Region III Trustee ReportKaryn Stockwell, DMD

September 2008

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It has been a privilege to serve as the Region 3 Trustee this year and an honor to have beenable to travel to promote the ideals of our Academy. In January I was delighted to attendthe 1st Annual Latin American Academic and Scientific Meeting held in conjunction with

the International Dental Congress in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Knowingthe work involved in setting something like this up for just oneSection in one state, let alone multiple countries across a continent, Ican only say “Hats off” to Region 7 Trustee, Dr. Ernesto Acuna forputting together an excellent scientific program, Section Chairworkshop andinternational inductionceremony! Dr. Acunahas started a new andwonderful tradition forthe Latin American

Section. Kudos Ernesto, on your outstandingevent!

I had the pleasure of visiting five of my tenSections for their induction ceremonies thisyear starting in February with Georgia’sweekend Conference and Convocation andSouth Carolina’s annual Luncheon, both ofthese functions were for just for PFA Fellows and pride in the Academy is clearly evidentin these Sections, in fact in South Carolina, most of the attendees come wearing their PFAkey fobs! In April the Louisiana Section was back in action for the first time sinceHurricane “Ivan” hosting a combined breakfast. In June I had the pleasure of attending adelightful combined dinner meeting hosted by the Mississippi Section followed by a well-organized and informative PFA Fellows luncheon in Virginia. This year the VirginiaSection decided to hold their luncheon as solely a PFA function and I believe that thisworked extremely well for them; not only was the luncheon well attended, but they wereable to put their whole focus on their new inductees and honorees as well as have adequatetime for the program and business meeting. All the Section Chairs in these states areworking hard to promote the Academy and to continually strive to do more each year and Iapplaud their efforts!

I’d like to take this opportunity to record my thanks for the warm welcomes I received onmy visits, it was a terrific opportunity for me to get to know my Section Chairs and to seehow well the Academy is doing across the Southeast. I would also love to be able to visitthe other five Sections at least once during my tenure as Trustee, just let me know theparticulars of your meeting a month or two in advance and I will do what I can to attend.

I am pleased to report that we had 55 Inductees in Region 3 this year.

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Section Chair workshop (L-R) Argentina Section Chair Dr. NorbertoMontheil, PFA Pres-Elect Dr. Charles Eller and Trustee Dr. ErnestoAcuna

AlabamaDr. J. Clyde Yarbrough2321 Whitesburg Drive South

Huntsville, AL 35801Office: 256-539-2242 Fax: 256.539.9809 E-mail:jcybama@knology.net

Number of ADA Members: 1411 Number of Active PFA Fellows: 21 Life: 8

Dr. Yarbrough has requested that he be replaced as Section Chair for Alabama. I havecontacted AL Fellow Dr. Zack Studstill for help in finding a chair to fire things up for thissection.

University of Alabama School of Dentistry senior Tabitha Jarman received the 2008 PFASenior Student Recognition Award on May 29th.

FloridaDr. Gary E. Herbeck

1355 No. Courtnay Parkway, Ste KMerritt Island, FL 33953

Office: 321-459-0009 Fax: 321.459.1181 E-mail:Number of ADA Members: 5951 Number of Active PFA Fellows: 214 Life: 60

Chair Herbeck reports that fourteen new Fellows; Drs. Alan Bresalier, Steve Chapman, J.Michael Heider, Stephen Hopwood, Bertram Hughes, Peter Lemieux, Robert Miller,Jeffrey Ottley, Jolene Paramore,Raj Rawal, Larry Shapiro, TinaThomas, Raymond Kenzik, andBruce Waterman were inducted atjoint breakfast meeting with the ICDon June 14, 2008 in conjunctionwith the Florida State DentalMeeting. The 2008 Florida SectionDistinguished Fellow Award waspresented to Dr. TerryBuckenheimer.

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Florida Section PFA Class of 2008(L-R) Seated: Drs. Stephen Hopwood, Jolene Paramore, Peter Lemieux, TinaThomas and Larry Shapiro. Standing: Drs. Steve Chapman, Raj Rawal, J.Michael Heider, Bertram Hughes and FL Section Chair Dr. Gary Herbeck

Chair Herbeck reports that they received theannual Section stipend, they did not apply for theSection dues rebate but they are implementing$50 Section dues this coming year. The Sectiondues will allow them to partner with the ACDand ICD in order to co-sponsor the annualLeadership Institute Conference created by theFlorida Dental Association. Additionally, theywill publish a bi-annual newsletter and put intooperation a new leadership structure in order to

involve more Fellows.

