lois Hersey, Senior Clerk - Oral Health Maintenance Clinic (OHMC)

Lois was born and grew up in Jacksonville. She then went to Santa Fe Community College and took business classes. Before coming to UFCD, she worked as a multiline insurance agent for 19 years in Florida, selling all sorts of insurance. Lois is a family person: she has 5 sisters, 5 brothers, 5 children, 10 grandchildren, and 3 great grandchil-dren. All the students in OHMC also see her like a mother in addition to her large family. She loves working at OHMC and wants to stay there till they run her out.

Q. What's the oddest job you ever had?A. When I first walked in the dental school, everything was odd to me; I was like a cold turkey.Q. What’s your favorite guilty pleasure?A. Ice cream – butter pecan is one of my favorites.Q. What is your ideal day away from work?A. At the casinos. We go down to Tampa with my sister; it is our pleasure time.Favorite Book: Birds and Bloom maga-zineFavorite TV show: I watch all news pro-grams, but I haven’t showed TV shows for years.Favorite Movie: All Clint Eastwood mov-ies Unknown fact: I was a racecar driver back in the 60s and 70s and raced all around the area.

t h e B i - M o n t h l y U F C D n e W S l e t t e R

February 12-14Accreditation Site VisitAll day, Dental Sciences Building

February 26Guide to OPS Employment for UF Administrators (Pro313)9 a.m. - 12 p.m., D3-3

TWelcome 2008!

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he annual UFCD Holiday Luncheon was held Dec. 18, 2007. This year’s luncheon, organized by the Special

Events Planners, was held in the Dental Courtyard due to the university budget cuts. In accordance with this year’s theme “Giving is Sharing and Caring,” UFCD fac-ulty and staff donated non-perishable food items and gifts they brought with them to two charities, Gainesville Harvest and Partnership for Strong Families.

The Foundation for The Gator NationV I S I T T H E O n l I n E C A l E n D A RW W W . D E n T A l . U F l . E D U / E V E n T S . A S P

Swapna AmbatiSenior Biological ScientistOral Biology

Melanie BalickiProgram Assistant Orthodontics

Mercy BretoSenior ClerkHialeah Dental Clinic

Amanda BrownOffice AssistantPeriodontics

Joseph BryantIT SpecialistInformation Technology

Katie CaddenSenior ClerkPediatrics

Hong HuangBiological ScientistPeriodontics

Andrea Stacy WallsProgram AssistantCommunity Dentistry & Behavioral Science

Shaylan Sinkler Senior ClerkJacksonville Dental Clinic

Crystal WilliamsDental AssistantPeriodontics

A Farewell to lindy McCollum-Brounley lindy McCollum-Brounley, UFCD’s Communications Director of almost five years, has accepted a position at the Fredric G. levin College of law as the Associate Director of Communications and UF law Magazine Editor. A farewell reception for lindy was held nov. 29 from 3:30-4:30 in D4-16. We will miss her a lot, and we wish her the best of luck in her new position.

It has been a pleasure to work with someone as tal-ented as Lindy for the last four years. Each task she has been assigned has been done meticulously, and she has taken communications in the College of Dentistry to a much higher level than we ever imagined! We will all miss her and wish her well in her new endeavor. Cathy Jenkins

Lindy is the best editor with whom I have had the privilege of working. The quality of her work is always exceptional. The College of Dentistry will miss her talent and spirit tremendously! Mary Bennett

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Balicki Brown Williams

The D.M.D. and Advanced and Graduate Education Accreditation site visit will take place on Feb. 12-14, 2008. The college undergoes a site visit once every seven years as required by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA).

All components of these educational programs will be reviewed by the site visit team using the written self-study report with supporting docu-mentation submitted in December and informa-tion acquired during the site visit.

A list of members on the CODA site visit team and a schedule for the D.M.D. site visit is available at: http://www.dental.ufl.edu/Accreditation/upcoming_Events.asp.

During the visit, site visitors will be touring our facilities throughout the dental tower and at the 1329 Building. Please be aware that during the site visit, the college will be conducting busi-

ness as usual, and all patient clinics, teaching and research activities will be in full swing.

Staff members can assist the site visit team by:

4 Being sure to wear their UFCD identifica-tion badges at all times.

4 Ensuring that their areas are clean and neat and reporting any facilities issues to the Dean’s Office at 273-5800.

4 Greeting site visitors with a smile and assisting them with requests.

4 Wearing proper attire and paying particu-lar attention to following all guidelines related to infection control and quality patient care.

