UFCD Department of Community
Dentistry and Behavioral Science:
News and
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. 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 Post, the
University of Florida's Health Science Center's Newletter. The
title of the article is "UF dentist helps solve fluoride fight in
Eustis." The interview can be found here.
Dr. Joe Riley has been promoted to the rank of
associate professor with
tenure on July 1, 2005. Congratulations goes out to him and his
success!
Dr. H. Logan gave a talk at the recent American
Assocation of Maxiofacial Prosthodontics Meeting in Ottawa, Canada on
October 26, 2004. Her talk was on Surviving Head and Neck
Cancer.
August 3, 2004 - Dr. Scott Tomar was interviewed
regarding his article in Cancer
Causes and Control. Here is the link
to the interview which in entitled, "UF researchers discover racial
disparities in oral cancer treatment and survival."
March 31, 2004 - Dr. Henrietta Logan and Dr. Jeff Gedney were
interviewed regarding their article in the Journal of Pain. Here is the link
to the interview which is entitled, "UF researchers explore why
patients' pain recall may be more than total."
<>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.
Henrietta L. Logan. Promotion and Tenure committee.
Florida 2005-2007.
Barbara Hastie was awarded the American Pain Society's
Management Scholars Program. This award included specialized
Resident's Training Program, all expenses paid to the American-Canadian
Pain Society Meeting in Vancouver, and annual membership to the
American Pain Society.
The
American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD) has awarded the
Distinguished Services Award for 2004 to our very own Scott
Tomar.
This is a very huge honor and we are very proud of Dr. Tomar!
Rafael
Urbino, a Senior dental student, has received the Dental Award for
Community
Dentistry and Dental Public Health presented by the American
Association
of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD). He will also receive a year
membership
to the AAPHD.
Barbara Hastie was awarded the
Health Disparities Scholar from the National Center on Minority Health
& Health Disparities at the National Instituties of Health.
The Journal
of Public Health Dentistry has awarded the 2003 best paper to E.
Beltran-Aguilar,
D. Malvitz, S. Lockwood, G. Rozier, S. Tomar. "Oral
Health
Surveillance: Past, Present, and Future Challenges"
Douglas
Manning, a recent resident, won the American Association of Public
Health
Dentistry (AAPHD) Leverett Graduate Student Merit Award, First
Place.
His project was titled, "Examining Racial Disparities in Oral and
Pharyngeal
Cancer Mortality and Survival Rates: Is Health Insurance a
Factor?"
His sponsor is Dr. Scott Tomar. Congratulations Dr. Manning!
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.
Click Here to see pictures from Ethics Workshop.
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.
2006
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
2005
November - Genetic
Basis for Individual Variations in Pain Perception and the Development
of a Chronic Pain Condition
October - The
Relationship Between Continuity of Care and Trust with Stage of Cancer
at Diagnosis
September - The
Role of Parafunctions, Emotions, and Stress in Predicting Facial Pain.
August - Why Our
Ethics Curricula Don't Work
July - Preventing
and Detecting Oral Cancer
June - Relationship of Enhanced Nonrepinephrine
Activity during Memory Consolidation to Enhanced Long-Term Memory in
Humans
May - Orofacial Pain: Patient Satisfaction and
Delay of Urgent Care
April- Implications of correlations between skin color and genetic
ancestry for biomedical research
March- Knowledge of oral cancer, distress and
screening intentions: longer term effects of a patient information
leaflet
January - Dispositional Optimism and All-Cause
and Cardiovascular Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of Elderlly Dutch
Ment and Women
Dean's
Seminar Series:
Dr. David Schenck, Director of the USF Ethics Center, Professor of
Biomedical Ethics and Literature, College of Arts and Sciences,
University of South Floria, Tampa, FL
March 31, 2006
Title: "Developing an Oral Cancer Questionnaire for Migrant
Farm-Workers"
Dr. Jessica Lee, Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatric
Dentistry & Health Policy, Analysis and Adminstration, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
February, 28, 2006
Title: "Early Preventive Dental Visits: The Effects on Subsequent Use
and Costs"
Dr. C. Perry Brown, Professor, Institute of Public Health
Florida A&M University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
March 4, 2005
Title: “Dental Health Disparities: A Systems Approach”
Dr. Firdaus S. Dhabhar, Associate Professor
College of Dentistry and College of Medicine Ohio State University
April, 2004
Title: “The Effects of Stress on Leukocyte Trafficking and Skin Cell
Mediated Immunity”
Charles S Carver, Ph.D
University of Miami
December 6, 2004
Title: "Psychosocial Well-Being Among Survivors of Cancer
Treatment"
Ralph Katz,
DMD, MPH, PhD
New York
University
February 7, 2003
Title: "The
Tuskegee
Legacy Project: Comparative Findings for African Americans vs Whites on
Willingness to Participate in Biomedical Research Studies"
David B.
Morris, Ph.D.
Univeristy of
Virginia
November 4, 2002
Title of
Seminar: "Why
Medicine/Dentistry Needs Narrative: Pain & Its Discontents"
Click Here
to See Pictures from Dr. Morris' Visit
Elaine M.
Smith, M.B.A., Ph.D.,
M.P.H.
University of
Iowa
May 9, 2002
Title of
Seminar: "Implications
of Human Papillomavirus
(HPV) Infection
in the Oral
Cavity and Oropharynx"
Alex White,
Dr.P.H., D.D.S.
Kaiser
Permanente Center
for Health Research
October 19, 2001
Title of
Seminar: "Building
an Evidence Base for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The Oregon
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Experience"
Katherine
Erwin, DDS, M.P.A
Morehouse
School for Medicine
March 23, 2001
Title of
Seminar: "Higher
Education, Public School, and Community Partnerships: Advancing Health
Careers and Student Achievement"
Susan K.
Lutgendorf, Ph.D.
University of
Iowa
February 16,
2001
Title of
Seminar: "Stress,
resilience, and immune functions
in older adults"
