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University of California, San Francisco
School of Dentistry
magazine
Volume 3 / 2007
Oral Health for All
UCSF School of Dentistry’s Public Service Spans the Globe
A L SO INSIDE:
School Welcomes
Three New
Research Faculty
Graduating
Class
of 2006
Alumni
News
and Notes
2005-2006
Honor Roll
of Donors
University of California, San Francisco
School of Dentistry
Editorial Advisory Board:
Charles N. Bertolami, Professor and Dean
Barbara Gerbert, Professor and
Chair, Division of Behavioral Sciences
magazine
VOLUME 3 / 2007
David Graham, Clinical Professor
John S. Greenspan, Professor,
Dean for Research
Mark Kirkland, Assistant Dean for Clinics,
Director, International Dentist Program
Richard McKenzie, Director of
Development & Alumni Relations
Dorothy A. Perry, Associate Dean for Education
Jane Weintraub, Lee Hysan Professor
and Chair, Division of Oral Epidemiology
and Dental Public Health
Mission Statement
The UCSF School of Dentistry seeks to improve
public health through excellence in teaching,
research, patient care and public service in
the dental and craniofacial sciences. We foster
an inspired environment where individuals
identify themselves as scholars and realize
their scholarship through service as clinicians,
educators and scientists.
The goal of the School of Dentistry Magazine is to
advance the mission of the School of Dentistry.
The magazine is published annually for the alumni,
students, faculty, staff and friends of the UCSF
School of Dentistry.
The School of Dentistry Magazine is produced by:
School of Dentistry Communications
University of California, San Francisco
513 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0430
Editor/Writer: Jeff Miller
Contributing Writers: Charles Bertolami,
Sharon Brock, David Hand, Richard McKenzie,
Mary Porteous
Design: Laura Myers Design
Photography: David Hand, Margot Hartford,
Majed, Richard McKenzie
© 2007 The Regents of the University of California
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Oral Health for All
Humanitarianism is not just a word, but a call to action at the UCSF
School of Dentistry. From Saipan and Zimbabwe to San Francisco’s
Tenderloin, faculty have made it their mission to teach, train, care
for, learn from and, in some cases, literally reconstruct the faces of
people around the world.
news
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> NEW RESEARCH FACULTY — Three new faculty bring experience and
expertise to the science of biofilms, cancer and how cells move.
> CLASS OF 2006 Statistics — Postgraduate educational and practice
plans; educational debt rankings.
> HISPANIC Dental Association — Dean Charles Bertolami made
diversity the centerpiece of his philosophical address to the Hispanic
Dental Association.
alumni update
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> CLASS notes
> in memoriam
> california dental association alumni reception
> 2007 scientific session
honor roll of donors
University of California
San Francisco
why I give
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BACK COVER
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> GEORGE CASTANEDA
— The UCSF School of Dentistry opened its
School of Dentistry
dentistry.ucsf.edu
doors to George Castañeda in the late 1960s. He has been doing the
same for others in California’s Central Valley ever since.
Message from the Dean
Getting It Right
G
etting it right is really the theme
of this issue of the School
of Dentistry Magazine. It’s
about people who seem to be
getting it right in both their professional
and personal lives — people here at
the school who have created for themselves exceptional opportunities to do
something innovative and useful, taking
whatever natural or acquired gifts they
possess, and making a real contribution.
They embody the truth that, ultimately,
everyone wants only two things: They
want to live a life that matters, and they
want to believe that they are a good
person. This sentiment is not original
with me; it comes from the writings of
Harold Kushner (Kushner, Harold S.
Living a Life That Matters. Anchor Books,
New York, 2001).
What it takes to convince ourselves of
this truth differs from person to person,
and in an age of rampant and corrosive
materialism, our goals can become sadly
deformed. A misplaced desire for status,
income and affluence is often just a
way we try to assure ourselves, through
the pursuit of external validation, that
society values our accomplishments and
contributions — in other words, that our
life matters. It can feel rather pathetic
and unsatisfying in the long run.
The people featured in this issue
stand for something different.
Having discovered a more direct and
unambiguous route to living a life that
matters, using their diverse gifts to
make a real contribution by making a
difference in the lives of others — and
taking some significant risks along the
way. They include dedicated clinicians
like orthodontist Karin Vargervik and
plastic and reconstructive surgeon Bill
Hoffman, who are “saving face” in China
and Micronesia by annually providing
much-needed orofacial care through the
generosity of the Hillblom Foundation.
They include Caroline Shiboski, who
is teaching health care providers in
strife-torn Zimbabwe to recognize the
oral markers for HIV, while learning a
great deal about local practices from
her collaboration with them; Mehran
Hossaini, who is reconstructing lives
in Jordan by working with regional
practitioners to repair the appalling
damage of war and introducing them to
UCSF’s vast health knowledge resources;
our remarkable dental students, caring
for the homeless in San Francisco; and
Frank Grimaldi, healing the neglected
for 25 years. They also include faculty
members who bring different gifts, but
equal dedication and distinction to the
task of improving understanding of basic
biological problems, with the ultimate aim
of discovering new treatments, cures and
diagnostic methods.
Among the most exciting additions
to the School of Dentistry faculty
over the past year are Katja Brückner,
who expands our understanding of
cancer through her study of blood cell
development in fruit flies; Creg Darby,
who studies biofilms in the nematode
C. elegans; and Torsten Wittmann,
who studies cellular movement and the
cytoskeleton; along with the contributions
of longtime faculty such as John
Greenspan and Troy Daniels, who have
built the first-ever global registry for the
high misery condition Sjögren’s syndrome.
I hope you’ll take the time to read
about these remarkable individuals
and their extraordinary contributions.
You will be inspired by their stories and
admire their motives just as much as
their achievements; and, I hope, find
satisfaction in the role your school has
played in offering them an environment to
fulfill their professional lives. Everybody
needs heroes; the faculty featured here
are some of mine.
Charles N. Bertolami, DDS, DMedSc
Professor, Dean
news
New
Research
Faculty
The UCSF School of
Dentistry welcomes
three new research
faculty and their
diverse areas of
interest to its roster
of bioscientists: Katja
Brückner, Creg Darby
and Torsten Wittmann.
Each has unique
reasons for wanting
to come to UCSF,
but all are unified in
the support offered
by Dean Charles
N. Bertolami and
the Sandler Family
Supporting Foundation.
“There’s a fabulous
community of scientists
here,” says Creg Darby,
“and there’s nothing
they love more than to
work with one another,
talk to one another
and collaborate with
one another.”
Trained at the University of Munich and the European
Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany,
Katja Brückner comes to UCSF by way of Harvard Medical
School and occupies a new faculty position in the Craniofacial
and Mesenchymal Biology program. Described by Peter
Sargent, PhD, interim chair of the school’s Department of Cell
and Tissue Biology, as a scientist who uses “very powerful
genetic techniques,” Dr. Brückner focuses on the model
organism Drosophila melanogaster, a genus of fruit fly;
specifically its hematopoietic (blood cell) development and
survival, an area of study with potential implications for the
understanding of cancer. Dr. Brückner is also interested in the
epithelial-mesenchymal transition of cells from an epithelial, or
sheet-like, state to a mesenchymal, or dispersed, state, which
relates to tumor metastasis. Describing UCSF as “a very open
and interactive scientific environment,” she looks forward to
moving collaboratively beyond her work with Drosophila to
more complex model organisms.
From the time of Creg Darby’s (below)
graduate studies, he has been interested
in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
— a type of roundworm used as a model
host in studying host-pathogen interactions
— extending his work with the organism at
Stanford’s Falkow Lab, an important center
for the study of bacterial pathogenesis. With
C. elegans, Dr. Darby’s specific interest is in
Yersinia pestis, a microorganism associated
with the propagation of bubonic plague
via the rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), and in
the biofilm in which it lives in the digestive
tract of the flea. He anticipates broadening
his work to include the direct investigation
of oral biofilms. “It’s a very open, highly
interactive environment,” he says of UCSF,
“and that’s the kind that I thrive in.”
Torsten Wittmann (above) comes to
UCSF via Heidelberg and the European
Bioinformatics Institute. He’s interested in
cellular cytoskeletons and in how cells move,
focusing on the dynamics of microtubules, a
class of filaments within cells. His decision
to bring his work here was a simple one, he
says: “UCSF has always been a focal point of
modern biology, and cell biology specifically.”
Dr. Wittmann is also highly accomplished
in the design and realization of microscopy
relevant to his work, with significant help
from the Sandler Foundation. “Cells are
amazingly beautiful,” says Wittmann. “There’s
a lot of detail and intricacy, and it fascinates
me just to look at them.”
news
Above, from left: Danny Mendoza (D ’84), scientific chair of the Hispanic Dental Association, with his wife, Josie;
Jason Pair (DDS ’97) with Rick Valachovic, executive director of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA);
William Valdez (D ’77) and his wife, Sherry
Dean Addresses Hispanic Dental Association
Dean Charles N. Bertolami delivered the keynote address at the Hispanic Dental Association convention at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles on Nov. 2, 2006. Speaking on diversity, he
emphasized the importance of diversity in dental education and practice, saying that it is not like the
typical technical subject that professional schools are so proficient at teaching. “Most diversity talk
takes place among those who already agree with each other. What about those who don’t agree —
or who haven’t thought about it?” His presentation was described as “philosophical” by Scientific
Chair Danny Mendoza (D ’84), who was enthusiastic about the range and depth of his approach.
Ernie Garcia (D ’84), outgoing president of the Hispanic Dental Association, presided at the meeting.
