BUSDM Volunteers Deliver Special Smiles
Massachusetts Special Olympians are smiling wider this week thanks to BUSDM volunteers who provided 250 free dental screenings during the Special Olympics Massachusetts games at Harvard Stadium June 16. BUSDM’s largest-attended volunteer event, the games consistently draw about 120 student, staff, and faculty volunteers each year. The on-site screenings are part of the Healthy Athletes® […]
Blackstone School Makes Seventh Annual Trip to BUSDM
“What’s better for you: soda or water?” asked the Division of Community Health Programs’ (CHP) Sheree Norquist of 84 third-grade students visiting BUSDM June 12. “Water!” they shouted. Nine-year-olds from Blackstone School in the South End became “dental students for a day” as they joined the annual Blackstone School Field Trip to BUSDM Tuesday. Students […]
Dr. Steve Colchamiro Honored for Promoting Oral Health
The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers will present its 2007 Founder’s Award to Dr. Stephen Colchamiro today for his efforts to promote access to oral health care for all the state’s residents. Colchamiro has hosted BUSDM externship students at Jamaica Plain’s Brookside Community Health Center, where he is the dental director, since the externship […]
Dr. Ana Karina Mascarenhas Nominated “Woman of the Year”
Dr. Ana Karina Mascarenhas, director of BUSDM’s Division of Dental Public Health, is one of just 20 finalists in the 2007 Woman of the Year competition. The event, sponsored by local newspaper India New England, honors New England woman of South Asian descent who are successful in business or social work and contribute to the […]
Jedediah Horwitt Awarded for Oral Health Outreach Project
Jedediah Horwitt, program coordinator in the Division of Community Health Programs and MPH candidate at Boston University School of Public Health’s Department of International Health, recently won first place for "Best Poster Content" at the school’s Public Health Practicum Poster Session. Horwitt’s poster, “Integrating Oral Health into a Medical Outreach Program to Rural Dominican Republic,” […]
DMD Student Delivers Donations to Vietnamese Orphanage
While most students in the DMD 07 class are anxiously awaiting graduation, Anhphi Nguyen is busy preparing for a different kind of departure. Just two days after commencement (May 22), Nguyen will visit the children of Chua Linh Son temple in Vietnam to deliver $3,000 raised by Boston University Vietnamese Student Dental Association (BUVSDA) at […]
Orchard Gardens Students Become Dentists for a Day
Sixty second-grade students at Orchard Gardens K-8 School on Albany Street in Boston got a new look at the field of dentistry April 10. For the fourth year, BUSDM hosted the annual Orchard Gardens Sealant Program/Field Trip to BUSDM. Students learned about oral health in the Simulation Learning Center and participated in an interactive oral […]
BUSDM Takes On Diabetes, Promotes Oral Health
An increasing body of evidence links oral health with diabetes risk. BUSDM students and faculty worked to reduce that risk March 17 by providing free dental screenings and education at the American Diabetes Association’s Boston Diabetes Expo, an entertaining and educational event for people living with and affected by diabetes. This was the fourth year […]
Held Helps Launch Nicaraguan Fact-Finding Mission
Kathy Held, assistant director of extramural programs, returned this week from a 10-day community service trip to Rio San Juan, Nicaragua, with Project Stretch, a non-profit organization that provides dental services to disadvantaged children worldwide. The trip marked the first to Rio San Juan for the Project Stretch team, which aimed to determine if area […]
BU ASDA Volunteers Give (Boston) Kids a Smile
Boston University’s chapter of the American Student Dental Association (BU ASDA) provided free, interactive dental education to approximately 100 children at the Yawkey (formerly Boys & Girls) Club of Roxbury February 7. BU ASDA works with BUSDM’s Division of Community Health Programs (CHP) to host the event each year as part of Give Kids a […]