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MARCH 2013VOLUME XVIII NO I

EDITORJetson Lee

CONTRIBUTORSSheldon BaumrindBob BoydSteven DugoniJetson LeeKimberly MahoodHeesoo OhMaureen Valley

COMMITTEE CHAIR’S REPORTPacific Orthodontic Chapter of the Alumni AssociationBy Dr. Kimberly Mahood, Class of 2010

TRIDENTPACIFIC ORTHODONTIC ALUMNI NEWSLETTERARTHUR A. DUGONI SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY

Happy New Year! I hope that you each enjoyed a wonderful holiday sea-son and are having a great 2013 so far!

As I begin my term as the committee chair, I would first like to recog-nize Dr. Jetson Lee for his leadership and dedication during the past two years as he served as the chair of our committee. He was able to oversee many significant changes, including the restructuring of our chapter as it became part of the dental school alumni association, increasing com-munication with our alumni with online issues of the Trident, improving relationships with our current residents, assisting the department with the first and second annual Dr. Arthur A. Dugoni Orthodontic Gradua-tion Symposium and Dinner, and improving attendance at our annual AAO and PCSO alumni receptions. We are fortunate that Dr. Lee will continue to assist our chapter and outreach to our alumni by managing and editing the Trident.

I would also like to give a special thanks to the members of the com-mittee, Drs. Maryse Aubert, Steven Dugoni, Brian Grey, Shahram Nabi-pour, John Oshetski, Rich Portalupi, Bert Rouleau, Adrian Vogt, and ex-officio members, Drs. Robert Boyd and Arthur Dugoni for all their contributions. These individuals were integral to the improvement and revitalization of our alumni chapter these past two years. I am pleased that each of these members will continue to participate on the commit-tee and truly appreciate their continued dedication. I am also excited to welcome our newest committee member, Dr. Katherine Kieu, and resident liaison, Dr. Aaron Rouleau.

Our next committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. If you are interested in participating on our committee or have sugges-tions, please email me at [email protected].

2013 looks to be an exciting year with many upcoming events that will give us the opportunity to reconnect with one another.

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The 27th Annual Frederick T. West Lectureship was just held on Fri-day, March 8th at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco in conjunc-tion with the 114th Annual Alumni Weekend. Dr. Richard McLaughlin was the featured speaker and his lecture, “Overview of Systemized and Effective Orthodontic Care” was quite informative and included an interesting look at a variety of cases as well as his treatment phi-losophy and mechanics.

There will be a Faculty, Alumni, and Residents Bowling Event on Friday, April 19, 7:00-9:00 pm, at Yerba Buena Bowling Center, located at 750 Folsom Street in San Francisco. We started this event last year and there was great turnout. We are expecting to have another fun night of bowling, food, and camaraderie, so make sure to check your email for the Evite that was sent out this past month.

The Alumni Reception at the Amer-ican Association of Orthodontists Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, May 4 from 4:00 to 5:45 pm. We will be in Franklin 7 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown,

which is located at 1201 Market Street in Philadelphia. We hope to catch up with many of you during the meeting and at the reception.

The 3rd Annual Arthur A. Dugoni Orthodontic Graduation Sympo-sium and Dinner will be held on Friday, September 27. We are ex-cited to have Dr. Dan Grauer as the featured speaker for the lecture portion of this event. Please con-sider attending this event to hear Dr. Grauer and to congratulate the Class of 2013 on their accomplish-ments and welcome them to our alumni association. A Save-the-Date Evite will be sent out later this spring and invitations will be mailed out in June.

The events listed above are made possible with assistance from your membership dues. Most of you have received the dues statement from the Alumni Association at the end of 2012. The dental school’s Alumni Association will send out another mailing with dues notifica-tion this summer. I encourage you to consider joining our alumni as-sociation if you have not done so already. In addition, if you are inter-

ested in making a donation to our chapter, please email me so that I can forward you the information to help you make a contribution.

