Lasting Impressions | Fall 2016

36 © NSU LASTING IMPRESSIONS Alumni Impressions Becoming chief of the dentistry department at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, which is part of the Miami Children’s Health System, is an honor for so many reasons, according to Gabriela Aurora Rolland-Asensi , D.M.D., who was appointed to the position in December 2015. Rolland-Asensi, who is a 2003 NSU College of Dental Medicine graduate, said her sense of satisfaction comes from seeing the outcomes of medically compromised children who are in need of the services and the facilities the department provides at the hospital. But one of her biggest Passion for Pediatrics Leads to Chief Role BY MICHELLE F. SOLOMON