Part-time and volunteer faculty members of the Ostrow School of Dentistry were honored during the 2012 Part-Time Faculty Appreciation Dinner on May 23.

Following dinner at the University Club on the University Park Campus, faculty honorees received award plaques and statuettes for years of service milestones and division recognition awards.

“Our part-time and volunteer faculty members play a huge role in the academic and clinical achievements of our talented students,” said Avishai Sadan, Dean of the Ostrow School of Dentistry. “All of you, our part-time faculty members are truly the ‘boots on the ground,’ both in the classroom and in the clinic, and you are the driving force behind our mission to educate the future leaders of the dental profession.”

2012 Part-Time Faculty Honorees

50 Year Award
Ralph Allman

45 Year Award
Gilbert Katz
David Stevenson

40 Year Award
Thomas Chang
James Loos
John Lytle
Sung Whang

35 Year Award
Robert Dent

30 Year Award
Harris Done
John Kishibay
Becky Thaler-Tobin

25 Year Award
H. William Gottschalk
Garrett Kawata
Stanley Miyawaki

20 Year Award
Farshid Ariz
Steve Lee
Anthony Park
Rafael Roges
Roberto Roges
Alan Stern
Rizkalla Zakhary

15 Year Award
Wayne Bemis
Andrew Chen
Robert Jacobs
Richard Mungo
Larry Odono
Sumalee Sangsurasak
Peter Suh

10 Year Award
Peter Cancellier
Stephen Davis
Brent Fung
Robert Gerber
Yoshihiro Goto
Mina Habibian
Vanthi Pham
Lucille Rotstein
Jill Sekiguchi
Carol Yeung

5 Year Award
Ana Ahlmeyer
David Amid
Gary Carr
Wanda Claro
Diane Conly
Terrence Donovan
Roberta Dornan
Nelly Fowler
Alon Frydman
Greggory Gechoff
Seonho Ha
Pamela Hughes
Sajid Jivraj
James Ku
Tra Le
Valerie Lee
Chun-Nan (Eddie) Lin
Lonnie Lovingier
Jafar Naghshbandi
Kamyar Nouri
Dieu Pham
Guillermo Roman
Uttam Sinha
Marlene Talley
Dennis Tartakow
Donald Testa
Nhu Tran
Paul Upatham
Thomas Valente
Mahnaz Zandi-Hanjari
William Zanger

Division Awards

Dental Public Health and Pediatric Dentistry
John Chao

Periodontology and Diagnostic Sciences
Flora Stay
Linus Chong

Endodontics , Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery & Orthodontics
John J. Lytle

Restorative Sciences
Parviz Azarmehr
Terry Tanaka
Brent Fung
Donald Kornblau
Gerald McClellan

Biomedical Sciences
Narendranath Ravindranath

USC Dentistry Life-Long Learner Awards

(top earners of USC Dentistry Continuing Education credit)

Dr. Barry Kaplan
Dr. Scott Taylor
Dr. Luz M. Rojas