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Department News
Biomaterials Science
Dr. Toru Okabe attended "Microscopy and Microanalysis 2002" Aug. 5-8 in Quebec City, Canada. It was a joint meeting of the Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society
of Canada, and the International Metallographic Society.
Biomedical Sciences
Presentations: Dr. Larry L. Bellinger presented "The Effect of Intermittent Nicotine Administration on Meal Patterns in Female Rats" during the 2002 international meeting of the Society for the
Study of Ingestive Behavior Aug. 7-11 at the University of California in Santa Cruz. P.J. Wellman is the co-author. The abstract was published in Appetite (39:65, 2002).
Bellinger was co-author of a second talk that was presented at the meeting. Its title was "Antagonism of Cocaine-induced Hypophagia by Alpha 1-Adrenoreceptor Antagonist Prazosin in the Rat."
Drs. David Carlson and Lynne Opperman were invited to give oral presentations at the Third Symposium of the Nordic Countries on "Craniofacial Growth: From Genes to Clinics." The symposium was held in
Turku, Finland, Aug. 22-25.
Carlson presented "Craniofacial Growth Research: Past, Present and Future." Opperman presented "Molecular Interactions Regulating Suture Morphogenesis and Patency."
Dr. Kathy Svoboda was chosen to participate in two Gordon Research Conferences this summer in New London, Conn. She presented a poster at "Signal Transduction by Engineered Extracellular Matrices" and at
"Signaling by Adhesion Receptors."
Publications: Bellinger LL. The dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus and its role in ingestive behavior and body weight regulation: lessons learned from lesioning studies. Physiology and Behavior 76:431-442, 2002. Note: Bellinger was asked to write this peer-reviewed paper after giving an invited lecture on the same topic during the 2001 international meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior.
Ho DH, Wellman PJ, Nation JR, Bellinger LL. Antagonism of cocaine-induced hypophagia by alpha 1-adrenoreceptor antagonist prazosin in the rat. Appetite 39:80 (abstract), 2002.
Svoboda KKH, Reenstra WR. Approaches to studying cellular signaling: a primer for morphologists. Anatomical Record, The New Anatomist 269:123-139, 2002.
Other News:
Opperman was a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health's Oral, Dental and Craniofacial Small Business Innovation Research Program/Small Business Technology Transfer Program Panel on ZRG1 OBM1. The panel met Aug. 6 in Washington, D.C.
Clinical Services
Presentations: Dr. Thomas K. Hasegawa Jr. was the keynote speaker for the White Coat Ceremony at the Indiana University School of Dentistry July 13. The meeting's topic was "Role of the Patient in
Clinical Education and Dental Testing."
Hasegawa was invited to speak on "Ethics and Dental Examiners and Dental Educators: A Search for Common Ground" at the Western Conference of Dental Examiners and Dental School Deans during its annual
meeting July 19-20 in Park Cities, Utah.
Publications: Hasegawa TK. Ethical issues of performing invasive/irreversible dental treatment for purposes of licensure. Journal of the American College of Dentists (69)2:43-6, 2002.
Hasegawa TK, Matthews M, Taylor R. Plaque, puberty and noncompliance – the orthodontic dilemma. Texas Dental Journal 119(7):645-7, 2002.
Diagnostic Sciences
Presentations:
Dr. Byron W. Benson was an invited participant in the semi-annual Digital Radiography Advisory Council sponsored by Dentsply International/Gendex June 28 at the Gendex facility in Des Plaines, Ill.
Benson presented eight hours of seminars on various topics in advanced diagnostic imaging and participated in clinical patient care with oral medicine residents at the National Naval Dental Center in
Bethesda, Md., Aug. 15-18. A Naval Reserve captain, Benson holds a visiting lecturer appointment at the Naval Postgraduate Dental School.
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Pharmacology
Presentation: Dr. David Grogan, assisted by Dr. Roger Alexander, conducted a two-day continuing education course on "Conscious Enteral Sedation" for the Fort Worth Academy of General Dentistry Aug.
9-10 in Fort Worth, Texas. Authorized by the Texas Dental Association, the course is required for all Texas dentists who wish to administer conscious enteral sedation in their practices.
Orthodontics
Publications: Owens S, Buschang PH, Throckmorton GS, Palmer L, English J. Masticatory performance and areas of occlusal contact and near contact in subjects with normal occlusion and malocclusion. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics 121(6):602-609, 2002.
Smith SL, Buschang PH. Midsagittal facial soft-tissue growth of French Canadian adolescents. American Journal of Human Biology 14:457-467, 2002.
Public Health Sciences
Presentations: Dr. K. Vendrell Rankin presented "Advances in Oral Cancer Detection" to dental and dental hygiene practitioners in Dallas June 17 and in San Antonio June 18.
Publication: For the fifth year in a row, Rankin was the guest editor of the June 2002 issue of the Texas Dental Journal. Traditionally referred to as the "cancer" issue, this edition included a CD-ROM titled "Differential Diagnosis of Common Oral Lesions."
The Texas Cancer Council paid for the CD-ROM's duplication. The Texas Dental Foundation covered insertion, shrink-wrapping and additional postage costs.
Student Development
Publications: Brooks ES, Anderson MJ, Daniels G, Harman DW, Long JL. Organized dentistry's role in reversing the trend of decreasing enrollment of underrepresented minority dental students. Texas
Dental Journal 119(4):332-335, 2002.
Brooks ES, Gravely TC, Hornback SA, King LP, McCann AL, Long JL. Bridge to dentistry: one dental school's approach to improving its enrollment of underrepresented minorities. Journal of the American
College of Dentists 69(1):23-30, 2002.
Student Health Clinic
Sharon Limes, a licensed registered nurse, is Baylor College of Dentistry's new college nurse. A certified occupational health nurse senior, she has 33 years of nursing experience.
Limes has spent the last 19 years as an occupational health nurse in the corporate and manufacturing arena, using her skills in the areas of direct patient care, emergency response, workers compensation,
case management, wellness programs, occupational exposures, OSHA compliance and international travel medicine.
Her mission at BCD will be to assist students, faculty and staff in their work- and clinic-related medical needs as well as in their personal wellness goals.
Limes thanks everyone for the warm welcome she has received.
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