Drs. Friedman & Calabrese Join Forces to Educate Nursing Home Staff
GSDM teamed up with Mass Senior Care, which represents 80 to 90 percent of the nursing homes in Massachusetts, this summer to bring a seminar series on senior oral health care to nursing home staff throughout Massachusetts. The program, called Oral Health & Overall Health: It’s a Two-Way Street, hit Northampton, Peabody, Randolph, and Marlborough […]
Externship Trio Gets the Word Out About Smoking
Three students recently went above and beyond to fulfill their externship community outreach requirement. The students—Sayed Al-Mousawi DMD 12, Amy Mann DMD 12, and Vera Chernomordik DMD 12—attended an outreach event in East Boston held in the Shaw’s parking lot. The event included volunteers from Boston University School of Medicine, The Family Van, and the Dana Farber […]
CHP Promotes Oral Health to Population with Psychiatric Disabilities
On July 6, CHP Oral Health Promotion Director Kathy Lituri led a group of students to the Center Club, a Program of Bay Cove Human Services. That day the Club was hosting a Dental Health Promotion Day. The group of volunteers— Joe Bousaba DMD 13, John Costandi DMD 12, Michael Donavan DMD 13, Michelle Holzinger […]
CHP Faculty Members Get Busy in June
Community Health programs (CHP) faculty and staff sure have been busy! CHP dentists Drs. Lina Benslimane, Martha Neely, and Martin Ugarte-Chavez headed out to several events in June to spread the word about good oral health to the local community. Some of their stops included: Father-Friendly BBQ: Clinical InstructorCindy Cadoret and Oral Health Educator Krissie […]
Energetic GSDM Volunteers Welcome Blackstone Elementary School Students
The 12th Annual Blackstone Elementary School Field trip took place on June 16. Eighty-four third grade students arrived at the Dental School for a day of interactive fun and learning. The large group of energetic children was shepherded through the day’s activities by Captain Cavity Fighter (Sarah Courtney DMD 12) and a host of volunteers […]
Recent Alums Join Former Faculty in Jamaican Outreach
Bernhard (Ben) Bringewald DMD 11 joined the Jamaica Awareness Association of California (JAAC) 2011 Annual Medical and Education Mission trip to Jamaica following GSDM graduation May 28 to June 3. JAAC conducts an annual, seven-day mission to rural Jamaica with a team of medical professionals and other volunteers to provide medical screenings, laparoscopic surgeries, dental […]
GSDM Returns to Special Olympics Massachusetts Games
GSDM returned to the Special Olympic Massachusetts Games Saturday, June 18, 2011 at Harvard University’s athletic grounds in Cambridge. Staff, student, and faculty volunteers registered athletes, gave free oral health screenings, made mouth guards, demonstrated proper hygiene, provided nutrition counseling, gave out goody bags filled with dental supplies including electronic Shrek toothbrushes, and helped keep […]
Dorchester Families Start Living SMART
CHP Oral Health Promotion Director Kathy Lituri, Felicia Smith DMD 15, Thomas Horton DMD 14, Lillelenny Santana AS 2012, and Danielle Collins (a former dental hygiene student of Lituri’s) volunteered at the Living SMART Community Health Fair on June 11. The fair was held at the Perkins Community Center in Dorchester. Living SMART is a […]
GSDM Community Enjoys One of BU’s Oldest Traditions
Seventy-four members of the GSDM community attended the 97th Annual BU Night at the Pops at Symphony Hall on Saturday, May 21. BU Night at the Pops is one of the University’s oldest traditions. The evening annually takes place during Commencement weekend and encourages graduates and their guests to experience one of Boston’s greatest cultural […]
Incisors, Canines, Premolars, and Molars Descend on GSDM
On May 27, four classes of third grade students from the Edward W. Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, took a field trip to GSDM. The children were divided into four groups: Incisors, Canines, Premolars, and Molars, then the day of educational and fun activities got underway in both the classroom and the SLC. The children […]