Ostrow graduate Sophia Conroy’s path to becoming an oral healthcare professional started when she first sat in a dental chair as a child, fascinated by the sights, sounds and smells. This spring, she earns her doctor of dental surgery degree and aims to begin a pediatric dental residency next to make her longheld dreams come […]
As a child, Kimberlee Kiep Witthoft DDS ’26 eagerly looked forward to her dental appointments, where she found oral healthcare professionals who encouraged her to pursue her dream career. This Friday, that dream becomes a reality. FOR KIMBERLEE KIEP WITTHOFT DDS ’26, health care is a family calling: Her mother is a retired oncology nurse; […]
The $4.3-million NIDCR grant will help clinicians build upon previous work to improve patient outcomes for those suffering with TMD pathology. THERE ARE FEW JOINTS AS COMPLEX as the jaws — they allow people to move the mandible forward and backward, up and down and side to side. But the simple act of chewing, talking […]
After spending time in Ostrow’s Community Oral Health Programs, Cynde Mai is energized to use her dental degree to give back to medically compromised, geriatric and other patients with unique needs. BY JAMIE WETHERBE IT’S NOT OFTEN YOU FALL into dentistry, but that’s how Cynde Mai MS ’20, DDS ’24 found herself in the field. […]
Asha Green, Daniel Ip and Somkene Okwuego have their dental educations paid for, thanks to a National Health Service Corps scholarship that requires them to spend two years practicing in a health professional shortage area. IT’S A STATISTIC THAT’S NEVER FAR from the mind of Asha Green DDS ’26: just 3.7 percent of dentists in […]
First-generation college student Erika Correa DDS ’22 wants to use her career to help improve others’ lives. IT WAS A FABLED TRIP to the orthodontist to get braces that first sparked then-13-year-old Erika Correa’s interest in a dental career . “My new smile after my braces gave me confidence, which really changed my life for […]
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH and having confidence as a patient can reduce the chances of you having a higher body mass index (BMI), needing preventative care and using the emergency room, while increasing the chances of you having better clinical indicators (such as blood pressure, lipids, triglycerides, A1C)?2 […]
The prestigious five-year training grants are meant to support tomorrow’s leading thinkers in craniofacial research as they launch their academic careers. OSTROW HAS BEEN AWARDED TWO RESEARCH GRANTS from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to support nine PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, giving USC the distinction of being just one of […]