The Trident continues to be a wonderful way for us to keep in touch with our fellow alumni and stay up to date on what is going on in the orthodontic department. You can access the newsletter on the Alumni Association website at www.dugonionline.org. Click on “Publications” and it will take you to the page where there is a link to the newsletter. If you know of classmates of colleagues who might want to receive our newslet-ter or would like to be added to our contact list for updates, including Evite invitations, please email me with that updated information.

I wish each of you the very best this year and will look forward to seeing you throughout 2013 at our many upcoming events! I am excited to serve as the chair of our chapter the next two years and am hopeful that we will be able to build upon the momentum of the past two years to continue to improve our chapter of the alumni association!

PACIFIC ORTHODONTICALUMNI ASSOCIATION UPDATEThe Orthodontic Chapter hosted an alumni barbeque at the home of Dr. Bert Rouleau on Sunday, August 19, 2012. We had a good turnout on a sunny, but cool summer afternoon.

The 2nd Annual Dr. Arthur A. Dugoni Graduation Symposium was held on Friday, September 21, 2012 at the school. Our featured speaker, Dr. James McNamara’s gave a talk entitled “The Timing of Orthodontic Treatment: An Evidence-based Approach”. The gradu-ating class presented their research in the afternoon. The number of attendees increased by about 20 doctors from last year. This year’s total was about 75 including alumni from as far as Oklahoma!

Drs. Eric Nordberg ’14, Ehsan Karimian ’13, Robert Boyd, Dean Emerius Arthur Dugoni (with wife Kaye), Joorak Park ’08, Dr. Harry Hatasaka (with wife Cyd), Dr. Miroslav Tolar, Heesoo Oh ’05, Jeff Kwong ’07, Bert Rouleau ’82, and Victor Lee ’13


The day concluded with a wonderful dinner program at the City Club of San Francisco where faculty, staff, family, and friends gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of the graduating class. Longtime faculty and friend of the department, Dr. Eugene Roberts came out from Indiana to partake in the festivities.

The following day, Dr. Roberts hosted a wine tasting event for his Jawbone wines at the Gopfrich Estate Vineyard in Healdsburg. About 30 people attended on a wonderful, sunny day during the harvest. Drs. Robert Griffin, Heesoo Oh, Kimberly Mahood, Jetson Lee, and Mihee Hong from our department attended. Also in at-tendance were Drs. Earl Johnson, Charles Wear, Howard Hunt, and Craig Yarborough.

The 76th Annual Session of the PCSO was held at the Monterey Convention Center in beautiful Monterey, CA celebrating the PCSO centennial “A Century of Smiles”. Our department was well represented at the meeting. Dr. Steven Dugoni spoke on “Reconsidering the Role of Early Treatment in Orthodontics” and Chairman Bob Boyd spoke on “How Successful is Invisalign for Treat-ment of Open and Deep Overbite”. Several residents gave poster presentations. Dr. Dugoni also received the 2012 Award of Merit.

Our alumni association hosted a well-attended reception at Peter B’s Brewery in the Portola Plaza Hotel and Spa.

Drs. Shahram Nabipour ’05, Katherine Kieu ’12, Marta Parisek ’11 (with husband Simon Baird), Joorak Park ’08, Maybelle Gomez ’11, Robert Boyd, Nadim Guirguis ’13, Mihee Hong ’12, Jonathan Gluck ’14 and Aaron Rouleau ’13

Dr. James McNamara speaks at the 2nd Annual Dr. Arthur A. Dugoni Graduation Symposium

Drs. Joorak Park ’08 and Mihee Hong ’12 introduce their guests from South Korea

Ms. Joanne Fox, Assistant Director, Alumni Association, Drs. Jetson Lee ’86, Roger Boero ’75 and Eugene Roberts(Photo courtesy of Delumpa Photography)

The Class of 2012 recognized the Volunteer Faculty at the Graduation dinner (Photo courtesy of Delumpa Photography)

