Department news Administration William Hooker, PhD, MFCC, associate dean for student affairs, traveled to Sacramento recently as a new member of the State’s Diversion Evaluation Committee for the California Dental Board. In August Dr. Hooker was appointed for a four-year term as the public member of the Diversion Evaluation Committee’s maintenance program. The committee is charged with following dentists and dental health-care workers with need for monitoring for alcoholism and other chemical dependencies. “It was an invigorating experience,” says Dr. Hooker, “ and reinforced to me the value of licensure boards providing a way to help protect the licenses of health-care workers while they get the help they need and at the same time protecting the public. I consider this appointment a real honor, and it is already a big help to my understanding the challenges encountered by an agency whose responsibility is to ensure that quality dentistry is provided to the public.” Dental educational services Jay S. Kim, PhD, was an invited speaker at the statistics colloquium sponsored by the department of statistics, University of California—Riverside on August 14. The topic of his talk was “Piecewise Exponential Estimator of the Survival Function.” Dr. Kim discussed an alternative method of estimating the survivor function of a life distribution from censored data. The method was illustrated, and he explained how to calculate the survivor function from censored data. The estimator was compared with the well-known Kaplan-Meier estimator, using a set of data observed in a real world situation. The advantages and disadvantages of the two methods were also discussed.   Endodontics Yongbum Cho, DDS, has joined the department of endodontics as a visiting scholar. Dr. Cho is assistant professor, department of conservative dentistry, School of Dentistry, Dankook University, Choongnam, Korea. He is working on research and study to promote the general interest of international, educational, and cultural exchange. His family has joined him in the United States.       Proposition 10 The Proposition 10 office thanks high school and college students Jessica Lee, Samuel Lee, Heidi Schaepper, and Heather Watts. The students helped with grant-writing, clerical tasks, and observed firsthand how the School is reaching out to some of the region's most underserved populations. The department wishes these students well as they return to their studies New employees The School family welcomes the following employees: Maria Anderson, coordinator, implant dentistry; Marisela Perez, dental assistant, Surgery Center; Tara Biller, lab helper, sterilization; Valerie Fowler, records analyst, patient business office; Ebony Reece, dental assistant, endodontic clinic; Susan Parker, senior financial specialist, implant dentistry; Leonel Galvan, general maintenance, maintenance dept; Shirley Reyes, dental insurance specialist, PBO; Kimberly Marrero, lab helper, sterilization; Elmer Sihotang, lab assistant, CDR. University | Medical_Center | LLU&MC_home | Search | Employment | News_&_events | Academics | Our_mission | Admissions | Registration | Research | Alumni | Student_resources All contents copyright © 2001 Loma Linda University. All rights reserved. Revised February 14, 2001 Send comments and questions to webmaster@univ.llu.edu  URL: http://www.llu.edu