director, Dr. Fred Halik...