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Dr. Eric Nordberg ’14 presents at the poster session

The Class of 2013: Drs. Jeong Rae Cho, Ji Hyun Ahn, Nadim Guirguis, Ehsan Karimian, Kenny Liu, Aaron Rouleau, Victor Lee, and Arash Abolfazlian at Peter B’s

Members of the Class of 2005 (Drs. Mark Handelin, Leif Cobain, Heesoo Oh, Shahram Nabipour and Vincent Chiappone) get together at the alumni reception

Proud father Arthur Dugoni with son Steven ‘81 receiving the 2012 Award of Merit at the President’s Lecture and Awards Ceremony

Dr. Roberts discusses his variety of New Zealand wines

Drs. Robert Griffin, Heesoo Oh ‘05, Maryse Aubert ‘80 (with Michael Holland), Gene Roberts, Jetson Lee ‘86, and Kimberly Mahood ‘10

PACIFIC ORTHODONTIC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

The 27th Annual Frederick T. West Lectureship was held in conjunction with the 114th Annual Association Meeting on Friday, March 8, 2013 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Dr. Richard P. McLaughlin from San Diego, the “M” in MBT brackets, gave a talk entitled “Overview of Systemized and Effective Orthodontic Care” to a packed room which stayed that way even after lunch! His talk touched on treatment planning and mechanics for Class II and Class III cases, surgical and TMJ cases, impacted cuspids and missing teeth. Cases in each cat-egory were shown.

Dr. Boyd presents Dr. McLaughlin with a plaque for speaking at the 27th Frederick T. West Lectureship

The first mailing of the Alumni Association dues notices were mailed out in mid-December. If you have not already paid your dues, please consider supporting your alumni association now.


DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN’S REPORTBy Dr. Robert Boyd

Great news! One of our former faculty and graduates, Dr. Thad Cham-plin ’84, has recently volunteered to join our Monday PM clinic to teach with our Program Director, Dr. Heesoo Oh and Dr. Joorok Park. This opening was created when Drs. William Lieber and Douglas Tinloy re-cently retired from teaching. We will certainly miss Bill and Doug and all of the outstanding teaching they provided for so many years. In fact, Bill has been a faculty member almost from the time he graduated in 1974 from our orthodontic program. We wish Bill and Doug the best and will always hope that if retirement gets too boring they will consider coming back.

Other good news is that I believe we are the only orthodontic depart-ment in the U.S. that has two endowed professorships. The first one established was the Frederick T. West Endowed Professor and Chair, which I was awarded in 2005. Now our beloved Dean Emeritus Arthur A. Dugoni has personally completed the $1 million funding for a second endowed professorship, which will be called the Dr. Arthur A. Dugoni Endowed Orthodontic Professorship.

Art has been a great philanthropist for our university with his incred-ible generosity over the past 50 years of his time and resources. We, of course, named the dental school the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in 2005 because of all his tireless efforts over so many years of building this school and making it one of the best dental schools in the world today. Art has also set up endowments for scholarships for dental students and has supported other endowments that help our school every day.

At our last Executive committee meeting our department faculty pres-ent voted unanimously to nominate Dr. Sheldon Baumrind for consid-eration by Dean Ferrillo and the University as the first Arthur A. Dugoni Endowed Professor. Shelly was deeply touched by this vote of confi-dence for all he has done for so many years of dedicated hard work to the school and our profession.

The plans continue to go well for construction of our new school on Fifth Street between Mission and Howard Streets (see our school’s web-site for more details). The building will have semi opaque walls to give a natural light effect throughout the building and wide escalators to move patients, students and faculty quickly from floor to floor. It will be the most modern and efficiently constructed dental school ever and you will all be so proud to be part of it as it will attract so much attention world wide with it being in the heart of such a great city as San Francisco.