Congratulations to the Class of 2006
The graduating class of 2006: DDS and International Dentist Program graduates
The results of an online exit survey completed by
77 of 101 graduating DDS students, including
international graduates:
Educational Debt Comparisons
Average debt of dental students upon
graduation (2006 graduates)
35 accepted into postgraduate education programs
37 going into private practice
Postgraduate Education Plans
Endodontics................................................................. 1
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery..................................... 2
Orthodontics................................................................. 3
Pediatric Dentistry........................................................ 6
Prosthodontics............................................................. 1
General Practice Residency........................................16
Advanced Education in General Dentistry................... 3
Other............................................................................. 3
$174,241
$145,465
$124,700
$109,284
Intended Location of Practice
Suburban.....................................................................39
Urban...........................................................................35
Underserved area . .....................................................18
Rural............................................................................10
Other..............................................................................3
All US
Dental
Schools
Public
Dental
Schools
Private/
Private
(staterelated)
UCSF
School of
Dentistry
Source: Annual ADEA Survey of Dental School Seniors, 2006 Graduating Class, Journal of Dental Education (forthcoming, Spring 2007),
and UCSF Office of Admissions and Registrar
feature > > > OUTREACH
Oral Health
...for All
By Jeff Miller
Public service — how much and how heartfelt —
reveals the character of any organization. By that
standard UCSF’s School of Dentistry, already the
NIH’s top-funded dental research institution,
ranks high on the humanitarian scale as well.
Indeed, from Saipan to San Francisco’s Tenderloin,
faculty and students both in school-sponsored
programs and at their own initiative have made
the oral health and facial reconstruction of the
underserved a calling and a mission.
In the pages that follow, we highlight just some
of the people and programs that during the past
year brought the School of Dentistry off its windy
heights and into classrooms and operating rooms
— and the hearts and minds of thousands —
in San Francisco and around the world.
Saving Face
in China and Micronesia
F
or those old enough to
remember the summer of
1944, the battle for control of
Saipan, one of several islands in the
Northern Marianas chain, still echoes.
Names like “Hell’s Pocket” and
“Death Valley” speak to the intense,
brutal and sometimes suicidal
engagements between Japanese
and American forces on this speck
in the Pacific, only 12 miles long and
6 miles wide.
Now home to nearly 70,000 people,
and capital of the US Commonwealth
of the Northern Marianas, Saipan
might seem far removed from UCSF.
But thanks to funds from the Larry L.
Hillblom Foundation, a two-member
UCSF team, led by Dentistry’s
Karin Vargervik, DDS, director of
Hillblom Foundation Distinguished
Professor Karin Vargervik
the school’s renowned Center for
Craniofacial Anomalies, has since
2002 been organizing and offering
free orthodontic and surgery care to
children and adults for one week
each spring.
“Hillblom wanted to be sure
that children in Saipan born with
birth defects would be treated,”
says Vargervik. “We feel that we are
fulfilling his wish.”
The “we” in this equation includes
William Hoffman, MD, chief of UCSF’s
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery, and the plastic surgeon on
the UCSF craniofacial team who has
repaired cleft lips and palates and
other defects in more than 60 patients
since the Saipan excursions began.
Starting from scratch, the team of
Vargervik and Hoffman has now built
and helped train a group of local
specialists, including an orthodontist
and plastic surgeon on Guam 100
miles away, who provide follow-up
care once per month.
“When you’re only there for a week
and seeing as many as 30 patients,
it can be difficult to get everything
done,” Vargervik confides. “Now
we can treat patients right up to the
point where they need bone grafts
or start orthodontic treatment and
have the local specialists continue
when we’ve gone.”
Returning each year also allows
Vargervik and Hoffman to reconnect
with their patients and monitor their
progress. “It’s very satisfying, but also
frustrating,” says Vargervik. Speech
therapy, an important part of the overall
William Hoffman
program in San Francisco, is in short
supply on Saipan. “This is a continuing
problem,” she acknowledges.
Still, the chance to restore a child’s
face and transform a life is a powerful
lure and one that ensures that
Vargervik will continue to make the
health and healing trip well into the
future. At the same time, she is
adding destinations on the Chinese
mainland, thanks to a growing hunger
there for UCSF’s craniofacial expertise
and training techniques and a partnership with a non-profit organization
known as the Alliance for Smiles.
“The hospital director [in Jiujiang] explained to me
the name that will bring in patients. They
Gathering Evidence
in Argentina, Denmark, China and Japan
When the craniofacial anomalies
clinic opened at UCSF in 1954, it soon
became a model of an integrated,
multidisciplinary team approach to
children born with multiple congenital
anomalies. Other institutions have
adopted the model as well, but it
is the UCSF name that resonates
most in Asia, in part because of the
training fellowships undertaken at the
craniofacial anomalies clinic during the
last 52 years.
Vargervik admits to being somewhat
stunned by this fact on her first visit to
the university hospital in Jiujiang last
year. “The hospital director explained
to me that UCSF is the name that will
bring in patients,” she recalls. “They
want it on all their signs.”
It also is a name known by
Alliance for Smiles, which is funding
efforts to identify and transport
cleft lip and palate patients from
the Chinese countryside to hospital
clinics where Alliance volunteers,
who include plastic surgeons,
anesthesiologists, dentists and
nurses, perform the operations, as
well as train local staff.
Vargervik’s role is to help organize
Chinese university hospital specialists
to work as interdisciplinary teams to,
in effect, re-create the UCSF model
in an Asian setting. When patients
arrive, the similarities continue. Says
Vargervik, who often spends time
lobbying insurance companies for
team-care reimbursement, “The goal
is to help people with no money
and no health insurance get the kind
of care they need and deserve.”
M
any medical conditions
continue to baffle both
researchers and clinicians
alike. Included on that stubborn list is
Sjögren’s syndrome, a chronic and
often overlooked autoimmune disease
that attacks the salivary and tear
glands, causing dry eyes and dry
mouth. Nearly 95 percent of patients
are women. In many cases, Sjögren’s
is progressive, leading to infections,
involvement of other organs, such as
the liver, kidneys and lungs, and less
commonly to malignant lymphoma.
Saliva bathes and protects the
teeth from bacteria, so any reduc­
tion in flow can accelerate dental
decay. Not surprisingly, dentists
are often the first line of diagnosis
and defense, one reason why Troy
Daniels, DDS, MS, together with two
colleagues, founded the nation’s first
multidisciplinary Sjögren’s syndrome
clinic on the Parnassus Heights
campus in 1972.
Daniels, who continues as director
of the Sjögren’s clinic, has become
one of the world’s leading experts
on the syndrome. No wonder then
that when the National Institute of
Dental and Craniofacial Research,
the National Eye Institute, and the
NIH Office of Research on Women’s
Health decided in 2003 to fund an
international registry network to
study Sjögren’s, the UCSF School
of Dentistry was awarded the $11.9
million grant as both a research site
and the coordinating center. Daniels
and John Greenspan, BDS, PhD,
director of the AIDS Research Institute
and dean for research in the School of
Dentistry, are co-directors.
“At the time it was awarded, the
grant was one of the largest ever in the
field of dental research,” says Daniels.
“While it may reflect the prestige that
comes with being a leader in the field,
we had an excellent proposal drafted
by an outstanding team.”
With clinics in Buenos Aires and
Beijing, as well as those in Denmark,
Japan and, of course, UCSF, the
Sjögren’s International Clinical
Collaborative Alliance is working to
rationalize and systematize everything
from the forms used to collect data
from patients to the collection of
such biospecimens as tears, saliva,
serum, DNA and salivary gland tissue.
“Strange as it seems,” says Daniels,
“there are no internationally recognized
diagnostic criteria for Sjögren’s. That’s
one of the reasons we’re gathering
data and specimens from all over
the world. We want to develop
Candidiasis in patient with Sjögren’s syndrome,
before (left) and after treatment
Salivary gland with characteristic infiltration
of lymphocytes
that UCSF is
want it on all their signs.”
John Greenspan
Troy Daniels
“Sjögren’s is a high misery condition and we want to change that.”
international diagnostic criteria from
scratch and provide well-characterized
specimens to scientists studying the
genetics, immunology and treatment
of Sjögren’s, now and in the future.”
The UCSF School of Dentistry
is particularly well-qualified to
supervise the screening and testing
process, having started with John
Greenspan’s help what is now the
country’s oldest AIDS specimen
bank (ASB) in 1982. When it
comes to Sjögren’s, Greenspan is
characteristically determined.
“We want to systematically
deconstruct this chronic disease,”
says Greenspan. “If we can be
more focused and specific in our
knowledge, we can be more effective
when treating it.”
At the moment, more than 600
patients around the world have signed
on to the registry. With the recent
addition of a group in London as
well as natural growth at existing
sites, which sign up family members
of patients and other individuals as
controls, Daniels hopes that several
thousand names will ultimately fill
the registry.
“There are some spillover effects
as well,” Daniels adds. “What we
learn about Sjögren’s might also apply
to other autoimmune disorders like
rheumatoid arthritis or lupus.” And by
implication, a treatment for Sjögren’s
could work for other diseases, too.
For the moment, though, it is the
Sjögren’s sufferers whom Daniels
keeps uppermost in his mind.
“Sjögren’s is a high misery condition
and we want to change that.”
Exchanging Lessons
in Zimbabwe
W
hen Caroline Shiboski, DDS
MPH, PhD, soon to become
director of the School of
Dentistry’s Oral Medicine Clinical
Center, went to Zimbabwe for the
first time in 1999, she had high hopes.
The University of Zimbabwe has
recently created a department of
dentistry and there existed — in the
person of the department’s creator,
Midion Chidzonga — the tantalizing
possibility of collaborations.
Chidzonga was indeed enthusiastic
about possible research collaborations, but he was also keen on
getting help with the department’s
oral medicine curriculum. Shiboski
was happy to oblige on both fronts.
What soon developed was a joint
study intended to demonstrate that
certain oral lesions are surrogate
markers for HIV disease and to teach
nurses how to detect these lesions
in patients. Shiboski and Chidzonga
implemented the study among
women who were participants in
existing projects led by University of
Zimbabwe colleagues in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
and UCSF epidemiologist Nancy
Padian, PhD. Shiboski also developed
and implemented the oral medicine
curriculum for fourth- and fifth-year
students in Chidzonga’s department.
The Danish-born and Paris-raised
Shiboski admits that she did not
know what to expect on her first visit.
She soon discovered that she was
going to learn as much as she was
going to teach. “Learning about local
customs and culturally sensitive
issues from the nurses was a very
enriching experience,” she explains.
So, too, were her observations of her
university colleagues who carried on
with business as usual despite their
country’s economic demise. “It was
very humbling.” Her students also
proved to be an inspiration. “Even
with a faltering economy, when their
days were consumed by figuring out
how to survive, the students came
to class, motivated to learn and
incredibly appreciative of what you
were teaching them.”
