NSU CDM Impressions Fall/Winter 2019

38 | COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE NSU SPRING 2018 Impressions lasting COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE Team 8’s Challenge PAGE4 INSIDE: TREATMENT OF SURVIVORS u STUDENT RESEARCH u GIVE KIDS A SMILE u ALUMNI, FACULTY PROFILES Caring for HIV Patients PAGE 4 A LIFE SAVED PAGE 8 A LIFE CHANGED PAGE 10 A LIFE CELEBRATED PAGE 14 A LIFE OF LEARNING PAGE 34 Impressions COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FALL/WINTER 2018 CDM AWARDS The College of Dental Medicine’s Impressions magazine was honored with the Silver Scroll Division 2 Award for Most-Improved Publications for the spring and fall 2018 editions in the Dental Journalism Awards sponsored by the International College of Dentists (ICD), USA Section. The journalism awards are one of the ICD’s longest ongoing projects. The award was presented in September, during the annual meeting of the American Association for Dental Editors & Journalists (AADEJ) held in San Francisco, California. This is the second time Impressions has been honored by the ICD. The magazine received the Honorable Mention for Outstanding Cover for the summer 2016 edition. u Impressions Honored with Silver Scroll CDM Awards Six CDM researchers were awarded a President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant for their project “Novel Approach to Enhance the Robust Osteogenesis of Human Gingival Stem Cells.” They are Umadevi Kandalam, Ph.D.; Toshihisa Kawai, Ph.D.; Alexandru Movila, Ph.D.; Alireza Heidari, Ph.D.; Yogin K. Patel, M.S.; and Deshek Patel, B.S. The President’s Faculty Scholarship Award Program was initiated in 1999 by then-NSU President Ray Ferrero, Jr., J.D. Early in its inception, it was renamed the President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant (PFRDG) program. Today, the PFRDG program continues to directly support Vision 2020’s research- focused core values and strategic priorities by provid- ing seed money to new research areas for which external funding will be sought, or to move current research initiatives to new levels of competitiveness for external funding. u Researchers Conferred with Development Grant