PROGRAM DIRECTOR’S REPORTBy Dr. Heesoo Oh, Class of 2005

What’s new in 2013? In addition to planning for the new school, we are also preparing for the CODA Accreditation site visit in October of 2014. In light of the fact that this visit will take place shortly after our big move, we decided to initiate the process early in order to ensure adequate preparation. The accreditation review occurs every seven years, and since our program was previously awarded full ac-creditation without any recommendations in 2007, I similarly anticipate no problems for 2014.

Therefore, I would like to utilize the preparation process as an opportunity to strengthen our program by making various improvements. Over the past months, several changes have already been imple-mented toward this effort: we are now using Google calendars for the department schedule, courses, and internal communication, archiving all course materials and syllabi in the SAKAI website, and conducting course evaluations through Qualtrics, an online survey software program.

There have also been changes in our clinical faculty team. Unfortunately, Drs. William Lieber, Douglas Tinloy, and Shahram Nabipour are unable to continue their clinical instruction.

After 36 years of committed service, Dr. Lieber de-cided it was time to retire from clinical teaching. He is a wealth of knowledge and experience and Monday afternoon clinic will not be the same without him. I have enjoyed working with him and would like to wish him all the best in the next chapter of his life. Dr. Lieber’s “retirement” was celebrated with a luncheon on March 5.

Dr. Tinloy, one of our famous faculty-father and res-ident-son (Jeff, Class of 2009) duos, will also be leaving Monday afternoon clinic due to increased personal and professional commitments. I would like to thank him for sharing his clinical experience for 6 years and wish him the best of luck.

Dr. Nabipour, who joined as part-time faculty in 2009 and who was honored by the residents two years in a row for his excellent teaching in both the clinic and his didactic course, will be taking some time off to build his private practice. However, he will continue to teach the residents in his “Advanced Clinical Diag-nosis and Treatment Planning” class.

I would like to express my sincere appreciation to these three individuals. Their enthusiasm and dedi-cation to teaching have resonated with our residents through the years.

Our residents have been busy and productive during the Fall and Winter quarters. The first-year residents finished their two-quarter long Typodont course with Drs. Ken Shimizu, Bert Rouleau, and Chris Ander-son last December and will have a refresher Typodont workshop in May. In clinic, each resident has started about 30-35 new patients thus far, and we are con-fident that this will translate into at least 45 new patients by the end of their first year.

The second-year residents have been diligently pre-paring for the ABO written examination in April, the initial step toward becoming board certified ortho-dontists. They also did an excellent job reviewing ar-ticles for the Resident’s Journal Review section of the AJODO, which was published in the February issue. Unfortunately, the journal’s copy editor printed the name and location of our school erroneously. The cor-rection will be announced in the April issue.

We are also proud of our recent graduates, the Class of 2012. It is always a pleasure to receive updates from them. James Galea works as an associate for Dr. Bob Fry in Kansas. Katherine Kieu joined Drs. Adrian Vogt (’94) and Tom Ellerhorst (’04) in their San Ma-teo practice and has joined us as part-time faculty (1 day a week) to continue doing research in CRIL.


Courtney Ray is an associate for Drs. David Alpan (’98) and Michael Luther in Los Angeles. Kiri Her-chold works for Indian Health Services in Santa Rosa. Michi Bittner-Eberle works in Florida and also associ-ates for her father-in-law in Alaska. Sarah Chung is working full-time at Western Dental in Stockton. Mi-hee Hong returned to Korea and obtained a position at one of the finest university hospitals in Seoul (she plans to pursue an academic career). And Abir Balg-honaim is returning to Saudi Arabia to resume working for Saudi Aramco after they sponsored her research and orthodontic specialty education.