PFA Senior Student Recognition Awardswere presented to University of Florida seniorDavid Yates on May 3, 2008 and to Nova

Southeastern University senior Aaron Acres on May 23, 2008.

Florida’s next induction will be Saturday, June 20, 2009 and Chair Herbeck has invitedTrustee Stockwell to attend.

GeorgiaJohn F. (Jay) Harrington, Jr. DDS

645 W Thomas StMilledgeville, GA 31061

Office: 478-453-8666 Fax: 478.452.0223 E-mail: harmolar@alltel.netNumber of ADA Members: 2856 Number of Active PFA Fellows: 221 Life: 23

The Georgia Section held their 6th annual Leadership Conference and ConvocationFebruary 1-3, 2008. President Englander was on hand to help induct 15 new Fellows. Dr.Roy Rockman received the Section’s Excellence in Education Award and the MedicalCollege of Georgia’s PFA Foundation Scholarshiprecipient; Emile Bailey was recognized. This conferenceis very well attended and the Fellows are very committedto the PFA.

Conference Chair, Dr. Jane Puskas put together anoutstanding Conference kicked off again with Fellows,new inductees and MCG senior dental studentsvolunteering for “Give Kids a Smile” in 4 mobile dentalvans donated for use by Fellow Dr. Mark Shurett. 146kids received preventive and restorative care!

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Section Chair Dr. Jay Harrington presents PFAScholarship Winner, Emile Bailey with aconference memento

Chair Herbeck congratulates Florida’s DistinguishedFellow recipient, Dr. Terry Buckenheimer

Dr. Englander, Leadership Conference Chair, Dr. JanePuskas and GA Section Chair, Dr. Jay Harrington atFriday Welcome dinner.

Friday evening Fellows enjoyed acasual dinner at the lakeside home ofDr. Robin Reich, and on Saturdayattendees enjoyed an informative CE program on Implants given by Dr. Doug Clepperbefore celebrating our new honorees at a gala formal dinner. Fifteen new Fellows: Drs. Chris Adkins, George Childress, Chris Childs, RussClemmons, Leah Cook, Brent Depta, Mark Dusek, Philip Hanes, Sherry Jordan,Richard Kinsey, Grant Loo, Kate Robinson, Tom Daryl, Rebecca Weinman and JasonYoung make up the 2008 Fellowship Class.

The weekend conference wrapped up on Sundaymorning with a business breakfast meeting followed bythe Conference Committee Chair critique meeting and2009 Conference planning meeting.

Section Chair Jay Harrington and Conference Chair JanePuskas are to be commended for the excellent meetingthey put together.

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President Englander in the “GiveKids a Smile” van with new Fellow,Dr. Jason Young

Some of the Volunteer Fellows, new inductees, MCG Senior dentalstudents and Dr. Shurett’s staff members at one of the 4 vans used for“Give Kids a Smile” Day gather around President Englander

GA Section PFA Class of 2008

(L-R) New Fellows: Drs. Stan Crowley, James Heurtin andLaurie Moeller, Trustee Stockwell and Dr. Frank Martello

On May 8, 2008 Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry senior Stephanie S.Moore received the PFA Senior Student Recognition Award.

At the Welcome Back Awards Ceremony held in August, MCG senior Sabrina Guptareceived the PFA Foundation Scholarship. Ms. Gupta will be an invited honoree andguest of the Georgia Section at the 7th Annual Conference in February 2009.

The Section applied for, received and used its Section Stipend and Dues Rebate to helpoffset the expense of our Section newsletter and leadership conference. Additionally,Section dues were raised from $20 to $25 to be used toward our Excellence in TeachingAward, newsletter and leadership conference.

The next induction of New Fellows will be held February 6-8, 2009 at the Ritz Carlton,Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, GA and the Georgia Section would be honored to havePresident Eller as well as our Trustee present for the weekend conference.

We look forward to having Dr. Harrington in attendance again at the Section Caucus in SanAntonio.

LouisianaDr. Guy A Ribando

2272 Barataria BlvdMarrero, LA 70072

Office: 504-341-3120 Fax: 504.347.6696 E-mail: dribando@aol.comCo-Chair: Dr. Laurie Moeller

1100 Florida Ave #222New Orleans, LA 70119

Office: 504-941-8289 Fax: 504.833.4068 E-mail: lmoell@lsuhsc.eduNumber of ADA Members: 1583 Number of Active PFA Fellows: 96 Life: 37