From an original class of 10
students, the department of dentistry
grew to more than 40 fourth- and
fifth-year students and during her
five yearly trips — each of which
lasted about two weeks — Shiboski’s
suitcases grew increasingly heavy
as she stuffed more and more
oral pathology books into the side
pockets. At the end of the fifth visit,
with the oral medicine curriculum
set, the study objectives completed,
and the grant about to expire, she
Shiboski with fourth- and fifth-year dental students in the Department of Dentistry, College of
Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, in November 2005
Caroline Shiboski
finished her lecture and prepared
to leave. One of her students stood
up, Shiboski recalls, and eloquently
thanked her for doing research on
the oral components of AIDS and
then teaching him and his classmates
what she knew about a disease,
he acknowledged, that had directly
touched all of them in the room.
Shiboski returned to UCSF determined to weave more international
research into her already jammed
portfolio, which includes studies of
oral health among organ transplant
patients. She got her wish in the form
of a grant from the National Institute
of Dental and Craniofacial Research,
the purpose of which is to implement
an oral HIV/AIDS research agenda
within the AIDS Clinical Trial Group
(ACTG) Network. The grant makes
her leader of the epidemiology unit
of the Oral HIV/AIDS Research
Alliance (OHARA), a partnership with
University of North Carolina and Case
Western in Cincinnati. “We will be
developing oral studies and clinical
trials to improve the management
of oral problems in HIV patients,”
Shiboski explains. “The beauty of
it is that shared resources will be the
hallmark of these studies, which will
take advantage of the existing ACTG
infrastructure.” Best of all, she admits,
“I will be able to work again with my
friends and colleagues in Zimbabwe.”
“We will be developing oral studies and clinical trials to improve
the management of oral problems in HIV patients.”
Reconstructing Lives
in Jordan
T
he carnage of Iraq has a legacy
beyond the barrage of bullets,
suicide bombings and death
shrouds. Blast survivors sometimes
suffer horrific injuries to their face and
head, injuries that even in the best
of times would require complicated
surgeries to stabilize, let alone
repair. In the chaos that passes for
daily life, Iraqi oral and maxillofacial
surgeons with the knowledge and
skill to undertake these stabilizing
procedures have been overwhelmed
by the sheer number of those in need.
International relief organizations,
such as the Paris-based Doctors
Without Borders — Medecins Sans
Frontieres (MSF) — have stepped
into the breach and, in casting a
wide net for qualified and interested
reconstructive surgeons, attracted the
interest of UCSF oral and maxillofacial
expert Mehran Hossaini, DMD. Once
interviewed and accepted by the
organization soon after his arrival at
UCSF from Philadelphia’s Hahnemann
University Hospital in 2005, Hossaini
did not have to wait long for his
first call. It came in July 2006. “They
called me on a Tuesday to see if I
were available. I said yes the next
day and by Sunday, I was in Amman,
Jordan,” says the Iranian-born
Hossaini, who came of age during the
Iranian-Iraqi conflict of the 1980s.
Once at the medical facility for
his 10-day stint, Hossaini began a
series of whirlwind operations on
eight patients airlifted from Iraq. Most
operations lasted seven to eight hours;
one took 10 hours to complete. “We
were dealing with significant deficits,”
says Hossaini. Among the worst was
a 19-year-old man who had lost his
nose, left upper jaw and much of the
soft tissue in the center of his face.
“There essentially was a hole where
the center of his face should be.”
Guided by a Medical Modeling
CAT scan device that can make a
three-dimensional image of the head,
Hossaini and the MSF team, which
consisted of groups of nurses, scrub
technicians and anesthesiologists
from France, Denmark and Germany,
undertook “aggressive” bone and
soft tissue grafting to stabilize and
repair the shattered faces. Cosmetic
improvements were a byproduct of the
procedures, not their prime purpose.
“We didn’t have the luxury of doing
multiple surgeries on the same patient Mehran Hossaini
and we were limited by the type of
certainly would welcome him. In a
equipment available,” says Hossaini.
Poignantly, some patients, who ranged country hungry for medical journals,
in age from 19 to 67, brought pictures he showed his Jordanian and Iraqi
colleagues how to log on to UCSF
of themselves before their injuries,
hoping in vain for a miracle restoration. Library’s Galen system to read articles
“Yes, they were disappointed, but with and abstracts. Perhaps, too, the Iraqi
time, they understood that there would oral and maxillofacial surgeon who
be stages of healing, followed by more was also supposed to operate on
patients will be able to join him for
surgeries.”
the next round. Hossaini sighs, “He
Will Hossaini be performing any
tried to come last time, but his father
of these future surgeries? Perhaps.
was assassinated on the day he was
“I might go back in December
supposed to leave.”
[2006].” The medical staff in Amman
“They called me on a Tuesday to see if I were available.
I said yes the next day and by Sunday, I was in Amman, Jordan.”
From left: unloading the C arm, Hossaini drilling, end of surgery on the last day, MSF team in Amman
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Helping the Homeless
in San Francisco
E
very Monday night, some 10
to 15 students from the UCSF
School of Dentistry meet
with homeless men and women at
the St. Vincent de Paul Multi-Service
Center to provide dental health
education and screenings. This
shelter — located at 5th and Bryant
in downtown San Francisco — is the
largest shelter in Northern California,
housing more than 300 homeless
men and women per night. Patients
share their dental concerns and
students screen each patient,
discuss oral hygiene and hand
out toothbrushes, toothpaste and
dental floss.
If the patients are referred, a
UCSF van picks them up the following
Thursday and takes them to the
Community Dental Clinic, located at
the School of Dentistry on Parnassus
Heights. Here, students provide
basic, preventative dental care, such
as cleanings, simple restorations
and simple denture repair, for free.
Steven Silverstein, DMD, MPH, is
the faculty adviser for the program
and has been promoting social
justice, public health and community
service with the School of Dentistry
for 30 years. The school has
embraced this mission and today,
fourth-year dental students must
complete externships in several
community clinics.
“In the 1980s, students were not
as interested in giving back to the
community, given the emphasis on
money at that time,” says Silverstein.
A homeless patient is examined at the UCSF Community Dental Clinic
“But now, students want to give
back and every year they step up and
take leadership roles in the
program and it just amazes me.”
Founded just 12 years ago, the
Community Dental Clinic is thriving.
It is not only an invaluable service
for the homeless in San Francisco
— many of whom don’t have access
to dental care — it’s an opportunity
for students to serve the community,
connect with an underserved
population on a personal level,
as well as gain hands-on clinical
experience while in school.
“Being exposed to a broader
array of dental issues, students will
become more prepared and compassionate providers for any population
they choose to work with,” says
Silverstein. “Since the homeless
have little access to dental care,
they are so appreciative and they give
students positive feedback, which
reinforces the process. This program
demonstrates that someone cares
about them.”
The Community Dental Clinic is
an elective course, run primarily by
the students. Faculty and residents
volunteer on Thursday evenings to
supervise the clinic and only intervene
when needed. Approximately 60
students, from all four years, are
enrolled in the program and there are
five to six coordinators representing
each year. The director is in charge
of the coordinators and oversees the
entire program.
This year’s director is Sunnshine
Greer, a third-year student who
sees the acute need for dental care
among underserved populations
“Since the homeless have little access to dental care,
they are so appreciative and they give students positive
feedback, which reinforces the process.”
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and plans to provide it in community
clinics after graduation.
“Unlike the free medical clinics,
there are not a lot of free dental
clinics,” says Greer. “Hopefully, this
program will instill the importance of
community dentistry so that students
continue to volunteer after they
graduate.”
In 2005, students provided care for
more than 400 patients and provided
$30,000 worth of free dental care.
The clinic is funded by Associated
Dental Students, Parnassus Club,
Chancellor’s Endowment Fund,
Associated Students and student
fund-raising.
Jung Park was last year’s director
and found the experience rewarding
not only because students were
improving patients’ health; they
were also improving their smiles.
Smiles are associated with increased
self-esteem and self-esteem often
helps patients stay committed to their
rehabilitation and, in some cases,
gain employment.
Park, now in her fourth year of
studies, recalls her most memorable
moment in the program after improving a patient’s smile.
“One man came in with his two
front teeth missing. He was self-
conscious about his smile and it
inhibited him from getting back on
his feet,” she says. “But we made
a stayplate for him [an aesthetic
denture] and he could not stop
smiling. It was one of the most
beautiful things I’ve ever seen.
I’ll never forget that moment.”
As director, Park focused on the
importance of stayplates for clients
to increase self-esteem, as well as
providing dental services for those
who have been victims of violence.
Along with seeing patients from
St. Vincent de Paul Multi-Service
Center, the clinic takes referrals
from Seton Hall drug and alcohol
rehabilitation center and Glide
Memorial Church, all of which serve
clients with violence in their lives.
“It’s easy to lose the front teeth
if you’re a victim of repeated
violence,” says Park. “By replacing
the front teeth, patients won’t be
reminded every day of that violence
when they look in the mirror, and it
gives them a fresh start.”
Another student who recently
completed his three-year commitment
is Thomas Dai. Dai first came to
dental school with intentions to
work in underprivileged communities,
both in San Francisco and abroad.
Dai’s approach to dentistry is to teach
patients not only about dental health,
but their overall health as well.
“Over the three years, I saw one
patient on a monthly basis and
he started out homeless, then a
drug addict, then he went through
rehabilitation, and in the end, he got
a job,” says Dai. “He was an intelligent person, but he didn’t smile and
he hid his teeth when he spoke, which
limited his interactions with people.
Since he was motivated to improve
his overall health and stay clean, he
was a success story.”
Dai plans to take the skills and
experiences learned from the
Community Dental Clinic and apply
them to his future goal: To work
with non-profits to promote public
health, with a focus on dentistry,
in inner cities and indigent areas
across the globe.
“The clinic has reinforced my
initial motivation for entering dental
school and now I’m chomping at
the bit to start working and fulfill my
mission,” he says. —Sharon Brock
“One man came in with his two front teeth
missing.... We made a stayplate for him
and he could not stop smiling. It was one
of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.