A significant amount of effort from the department was directed toward helping our former residents complete their board cases to take the ABO ICE clin-ical examination. Drs. Mihee Hong and Abir Balg-honaim both successfully passed their clinical exams

PROGRAM DIRECTOR’S REPORT

NEW CAMPUS TO FEATURE EXPANDED, STATE-OF-THE-ART ORTHODONTIC CLINICNaming opportunities available for 155 Fifth Street clinic and campus spacesBy Dr. Maureen Valley, Clinic Director

Construction is moving forward on the dental school’s new San Francisco cam-pus, and the plans give the Orthodontic Department plenty to get excited about. An expanded, state-of-the-art Orthodontic Clinic is just one new campus feature that will benefit students, residents, patients, faculty and staff members alike. The Orthodontic Clinic will be located on the 3rd floor.

One big change from the existing facility at 2155 Webster Street is that the size of the new clinic will be larger to accommodate 24 chairs (a 20% increase over the 20 chairs in the existing clinic). All residents will have chairs at the times they need, and first-year residents will be able to start their clinical experience the day they arrive. The additional chairs will also support more efficient scheduling for patients.

During the last decade, our Orthodontic program class size increased from six to eight residents and the length of the program was extended from 24 to 27 months. The new clinic will allow us to better fit the existing class size, ensuring that our residents receive an outstanding experience in a space that works for them.

For patients, the new clinic will offer a larger and more welcoming reception area, and streamlined technology that will follow them through their experience. We will have patient education digital display screens and two dedicated medical imaging areas with improved privacy. The new clinic patient greeting area will also offer a larger, better-designed and more private layout for clinic business staff members.

and became diplomates. I would like to thank all our faculty and staff, especially Dr. Steven Dugoni (ABO Board Director) for their continued commitment in making this possible. Congratulations!

Finally, I would like to welcome another exceptional group of eight residents who will be entering our orthodontic program this July as the Class of 2015:

Lateefa Alkharafi (Kuwait University 2009)Vanessa E. Chong (University of Toronto 2013)Daniel K. Frey (Temple University 2013)Cheryl K. Guerrero (UCSF 2013)Justin Maccaro (Harvard 2013)Laura Mancini (McGill University 2013)Jesse J. Punch (Tufts University 2013)Jennifer Yau (UCLA 2013)


NEW CAMPUS TO FEATURE EXPANDED, STATE-OF-THE-ART ORTHODONTIC CLINIC (CONT’D)

The new clinic will offer several rooms that will be used by the Orthodontic Department. A dedicated Ortho Conference Room will be able to fit up to 40 people (essentially the whole department) at one time. A new Or-tho Multipurpose Room will offer a dedicated, private space for use by the department. This room will include lockers for residents, staff, and part-time faculty. It will also offer modular furniture and space where faculty can review computer images and cases with the residents.

The new Orthodontic Clinic design will upgrade operations in other areas as well as to improve its overall flow and efficiency. The clinic will have its own dispensary with space for all instruments and cassettes, and a checkout system for supplies and materials to help control overhead costs. There will also be a dedicated col-lection room for soiled instruments and cassettes.

These exciting changes will keep us on the cutting edge in many ways, and support our position as one of the leading orthodontic programs in the world. I am proud that the Orthodontic Department has been involved in the clinic design from the beginning.

For those interested in viewing the project, seeing floor plans, and architectural renderings, please visit www.dental.pacific.edu/plans. There is also a live webcam of the construction site available.

The floor plan for the 3rd floor of the new campus

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Plans for the new campus calls for a dedicated patient entrance separate from the student, faculty, and staff entry. The new campus will also include a variety of other features. The learning spaces will be designed in a flexible way to support the small-group learning approach, and the school’s Main Clinic is being designed to support eight small group practices that will give students a clinical experience more closely resembling a private practice environment. The building will offer more communal spaces to support the school’s culture, a completely new Simulation Lab, and additional space for University of the Pacific programs and events outside of dentistry. Additionally, the location on 5th Street between Mission and Howard Streets offers nearby public transportation, parking and freeway access, which are expected to make it more convenient for everyone to get to the school.

The school will move to the new campus in July of 2014 over the summer break. This timing will allow us to minimize disruption to patients, students, staff and faculty.