Questions or concerns can be addressed to Dr. William McArthur or Jean Sweitzer at 273-5800.

UFCD Accreditation Site Visit

The Foundation for The Gator Nation

for moreinformation

Emel Ozdora, Communications Assistant, Office of Communications, College of Dentistry eozdora@dental.ufl.edu • Ph:(352) 273-5783 • Fx:(352) 392-3070

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Pro-3 HR/ Payroll Management Certification for the UF College of Dentistry

Over the next three months, UFCD will house three of the core courses for the Pro-3 HR/Payroll Management Certification. Trainers from the UF Human Resource Services will teach three courses at the Dental Sciences building.

Guide to OPS Employment for UF Administrators (PRO313)February 26, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., D3-3 This workshop will discuss general OPS employment, student employment, and Academic OPS. Learn about the OPS hiring process and review other relevant policies and procedures, including “at will” employment, nepotism, workers’ and unemployment compensation, additional employment/lump sum pay-ments, and FICA eligibility.

Classification and Compensation Foundations (PRO314)March 25, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., D3-3 The workshop is organized to increase your understanding of the university’s classification and compensation structure for UF staff, with emphasis on describing jobs accurately and understanding options that are available to ensure employees are classified and paid properly.

Interviewing and Hiring (SCS040)April 23, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., D3-3 Using group participation, interactive exercises, and a video presentation, this train-ing will show you how to take the guesswork out of hiring so that you can hire not just “an” employee, but “the right” employee. Get tips on screening and interviewing plus ways to make a good job/person match.

traininginformation

here is a department in UFCD that dental stu-dents can’t avoid since all students must spend

time in its labs and clinics from the time they start dental school until they graduate. The department of operative dentistry is responsible for a major portion of the clinical instruction in the college, providing nine-teen core courses both pre-clinical and clinical. The department is responsible for student instruction and patient care in the Sim Lab, Ackley Operative Clinic, and Oral Health Maintenance Clinic. In addition to the pre-doctoral program, the department houses the Internationally-Educated Dentist Program where dentists from other countries complete two years of training which qualifies them for the Florida Dental Licensure Examination. Operative Dentistry also enjoys an affiliation with Santa Fe Community College, where students from the dental hygiene and the dental assisting programs come to UFCD to gain hands-on experience with patient treat-ment.

The department members carry on various research efforts; most noted of these being a $25 million grant from NIH-NIDCR to initiate a Dental Practice Based Research Network (DPBRN) in collaboration with the University of Alabama, Birmingham. The DPBRN conducts clinical research among practicing dentists to study the outcomes of dental diagnosis and treatments under real-life conditions. The department is committed to staying abreast of the latest evidence-based techniques in dentistry. “Operative dentistry has evolved in the last three-four years to focus on providing esthetic dentistry with min-imum invasion and minimum loss of tooth structure,” said Paul Blaser, D.D.S., M.S.D., chair of operative dentistry. CEREC, one of these new technologies, is an impressive machine that creates crowns, veneers, and

partial crowns of ceramic that are beautiful life-like replacements for diseased tooth parts. The CEREC machine consists of a computer system that creates a virtual three-dimensional model of the patient’s tooth from a digital photo image. The software then proposes a restoration that is transmitted to a robotic milling unit that produces the crown from a solid block of porcelain. The porcelain is then bonded to the tooth, strengthening and restoring the tooth in appearance and function. Operative Dentistry faculty and staff are dedicated to providing dental students with a quality education in contemporary, minimally invasive dentistry and committed to research and scholarly activity keeping abreast of the rapidly developing and evolving art and science of operative dentistry.

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The Department of Operative Dentistry

4 Training Schedule Spring 2008

Enhance your current skill set and/or learn something new by taking courses in the Project Management Series, Supervisory Challenge, myUFL/PeopleSoft Workshops, Pro3 Series, etc! To view the Spring 2008 course schedule, visit: http://www.hr.ufl.edu/training/schedule.htm. Please work with your supervi-sor for scheduling purposes prior to enrolling in each course. To enroll, log on to myUFL and navigate to My Self Service > Training and Development > Request Training Enrollment > search by course name or course number. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the col-lege’s Human Resources office at 273-5786.

W-2s Everyone’s W-2 forms for 2007 will be issued or mailed by Jan. 31st. If you have any questions, contact the college’s Human Resources office at 273-5784.