I’ll never forget that moment.”
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Healing the Neglected
for 25 Years
I
t’s 9:05 am on Thursday, September
28, and Frank Grimaldi, DDS,
FACD, director of the General
Practice Residency (GPR) for the
UCSF School of Dentistry, is greeting
his second of three patients of the
day at the Ambulatory Care Center
(ACC) at UCSF’s Parnassus campus.
“Good morning, Clifford. I’m
Doctor Grimaldi and I met you a
year ago,” says Grimaldi, entering
the exam room with two residents.
“We are going to replace the
crowns for your two front teeth with
permanent crowns. Today, we will
take molds, and in two weeks, we
will install the crowns. But first, are
you in any pain?”
Clifford Bristol, 24, from Hayward,
California, has cerebral palsy and
diabetes insipidus and is one of more
than 300 handicapped patients seen
by Grimaldi and his GPR residents
every year. GPR is exceptional in
that it services populations who are
typically not seen in private dental
practices, such as the mentally
handicapped (80 percent of Grimaldi’s
patients), those with extreme dental
phobias (10 percent), and those with
severe medical conditions (10 percent),
including patients with hemophilia
or suppressed immune systems
following organ transplants.
“No, I’m not in pain,” says Bristol,
and gives a smile reminiscent of a
5-year-old missing his two front teeth.
The last time Bristol had seen a
dentist was in April 2005. He was
screened at the GPR clinic in
November 2005 and because of the
roughly 10-month waiting period,
this was the first day available for
his dental procedure. Because
there are so few dentists who serve
these populations, patients must
endure the waiting period and some
Frank Grimaldi
travel from as far north as the
Oregon border, as far south as the
Central Valley and as far east as
Lake Tahoe.
“We treat patients who are too
sick, too scared or don’t understand,”
says Grimaldi, who has been the
director of GPR since 1981. “The
goals of the program are to increase
public access to care for these populations and to expose the residents to
a broad array of dental issues.”
GPR is a one-year program
offering training in all aspects of
hospital dentistry with an emphasis
on comprehensive general dental
care. Each year, up to four applicants
are accepted and undergo one- to
three-month rotations in oral surgery,
oral medicine, anesthesiology,
endodontics and implant dentistry.
Because the majority of GPR
patients require anesthesia, residents
collaborate with physicians and
become experts in dentistry as it
relates to medicine and anesthesia.
“We take a whole-person approach
to care. GPR is where dentistry,
anesthesia and medicine overlap
and we assemble teams of various
providers to help manage and tailor
patients’ dental care,” says Grimaldi.
“The cumulative resources at UCSF
allow us to meet the diverse needs of
our patients, and I want to thank the
schools of dentistry and medicine
because we could not exist without
their good will and expertise.”
At 9:07 am, anesthesiologist John
Feiner, MD, enters the room and
greets Bristol. “Hi Clifford. With this
needle, I’m not going to hurt you;
I’m going to protect you. You are the
star quarterback and I am your first
line of defense,” says Feiner. “Like
Joe Montana?” asks Bristol. “That’s
right,” says Feiner, as he inserts the
IV needle and gently wheels the
patient into OR number 3.
Because he was cooperative,
Bristol will fall asleep gradually and
somewhat comfortably. Most of
Grimaldi’s patients, however, are not
as cooperative and often need to be
sedated before they are brought into
the operating room, either orally with
liquid midazolam or intramuscularly
with an injection of ketamine.
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9:22
“Because the patients are so
diverse, there is not just one way
to medicate them. We assess each
patient as an individual and figure
out the best way to interact with
each one,” says Martin Bogetz, MD,
professor of clinical anesthesia,
medical director of the surgery
center for its 19 years and course
director for the one-month GPR
rotation in anesthesia. “Many patients
simply need to be comforted by
touch or even by song. Some can
be violent. I’ve been spat on and
scratched. Frank has been kicked
and punched.”
While GPR residents are working
in the ACC on Tuesday and Thursday
mornings, Bogetz and other
anesthesia faculty go to great lengths
to find creative ways to care for
frightened patients. For one patient,
Bogetz painted an anesthesia mask
with cherry flavored syrup and
encouraged the young girl to blow up
a balloon to inhale the anesthetic. Two
weeks ago, a young boy would not
leave his mother’s car, so Bogetz and
Grimaldi asked that the car be driven
to a spot just outside the surgery
center, where the patient was injected
with ketamine in the back seat.
“Marty is a prince,” says Grimaldi of
Bogetz, with whom he has worked for
20 years. “The program could not have
been so successful and be going on
for so long if it weren’t for him.”
It’s 9:22 am, and Bristol is asleep.
Grimaldi’s calm demeanor sets the
tone in the operating room. Two
GPR residents prepare for the dental
procedure while two senior dental
students observe. In the room,
there is also one anesthesiologist,
one anesthesiology resident and one
medical student.
Since Bristol can no longer swallow
or maintain his airway, Feiner inserts
an endotracheal tube — a plastic
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tube inserted through the patient’s
nose and down into his trachea —
to ensure both proper breathing and
protection of his airway. The team
straps down Bristol’s arms and legs
and Feiner monitors the flow of
anesthetic while the dental residents
begin the examination.
With every patient, the procedure
consists of photographs, digital X-rays
(which reveal cavities), examination
and teeth cleaning. Procedures range
from one to four hours depending
on the extent of the additional dental
work required, ranging from fillings to
crown restorations to extracting teeth.
Starting this year, residents will learn
skills related to implants and minor
orthodontic movement. The goals for
every patient are: first, to avoid pain
and infection; second, to promote
ideal function; and third, cosmetic
improvement.
Midway through the procedure,
Grimaldi offers advice by drawing
a diagram of a tooth on the bed,
adjacent to Bristol’s head. “What I’d
like to see you do is put a number
two cord around that tooth and try
to get down into the sulcus,” says
Grimaldi.
“Dr. Grimaldi is a big drawer,”
says Dean Aria, 29, a resident in GPR.
“He will draw on anything: the bed,
his scrubs. He explains his ideas
and techniques through pictures.
He’s an excellent teacher.”
A typical week for Aria is:
Monday and Friday, screening
patients at the GPR clinic, located
at the UCSF School of Dentistry;
Tuesday, oral medicine training at
San Francisco General Hospital;
Wednesday, TMD clinic, learning
skills related to jaw pain and
complications; Thursday, performing
dental procedures at the ACC.
After clinical training during the day,
Aria attends classes in the evening.
The newest GPR faculty member
is Ghazala Khan, BDS, DDS, who
completed the residency program in
August of 2004 and has been an
assistant clinical professor ever since.
Khan previously completed UCSF’s
International Dentist Program after
attending dental school in Pakistan.
Khan joined the faculty because
she wanted to continue her focus in
special-care dentistry and working
with mentally disabled and medically
compromised patients.
“We are doing a great service
for this population where there is a
chance of their dental issues being
neglected because of the other
problems in their lives,” says Khan.
“My goal is to help train residents in
understanding the conditions of these
patients and I hope they will continue
to serve them over and above their
private practices.”
At 10:02 am, the exam, cleaning
and crown preparations are
complete. Feiner discontinues the
anesthetic and monitors Bristol
as he slowly wakes up. Mentally
disabled patients typically take longer
to waken, and Bristol doesn’t begin
to move until 10:16 am. At this point,
Bristol has regained his reflexes
and is able to cough and maintain
his airway, so Feiner quickly
removes the tubes which assisted
his breathing.
Bristol is wheeled out of the
OR at 10:20 am and taken to the
recovery room. “How are you doing,
buddy?” asks Feiner. Bristol lets
out a weak groan and shifts his
weight. While Feiner takes a few
minutes to monitor Bristol’s recovery,
Grimaldi says his goodbyes and
quickly walks back to the exam
room to greet yet another patient and
prepare his residents for their third
and final procedure of the day.
—Sharon Brock
10:02
“The cumulative
resources at
UCSF allow us
to meet the
diverse needs
of our patients,
and I want
to thank the
schools of
dentistry and
medicine
because we
could not exist
without their
good will and
expertise.”
10:20
At left, GPR residents work on crown
preparations for patient Clifford Bristol;
above, anesthesiologist John Feiner
monitors Bristol in the recovery room.
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Class Notes
alumni
update
A Family Tradition
of Giving
Dr. Frank Casella (D ’21) practiced dentistry in
San Francisco, his hometown, occasionally
treating patients for free — and later finding
eggs or chickens on his doorstep as payment.
He passed his giving spirit — and taste for
science — on to his daughter, Shirley Casella
Freund. Freund, who passed away in 2003,
left a substantial bequest to the UCSF School
of Dentistry in her late father’s honor. Her gift is
supporting students in the joint DDS/PhD
program, something Freund would have loved.
“My mother enjoyed helping young, up-andcoming scientists,” says her older daughter,
Leslie Freund. “She found their work very
exciting.” She felt most passionate about the
ARCS Foundation (Achievement Rewards for
College Scientists). “We always thought if she
had been born a decade or two later, she might
have pursued a career in science,” says Leslie.
“Mom was very supportive of me as a science
geek,” adds her younger daughter, Ellen Freund,
PhD, now a marine biologist. Through her gift,
Freund continues to support promising minds:
students with DDS degrees pursuing PhDs
in dentistry. By aiding these scholars, the
Casella Fund is helping meet the huge need
for professors in the field, according to John
Greenspan, BDS, PhD, dean for research at
the UCSF School of Dentistry. “We are deeply
grateful to Shirley Freund,” says Greenspan.
“Her generosity is helping enrich the pool of
academic dentists, who will train the next
generation.”
Dreams Cut Short,
and Passed Along
James Forge (D ’89) was determined to follow
in the footsteps of his sister, Joni Forge (D ’85),
first, by pursuing science as an undergraduate,
and then at the UCSF School of Dentistry. After
graduating from UCSF in 1989, James, like
Joni, returned to Southern California to establish
a private dentistry practice. “James always knew
what he wanted to do — I didn’t,” Joni laughs.
“In many ways, it was I who followed him.”
