Celebrating Your Achievements
Congratulations to faculty and staff on your recent achievements:
Dr. Noha Gomaa has been appointed as an Executive Committee member and symposium coordinator of the Behavioural, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research (BEHSR) Group of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), effective July 1, 2022.
Schulich Professor Emeritus and adjunct faculty member Dr. Stanley Kogan received the highest award granted by the Ontario Dental Association (ODA), the ODA Honorary Membership Award on May 27, 2022. The Honorary Membership Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the art and science of dentistry on either a provincial or national level and has only been awarded to “a select group of exceptional members,” according to a spokesperson from ODA.
Emily Mundy, DDS’25, and Nima Laghapour Lighvan, HBSc, have been selected as Junior and Senior Representatives for Schulich Dentistry, respectively, at the Federation of Canadian Dentistry Student Associations (FCDSA) annual general meeting. They were both elected to the Executive Council: Nima Laghapour Lighvan as President, and Emily Mundy as the Vice-President of Finance.
Dr. Sharat Pani, who was awarded the Fellowship of the International Association of Disability and Oral Health. This is an honour that is given in recognition of contributions towards the field of Special Care Dentistry, and the award will be conferred at the meeting of the International Association of Disability and Oral Health to be held at Paris in August 2022.
We would also like to acknowledge the recent accomplishments of two Schulich Dentistry Alumni:
Dr. Liza Bentley, DDS’91, has been announced as incoming President of the
ODA. You can read more about Dr. Bentley here.
Dr. Sara Worth, DDS’17, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the ODA. Dr. Worth was the ODA Western Dental school representative while at Schulich Dentistry, receiving several awards as well as serving as Chair of ODA’s Student Services Committee and Vice Chair on ODA’s Education Core Committee.
Finally we would like to share that Dr. Jacinta Santos and Dr. Peter Taylor were able to officially receive their 2021 awards at long last. Dr. Garcia presented Dr. Santos with the W. W. Wood Awards and Dr. Taylor received the C.Y. Lung Award from Dr. Fernando Inocencio.
If you have news of an achievement you would like to see highlighted in the Dentistry newsletter, please email schulich.dentistry@schulich.uwo.ca.