Performance AppraisalsThe performance appraisal process will begin March 1st, and the appraisals need to be issued and signed by the employees and the supervisors by March 26th.

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“Operative dentistry has evolved to focus on providing esthetic dentistry with mini-mum invasion and minimum

loss of tooth structure.”

FACUlTy:Paul BlASER, ChairMatty ABBATEAmer A. ABU-HAnnAJanna AUTIO-GOlDNereyda ClARKThurston D. ClARKSharon COOPERMark DAVISDeborah DIlBOnEMarc GAlEValeria A. GORDAnNicholas GRIMAUDODon IlKKAIvar A. MJORNick A. MInDEnMarcelle nASCIMEnTOSusan nIMMOMarc OTTEnGAAngela RASMUSSEnRosilia REy

Richard ROZEnSKyK. David STIllWEllRonald WATSOnGeraldine WEInSTEInHenry M. yOUnG

STAFF:Lindsay ABRABEnLatecia AlSTOnPearl HARRISDusti HERSEyLois HERSEyTerri JOnESShirley lAURITZEnDeborah McEDWARDPatti MOOREMelissa OROBITGStephanie SCRAMBlInGAlisha STRAMPEllOMichelle WATSOn

The College of Dentistry and the Dental College Council has impressed everyone with an amazing Homecoming float once again. Thanks to Dr. Gremillion for hosting the float decorations at his home this year, too.

Just Another Crazy Halloween at the UFCD

UFCD Homecoming Float

UFCD faculty and staff did it again this year. Halloween was a success, and we had staff and faculty running around the build-ing in all sorts of costumes and fun attire. L-to-R: Cindy Bachus, Terry Pendrey and Valerie Buie decided to show-up in their house clothes and impress us with their domestic looks. Gail Mitchell, Censeri Abare and Christina Haskins (L-to-R) decided to give us their best looks and dressed as the Moulin Rouge girls - they looked like they just arrived from Paris. And there were “Dolan’s Mustang Dudes” featuring Dean Teresa Dolan, Butch Dees, Charles Lesch, Sam Brill, Lee Mintz and David Soares (L-to-R). Thanks to all for showing us a great Halloween!

Pro-3 HR/ Payroll Management Certification for the UF College of Dentistry

Over the next three months, UFCD will house three of the core courses for the Pro-3 HR/Payroll Management Certification. Trainers from the UF Human Resource Services will teach three courses at the Dental Sciences building.

Guide to OPS Employment for UF Administrators (PRO313)February 26, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., D3-3 This workshop will discuss general OPS employment, student employment, and Academic OPS. Learn about the OPS hiring process and review other relevant policies and procedures, including “at will” employment, nepotism, workers’ and unemployment compensation, additional employment/lump sum pay-ments, and FICA eligibility.

Classification and Compensation Foundations (PRO314)March 25, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., D3-3 The workshop is organized to increase your understanding of the university’s classification and compensation structure for UF staff, with emphasis on describing jobs accurately and understanding options that are available to ensure employees are classified and paid properly.

Interviewing and Hiring (SCS040)April 23, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., D3-3 Using group participation, interactive exercises, and a video presentation, this train-ing will show you how to take the guesswork out of hiring so that you can hire not just “an” employee, but “the right” employee. Get tips on screening and interviewing plus ways to make a good job/person match.

traininginformation

here is a department in UFCD that dental stu-dents can’t avoid since all students must spend

time in its labs and clinics from the time they start dental school until they graduate. The department of operative dentistry is responsible for a major portion of the clinical instruction in the college, providing nine-teen core courses both pre-clinical and clinical. The department is responsible for student instruction and patient care in the Sim Lab, Ackley Operative Clinic, and Oral Health Maintenance Clinic. In addition to the pre-doctoral program, the department houses the Internationally-Educated Dentist Program where dentists from other countries complete two years of training which qualifies them for the Florida Dental Licensure Examination. Operative Dentistry also enjoys an affiliation with Santa Fe Community College, where students from the dental hygiene and the dental assisting programs come to UFCD to gain hands-on experience with patient treat-ment.