James’ enthusiasm for dentistry began during
visits to his orthodontist, who encouraged him
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CASELLA
FREUND
FORGE
to assist with small tasks, such as pouring
molds. His graduation closed the first chapter
of a tale that began with that boyhood dream.
Dr. Joni Forge’s adulthood decision to go into
dentistry, by contrast, was “roundabout” —
prompted by her brother’s passion for the
profession and by her experience as a dental
assistant following her graduation from UC
Irvine. “James really had an eye for dentistry,”
Joni recalls fondly. Sadly, Dr. James Forge
passed away from heart failure in 2002. “He was
only 42,” Joni says. “It was too soon.” To honor
her brother’s longtime dedication to dentistry,
Joni has pledged $50,000 to establish the
James O. Forge Scholarship Fund. “Thanks to
UCSF, James became the dentist he always
wanted to become,” says Joni. “I’m convinced
that this fund will help other young men and
women realize their own dreams.”
Life After Dentistry
Since retiring from dental
practice in 1997, Michael
A. Clarke (D ’61) has been
busy as a writer. His postretirement writing activities
have included the publication
of two books: Geezer Sex,
Michael Clarke
a collection of short stories,
and Whenever He Saw a Marching Band, a
full-length novel. This year, Dr. Clarke published
his newest collection of short stories, The
Little Boy Who Lived in the Movie Theater. Dr.
Clarke wrote skits and entertainments while an
undergraduate at UCLA, and during his career
as a periodontist and teacher, he wrote articles
for scientific journals and textbooks, as well
as editorials for professional journals. He later
obtained a Certificate in Periodontics and an MS
degree in pathology (University of Washington),
and was the founding editor of the California
Society of Periodontists newsletter, Probing
Thoughts. Returning to California, Dr. Clarke
practiced periodontics in Castro Valley and
Pleasanton until retiring in 1997, and has held
teaching positions at the University of Southern
California, University of the Pacific and Chabot
Community College. Free to pursue “life after
dentistry,” Dr. Clarke enjoys writing nostalgic
and humorous pieces based in part on his own
life experiences.
Sciutto
Clifford
Elconin (with grandchildren)
In Memoriam
Joseph Armand Sciutto, DDS ’28
Dr. Joseph Sciutto slipped away peacefully
on Monday, November 13, 2006, following a
full, giving, active life that spanned a century.
On October 19, 2006, he celebrated his 100th
birthday in a joyous gathering of family and
friends. The grand patriarch’s wit, sparkle and
charm were equaled by his sterling character
and rigorous self-discipline. He captivated
those around him with the twinkle in his eye,
a vast vocabulary and his hearty greeting
accompanied by a firm grip. His activity level
exceeded expectations for his years: He
exercised avidly, working out at the gym three
times a week, celebrated his last hole-in-one
at age 80 at Claremont Country Club, where
he was an enthusiastic member, and enjoyed
oil painting and fly fishing on the Mackenzie
River. He followed current events and the
stock market as avidly as his beloved Cal
Bears, was always a dapper clotheshorse
and played a winning game of dominoes.
Born in 1906 after surviving the San
Francisco earthquake in utero, he was raised
in Salinas by his mother, Louise Sciutto, with
his brother, Bill, and sister, Ida. He was a
1928 graduate of the University of California
dental school and provided outstanding care
to patients in his Berkeley practice, reluctantly
retiring after 55 years. He leaves behind his
son, Robert Sciutto; daughter, Barbara
Sciutto Blunden; and grandchildren, Jennifer
and John Hohman, Tricia MacLeod and
fiancé Nelson Singleton, Amy and Steve
Ruegg, Ann and Jim Huchingson, and Molly
Blunden. He was proud of his greatgrandkids, J.D. and Meaghan Hohman; Kyra,
Matt and Scott Ruegg; and Henry, Brady and
Andrew Huchingson. His family is
appreciative of the dedication and love given
by Venise Niko, his caregiver of 15 years. His
heartfelt losses were his wife of 54 years,
Dorothy Gale Sciutto; grandson, Robert
Douglas Sciutto; and son-in-law, Anthony
Blunden. He was an accomplished man:
UCSF Dental Distinguished Alumnus of the
Year, 1991; staff dental surgeon at UC
Berkeley Cowell Hospital, 1928-1937; clinical
instructor at UCSF Medical Center, 19581975; and chairman of the 5th International
Dental Seminar to improve dentistry in Asia
and South America in 1969. He was a proud
member of the American Dental Association;
Berkeley Dental Society (president);
UCSF Dental Alumni Association (president);
Rotary Club of Berkeley (president and Paul
Harris Fellow); UC Alumni Association;
and Xi Psi Phi Fraternity. He was a fellow of
both the American and the international
colleges of dentists.
Robert Eugene Clifford, DDS ’53
Dr. Robert Clifford passed away on
September 17, 2006, at the age of 81 years.
A native of Sacramento, he graduated from
Grant Union High School in 1943. He served
in the US Coast Guard during the Second
World War, then attended UC Berkeley and
graduated from UCSF in 1953. Practicing
dentistry for more than 46 years, Dr. Clifford
faithfully served more than four generations of
patients as a caring and compassionate
practitioner. Dr. Clifford was president of the
Sacramento District Dental Society and was
president of California Dental Service, serving
on its board for 25 years. He was honored by
the International College of Dentists in 1978.
Dr. Clifford conceptualized, and worked with
UCSF to establish, a dental hygiene program
at Sacramento City College. Retiring in 2000,
he suffered a debilitating stroke four months
later, fighting valiantly to recover for six years.
A very kind and caring man, Dr. Clifford is
survived by his beloved wife, Joyce; his
daughter, Sondra Clifford Petty; his sons,
Robert, Steven and Michael; and by 10
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Merle Elconin, BS ’57
Merle Elconin was born in San Francisco on
September 25, 1935, and passed away on
March 9, 2006, of lung cancer. She was a
non-smoker and was a strong advocate
against smoking. She received her BA degree
from UC Berkeley, completing dental hygiene
training at UCSF, where she met her future
husband, Ken, who was then in medical
school. They married in 1957. Merle’s main
interest was her family and home, but she
found time to serve as a docent at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, and as a
member of the museum service council. She
volunteered at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,
and was past president of the Valley Guild for
Cystic Fibrosis. She was a gourmet cook and
was physically active with jogging, swimming,
backpacking and skiing, and enjoyed travel
with her family. She is survived by her
husband of 48 years, Dr. Kenneth Elconin;
mother, Celia Ensler; sister, Susan Lederman,
and brother-in-law, David; sister, Keren
Horowitz, and brother-in-law, Gershon;
daughter, Elyse, and son-in-law, Craig
Goldberg; son, Steven, and daughter-in-law,
Gail Elconin; and her beloved grandchildren,
Stephanie, Bryan, Garrett and Brooke.
gone but
not forgotten
Lorraine Blanton, DH ’29
passed away on September 4, 2006
Lois Ruth Hawk, DH ’36
passed away on November 24, 2005
Sidney Borsuk, DDS ’37
passed away on June 20, 2005
John H. Smith, DDS ’42
passed away on October 1, 2005
Galen L. Albertson, DDS ’44
passed away in 2006
Ignacio Ricardo Quijada, DDS ’46
passed away on April 9, 2006
Robert Elberg, DDS ’50
passed away on October 4, 2006
Dorothy Elberg, DH ’50
passed away on September 13, 2006
Arthur Dibble, DDS ’52
passed away on March 12, 2006
Robert Gade, DDS ’53
passed away on March 25, 2006
William Byerly, DDS ’54
passed away on June 23, 2006
Henry Yamada, DDS ’55
passed away on June 29, 2006
Philip Fong, DDS ’57
passed away on September 6, 2006
Betty A. York, DH ’57
passed away on April 6, 2006
Jack Drandell, DDS ’60
passed away on June 6, 2006
Anne Marie Tevis, DH ’63
passed away on August 27, 2006
Nancy Dunn, DH ’65
passed away on March 21, 2006
Sanford Fox, DDS ’71
passed away on July 7, 2006
Ronald Gordon, DDS ’76
passed away on June 3, 2006
Barbara Stone Saltzman, DDS ’81
passed away on September 17, 2006
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alumni update
California Dental
Association
Alumni Reception
The Northern California CDA Alumni
Reception was held at Thirsty Bear
in San Francisco on Saturday,
Sept. 16, 2006. Now becoming a
highly anticipated post-CDA event,
the reception featured sumptuous
cuisine and fine beer and wine,
drawing everyone from the newest
alumni to esteemed lifetime
members. Students also enjoyed
this opportunity to mingle and
network at the event, hosted jointly
by the UCSF School of Dentistry
and the Dental Alumni Association.
Plan on attending the 111th Annual
Scientific Session, March 30-31,
2007 (see opposite page), and alumni
receptions at the California Dental
Association, Saturday, May 5, 2007,
at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel, and
at the American Dental Association,
Saturday, September 29, 2007, at
Thirsty Bear Brewing Company in
San Francisco.
Left to right: Eduardo Castro (D ’96), Carmen Hipona (D ’96),
Grant Tsuji (D ’96) and Eri Hatta (D ’01)
The Dental
and Dental
Hygiene Class
of 1957 will be
receiving special
recognition for
50 years of
professional
accomplishment.
Left to right: Antonio Ragadio (D ’76), Delia Nerez-Ragadio
(D ’80), Carolyn Lee (N ’78, MSN ’98) and Gordon Lee (D ’79)
All classes
celebrating
reunions may
contact mary.
porteous@
comcast.net.
Enjoy this
43 CEUs
Newlyweds Alan Alvarez (D ’96)
and his wife, Maria
Left to right: Helyn Luechauer (D ’66), Jarvis Luechauer,
and Donna and Leo Boger (D ’65)
Left to right:
Carolyn Chong (D ’00),
Jeff Sasaki (D ’98),
Mike Chang (D ’98),
Richard Sasaki (D ’71)
and Marie Tero (D ’99)
> > >
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1 1 1 t h SCIENTIFIC SESSION
Passion
and Excellence
March 30-31, 2007
San Francisco Marriott Hotel
C ourses include:
>Inaugural John C. Greene Dedicated Lecture,
Oral Medicine: Dushanka Kleinman, DDS, MScD
> Jean Poupard Memorial Lecture, Periodontics:
Gary Armitage, DDS
> William Ware Dedicated Lecture, Oral Surgery
> Gene West Memorial Lecture, Orthodontics
> John Gurley Memorial Lecture, Medical Emergencies:
Oscar Alonzo, DDS, MD
> Endodontics: Ove A. Peters, DMD, MS, PhD
> Dental Law and Ethics: Ronald P. Goldman, Esq.
