NSU CDM Lasting Impressions Fall 2018

46 | COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE CDM IMPRESSIONS Kenneth Namerow, D.D.S., has retired from the NSU College of Dental Medicine endodontics department. Namerow joined the CDM in 2010 after a 32-year career in private practice. During his years at the CDM, Namerow served as chair of the Department of Endodontics and devised an endowed professorship to attract and retain promising young academicians. Working with the endodontic alumni, more than $500,000 was raised from faculty members, alumni, and the American Association of Endodontists Foundation to establish an endowed professor- ship. Today, the endowment is valued at more than $600,000. In recognition of his efforts, the Alumni Association recommended naming the profes- sorship the Kenneth N. Namerow Endowed Professorship in Endodontics. The first recipient of the endowed professorship, Taner Cem Sayin, D.D.S., Ph.D., has succeeded Namerow as chair of the CDM endodontics department. u Namerow Retires The American Association for Dental Research (AADR) featured Ana Karina Mascar- enhas, B.D.S., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., in its Strides in Science series. Mascarenhas is the associate dean of research at the CDM. Mascarenhas has a B.D.S. degree from Goa College and Hospital in India and also holds M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. degrees from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, with an emphasis on oral epidemi- ology. Mascarenhas serves on the editorial boards of journals and is a statistical consultant for oral surgery, oral medicine, oral path- ology, and endodontics. She also has chaired Health and Human Resource Administration independent review panels and has served on review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In the AADR article, Mascarenhas discussed her involvement with the organization. In response to the question about cross collaboration with other scientific disciplines for the future of dental, oral, and craniofacial research, she replied, “This should be our No. 1 priority. We cannot sustain as a profession if we don’t collaborate with other health professionals and other experts. Lately, I’ve had a lot of success engaging medical professionals and training them to do screening and triaging,” she said. The article can be accessed at iadr.org/AADR/About-Us /News/Strides-in-Science . u Professor Featured in AADR CDM Impressions