Above: Drs. George Cho and Rafael Roges Drs. George Cho and Rafael Roges have been recently appointed to endowed professorships, one of the highest awards a university can bestow on a faculty member. In an email sent to the Ostrow community, Dean Avishai Sadan announced that Cho will take the Phillip Maurer Tennis Professorship in […]
Drs. Roseann Mulligan and Glenn Clark provide endowed funding source for Ostrow’s Special Patients Clinic. Ostrow’s Special Patients Clinic has received a financial boost — and a new name — thanks to a generous donation made by Drs. Roseann Mulligan MS ’87 and Glenn Clark. Dean Avishai Sadan DMD, MBA made the official announcement […]
Dentistry to lead multidisciplinary effort to bring innovative treatments to market. Above: Yang Chai PhD ’91, DDS ’96 Tissue regeneration is about to become a lot more fact than science fiction, thanks to a $2 million grant that’s being divided among 10 research centers and universities, including the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC. […]
Associate professor of clinical dentistry Reyes Enciso has been named the recipient of the 2015 William H. Rollins Award for Research in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. Above: Dr. Reyes Enciso MS ’09 Associate professor of clinical dentistry Reyes Enciso has been named the recipient of the 2015 William H. Rollins Award for Research in Oral […]
The CDA-sponsored award recognizes excellence in dental education. Above: Santosh Sundaresan DDS ’05 Assistant professor of clinical dentistry Santosh Sundaresan DDS ’05 has been chosen to receive the 2015 Arthur A. Dugoni Faculty Award by the California Dental Association. The award recognizes outstanding faculty members from California’s six dental schools who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, […]
Above: Xiang Li, Chinese Gymnast More than 100 Ostrow faculty, staff and students provided free comprehensive dental care last week to athletes as part of the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes Program. It was the first time such comprehensive care — including extractions, restorations and root canals — had been offered to the athletes with intellectual […]
Above: Dr. Pascal Magne Ostrow associate professor Pascal Magne has been selected by the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics as its distinguished lecturer for 2016. Magne joins only a handful of Ostrow alumni and faculty members to have been awarded the distinction, with Dean Avishai Sadan DMD, MBA ’14 having earned it last year. […]
Above: Amy Merrill-Brugger PhD ’05 Ostrow researcher and assistant professor of craniofacial molecular biology Amy Merrill-Brugger PhD ’05 received the National Institute of Health Research Project Grant (R01) for her scientific investigation on inherited human conditions that cause facial bones to develop abnormally. “Congenital disorders are particularly devastating as our facial bones support tools to […]
The 2014 performance review is in for the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry—and Ostrow faculty members fared very well. In an editorial published in the April 2015 issue of the international journal, editor-in-chief Dr. Stephen F. Rosenstiel laid out basic metrics concerning the publication’s 2014 performance, including the number of manuscripts received and published, web page […]
Above: Harold Slavkin, ’61, DDS ’65 Harold Slavkin ’61, DDS ’65 will be awarded a prestigious Honorary Degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada at the upcoming spring convocation later this month. This year’s Honorary Degree awardees—16 in total—range in backgrounds and areas of expertise from ground-breaking research on the human body to game-changing discoveries […]