>Infection Control: Molly Newlon, DDS, MA
> Dental Anesthesia: Alan Budenz, DDS
>Restorative Dentistry: Michal Staninec, DDS, PhD
> Digital Photography: Mark Dellinges, DDS, MS
> Posturedontics: Bethany Valachi, MS, PT, CEAS
We have negotiated a special room rate of $219.
Check for more information and register online at
dentalalumnisf.org.
great value — two full days of CE for $190.
offered!
Register online at: dentalalumnisf.org
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2005–2006
Honor Roll of Donors
The UCSF School of Dentistry
is pleased to recognize gifts
and pledges of $100 or
more to the school between
July 1, 2005, and June 30,
2006. Alumni from the
DDS, Postgraduate Specialty
and Dental Hygiene
programs are listed under
their graduation year.
Donors of $1,000 or more
receive membership in the
UCSF Dean’s Associates (DA).
Members of the Heritage
Circle (HC) have made deferred
gifts through wills or trusts.
The Parnassus Club Giving
Program was incorporated
into the School of Dentistry
Annual Fund five years ago to
be consistent with the other
UCSF schools.
We have made every effort
to provide a complete and
accurate listing of donors
from July 1, 2005, to June 30,
2006. If you notice an error
or omission, please accept
our apologies and contact
Richard McKenzie, director
of development for the
UCSF School of Dentistry,
at 415/476-3645 or
rmckenzie@support.ucsf.edu.
1935
David N. Cook
Jacqueline H. David
Warren A. Kitchen
Peter F. Oppenheim
Joseph S. Shiraishi DA
James H. Wellman
Susan L. Lindsay
1938
Dante Salera DA
1939
1953
Lorraine Laakso
1941
Max Gatov* DA HC
1942
Victor I. Garfinkle
Clyde R. Parks DA
Tom T. Takahashi
1943
Gino Battagin
Gerald A. Bellagamba
Duane B. Busch HC
Herbert F. Gabriel DA
Andrew C. Maass
Daniel R. Stevens
Albert Wasserman DA
1944
Allen J. Gardner
Elbert A. Jensen
1945
Alvin H. Barbanell
Arthur Berke
Frederick H. Hong
Benjamin W. Pavone
Charles T. Wells
Robert F. Brigante
Harold W. Nielsen DA
1947
Ralph P. Sanguinetti
1956
1948
Robert R. Longstreth
DA
1949
William H. Barr
Donald H. Devlin DA
Robert A. Forster DA
Marylin C. Mathews
M. Harvey Lee
1951
Thomas A. Curtis
Charles E. De Freitas
Glen P. Doughty
George P. Gerrodette DA
John E. Johns
Beverly M. Leggett
Thomas D. Lewis
Joan D. Loughlin
Albert V. Allen
C. Carlos Cabrera
*deceased
Lawrence D. Brucker DA
Robert Frates
Melvin Freeman
Katsumi Izumi
Sol Silverman DA
Dale A. Thompson
William H. Ware DA HC
Joan K. Wirthlin
Max R. Flehinger
Arnold H. Gazarian DA
Gordon F. Harris
Ben Ichikawa
Stanley H. Levin
William Sakamoto
Alfred E. Stokes
Philip M. Weston
Henry Yamada* DA
1950
20
1954
1955
1946
1952
Don B. Baynton
Robert G. Bley
Robert W. Burkhard
Lorenz F. De Julien
Robert H. Gade*
S. Thomas Giannetto
Edwin C. Gordon
Allen E. Hom
Miles E. Morgan
Harry T. Nomura
Robert R. Pettit
Arthur M. Tonsager
Kazuo Arima DA
Helen M. Baldwin
Robert G. Bleier
Eleanor Flehinger
James J. Garrett
Joseph B. Green
LaVonne D. Holmes
Ronald J. Nicholson
Joseph J. O’Neill
Gerald M. Poppers
Donald R. Poulton
Adrienne Rovens
Kinji Sera
John A. Tagg
William M. Wagner
M. Robert Wirthlin, Jr.
F. James Yamakawa
1957
Kiyoto Arakawa
Thomas A. Boyce
Robert L. Calderone
Marilyn C. Friedman
DA Member of the Dean’s Associates
Earl L. Hummel
Calman Kurtzman
William K. Young
1958
Janice W. Boyce
Clark R. Burton
David C. Coykendall
Joseph W. Davis
Robert M. Laxineta
Ann P. Leigh
Philip W. Leigh
D. Stanley Powell
Leonard C. Schmitt
Thomas W. Wrigley
1959
Donald J. Dal Porto DA
Clifton F. Horrell
Evelyn J. Loo
Allen B. Short
Charles A. Soderstrom
James O. Starr
Sharalee S. Wrigley
1960
Raymond L. Ferrari
Yue Mar DA
Donald T. Nakahata DA
Robert B. Neumayr
Elaine S. Nielsen DA
William A. Peel
Kenneth L. Russell
Lily M. Shibuya
Richard H. Suezaki
David L. Winegar
1961
Ann B. Barton
Jeanne C. Chin
Harold S. Coffman
Robert R. Conner
James A. Davis
Richard A. Gaebel
Paul E. Giers DA
Clinton Gurnee
Bertin D. Hall
Don C. Johnson
Gil C. McAdams
James M. Miller
Delmar R. Mobley
George J. Ochikubo
Heber R. Olson
Ann L. Peel
Abraham S. Urbach
Robert W. Weis
Melvyn S. Wishan
1962
Antoinette Ciapponi
Donald L. French
Ralph C. Lewis DA
John O. Riebe
Hubert V. Templin
Mitch M. Wakasa DA
Quen W. Young
HC Member of the Heritage Circle
1963
Marvis J. Brodke
Harvey A. Brody
Harold S. Chew
Leonard G. Clove
Bennett L. Dubiner
Chung H. Fong DA
Victor L. Hawkins
Ralph H. Heath
Markell W. Kohn
Sam Law DA
Glenn W. Lee DA
Don R. Lenzi
Franklin L. Louie DA
Robert S. Navone DA
Russell J. Newell DA HC
Robert E. Robocker
Leroy M. Shimizu
Wayne G. Watson
Annette W. Whittaker
Jim S. Yamaguchi
1964
Leonard V. Cheney
Steven M. Goldman
Joseph A. Gryson
Stephen N. Jaffe
George S. Kubota
Gary E. Lee
Eugene M. Sakai DA
David Sherwood
John T. Smith
Sam I. Takemoto
William W. Walker
A. Terrence Whittaker
1965
Howard D. Brodke
Douglas E. Cowden DA
John A. Crandall
Richard T. Daffner
Roberta Lawrence
Larry S. Luke
John A. Myers
Gerald D. Nelson
Warden H. Noble
Decio G. Oliveira
Gerald G. Pacheco
Jack G. Rosser
Kenneth K. Takeda DA
Don L. Truex HC
Po-Ping Wong
1966
William E. Alexander
Gary C. Armitage DA
Thomas J. Chin
Theodore S. Falk DA
Molly A. Fisher
Douglas G. Freeman
John C. Lauer
Margaret Lessinger
Helyn C. Luechauer DA HC
Roger C. Lunt DA
Teruye H. Oshidari
Leonard H. Remedios
Roger F. Samuel
Neal L. Satre
Margaret L. Sterlin
Gordon B. Swanstrom
Karen B. Thomas
Scott Thompson
Gary L. Walker
1967
1971
Jack G. Caton
Troy E. Daniels DA
Richard J. DicKard
Edward Epstein
Bruce H. Forsythe
Michael F. Hoey DA
Lee F. Hollister DA
Eugene H. Kinoshita
Harry H. Lawrence
Robert J. Mostovoy
Stephen C. Ott
Adelene J. Panzer
John D. Pearson
Richard D. Rozen
Roy A. Shellow DA
Jan C. Swanson
J. Christopher Thompson
1968
Robert Berg
Ervin T. Casselman
Walsh J. Conmy
Charles M. Fischer
Donald W. Guttman
Dexter W. Hong
Carl A. Kuhn
Donald J. Lundgren
George G. Nii
Arthur R. Paik
Michael R. Panzer
Wayne Quan
Marshall J. Taylor
Philip A. Trask
Richard G. Vanderbilt
Barbara Winter
1969
Ronald C. Adair
Henry E. Bennett DA
Phillip W. Borges
William J. Comport DA
Robert R. Hampton
Richard R. Johns
James E. Laughlin
Gary C. Lyon
Anthony E. Nagy
Laura Neumann
Richard Sebastian
Charles K. Wear
Frank K. Yorita DA
1970
Barry Burstein
Timothy C. Calvin
Kenneth D. Crow
R. Michael Meyer
John A. Noren
Stephen R. Prevost
Lary J. Schiller
L. William Schmohl III DA
Frank L. Camodeca
Stalin Chu
Lawrence S. Clarke
Richard R. Dell’Acqua
David A. Graham DA
Donald R. Guest
Hollace A. Hermansen
Ernest A. Kahl DA
Glenn W. McCormick
Linda G. Mostovoy
Stephen A. Norton
James L. Peck
Donald A. Ritzman
Donald K. Yoshikawa
1972
Noelle C. Bianchi
Don B. Hawley
Arthur K. Hayashi
Birney A. Jensen
Raymond A. Lacy DA
Stephen J. McAuliff DA
Peter Milgrom DA
James M. Pappenfus
William T. Souto
Edward L. Stoddard
Gregory D. Wilcox
Gary P. Yee
Carolyn E. Young
1973
Debra L. Brown
Frank Casanova DA
George Castañeda DA
Steven F. Cavagnolo
Donald G. Gardner
Donald R. Hermansen
Diane F. Jankowski
Mark P. Jankowski
Dennis K. Kinoshita
Douglas M. Martin
Ralph W. Moore
Jack E. Sherman
Carl P. Sikora
Peter J. Tafoya
Michael C. Thomas
1974
Gordon J. Block DA
Richard B. Dawson
Gary Grablin
William A. Grippo
Jean P. Hodge
Allen D. Johansen
Ronald M. Kaminishi DA
Victor T. Lee
Michael J. Lopez
Steven D. Ogaz
Patrick E. Shannahan
1975
Nelson Artiga-Diaz DA
Lisa D. Brennan
Jeanine M. Cardelli
Lawrence W. Chu DA
Ralph B. Feriani
Douglas A. Gilio
Wayne M. Grossman
Larry L. Harman
Hosea L. Harper
Irving L. Horowitz
