Admissions Hosts Send-Off for Dr. Gregory Stoute
Associate Professor and Director of Minority Affairs Dr. Gregory Stoute marked his last day at GSDM with a farewell party hosted by the Office of Admissions. Featuring cake and camaraderie, the party celebrated Dr. Stoute’s nine years of service at GSDM.
At the party Assistant Dean for Admissions Catherine Sarkis presented Dr. Stoute with a plaque and other gifts. “On behalf of the School, I’d like to thank Dr. Stoute for his service and for his friendship,” said Sarkis. “We truly appreciate his contributions in admissions, recruiting, mentoring, advising, and educating students.”
Dr. Stoute has had a profoundly positive impact on the students of GSDM and his colleagues since he joined the faculty in 2002. During this time he has been active with various student organizations, including the GSDM chapters of ASDA, VSDA, and SNDA—where he served as faculty advisor.
His excellent work has certainly not been limited to within the walls of the School. In 2005, Dr.—a.k.a. Colonel—Stoute was deployed to Iraq as Commander of the 455th Medical Company, a US Army Reserves unit out of Devens, Massachusetts. In northern Iraq he worked as the Officer-in-Charge of the Logistics Supported Area (LSA) at Anaconda Dental Clinic—the largest dental clinic in Iraq—located at Balad Airbase. In 2009, back on US soil, he was appointed to the Board of Registration in Dentistry for a five-year term by Governor Deval L. Patrick. Also that year he was named the 2009 ADEA/Sunstar Americas, Inc./Harry W. Bruce, Jr. Legislative Fellow. In this public policy post Dr. Stoute functioned as a staff member in the ADEA Center for Public Policy and Advocacy (CPPA), part of the ADEA Central Office in Washington, D.C., for a three month term. In 2010, he—and recent graduate Esther Lim DMD 10—traveled to Jamaica with the Jamaica Awareness Association of California to provide oral health outreach. Dr. Lim learned a great deal on this outreach mission and she credited Dr. Stoute with encouraging her to participate. She was one of several students who have accompanied Dr. Stoute on an oral health outreach mission in recent years.
Dr. Stoute has also served on numerous committees and councils at GSDM including the DMD I and DMD II / AS I Promotions Committees, GSDM “Student Quality of Life” Committee, and the Dean’s Council on Ethics and Professionalism. Outside of GSDM he has been extremely active on committees within HRSA, ADEA, ADA, and NDA—where he served as 2002 President.
Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter said, "Dr. Gregory Stoute has been an incredible role model for our students. His work both at the School and in the larger dental community illustrates the scope of opportunities available to dental graduates. He will be sorely missed, but on behalf of the entire GSDM community, I wish him the best of luck in this next chapter of his personal and professional life in Texas."
Photos from the party are available on flickr and facebook.