NSU CDM Lasting Impressions Fall 2018

24 | COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE On Thursdays, Larumbe accompanies residents to operating rooms at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital or Broward Health’s Andrews Avenue location in Fort Lauderdale to help treat patients. Fridays are reserved for didactics and office work. 3. INSPIRE OTHERS Larumbe also keeps in touch with residents and former students who live throughout the United States and overseas. They talk about procedures they learned from him and now apply in their own practices. Some have been inspired by Larumbe to specialize in craniofacial work as their dental practice, taking their skills to communities that lack the specialties. Former student Ajay Joshi, D.D.S., a 2014 CDM graduate, now practices pediatric dentistry in Fishers, Indiana. “He has compassion for children and the pediatric community—you just watch him in action, and you see what he’s all about,” Joshi said of Larumbe. “It was a tremendous blessing to watch his techniques and learn from him and how he works with children.” Another concept Joshi learned from Larumbe is to take the profession one day at a time. “He said you have to know your limits,” Joshi said. “That rang a tone with me, because there are times where you feel like you want to be the hero and save the world, but you have to realize there’s a certain stopping point where you have to stay within your skill set. You try to do good and be a positive influence on the world.” 4. LOVE WHAT YOU DO Larumbe praised the NSU CDM program for achieving good results and said it has exemplary standing among other U.S. dental school programs. He returns to Mexico every two years to Puebla and Tlaxcala universities to teach the NAM technique to pediatric dentistry residents in a lab and hands-on course over three days. Larumbe said he advises dental students to “treat dentistry as dentistry. Don’t just go into it for the money. Do the work first,” he added. “Treat everyone as an equal. You deserve a good living because you went to school for so many years, and you are very good, but first, you are a dentist because you care about the people.” u FAST FACTS Hometown Oaxaca, Mexico Education Universidad Tecnológica de México, class of ’75 Cirujano Dentista, a D.D.S. equivalent (Holds record for highest GPA— 45 years and counting) Pedodontics residency, Boston University, M.S. ’79 Professional 20-year practice in Oaxaca, Mexico faculty member at NSU since 2000 teaching permit under NSU CDM umbrella (Prefers to call teaching “show- ing,” in that he likes to demon- strate what has worked for him.) Personal three sons (Joey, Brian, and Mark) with wife, Noreen, who passed away married to Alva, who he had dated 43 years ago one “beautiful granddaughter” named Ava continued from page 22 FACULTY Impressions FACULTY IMPRESSIONS