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Alumni and other supporters are playing a very important role in funding the new campus construction. Notable naming opportunities within the clinic are available to alumni and friends, including the clinic itself, each of the high-tech operatories, the conference room, and other spaces. If you are interested in leaving your mark on the new campus by naming one of the spaces in the Orthodontic Department, please contact Pacific Dugoni’s Development Department at 415.929.6431.

The conceptual rendering shows the exterior of 155 Fifth Street

CLASS OF 2012 HONORSThree of our recent graduates earned honors in the recent Invisalign University Challenge. Dr. Court-ney Ray placed first in the Multidiscipline category while Dr. Sarah Chung placed third in the Class I category and Dr. Kiri Herchold placed third in the Class III category. In addition, Dr. Ray was invited to present her case at the Invisalign Orthodontic Summit in Las Vegas on November 16, 2012.

In recognition of our accomplishments, Align Tech-nology made a $7,000 donation ($5,000 for first place and $1,000 for each third place finish) to our program. This generous gift benefits the Department of Orthodontics Clinical Outcomes Research funds.

Dr. Gerald Kim of Hawaii (’00) was the “Best of the Best” Invisalign Orthodontic Summit winner. The award is given to only one orthodontist in North America every two years for the best-treated case using Invisalign. Another one of our graduates, Dr. John Sparaga of Alaska ’77 was the runner-up. You can check out their cases at aligntechinstitute.com/summit/Pages/summit12_caseshootout.aspx

Dr. Courtney Ray ’12 and proud chairman Dr. Robert Boyd

Dr. Gerald Kim ’00 presents his case at the Aria Hotel during the Invisalign Orthodontic Summit in Las Vegas in November



LONGTIME FACULTY MEMBER RETIRESAfter 36 plus years of teaching in our department, Dr. William Lieber ’74 has decided to retire from the clinical faculty. He sold his private practice to Dr. Michelle Masuda ’10 last May.

Dr. Lieber was a member of the second class in our program. Soon after graduating, he was recruited to teach by Dr. William Odom. He has been here ever since on Mondays and even some Thursdays for a time faithfully making the trip from Danville.

An appreciation gathering for Dr. Lieber was held at the school on March 5, 2013. Dr. Roger Boero ’75 who commuted with Bill during the residency and Jetson Lee ’86 who taught with Bill for many years on Mondays took time out from their busy schedules to be with Bill.

We appreciate his devotion and contributions. He will be sorely missed. Stay tuned for the next Trident, as Dr. Lieber will be the subject of an upcoming profile.

Light fare and a cake were available. Dr. Lieber was presented with a huge card signed by residents and faculty and a gift. Comments were made by Drs. Boyd, Baumrind, Oh, Lee, and Boero before Bill was taken out to lunch at Via Veneto.


CLASS NOTESWe are starting a new feature in our newsletter! Do you have any professional or family news or just want to keep in touch with your classmates, colleagues, or the department? Any recent awards, accomplishments, practice updates, marriages, births, trips to far-off lands or anything else you would like us to publish? We will also report on any passings. Just drop me a note at [email protected] and we will be glad to publish it in our next issue of the Trident!

Still very active, Dr. Richard Rutter played in the 2010 Stanford Varsity-Alumni game where players like Tony Azevedo (2012 Olympic team) also participated. Recently, he scored 2 goals in the Alumni’s 13-12 victory over the Varsity on October 6, 2012 two days before his 80th birthday!

Dr. Leah Walker ’06 and her husband welcomed Landen Christopher Rice into their family on February 18th. Weighing 8 lbs, 4 oz. and measuring 21 inches long, he is a handsome addition!

A devoted Stanford Cardinal fan, Dr, Richard Rutter with wife Joanne at the 2013 Rose Bowl, the 99th “Granddaddy Of Them All” where the Cardinal defeated the Wisconsin Badgers avenging a Rose Bowl loss to the Badgers in 2000.

