Advanced
Education Highlights
Advanced
Education Graduation
The 2018 Advanced
Education graduation
ceremony was held on June
22. Twenty-six residents,
four fellows, and six
interns received
certificates from the
seven specialty programs
of endodontics, general
practice residency (GPR),
oral and maxillofacial
surgery (OMS),
orthodontics, pediatric
dentistry, periodontics,
and prosthodontics.
Residents in all programs
except GPR and OMS also
received a master's of
dental sciences.
The keynote speaker was
Robert W. McMinn, DDS, who
served as a part-time
faculty member in the
Department of Orthodontics
for 25 years. A graduate
of the last class of
Loyola Dental School in
1971, he received his
orthodontics certificate
from LSUSD in 1975. Dr.
McMinn retired from LSUSD
and his private practice
in 2013. After working for
two years as a part-time
faculty member in the
Vanderbilt orthodontics
department in Nashville,
he is now enjoying full
retirement in the Florida
panhandle.
During the ceremony, Dr.
Tom Wen announced
recipients of awards for
oral presentations and
posters from Research Day
on May 18. Dr. Brent
Benoit, orthodontics, won
the Dr. Robert B. Brannon
Research Award for first
place. Dr. David Long,
periodontics, won second
place; Dr. Jyoti Sonkar,
periodontics, won third
place; and Dr. Amir Nejat,
prosthodontics, won the
award for best poster.
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(l-r)
Dr. Paul
Armbruster,
orthodontics
department
chairman;
keynote speaker
Dr. Robert
McMinn; Dean
Gremillion; and
Dr. Sandra
Andrieu,
director of
advanced
education
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Faculty
Transitions
At the end of June LSUSD
bid farewell to Janice
Townsend, DDS, MS,
chair of the Department of
Pediatric Dentistry, who
was named chair of
pediatric dentistry at The
Ohio State University
College of Dentistry. Dr.
Townsend received her DDS
from Marquette University
School of Dentistry in
2005. Two years later, she
completed her master of
science with a certificate
in pediatric dentistry at
Columbus Children's
Hospital and The Ohio
State University. A member
of the LSUSD faculty since
2007, she was named
interim department chair
in 2010 and chair in 2014.
Suzanne Fournier,
DDS, assistant
professor, has assumed the
position of interim chair
of pediatric dentistry in
addition to her role as
director of the
department's advanced
education program. A
graduate of the University
of Michigan School of
Dentistry, she received
her certificate in
pediatric dentistry from
the University of Florida
in 2008. Dr. Fournier
joined the LSUSD faculty
in 2014.
Angela (Toula)
Palaiologou-Gallis, DDS,
MS, director of
the periodontics advanced
education program since
2009, will leave LSUSD at
the end of August to join
the periodontics faculty
at the University of Texas
at San Antonio; her
position will be assistant
director of the
periodontics advanced
education program. Dr.
Palaiologou received her
DDS in 1995 from the
National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens
School of Dentistry, and
her certificate in
periodontics and MS from
LSUSD in 2000. After seven
years in private practice
in Greece, she returned to
LSUSD in 2007 to join the
periodontics faculty.
Pooja Maney, BDS,
MPH, PhD,
associate professor, will
replace Dr. Palaiogolou as
director of the
periodontics advanced
education program. Dr.
Maney, who received her
BDS from Kuvempu
University in India,
joined LSUSD in 2009 after
completing her training in
periodontics and her PhD
in Oral Biology at The
Ohio State University.
She has been director of
both undergraduate and
postgraduate periodontics
courses.
Dean Gremillion Announces Faculty
Promotions
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Congratulations
to the following
faculty members
who received
promotions,
effective July 1,
2018:
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Angela
Palaiologou-Gallis,
DDS, MS
Professor,
Department of
Periodontics |
Francis
Thomas Giacona,
DDS
Associate Professor
Clinical, Department
of Comprehensive
Dentistry and
Biomaterials |
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Thomas
E. Lallier, PhD
Professor,
Department of Cell
Biology &
Anatomy/Dentistry |
Zezhang
"Tom" Wen, PhD
Professor,
Department of
Comprehensive
Dentistry and
Biomaterials |
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