Peter Kung
Alan E. Lines
Albert E. Martin
Paul R. Moon
Mary L. Porteous DA
Gregory L. Psaltis
Brian J. Swann
Martha A. White
1976
William G. Anderson
Kathleen J. Anthony
Kenneth A. Bianchi
James J. Carbone
William C. Chan DA
Stephen W. Garcelon
Eugene Y. Hayashibara DA
Joseph A. Holtz
Donna R. Morrow
Vaughn E. Nordes
Linda S. Piller
Phoenix E. Sinclair
Dale A. Soria
Donald W. Stoneburner
Thomas D. Varin
Philip G. Winters DA
Dennis D. Wong
1977
Thomas J. Adams DA
B. G. Bedford
Nannette J. Benedict DA
Adriaan Boer
Steven L. Brown
Victor L. Chaney
Dennis W. Clark
Thomas K. Ditchey
Carla S. Dodge
Elliott S. Dushkin
Richard A. Felton DA
Robert M. Fernandez
T. Gary Forester
Barney T. McKee
Ronald J. Oleson
Neal P. Swann DA
Patrick E. Taylor
William Valdez DA
Babette A. Wagner
Austin A. Wall
Timothy A. Wong DA
1978
Raymond L. Bertolotti DA
Jeff Chamberlain
Howard Y. Endo
Paul F. Hannah DA
Richard W. Henifin
Douglas W. Lins
Mark F. Mathews
Thomas J. Milovina
Bruce Newman
Cathy L. Oleson
Irvine D. Oliver
Robert A. Olson
Philip O. Rivera
Richard A. Silva
Pauline H. Susanto
Melvin T. Wells
Stephen F. West DA
1979
Stephanie L. Byers
Marco M. Chavez
Stanley A. Dittman
Michael B. Emerson
Nancy Fenstermacher
Donald L. Foster
Ralph D. Hawkins DA
Gregory J. Heise
Michael L. Holland
Phyllis M. Ishida DA
Wayne L. Joseph
Mark S. Kroncke
Gordon Q. Lee
Thomas M. Lee
Janet E. Leisen
Daniel L. Martinez DA
Thomas T. Ogawa
Charles J. Roth
Allan R. Schultz
Percy P. Serrano
Avelino M. Silva
Antonio C. Sustaita
Charles E. Torgerson
H. Guy Weichert III
Dennis K. Wong DA
1980
Brian C. Alessini
David Ang
Steven J. Byers
William B. Carroll DA
Charles R. Carter
Joseph R. Cave DA
Gar N. Chan
David S. Estrada
James W. Fisher
Denly Herbert
Dallas H. Hickle
Robert W. Hoffman
Lorraine K. Kitasoe
Clayton A. Layus
Howard B. Low
David G. Molina
Maria P. Molina
Steven A. Nomura DA
Mario J. Ricciardi DA
John I. Rich
Norma Solarz
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2005–2006
Honor Roll of Donors
continued
Courtland Stacpoole
James R. Stephens
Gary R. Templeman
Ming T. Wong DA
Bradley L. Yee
Ronald Yee DA
1983
1985
Brian S. Adams DA
Samuel J. Angulo
Frank T. Beavers
Joan H. Berger
Francis L. Carrington
Clifford A. Chow DA
Mark A. Dellinges DA
Brian S. Dolberg
Terry L. Eggleston DA
Louis P. Evans
Stephen W. Glazier
Alfonso D. Gonzalez
Stephen R. Henry DA
Leslie Y. Hsu
Jay K. Huffaker DA
Beverly A. Kodama DA
Robert S. Koshiyama
Judith V. Lane
Donald R. Layus
Raymond Lee
Eric P. Messinger
Robert S. Morrison DA
Frank L. Ng
Richard F. One
Robert P. Rogers
Stephen M. Schwarcz DA
Joan Seet
Steven D. Soares
John E. Wanzo
Bruce L. Whitcher DA
Richard B. Williams
Michael D. Zatto
Ruth Aramaki DA
Robin H. Berrin
Karl R. Bingemann
Robert M. Brent
Sergio Correa
John P. Cunningham
Richard J. Dare
David M. Gordon
Kirk M. Hanson
Issac K. Huang
Robert H. Iezman
John G. Jaso
Neal Kawazoe DA
Scott Keithley
Mark D. Kirkland
Richard C. Lane
Alan E. Limbird
George A. Malkemus
Lloyd P. Nattkemper
Kathleen J. Nuckles
Debra E. Oliver
Jorge Pantoja
Curtis J. Perry
William L. Robison
Rafael A. Roges DA
Roberto Roges
Estela Sanchez
Nicasio Sarabia
Gerald E. Soo Hoo
Martin H. Thurston
Melissa S. Tuft
Kevin C. Uyesugi
George Valdez
Peter K. Yu DA
1982
1984
1981
Stephen A. Abbott DA
Byron D. Alder
Bruce K. Bartlett
Eddie A. Cecilio
Deborah A. Dowrie
Evelyn J. Frye
Lindsay S. Grady
Jeffery R. Graves DA
Paul Hall DA
Erik A. Head
Richard J. Healy
Jennifer D. Herron
Corrie C. Leisen
Mark S. Loisel
Mark R. Maberley DA
Roderick L. McBride DA
Joseph M. McIntyre
Mark R. Morgan
Michael R. O’Brien
Alfred Osolin
Howard F. Pollick
Andrei Roschkowsky DA
Donald A. Salera
Philip J. Sanchez
Paul Sasaki
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Kimberly J. Sinclair
John C. Trueb
John S. Van der Werff
Carol K. Arima DA
Mark T. Arima DA
May M. Chang
C. Craig Creasey
Victoria L. Day
Susan A. Duling
Patricia F. Fong DA
Thomas W. Fong DA
Jeffrey F. Frost
Karen A. Giannotti
Mark W. Joiner
Helen F. Jow
Neil M. Katsura
Bradley C. Louie DA
Davis Y. Louie
Daniel B. Mendoza
Jon J. Menig DA
Larry Napolitano DA
Douglas E. Oliver
Francisco Perez
Terrence S. Poole
Alex Puig
Gina K. Ruotolo
Beth A. Stein
Martha J. Thompson
Mark W. Anderson
Ken Baumgartner
Susan K. Dorris
Bonnie L. Emerson
Joni A. Forge DA
James M. Giblin
Lori C. Good
Mary M. Gray
Reginald A. Griggs
Lenore S. Hata
Samuel T. Huang DA
Denise M. Jabusch
Juliati S. Jones
Rodney K. Kihara
Glenn T. Kubota
Kathleen Kujiraoka
Patrick H. Lee
Stephen B. Mann DA
Linda N. Mori
Kathryn T. Onishi
Berous L. Parish
Paula M. Roemer DA
Jimmy M. Saiku
Valarie A. Saunders
Daniel M. Schulze
Jean L. Seamount DA
Sylvia D. Urbina
K. C. Whitaker
1986
Bertram B. Amiri
David T. Constant
Mark W. Dal Porto
John E. Duling
Robert W. Erlach
Aaron Escalante
Anthony R. Ferrer
Jeffrey C. Gray
Lawrence M. Guittard
Richard M. Kilmer
Perry R. Klokkevold
John K. Leung
Christina P. Mason
Carlos J. Nogueiro
Diane M. Pooler
Lisa Sarasqueta
Donald R. Steffy
George W. Swanson DA
Robert B. Watkins
Susan C. Wong
Guei-Mei C. Wung DA
Min C. Yoo
1987
Michael Alvarez
Carolyn J. Doherty DA
Lawson E. Evans
Steven J. Goodman
Paul Himmler
Charles L. Hoyt
Kacy J. LaFleur
Callin Lee
Donna L. Leong
Ingrid A. Lubbers
Claudia M. Masouredis
Kathy Noordeh DA
G. Lynn Wan
Albert R. Cabrera
Jo Ann A. Chang DA
Darrell S. Chun DA
Jay N. Cohen
Kevin J. Garvin
Kris S. Hamamoto
Robert P. Ho
Steve M. Leighty
Sum Li
Maria B. Manaloto
Hoai H. Nguyen
Kevin M. O’Dea
Luann C. Plummer
Stacey D. Quo DA
Paulene K. Salter DA
Paula T. Sebastiani DA
Tod T. Wakamatsu
Winifred S. Wong
Craig Y. Yonemura
1988
John A. Boghossian DA
Mark L. Bradford
Larry J. Diamond
Jerrilee A. Doss
James H. Friedman
Sam H. Hariz DA
Yuri Kaneda DA
Issa G. Karkar
Michael P. Kennedy
Ronald C. Lee DA
Maria L. Montalvo
Mark Y. Muramoto
Aaron R. Nunnery
Guy W. Peabody DA
Noushin Pirnazar
John A. Stevens
Douglas J. Valentine
Mai T. Vo
1992
1989
Cynthia K. Brattesani HC
James S. Brodfuehrer DA
Jeannie Chung
Cyrus S. Ezzati
Ronald W. Filice DA
Steven L. Flood
Julie F. Forstadt
Janice L. Gerber
Yvonne Goff
Wayne S. Hane
Tana L. Henderson
Bergen James
Terrence O. Lee
Maria C. Lopez-Shams
Claire O. Marcel DA
Thomas J. Marcel DA
William J. Marweg DA
William R. Miller
Christopher D. Parker
Jeffery A. Starr DA
Kirsten A. Valentine
Catherine E. Wuesthoff DA
Thomas F. Wuesthoff DA
Tamara K. Abbett DA
Dan D. Banh
Bettie C. Crane DA
Mark A. Crane DA
Alfonso O. Delgado
Alfonso G. Galindo
William V. Huiras
Alexia R. Lucero
Scott H. Nguyen
Gregory Nip
Emeraude A. Thai
Christine D. Tran DA
Janice J. Wang-Sayson
Eric C. Wong DA
John M. Yamamoto
1993
Chui Chan
Sarah De Sanz
Todd A. Franklin DA
Melanie S. Parker
Trong T. Tran
Elly D. Triplett
Sylvia C. Tso
1994
Michael J. Chew
Peter L. Conmy
Janine Ma-Golding
Julie S. Miller
Margaret Sharkey DA
Alice H. Tai DA
Julia A. Villa-Miramontes
Allen Wei
Ronald W. Zufall
Adebayo L. Aliu
Kristine E. Balcom-Reed
Brian E. Chamberlain
Elisa M. Chavez
Joseph Y. de Jesus
John P. Hansen
Wendy C. Lu DA
Walter K. Lucio
Michael S. Lyons DA
Daniel F. Muff DA
Reolina S. Muskat
Maria N. Quimson
Phuongtu T. Truong
Evan J. Vogel DA
Ye-Ming Wu DA
1991
1995
1990
Jeffrey D. Barton
Paul R. Bianchi DA
DA Member of the Dean’s Associates
Eric L. Batterton
Gregory S. Guymon
HC Member of the Heritage Circle
Kirsten A. Jarvi
Paul Kasrovi DA
Peter H. Lam DA
Frances S. Lee
Philip R. Letts
Ziba Manouchehrizadeh
Bryan E. Pierce
Michael F. Whelan
1996
Margaret Chiu-Yeh
Lien T. Dang-Peterson
Han K. Do