It was great to see the Louisiana Section up and running again at their Annual Breakfastmeeting held in conjunction with the New Orleans Dental Conference/ Louisiana DentalAssociation Annual Session on April 12, 2008. This was their first meeting sinceSeptember 2003 as Hurricane “Ivan”interrupted the 2004 NODA Meetingfollowed by “Katrina” which wiped out the2005 NODA meeting and there was nomeeting in 2006 because of the damaged city.Last year when the first NODA-LDAMeeting took place, Section Chair Dr.Ribando was unable to organize the breakfastbecause of cancer treatments. Fortunately Dr.Ribando was able to get the 2008 breakfastorganized, unfortunately however, he was

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(L-R) Dr. Frank Martello, and Distinguished DentistAward recipient Dr. Ross DeNicola, with TrusteeStockwell

unable to attend due to additional cancer surgery the Wednesday prior to the meeting. In hisabsence Dr. Ribando’s daughters, Drs. Maria Bermaster and Valerie Hemphill made sure allwas in order while Past Section Chair Dr. Frank Martello emceed the breakfast program.

Drs. Stan Crowley, Robert Burns and David DeGenova were recognized as 2004Fellows, Drs. Kishore Shetty, Gary Caskey and Laurie Moeller were recognized as 2005Fellows and Drs. James Heurtin, Donald Henagan and William Darr were recognized

as 2006 Fellows. No Fellows were inducted in2007 and none were inducted for 2008 at thismeeting.

The Section was finally able to present Dr. RossDeNicola with his 2004 Distinguished DentistAward.

Louisiana State University Health SciencesCenter School of Dentistry chose senior dentalstudent Julia Phung Trieu to receive the 2008PFA Senior Student Recognition Award. Thisaward was presented at a Recognition Ceremony that took place May 14, 2008 at the dentalschool.

Dr. Laurie Moeller has been named the SectionCo-Chair to work along with Dr. Ribando incontinuing to reactivate the Louisiana section. InMay, Dr. Moeller along with LSU School ofDentistry Dean Eric Hovland presented the 2008PFA Scholarship Award to dental student AnnaKate Milburn.

The annual Section stipend and dues rebate werenot applied for and Louisiana does not haveadditional Section dues.

We look forward to welcoming Dr. Ribando tothe Section Caucus in San Antonio.

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(L-R) Dr. Laurie Moeller, PFA FoundationScholarship recipient Anna Milburn and LSU DeanDr. Eric Hovland

Louisiana Section Distinguished Dentist Dr. RossDeNicola and his family

MississippiChair: Dr. Barbara Mauldin

108 N Main StPetal, MS 39465

Office: 601-583-8726 Fax: 601.583.8777 E-mail: docbarbara@yahoo.com Co-chair: Dr. William Buchanan

2500 N State StreetJackson, MS 39216-4905

Office: 601-984-6015 E-mail: wbuchanan@sod.umsmed.edNumber of ADA Members: 850 Number of Active PFA Fellows: 54 Life: 8

At the invitation of past PFA President Dr. Jim Long and Section chair Dr. Barbara MauldinI attended the Mississippi Section dinner meeting held in conjunction with the ACD at theirState Annual Meeting in Sandestin, FL on June 16, 2008. There were 52 people inattendance. Three new Fellows were inducted: Drs. Peter Boswell, Kevin Nelson andTommy (W.T.) O’Brien. This is a relaxed and pleasant social evening starting withcocktails and shrimp followed by a delicious dinner at the Tops’l Ocean Club.I had the opportunity to address the Fellows and help induct Dr. Boswell into fellowship.

The Pierre Fauchard Academy Senior Student Recognition Award was presented at theUniversity of Mississippi School of Dentistry on April 22, 2008 to senior student PricillaJolly.

Last year Drs. William Buchanan and Karen Crews received a PFA Foundation Grant forthe creation of a PFA student-mentoring program DVD/CD in which they partnered withthe UMC School of Dentistry. Chair William T. Buchanan and Dr. Karen Crews have justannounced the completion of this mentoring DVD/CD Project and both expressed theirgratitude for the help of Gene Edwards and Dr. Ronnie Martin who made the projectpossible.

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(L-R) Past PFA President Dr. Jim Long, Trustee Stockwell, New Fellow Dr. Peter Boswell,Section Chair Dr. Barbara Mauldin and Past PFA President Dr. Heber Simmons

North CarolinaCo-Chair: Dr. Cynthia A. Bolton

1123 B South Main StreetReidsville, NC 27320

Office: 336-349-9248 Fax: 336.349.6440 E-mail: the2thdr@earthlink.net

Co-Chair: Dr. Scott M. Vines1123 South Main Street

Reidsville, NC 27320Office: 336-342-1581 Fax: 336.349.7350 E-mail: scottmvines@yahoo.com

Number of ADA Members: 2861 Number of Active PFA Fellows: 50 Life: 30

University of North Carolina senior student Jacob Dabell was presented with the PFASenior Student Recognition Award April 10, 2008.

