LLU - Dentalgram, April 2000

Department News

Administration

Dailey&Winston

Friends of Ron Dailey, PhD, associate dean of academic affairs, held a surprise birthday luau in his honor on March 9. Dr. Ron Dailey and his wife, Dr. Karen Winston, enjoy his birthday lunch.

Kent Hansen, attorney, and Shelby Jernigan will present a sexual harassment seminar on Monday, April 24, from noon to 1 p.m.; and Wednesday, May 10, noon to 1 p.m. Attendance for this seminar is mandatory. Attendance sheets will be provided for employees to sign. The seminar will be held in Rooms 1101-1102.

* Welcome to Leigh Ann Evans, administrative secretary in the Dean's office.

Evans

Leigh Ann Evans

* Mark your schedules for Friday, April 21, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.: The annual School of Dentistry Employee Appreciation Day celebration will be held in the Wong Kerlee International Conference Center. Light refreshments served.
* Thursday, May 11, is the annual LLU Employee Benefits Fair, with drawings, freebies, and food on the campus lawn near Prince Hall. Remember to bring the card from your paycheck packet, to enter the drawing for Grand Prize.

Clinic Administration
Welcome to new or transferred employees:
Noelani Silos, dental assistant, periodontics
Nancy Norris, RDH, periodontics
Debbie Medford, supervisor, FDO
Karla Aguilar, RDA, periodontics
Carol Wall, RDA, CDA, clinic supply
Shelley Console, PBX operator, clinic
Jennifer Gray, records analyst, endodontics
Naomi Aguilar, dental assistant, orthodontics
Amy Alexander, office aide, endodontics
* Congratulations to Cari Mace, IDP dental assistant, who received her CDA.

Dental Hygiene
* Rhonda Hamerslough, BS, instructor, and Karen Simpson, DH'66, MPH, assistant professor, will be attending the AADS meeting in Washington, DC.
* Joni Stephens, DH'69, MSEd, professor of dental hygiene, will be attending the International Association of Dental Research. She will give a poster presentation, Long Term Usage of an Antimicrobial Rinse for Reducing Bacteria in Dental Unit Waterlines, co-authored by James D. Kettering, PhD, professor of microbiology.
* We have several new part-time per diem faculty members in dental hygiene. They are Corey Steinbrunn, DH'97, Shirley McIntire, DH'97, and Marilynn Goulard Heyde, DH'74. Their primary responsibility will be clinical instruction.

Educational Support Services
* Richard Cross, photographic coordinator, is spending three weeks in Pakistan, filming and photographing a SIMS mission trip. Quint Nicola, SD'69, and Royce Nicola, SD'00, will be supervising and participating. Look for photos and Richard's journal in the next Dentalgram.

* Hyveth Williams, DMin, senior pastor of Campus Hill SDA Church, and adjunct professor in the Faculty of Religion, recently published her second book, the 2000 Book of the Year for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The book is titled Anticipation: Waiting on Tiptoes for the Lord. Dr. Williams wrote in the acknowledgements, "I could not have written this book without the assistance of Christy Robinson, editorial coordinator for the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry, who read and edited my first draft..."

Orthodontics

Connley Hayden Alfred Neufeld

* Congratulations to Roland D.W. Neufeld, SD'74, MS'76, orthodontic clinic director and assistant professor, and his wife Terri Alfred Neufeld, DDS, MS'95, on the birth of their new son, Connley Hayden Alfred Neufeld. He arrived on Friday, March 10, at 10:44 pm, weighing 8 lbs, 15.75 ozs, and measuring 20.5 inches long.
* David Rynearson SD'71, MS'87, assistant professor of orthodontics, recently had an article published in the March 2000 issue of International Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. The abstract is on PubMed, the National Library of Medicine search engine, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
Type "Rynearson" into the search box, and the article should come up. The article was researched with DG Niles, Marti Baum, MD (Dr. Lloyd Baum's daughter), Dr. Roland Neufeld, and Dr. Joseph Caruso.

Restorative Dentistry

Riegel&Goodacre Riegel&Roberts

Drs. Riegel and Charles J. Goodacre enjoy a talk at the retirement lunch. Drs. Riegel and Roberts display the plaque presented by the department of restorative dentistry.

* Robert Riegel, DDS, MS, professor of restorative dentistry, retired on March 1, 2000, and School colleagues and friends honored him with a party. The plaque presented to him by Douglass Roberts, SD'66, MS'77, chair of the department, read: "Loma Linda University School of Dentistry wishes to recognize Robert Riegel, DDS, MS, Chief, section of removable prosthodontics, department of Restorative Dentistry, and wishes to honor him for 10 years of exemplary caring Christian service to students, patients, faculty and staff."

* Guillermo Bernal, DDS, MSD, associate professor of restorative dentistry, received news on February 29, that he passed his Boards and that he is now Board certified by the American Board of Prosthodontics. He worked very hard to achieve this: ususally, it takes up to four years to prepare for the exam and he did it in 13 months, and passed the exam on his first try. He received support and cooperation from both the restorative and biomaterials research departments and especially his wife, Dr. Claudia Prieto. We congratulate him on this great achievement.

* We are proud to announce that Dr. Perikilis Proussaefs received first place in the poster presentation for the Academy of Osseointegration, the week of March 6. Dr. Proussaef's presentation was entitled, The Use of Autogenous Intramembranous Block Grafts in Vertical Ridge Augmentation. Dr. Proussaefs has completed the fellowship program in implant dentistry and is currently completing the advanced prosthodontics program. Jaime Lozada, DDS, PG'97, PG'95, professor and director of the implant dentistry advanced education program, along with the entire department, wish to congratulate Dr. Proussaefs on his accomplishment. Dr. Lozada has a copy of this poster, if you are interested in viewing it.