Trang T. Duong
Jeffrey H. Janian DA
Scott I. Nabeta
Miriam C. O’Malley DA
Myrabelle A. Salcedo
Robyn R. Shields
Andrew I. Softley
1997
Ana J. Amaya
Daniel J. Araldi
Melinda J. Au
Haydee M. Campos
Alice P. Cao
Kelly A. Conlon
Peter J. Giannini
Darren A. Gonzalez DA
David W. Haines
Jung H. Hong
Christian R. Kenworthy DA
David W. Lee
Stephanie B. Loller
Geri Lynn G. Okamoto
Brett T. Takemoto
Louis Tieu DA
Hung D. Tran DA
Dave Wang DA
Joan Westmoreland
Viviane G. Winthrop
Sirak Y. Workneh
1998
Robert M. Alexander
Crisanta R. Alzona
Urmi Amin
David R. Datwyler
Tim D. Dumore DA
Cami E. Ferris-Wong
Edward B. Fong
Kriston N. Gallipeau
Kelly M. Giannetti DA
Kathleen C. Hwang
Marie Y. Kao-Hsieh
Kathy H. Lee
Mason Y. Lee DA
John T. Noble
Lan H. Quan
Daniel Sampson
Sri Thamby DA
Patricia M. Wong
Denise A. Zendejas
1999
Diana Collins-Sullivan
Jean L. Creasey
Oh J. Kwon
Christine L. Martinez
Dawud A. Muhaimin
Michael N. Nguyen
Tina T. Nguyen
Minsik Pak
Heather Rutherford
Walter Tatch
Vicheth Thay
2000
Michael Y. Chan DA
Joseph S. Chuy
Roy J. DeLappe
Adam Fettig DA
Shawn P. Guerin
Ameneh Khosrovani
Thomas N. Ludlow
Dax F. Martin
Nazanin Morshedi
Camtam T. Nguyen
Thach-Tu L. Nguyen
Joni Smith-Rode
Brian Zwahlen
2001
Preston C. Briggs
Charles O. Lau
Jeanelle D. Le
Karen W. Lin
Farhad Mazi
Rameek McNair
Ayman A. Metwally
Albert G. Ruezga
Lloyd S. Suzuki
2002
Pamela D. Lim
Jose A. Mirelez
Sandra G. Reyes
Christopher R. Sabourin DA
Justin W. Shek
Darce A. Slate
Peter T. Yang
2003
Rupert E. Cervantes
J. Matthew Hancock
Cindy B. Hue
Juliet T. Luu
Maryam M. Pearose
Friends of the School of Dentistry
The UCSF School of Dentistry is pleased to recognize foundations,
corporations, associations and non-alumni individuals who gave
$100 or more to the school between July 1, 2005, and June 30, 2006.
3i – Implant Innovations, Inc. DA
Deborah and John S. Greenspan DA
3M Unitek Corporation DA
G. Hartzell & Son
Academy of Laser Dentistry DA
Robert W. Hortin
Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research
Foundation DA
Hu-Friedy DA
American Association of Endodontists DA
Deborah Jones
American Association of
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons DA
Kai Pharmaceuticals, Inc. DA
American Association of Orthodontists
Foundation DA
Craig W. Kilgore DA
Thomas A. Jacobs DA
Alice C. and Bertram G. Katzung
Knoff & Fettig, P.S.
American Dental Association
Health Foundation DA
Joan P. and Alan A. Kunz DA
American Geriatrics Society, Inc.
American Heart Association
Grace Lawrence DA HC
DA
Adam Lloyd DA
DA
American Heart Association, National Chapter
Laurie M. MacPhail DA
Applied Biosystems, Inc.
Maria McDevitt
Arthritis Foundation National Office
Richard H. McKenzie
Attachments International
Rita A. Balian
Native Sons of the Golden West
Charitable Foundation DA
The Berberian and Gazarian
Family Foundation DA
Renaldo G. Parisi DA
Estate of Nina Pera DA
Linda and Charles Bertolami DA
Dorothy A. Perry DA
Andrew L. Black
The Pew Charitable Trusts DA
Josephine Bovill-Erpf DA
Scott W. Podlesh DA
Julian E. Ponce
Brasseler USA DA
Devra and Lester Breslow
Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc. DA
DA
Estate of Shirley Reich DA
Jack Breslow DA
George E. and Rebecca S. Calandri
Mark I. Ryder DA
California Dental Association
San Francisco Dental Society
DA
California Endowment DA
Peter B. Sargent DA
California HealthCare Foundation DA
Sarlo Foundation DA
California Wellness Foundation DA
Betty W. Silverman DA
Ralph A. Callender
Bunny Sisson
Eunice Chee
Stryker Biotech DA
Lily E. Chew
Suzanne Sutton
Synthes (U.S.A.) DA
Rodney C. Chew
Community Health Charities of California
DA
Edward Tritico
Paul and Susan Copperman DA
Roslyn M. Tuttle
Don Curtis DA
UCSF Dental Alumni Association DA
Caroline H. Damsky DA
Paul T. Ulrich DA
Delta Dental Plan of California DA
United Way of the Bay Area
Derek K. Carson
Katherine G. DeLuna
Nazanin Hakim
Suhair J. Hanhan
Roxana Ramezani
Jen-kuei Wang
Kathleen D. Dooley
United Way Sacramento Area
California Capital Region
Fisher Scientific DA
University of the Pacific,
School of Dentistry DA
2005
Gillette Company DA
Peter Urban
GlaxoSmithKline DA
Helen Wong
Newton C. Gordon DA
Irene Y. and Yasuo Yatsushiro
2004
Patrick G. Duffy
Cyrus Salehi
DA
Rosalie B. Eisen
DA
Embassy of the State of Kuwait DA
Teodoro E. Eusebio
DA
University of California Orthodontic
Alumni Foundation DA
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UCSF School of Dentistry Educational Services
Gems of the Baltic
August 12–22, 2007
Come sail with us on Holland America’s
Veendam and experience Scandinavian
capitals, the wonder of Czarist Russia
and the history of northern Germany.
The continuing education program features one of our most
highly rated speakers, Dr. M. Anthony Pogrel, professor
and chair, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,
speaking on dentistry, surgery and risk management issues.
DEPARTURE: Copenhagen
Ports of Call:
> Tallinn, Estonia
> St. Petersburg, Russia
> Helsinki, Finland
> Stockholm, Sweden
> Visby, Sweden
> Warnemunde, Germany
> Arhus, Denmark
Veendam
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Travel
13th Annual UCSF Island Dental Colloquium
to Hawaii
February 19–23, 2007
The Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club
Travel to the Garden Isle with us for another
outstanding educational opportunity,
featuring three excellent faculty speakers.
Combine this with the beauty and
splendor of Kauai, and you have an
unbeatable travel education program
for the entire office team.
> > > or call us at 415/476-1101
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why I give
George Castañeda: A lifetime
of community service
> To support the
UCSF School
of Dentistry,
contact Richard
McKenzie at
415/476-3645 or
rmckenzie@
support.ucsf.edu.
UCSF has a “huge potential to change the
lives of young men and women in a positive
way,” says Dr. George Castañeda (D ’73),
who believes that giving should “bring to the
forefront the quality of the recipient.” That
has certainly been the example set by Dr.
Castañeda’s life and practice. “The University
opened doors for me,” says Castañeda,
who credits Dean Emeritus Ben Pavone with
his recruitment to the UCSF DDS program,
and sees his philanthropy to the School of
Dentistry as a way to extend the reach of
that vision and open doors for others. Born
in rural Torreón, México, Castañeda came to
the United States around 1954. After military
service, he completed five years of college
while working nights, by then married and
the father of four children.
Dr. Castañeda cites Dr. Robert Brigante
and Dr. Gordon Douglass as standouts
among his faculty mentors. “We came in
with different ideas — ‘nonsensical’ things
like community dentistry — and they bent
over backwards to help,” he says, recalling
the origins of La Clínica de la Raza, which
he co-founded in 1971 to serve the health
needs of the Latino community.
He passed up lucrative practice partnerships to direct a community-based clinic in
the Central Valley, but eventually he did go
into private practice. “I came out here and
crossed swords with the local guys, and
they turned out to be advocates because
we had the same objective in mind: provide
a good service to the people who probably
would not have gotten it.” His practice —
and his other community projects, including
banking, housing and the health education
of young people — is flourishing. “It’s
important to give back.”
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