Ten new Fellows were inducted into Fellowship on May 16, 2008 during the North Carolina StateDental Meeting held at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Drs., Jessica Barr, Kathryn Davies, JohnFisher, Jr., Kendalyn Lutz-Craver, Gary Oyster, Harold Rogers, Robert Stowe, Scott Vines,Cynthia Wiley, and Brandon Williams. Dr. Neil Lutins was presented with a plaque for hisservice as Section Chair and he installed Drs. Cynthia Bolton and new Fellow Scott Vines to serveas Co-Chairs of the North Carolina Section.

The Section also reports that they donated $750 to the International Humanitarian Projectin the Republic of Moldova, which helped support professors and UNC dental students totravel, bring dental supplies and to render treatment to orphaned children.

The Section did not apply for the Section stipend or the dues rebate but they do haveSection dues of $20.

We look forward to welcoming new Section Co-Chair, Dr. Cynthia Bolton to the SectionCaucus in San Antonio.

South CarolinaDr. Staci Gaffos9360 Two Notch RoadColumbia, SC 29223

Office: 803-788-0360 Fax: 803.788.4081 E-mail: lanefurman@yahoo.comNumber of ADA Members: 1467 Number of Active PFA Fellows: 129 Life: 21

On February 23, 2008 I had the privilege of attending the South Carolina Section AnnualAwards Luncheon held in Charleston. This luncheon is held in conjunction with MUSC’shomecoming events. Section Chair Dr. Scott Cayouette ran a well-organized, well attendedevent to honor Dr. W. Lynn Campbell as it’s PFA Outstanding Dentist of the Year, PFAscholarship recipient, senior dental student Caroline Hartley, and to induct Drs.

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Section Chair, Dr. Scott Cayouette presents thecheck for the Gordon B. Stine Simulation LabStation to MUSC Associate Dean Dr. TarigJaved

Greg Caputo, H. B. Dickey, Robert Ellis, ThomasKays, Harry Koutroulakis and Strother Murdochinto Fellowship.

The SC Section also completed their $10,000 two-yearpledge for the Simulation Lab Station at the College ofDental Medicine by presenting a check and plaque toMUSC Associate Dean Dr. Tarig Javed that read:“South Carolina Pierre Fauchard Academy inHonor of Dr. Gordon B. Stine”

The SC Section elects a new Section Chair eachyear; after Dr. Cayouette presented a PFA SectionChair Plaque to Dr. Robert Berger for serving in2006-2007 new officers were elected. Dr. Cayouetteinstalled Dr. Staci Gaffos as the 2008-2009 SectionChair, Dr. Monica Cayouette as the Chair-Elect, Dr.John Reese as Vice-Chairman and Dr. Craig Draffinwho will continue to serve as Secretary/Treasurer.

We look forward to welcoming new Section ChairDr. Staci Gaffos who plans on attending the Section Caucus in San Antonio.

TennesseeDr. Reuben N. Pelot, III

11541 Kingston Pike Ste BKnoxville, TN 37934

Office: 865-671-1544 Fax: 865.966.7548 E-mail: RPELOTDDS@TDS.netNumber of ADA Members: 2003 Number of Active PFA Fellows: 65 Life: 21

The Tennessee Section hosted their annual Breakfast Meeting on May 10th 2008 at thePeabody Hotel in Memphis, TN in conjunction with the Tennessee Dental Association’sAnnual Session. They had over 40 members in attendance for the induction of Dr. ClintNewman of Nashville and Dr. Rebecca Barton of Cordova. They presented theirDistinguished Dentist Award to Dr Stacy Garner of Pulaski. The breakfast meeting is ajoint meeting with ACD, ICD & PFA. Dr. Pelot reports that they started doing this about 4

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Section Chair Dr. Scott Cayouette (R)presents the 2008 Outstanding DentistAward to Dr. W. Lynn Campbell (L)

years ago because many of the members are members of all 3 organizations but remarksthat the attendance numbers are about the same as they were when they met as only PFA.

Once again the Tennessee Section received a PFA Foundation grant for $5500 for theVolunteer Ministry Center in Knoxville. Section Chair Pelot started the dental clinic at thehomeless shelter and it has been providing free dental care to local indigent and homelesspeople since 1998 and that he is working on getting more PFA Fellows to volunteer at thisclinic in hopes of continuing to receive PFA grant funding for this worthwhile endeavor.

On May 29th University of Tennessee School of Dentistry senior Jason A. Blair receivedthe 2008 PFA Senior Student Award.

