What will the School of Dentistry be like in the future? A committee of faculty, students, staff, and alumni has been taking a critical look at the School and asking everyone throughout the School for their opinions and ideas that will lead to creating a "roadmap for the future." A strategic self-assessment is underway. Afterwards, a vision statement and a set of strategic imperatives will be developed.
A New Orleans woman who lost her home and possessions to Hurricane Katrina will always remember her student dentist, Meredith Wangerin, x-ray technician Tonia Taylor, and others at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry who helped her when she was in Ann Arbor.
A program to help internationally trained dentists earn a dental degree in the U.S. is beginning its second year at the School of Dentistry. After earning their degree, these dentists may practice in communities that need dentists, enter academic dentistry, or work with dentists who may soon retie and want someone to take over their practice.
It was built by hand... literally, from the ground up... as workers carried materials and supplies 1,000 feet to a mountaintop in China. Six months after work began on his pagoda, Rui-Feng Wang returned last fall to Beijing to help celebrate its dedication and the realization of a life-long dream.
Dr. Harry McIntosh's love of the dental profession so captivated his daughter Rebecca when she was in high school that she started working for him as a dental assistant and later earned a dental degree from U-M in 1990. She passed along her enthusiasm to her brother, Timothy, who earned his DDS two years later. Both now run the Ann Arbor dental practice their father established after he earned his dental degree from U-M fifty years ago.
Although he could have chosen almost any place in the world, Professor Niklaus "Klaus" Lang returned to U-M for his four-month sabbatical because, as he put it, "I wanted to come back to my roots."
If you talk to Dr. Lynn Johnson you may be surprised to learn that after graduating from college she spent about five years in Iowa teaching children with learning and emotional disabilities. What she learned in those early jobs has helped her as the School's director of Dental Informatics.
For the past two years, Dr. Marita Inglehart and colleagues from the pediatric dental clinic at Mott Children's Health Center in Flint have been collecting data from nearly 4,000 students at 35 kindergarten and elementary schools in Flint and Genesee County. There were some surprising results.
One hundred and ten members of the Class of 2009 were officially inducted into the dental profession during the School of Dentistry's annual White Coat Ceremony.