News & Events
Here is where you will find a list of all past, present, and upcoming events for the Department. This page is updated frequently. Keep checking back.
News
Dr. Linda Bartoshuk Elected President of the Association for Psychological Science
Dr. Linda Bartoshuk, a professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, has been elected President of the Association for Psychological Science.
She was also recently elected to a three-year term on the Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The NAS is charged with providing independent advice, outside the framework of government, to the nation’s leaders on science, technology and medicine issues that affect U.S. policy decisions.
Give Kids a Smile Takes to the Road in 2008
Spring is a great time to get outdoors and that is exactly what students at the University of Florida's College of Dentistry did for this year's community outreach program called Give Kids a Smile.
Faculty Achievements
Dr. Lorena Baccaglini has received a grant from NIH entitled "Epidemiology of Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis: Role of Ghrelin." The project began in September, 2008.
Dr. Bridgett Rahim-Williams has been promoted to Research Assistant Professor, effective September 28, 2007. Dr. Rahim-Williams has a background in both public health and medical anthropology. For some time, her research interests have been focused on reducing health disparities, especially in African American women. During her post-doctoral training, her research has primarily emphasized ethnic group differences in the experience of pain. For example, Dr. Rahim-Williams has reported that ethnic identity is associated with pain responses in African American and Hispanic persons, but not among non-Hispanic whites. She plans to further develop this line of research by examining the clinical relevance of ethnic differences in pain sensitivity among older adults with pain. Dr. Rahim-Williams is supported by the Pepper Scholar program, which is a career development program of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.
Scott L. Tomar, D.M.D., Dr.P.H., has been elected vice president of the American Association of Public Health Dentistry during the association’s May annual meeting held in Denver.
Dr. Barbara Hastie has been promoted to the rank of assistant professor with tenure on February 9, 2007. Congratulations goes out to her and her success!
Five UFCD Superior Accomplishment Award winners were selected from 100 nominations. Congratulations to Mary Bennett, executive secretary in the deans office; Barbara Hastie, Ph.D., research assistant professor; Debra Lynne Hatfield, senior secretary; Richelle G. Janiec, dental hygienist; and, James E. Webb, business services.
Dr. Scott Tomar is now the Department Chair for our new Department. The new Department is called Community Dentsistry and Behavioral Science. It includes what used to be the Divisions of Public Health Services and Research and Community Based Research.
Dr. Scott Tomar was interviewed for the story "UF dentist helps solve fluoride fight in Eustis" in the Post, the University of Florida Health Science Center Newletter. Full interview
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Awards
Barbara Hastie has won Best Poster Presentation in Neuromusculoskeletal Research at the UF Women's Health Research Center in 2005.
Barbara Hastie has won Best Poster Presentation in Behavioral Health Research at the UF Women's Health Research Center in 2005
Henrietta L. Logan has recieved the Citation Award Society of Behavioral Medicane Poster Competetion Annual Meeting in April of 2005.
Ethics Workshop
Members of the American College of Dentist come to the College of Dentistry once a year to meet with the Junior students to discuss ethical situations they may come across in their future in dentistry.
Editoral Boards
Members of our faculty are on the editoral boards of different journals.
Dr. Fillingim is on the editoral board for the the Journal of Pain and the XX versus XY journal.
Dr. Logan is also on the editoral board for the the Journal of Pain.
Journal Club
Here is a list of the articles that were discussed at our Journal Club Meetings for the year of 2006 and 2005.
2007
August - Pain in Persons with Dementia: Complex, Common, and Challenging
July - Ethnic Differences in Pain Reports and the Moderating Role of Depression in a Community Sample of Hispanic and Caucasian Participants With Serious Health Problems
June - Should we adjust for demographic factors (age, gender, race/ethnicity) in genetic studies?
May - Anti-Aging Medicine - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
February - Associations of Ethnicity/Race and Socioeconomic Status With Early Childhood Caries Patterns
January - Sucrose-incuded analgesia is related to sweet preferences in children but not adults
2006
December - Relation between bitter taste sensitivity and incidence or intensity of propofol injection pain
November - Age-related differences in the endogenous analgesic response to repeated cold water immersion in human volunteers
September - Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure: Prevalence and Mechanisms of Causation Of Infections in Children
The Association Between Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Primary Tooth Caries
August - Facial and affective reactions to tastes and their modulation by sadness and joy
May - Should we match in case-control studies? Why do we match?
April - Anti-Aging Medicine - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
March - The Impact of Ethnic Differences in Response to Capsaicin-Induced Trieminal Sensitization
February - Experience with Dental Pain and Fear of Dental Pain
January - Patterns of General Anesthesia; Use in Dental Care and Associated Costs Among Pediatric MediPass Beneficiaries