The department members carry on various research efforts; most noted of these being a $25 million grant from NIH-NIDCR to initiate a Dental Practice Based Research Network (DPBRN) in collaboration with the University of Alabama, Birmingham. The DPBRN conducts clinical research among practicing dentists to study the outcomes of dental diagnosis and treatments under real-life conditions. The department is committed to staying abreast of the latest evidence-based techniques in dentistry. “Operative dentistry has evolved in the last three-four years to focus on providing esthetic dentistry with min-imum invasion and minimum loss of tooth structure,” said Paul Blaser, D.D.S., M.S.D., chair of operative dentistry. CEREC, one of these new technologies, is an impressive machine that creates crowns, veneers, and

partial crowns of ceramic that are beautiful life-like replacements for diseased tooth parts. The CEREC machine consists of a computer system that creates a virtual three-dimensional model of the patient’s tooth from a digital photo image. The software then proposes a restoration that is transmitted to a robotic milling unit that produces the crown from a solid block of porcelain. The porcelain is then bonded to the tooth, strengthening and restoring the tooth in appearance and function. Operative Dentistry faculty and staff are dedicated to providing dental students with a quality education in contemporary, minimally invasive dentistry and committed to research and scholarly activity keeping abreast of the rapidly developing and evolving art and science of operative dentistry.

T

S P O T l I G H T O n

The Department of Operative Dentistry

4 Training Schedule Spring 2008

Enhance your current skill set and/or learn something new by taking courses in the Project Management Series, Supervisory Challenge, myUFL/PeopleSoft Workshops, Pro3 Series, etc! To view the Spring 2008 course schedule, visit: http://www.hr.ufl.edu/training/schedule.htm. Please work with your supervi-sor for scheduling purposes prior to enrolling in each course. To enroll, log on to myUFL and navigate to My Self Service > Training and Development > Request Training Enrollment > search by course name or course number. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the col-lege’s Human Resources office at 273-5786.

W-2s Everyone’s W-2 forms for 2007 will be issued or mailed by Jan. 31st. If you have any questions, contact the college’s Human Resources office at 273-5784.

Performance AppraisalsThe performance appraisal process will begin March 1st, and the appraisals need to be issued and signed by the employees and the supervisors by March 26th.

A n n O U n C E M E n T S

“Operative dentistry has evolved to focus on providing esthetic dentistry with mini-mum invasion and minimum

loss of tooth structure.”

FACUlTy:Paul BlASER, ChairMatty ABBATEAmer A. ABU-HAnnAJanna AUTIO-GOlDNereyda ClARKThurston D. ClARKSharon COOPERMark DAVISDeborah DIlBOnEMarc GAlEValeria A. GORDAnNicholas GRIMAUDODon IlKKAIvar A. MJORNick A. MInDEnMarcelle nASCIMEnTOSusan nIMMOMarc OTTEnGAAngela RASMUSSEnRosilia REy

Richard ROZEnSKyK. David STIllWEllRonald WATSOnGeraldine WEInSTEInHenry M. yOUnG

STAFF:Lindsay ABRABEnLatecia AlSTOnPearl HARRISDusti HERSEyLois HERSEyTerri JOnESShirley lAURITZEnDeborah McEDWARDPatti MOOREMelissa OROBITGStephanie SCRAMBlInGAlisha STRAMPEllOMichelle WATSOn

The College of Dentistry and the Dental College Council has impressed everyone with an amazing Homecoming float once again. Thanks to Dr. Gremillion for hosting the float decorations at his home this year, too.

Just Another Crazy Halloween at the UFCD

UFCD Homecoming Float

UFCD faculty and staff did it again this year. Halloween was a success, and we had staff and faculty running around the build-ing in all sorts of costumes and fun attire. L-to-R: Cindy Bachus, Terry Pendrey and Valerie Buie decided to show-up in their house clothes and impress us with their domestic looks. Gail Mitchell, Censeri Abare and Christina Haskins (L-to-R) decided to give us their best looks and dressed as the Moulin Rouge girls - they looked like they just arrived from Paris. And there were “Dolan’s Mustang Dudes” featuring Dean Teresa Dolan, Butch Dees, Charles Lesch, Sam Brill, Lee Mintz and David Soares (L-to-R). Thanks to all for showing us a great Halloween!

lois Hersey, Senior Clerk - Oral Health Maintenance Clinic (OHMC)

Lois was born and grew up in Jacksonville. She then went to Santa Fe Community College and took business classes. Before coming to UFCD, she worked as a multiline insurance agent for 19 years in Florida, selling all sorts of insurance. Lois is a family person: she has 5 sisters, 5 brothers, 5 children, 10 grandchildren, and 3 great grandchil-dren. All the students in OHMC also see her like a mother in addition to her large family. She loves working at OHMC and wants to stay there till they run her out.

