03/11/14 Student Committee Meeting at 8pm EST

  1. Attendance Summary

AADMD Student/Resident Meeting Attendees
Summary
Meeting Date / Meeting Duration / Number of Attendees
March 11, 2014 8:00 PM EDT / 62 minutes / 4
Details
Name / Email Address
Cynthia Wong /
John Hood /
leonard fischer /
Sarah Usher /
  1. AADMD Student National Leaders
  • AADMD Membership Chair – Sydnee
  • AADMD Newsletter Chair - Lyubov Slashcheva (VCU) AADMD Spread the Word Campaign Chair – James Lin (U of Pitt)
  • AADMD Committee Lead – Sarah Rose Usher

ACTION: Sarah Usher, contact Michelle Cornacchia and Abrahim Caroci about Clinton Global Initiative Commitment/Follow up documents.

  1. 2014 AADMD Annual Education Conference
  • Call for Presentations and Posters
  • Guidelines:
  • 8 Scholarships available to support AADMD Student/Resident presenters
  • Please direct interests to Sarah Usher
  • Application TBA
  • Accepting 2-3 student volunteers for meeting logistics in Princeton, New Jersey
  • Guest registration, coordinate poster presentation set up, etc.
  • Student registration waived
  • Please direct interests to Sarah Usher

ACTION: Sarah Usher, email students and encourage poster and oral presentation submission. Also inquire about logistic student volunteers.

  1. Medically Underserved Population - Patients with neurodevelopmental disorders and intellectual disabilities
  • Resolution presented at the 2014 American Student Dental Association (ASDA) Annual Session on Feb. 28, 2014
  • The Reference Committee referred the resolution to the 2014-15 Council on Professional Issues and a report is due at next years session
  • Do you know a medical student who is interested in constructing and submitting a similar resolution to the American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
  • Please direct interests to Sarah Usher
  1. Spread the Word to End the Word Champaign
  • Update from James Lin – Local AADMD Student/Resident Campaigns
  • Join the National AADMD Respect Committee

ACTION: Leonard Fisher: “We need to get this campaign in the national spot light”. Example: America Strong hosted by Diane Sawyer. Perhaps this is where the RESPECT committee can get recognition.

ACTION : James Lin (Student/Resident Spread the Word Campaign Chair) – Gather all campaign updates and photos and send to Sarah Usher and Lyubov Slashcheva.

ACTION : Sarah Usher, work with John Hood to get the photos and videos online.

  1. AADMD Student Chapter Updates
  • Virginia Commonwealth - Affiliated Chapter (Student: Lyubov Slashcheva Faculty: Dr. Matthew Cooke)
  • Lunch presentation about the SO Healthy Athletes program (~50 people) on 2/25
  • March 4-6 R-Word pledging (signing the banner) will hang banner with signature pledges in the school to maintain awareness
  • The Virginia Oral Health Coalition is hosting Dr. Matthew Cooke in leading a CE course on "Dental Care Approaches for Adults with Disabilities," and several of our members from VCU will be helping to run the course on 2/22.
  • Lyubov will be leading a "healthy aging" workshop at a local geriatric/adult day center that will focus on maintaining oral health...several SCIG members will be running the workshop.
  • Collaborating with Dr. Dave Fray (AADMD policy chair) on several short essays regarding respecting individuals with DD/ID, access to healthcare issues, and the MUP initiative for submitting to the daily "member's commentary" editions as part of APHA's National Public Health Week
  • University of Pittsburgh (Student: Greg Sencak Faculty: Dr. Lynne Taiclet)
  • Spread the Word to End the Word Campaign - Photos
  • Harvard School of Dental Medicine (Student: Sydnee Chavis Faculty: Dr. Romesh Nalliah)
  • Spread the Word to End the Word event tonight 03/11/14
  • University of British Columbia(Student: Shan Sun Faculty: Dr. Nancy Vertel)
  • Baylor College of Medicine (Resident: Michelle Cornacchia Faculty: Dr. Cynthia Peacock)
  • University of the Pacific in CA (Student: Michael Suh Faculty: Dr. Allen Wong)
  • Spread the Word to End the Word Campaign - Photos
  • Medical College of Wisconsin (Student: Ahmad El-Arabi Faculty: Dr. Joseph O’Grady)
  • University of Rochester(Students: Cynthia Wong & Stephanie Straka Faculty: Dr. Sulkes)
  • UCEDD grant recipient – SO Health Coaches
  • GOAL: ensure that team members have health issues addressed. Engage local providers.
  • Spread the Word to End the Word Campaign –Photos
  • Events at 3 locations: pledge, band, DJ, “Wheels in Motion”
  • 300 pledges at the hospital
  • News coverage – TV 3 channels, newspaper
  • Alex Saffran – undergraduate interested in starting an undergraduate AADMD chapter at University of Rochester
  • Follow up from Special Smiles Screenings, Free dental treatment as Eastman Dental Facility March 22, 2014
  • College of Oral Health Sciences University of Technology in Jamaica (Student: Laurian Lue Yen Faculty: Dr. Hilary Jones)
  • University of Louisville School of Dentistry(Student: Shane Vaughn Faculty: Dr. Linel Holwager)
  • Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health & School of Osteopathic Medicine (Student: Sarah Usher Faculty: Dr. Tim Lukavsky)
  • Spread the Word to End the Word Campaign - Photos
  1. Next student committee meeting: April 8th at 8pm EST (second Tuesday of every month)