UFCD:
Honors, Awards and Appointments
Awards
Dental Senior Ana P. DeCastro was selected by the American Association of Women Dentists to receive the 2005 Colgate Research Award. The $500 award “salutes and encourages students to excel” in dental research, and it is presented to junior or senior dental students who have shown “academic distinction and demonstration of excellence in research.”
Thomas C. Porter , D.M.D., clinical associate professor of community-based programs and director of the college's St. Petersburg Clinic, has been recognized as a diplomate of the American Board of Special Care Dentistry with proficiency in the areas of hospital dentistry, dentistry for persons with disabilities and geriatric dentistry.
Nelson S. Logan , Ph.D., former director of multicultural affairs, received a Presidential Citation from Frank Catalanotto, 2004-05 president of the American Dental Education Association, during the association's March 82nd Annual Session in Baltimore. The citation recognized Logan 's 35-year career of promoting cultural and ethnic diversity in dental admissions at the University of Iowa and UF. Logan, who is revered by the students he has mentored, left UF last December to pursue his life-long love of aviation. .
Marcio Guelmann , D.D.S., associate professor of pediatric dentistry, is appointed chair of pediatric dentistry after an exemplary year serving as interim chair. As chair, Guelmann is charged with developing pediatric faculty through encouraging board certifications and fostering faculty academic and research collaborations, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaborations with Shands Hospital , the College of Medicine and the Craniofacial Center . He will also work with faculty and the college's Curriculum Committee to review and revise pediatric dentistry curriculum for the D.M.D. Program, and will facilitate the development of a combined pediatric dentistry certificate and public health master's degree program.
Guelmann has also been accepted into the American Dental Education Association Leadership Institute's 2005-06 class, which consists of 22 of the nation's most promising dental faculty. As a member of the ADEA Leadership Institute, Guelmann will attend a series of national workshops over the next 12 months that develop and refine participants' leadership, legislative, administrative and teaching competencies.
Nicholas Grimaudo , D.M.D., Ph.D., associate professor and director of oral-health maintenance, treatment planning and operative dentistry, received the Florida Dental Association's UFCD Dental Educator of the Year award during the July Florida National Dental Congress held in Orlando .
Arthur E. “Buddy” Clark , D.M.D., Ph.D., M.E., has been appointed chair of the Department of Prosthodontics, assuming the position from Arthur Nimmo , D.D.S., F.A.C.P., who stepped down as chair for personal reasons. Nimmo, who served as chair for six years, will remain on the college's faculty, concentrating his efforts on D.M.D. curriculum instruction and prosthodontic research. Clark has served as associate chair of the department since 2001, previously served as chair between the years of 1991 to 1996, and is a former executive associate dean of the college.
Roberta Diehl , D.D.S., director of the college's Hialeah Dental Clinic, was inducted as a fellow into the International College of Dentists during the organization's Oct. 1, 2004 convocation in Orlando, Fla. Fellows are inducted for their “outstanding professional achievement and meritorious service” to the profession of dentistry and to their patients.
Roger B. Fillingim , Ph.D. is the author of a new book, “Concise Encyclopedia of Pain Psychology,” published by Haworth Press, Inc. Fillingim's book, which will become available this summer, is marketed as a broad reference source of clinical and scientific pain psychology topics from A to Z. Pain psychology terms, descriptions, definitions and important findings are listed in the book and supported by an extensive bibliography to facilitate more in-depth study of the topics.
Enrique Binstein Bimstein, C.D., and Charles L. Smith, D.D.S. were selected to participate in the UF College of Medicine’s Master Educator Fellowship Program. Health Science Center colleges nominate individuals from faculty recognized for their excellence in medicine and education. The 18-month certificate program seeks to enhance the educational innovation and research initiatives of the participants, and aims to strengthen academic leadership skills.
Robert A. Burne, Ph.D., chair of the College of Dentistry’s Department of Oral Biology, has been elected as a fellow into the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science based on his contributions to the field of oral microbiology. Burne was one of 308 outstanding scientists nationwide welcomed as fellows into the association, and one of only two in the section on dentistry and oral health sciences.
Nick Minden, D.M.D., M.B.A., M.Ed., associate professor of restorative dentistry in the College of Dentistry, was awarded fellowship in the American College of Dentists. Minden joins approximately 3.5 percent of his dental colleagues nationwide who have met the organization’s criteria of excellence, ethics and professionalism in dentistry. He is also a member of the American Dental Association and Florida Dental Association.