Tennessee did not apply for and their Section stipend or their Dues Rebate and they do nothave separate Section dues.

Section Chair, Dr. Reuben Pelot, plans on attending the Section Caucus in San Antonio.

VirginiaGary E. Taylor, DDS, MS

500 Rodman AvePortsmouth, VA 23707

Office: 757-397-7038 Fax: 757.399.6779 E-mail: getdds@earthlink.netNumber of ADA Members: 2791 Number of Active PFA Fellows: 163 Life: 51

I was honored to be a guest of the Virginia Section this year as they changed their meetingformat from a combined luncheon with the ICD to a luncheon solely for PFA Fellows. Ibelieve this to be a positive change for the Section as it affords them more time to focusattention on Academy business as well as being able to spotlight their honorees. I’d alsolike to thank Dr. Taylor for hiswonderful hospitality in pickingme up from the airport andgiving up his room at theconvention hotel so that I couldbe onsite…you get “above andbeyond” kudos for that Gary!

Five New Fellows, Drs.William G. Harper, KentHerring, Hamada Makarita,Randy J. Norbo and RichardRoadcap were inducted duringtheir luncheon meeting held inconjunction with the VA State

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VA Section PFA Class of 2008(L-R) New Fellows: Drs. Richard Roadcap and Randy Norbo, Trustee Stockwell,New Fellows: Drs. Kent Herring and Richard Harper, Section Chair Dr. Gary Taylor.(Not pictured: New Fellow Dr. Hamada Makarita)

Dental Meeting in Williamsburg on June 20, 2008. Fifty-five people were in attendance tohonor their new Fellows as well as their Distinguished Dentist; Dr. Mark A Crabtree.

In addition to the induction of new Fellows, Medical College of Virginia School ofDentistry senior student Poonum Bharal gave a short power point presentation of herresearch project and was presented with the Virginia Section’s $1000 PFA ResearchAward. Senior student Frank Henrich was presented with the VA Section’s $1000Scholarship. The 2008 PFA Foundation Scholarship recipient Christine Farah was alsoan invited guest at the luncheon and was presented with her check and award certificate.

During their business meeting they voted to increase their Section’s $2000 donation to thedental school Dean’s Fund to $3000 and for it to be used with an emphasis on “Ethics in

Dentistry”.

The Section did apply for their dues rebate andthey have $40 yearly Section dues assessmentthat is used for meeting expenses and awards.

We look forward to welcoming Section ChairDr. Gary Taylor who plans to attend the SectionCaucus in San Antonio.

Puerto RicoDr. Augusto C. Garcia-Aguirre

PO Box 3241 Aguadilla, PR 00605

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Virginia’s Distinguished Dentist, Dr. Mark Crabtree flanked byTrustee Stockwell and VA Section Chair Dr. Gary Taylor

Medical College of Virginia senior student honorees:Frank Henrich, Poonum Bharal and Christine Farah

Office: 787-882-2529 Fax: 787.891.6171 E-Mail: acesar@coqui.netNumber of ADA Members: 196 Number of Active PFA Fellows: 3 Life: 0

On May 12, 2008 Luz D. Visbal-Mendez a senior dental student at the University ofPuerto Rico received the 2008 Award of Recognition of the PFA Academy.

Section Chair Garcia-Aquirre sent in this report: “We started to send letters to thecandidates and receive several CV of good people. Our plans were to do the inductionduring the summer at our dental meeting, that according to our ByLaws was suppose to bein July or August. Unfortunately the situation has changed here at the island. As you knowin PR the “Colegio” is compulsory by law and every dentist have to be a member, the newdirective has not worked in the way we expected and didn’t do the summer meeting thatthey were suppose to do. This and other internal issues have created a dislocation of ourprofession and the usual and customary performance. I personally had to get involve withsome of the local issues that have kept me very busy, amongst them taking over the PRdelegation at the House of Delegates of the ADA, the presidency of one of the districts ofthe State Dental Associations, and recently I was appointed by Dr. Feldman to the hearingcommittee of the ADA on Dental Education and Related Matters.

On the other hand Dr. Gonzalez directs the GP program and has been very busy. We hadeverything planned to do the induction at the summer meeting, but we are already in Septand the new local presidency hasn’t do anything (I don’t know if we are going to have thismid-year meeting).

I am sorry about this news, are not the one you expected. We were trying to organize achapter from scratch, with no previous organization, and no finances; that’s why wethought to do it at the state meeting to have a better chance. We hope to have more supportonce the new directive members take over the Colegio in February.”

Virgin IslandsNumber of ADA Members: 20 Number of Active PFA Fellows: 0

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