Long-time faculty member and proud father Dr. Cameron Mashouf poses with his wife, Mercedeh and their son Kayhan at Kayhan’s graduation from the orthodontic program at the University of Colorado in Denver on February 23, 2013. Dr. Mashouf (junior) will be joining Cameron in his San Jose practice.


Congratulations to Shawn Perce (2004), Andrew Kouvaris (2004), Leah Walker (2006), Lana Dal-bah (2007), Manal Abu Al-Melh (2010), David Lee (2011), Mihee Hong (2012), and Abir Balghonaim (2012). The American Board of Orthodontics has cer-tified or recertified these graduates from our Depart-ment of Orthodontics at either the August or Novem-ber 2012 Clinical Examination in St. Louis at the ABO examination center.

When asked about his experience taking the ABO ex-amination, Shawn Perce shared the following with me:

It takes many hours to select, analyze, and prepare your cases. However, I found that the benefits of self-analysis are worth the time invested. It was the pro-cess of preparation and not necessarily the examina-tion itself that provided the most benefits. It forces you to remove yourself from the busyness of your prac-tice and to take a closer look at what you are doing on a daily basis. It brings to light deficiencies in record quality, diagnosis, treatment planning and your ability to obtain a quality finished result. Confronting these limitations head on and identifying areas for improve-ment is where the real benefit lies. I now find myself looking at my patients during the course of the day with a sharper focus. The examination itself is very well organized and not as stressful as you might think. All of the hard work is done by then and the examin-ers go to great lengths to create a positive atmosphere at the exam. They have all gone through the process themselves and are therefore very respectful of the time and energy you have put into your cases. Al-though the preparations involve a sacrifice of time, it was a positive experience for me and one that I would encourage others to pursue.

Leah Walker also shared her thoughts:

I had a positive experience taking the ABO exam in November. Although the examiners are critical, they were very helpful when going over cases. Preparing for the exam forced me to look critically at treatment plans and to focus on the details of finishing a case to ABO standards. I was surprised to learn so much about her cases and I am now making improvements based upon this new knowledge.

Congratulations to Dr. Heesoo Oh who was invited to show her ABO cases at the AAO meeting in May 2013 in Philadelphia. Thank you to Thomas Ellerhorst, Lani Chun, Joorak Park, and Dante Gonzales for present-ing cases at the PCSO Annual Session in Monterey, California in October 2012.

I would like to acknowledge Dr. HeeSoo Oh for the work she has done in preparing our residents for the ABO Written Examination and Clinical Examination. Dr. Oh conducts an annual ABO review course during the winter quarter to prepare residents for the ABO written examination given each April. In addition, she encourages residents with her close monitoring their ABO clinical cases and ensures that the ABO records are complete. Because of Dr. Oh’s efforts, more resi-dents are preparing to take the ABO Initial Certifica-tion Examination shortly after graduation. Most of the residents from the Class of 2012 will be participating in the Initial Certification Examination and two have already passed the Initial Certification Examination.

The ABO Gateway Certification comes to an end this year. If you signed up for the Gateway Examination and your time has expired, you can apply for the Be-ginning Certification Examination. The Beginning Cer-tification Examination has the same requirements as the Gateway Examination. You simply need to reapply with the American Board of Orthodontics for the Be-ginning Certification Examination. Any cases that you prepared for the Gateway Examination can be used for the Beginning Certification Examination. Please check the ABO web site for more details.

Many orthodontists thought they needed to retake the ABO written examination after a certain period of time or if they did not come for the Gateway Examination. You only have to take and pass the written examina-tion once. Even if you passed 30 years ago, you can still take the Beginning Certification Examination without retaking the written examination.

If you have any questions regarding the American Board of Orthodontics written or clinical examina-tions, please do not hesitate to email me at: [email protected].