Q. What's the oddest job you ever had?A. When I first walked in the dental school, everything was odd to me; I was like a cold turkey.Q. What’s your favorite guilty pleasure?A. Ice cream – butter pecan is one of my favorites.Q. What is your ideal day away from work?A. At the casinos. We go down to Tampa with my sister; it is our pleasure time.Favorite Book: Birds and Bloom maga-zineFavorite TV show: I watch all news pro-grams, but I haven’t showed TV shows for years.Favorite Movie: All Clint Eastwood mov-ies Unknown fact: I was a racecar driver back in the 60s and 70s and raced all around the area.

t h e B i - M o n t h l y U F C D n e W S l e t t e R

February 12-14Accreditation Site VisitAll day, Dental Sciences Building

February 26Guide to OPS Employment for UF Administrators (Pro313)9 a.m. - 12 p.m., D3-3

TWelcome 2008!

08C A l E n D A R O F E V E n T S

J A n U A R y - F E B R U A R y 2 0 0 8

he annual UFCD Holiday Luncheon was held Dec. 18, 2007. This year’s luncheon, organized by the Special

Events Planners, was held in the Dental Courtyard due to the university budget cuts. In accordance with this year’s theme “Giving is Sharing and Caring,” UFCD fac-ulty and staff donated non-perishable food items and gifts they brought with them to two charities, Gainesville Harvest and Partnership for Strong Families.

The Foundation for The Gator NationV I S I T T H E O n l I n E C A l E n D A RW W W . D E n T A l . U F l . E D U / E V E n T S . A S P

Swapna AmbatiSenior Biological ScientistOral Biology

Melanie BalickiProgram Assistant Orthodontics

Mercy BretoSenior ClerkHialeah Dental Clinic

Amanda BrownOffice AssistantPeriodontics

Joseph BryantIT SpecialistInformation Technology

Katie CaddenSenior ClerkPediatrics

Hong HuangBiological ScientistPeriodontics

Andrea Stacy WallsProgram AssistantCommunity Dentistry & Behavioral Science

Shaylan Sinkler Senior ClerkJacksonville Dental Clinic

Crystal WilliamsDental AssistantPeriodontics

A Farewell to lindy McCollum-Brounley lindy McCollum-Brounley, UFCD’s Communications Director of almost five years, has accepted a position at the Fredric G. levin College of law as the Associate Director of Communications and UF law Magazine Editor. A farewell reception for lindy was held nov. 29 from 3:30-4:30 in D4-16. We will miss her a lot, and we wish her the best of luck in her new position.

It has been a pleasure to work with someone as tal-ented as Lindy for the last four years. Each task she has been assigned has been done meticulously, and she has taken communications in the College of Dentistry to a much higher level than we ever imagined! We will all miss her and wish her well in her new endeavor. Cathy Jenkins

Lindy is the best editor with whom I have had the privilege of working. The quality of her work is always exceptional. The College of Dentistry will miss her talent and spirit tremendously! Mary Bennett

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Balicki Brown Williams

The D.M.D. and Advanced and Graduate Education Accreditation site visit will take place on Feb. 12-14, 2008. The college undergoes a site visit once every seven years as required by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA).

All components of these educational programs will be reviewed by the site visit team using the written self-study report with supporting docu-mentation submitted in December and informa-tion acquired during the site visit.

A list of members on the CODA site visit team and a schedule for the D.M.D. site visit is available at: http://www.dental.ufl.edu/Accreditation/upcoming_Events.asp.

During the visit, site visitors will be touring our facilities throughout the dental tower and at the 1329 Building. Please be aware that during the site visit, the college will be conducting busi-

ness as usual, and all patient clinics, teaching and research activities will be in full swing.

Staff members can assist the site visit team by:

4 Being sure to wear their UFCD identifica-tion badges at all times.

4 Ensuring that their areas are clean and neat and reporting any facilities issues to the Dean’s Office at 273-5800.

4 Greeting site visitors with a smile and assisting them with requests.

4 Wearing proper attire and paying particu-lar attention to following all guidelines related to infection control and quality patient care.

Questions or concerns can be addressed to Dr. William McArthur or Jean Sweitzer at 273-5800.

UFCD Accreditation Site Visit

The Foundation for The Gator Nation

for moreinformation

Emel Ozdora, Communications Assistant, Office of Communications, College of Dentistry eozdora@dental.ufl.edu • Ph:(352) 273-5783 • Fx:(352) 392-3070

staffspotlight