AMERICAN BOARD OF ORTHODONTICS UPDATEBy Steven Dugoni, Class of 1981Director of the American Board of Orthodontics


CRIL UPDATEBy Dr. Sheldon Baumrind, Director of the Craniofacial Research Instrumentation Laboratory

Our current work at the Craniofacial Research Instru-mentation Laboratory (CRIL) is largely focused on the building and management of the American As-sociation of Orthodontists Legacy Collection, for which our lab has primary responsibility. The AAOF collection consists of longitudinal X-ray and study casts records for growing children drawn from the collections of nine collaborating institutions in the United States and Canada. At present, the online collection contains longitudinal cephalograms for 625 growing individuals totaling more than 11,500 images. Access to the AAOF Collection is freely available at www.AAOFLegacyCollection.org.

The nine institutions participating in the AAOF Legacy Project are the Broadbent-Bolton Collection at Case Western University, the Burlington Growth Study at the University of Toronto, the Denver Growth Study at the University of Oklahoma, the Fels Longi-tudinal Growth Study at Wright University, Ohio, the Forsyth Dental Institute Twin Study, the Iowa Growth Study at the University of Iowa, the Mathews Growth Study at the University of the Pacific, and the Or-egon Growth Study at the Oregon Health and Sci-ences University.

In addition to managing the creation of this unique and vitally important records database, CRIL is orga-nizing the acquisition of landmark location data for the construction of growth tables focusing primar-ily on the spontaneous cranial development of chil-dren with class II and class III malocclusions in the absence of treatment. Landmark data and select a cephalometric measurements for more than 100 of the 625 individuals in the sample have been previ-ously collected and uploaded. Within the next three months, information for an additional 150 class II and class III individuals will be added. This new data set has been made available by replicate assess-ments by two visiting academic orthodontists from China, Dr. Bing Han of Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology and Dr. Jie Zhang of the Changsha Stomatological Hospital. Expansion of the legacy collection continues.

Our next project will be to provide complementary images and coordinate data from study casts for ap-proximately 350 of the same subjects at multiple time points during growth.

Ultra Bowl: Glow in the dark bowling in a club atmosphere with lights, video, and enhanced sound.

The second annual bowling party is scheduled for Fri-day, April 19, 2013 at Yerba Buena Bowling Center (750 Folsom Street, near the Metreon). Join us for a night of Ultra Bowling, food, and camaraderie. Look out for the Evite!

UPCOMING EVENTSThe Alumni Reception at the 113th Annual Session of the AAO in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will be held on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (1201 Market Street) in Franklin 7 from 4:00 pm to 5:45 pm Be sure to look out for your Evites.

The Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Hotel

UPCOMING EVENTS

The 28th Annual Frederick T. West Lecture will be held during the Alumni Meeting at the Fairmont Hotel in March of 2014. Dr. Birte Melsen has agreed to travel all the way from Denmark to speak to our group. Dr. Melsen has authored more than 370 publications in the fields of growth and development. During the last few years, her special interest has been in the fields of skeletal anchorage, virtual imaging, adult orthodontics and stem cells.

Dr. Dan Grauer is a full-time assistant professor at USC with a private practice in Los Angeles.

The 3rd Annual Dr. Arthur A. Dugoni Orthodontic Graduation Symposium and Dinner will be held on Friday, September 27, 2013 at the dental school. Dr. Dan Grauer will be the featured speaker with the graduating residents presenting research and finished cases. Dinner will follow at The City Club of San Francisco, a very elegant venue in the Financial District.

The Alumni Reception at the 77th Annual Session of the PCSO is tentatively scheduled on Saturday, October 19, 2013 in the newly renovated San Diego Marriott Marquis and Marina. Details and Evites to follow.

The San Diego Marriott Marquis and Marina Hotel

Dr. Birte Melsen

Registration for the Alumni Meeting allows access not only to the West Lecture, but to all lectures during the weekend including the required California Law and Infection Control courses required for license renewal in California and a cocktail reception on Friday.

115th Annual Alumni Meeting at the historic Fairmont Hotel in March 2014
