Two DMD students honoured for leadership; one wins top UBC award
Kerri-Lyn Chong and Dustin Trudeau were honoured at the UBC President’s 14th Annual Student Leadership Recognition Reception

Alumni Builder Awards
Several UBC Dentistry alumni receive award created to commemorate the 100th year of alumni UBC

BCDA award recipients 2018
Among the many recipients this year were UBC Dentistry faculty and alumni

College of Dental Surgeons of BC awards 2018
UBC Dentistry salutes all the CDSBC 2018 award winners

Cardiac art competition 2018 winners announced
Annual cardiac art competition. Check out the art from the cardiovascular block of DENT 410

UBC Health honours associate dean for outstanding leadership in interprofessional professional development
Dr. Leandra Best receives the 2017 Award for Outstanding Leadership in Advancing Interprofessional Professional Development

BC’s highest recognition to Dr. Rosamund Harrison, professor emerita
Dr. Rosamund Harrison, professor emerita, appointed to the Order of British Columbia

UBC winners of the CADR-NCOHR Student Research Awards 2017-2018
Five graduate students from UBC Dentistry were among the 17 winners

Faculty of Dentistry Teaching Awards 2017
These teaching awards for the 2016–2017 academic year will be presented during the annual White Coat Ceremony & Dean’s Night on October 17, 2017

International Proteomics Organization Bestows Highly Regarded Award to Chris Overall
Discovery in Proteomic Sciences Award presented to Chris Overall at the 16th HUPO World Congress

Build Buy Sell (Kelowna)
(May 10) Is it time to build, buy, renovate, or sell your practice? Expert panel discussion and reception in Richmond for UBC alumni

Dentistry Alumni/Faculty vs. Students Soccer Match
(Apr 29) Warm up at 9:30 am; game from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Alumni Reception at the Ontario Dental Conference 2018
(April 27) Meet the Acting Director of Student Services following the Ontario Dental Association Annual Spring Meeting

MEDtalks—Emergency: Drug Use and Addiction in the 21st Century
(Apr 19) Join experts from UBC, including Dr. Leeann Donnelly, an alumna and assistant professor from the Faculty of Dentistry, for a multidisciplinary panel discussion

Build Buy Sell (Abbotsford)
(Apr 12) Is it time to build, buy, renovate, or sell your practice? Expert panel discussion and reception in Abbotsford for UBC alumni

Dentistry Student vs. Faculty & Alumni Hockey Game
(Mar 24) Sign up to play (or feel free to show up and cheer on the teams)

UBC Dentistry at AADR/CADR Annual Meeting 2018
(Mar 22-24) Look for UBC Dentistry’s booth in the exhibit hall

UBC Dentistry at PDC 2018
(Mar 8 - 10) Check out all the events and places to join UBC Dentistry during the conference period

Annual Alumni Reception 2018
(Mar 9) All UBC Dentistry alumni are invited to join us at the Annual Alumni Reception at the PDC

DMD Student and Young Alumni Pub Night
(Mar 8) Graduates from the years of 2013 to 2017 are invited to the annual young alumni and student networking event

Interprofessional Education at UBC—Strengthening Collaboration Among Health and Human Services Professions
Faintly flickering as a concept in the 1960s, interprofessional education (IPE) today blinks loud and clear on the radar screens of health-related entities—professionally and academically, nationally and globally

Dental hygiene students welcomed in Vietnam a second time
Watch a video and read a poster about their rotation to Vietnam

The Summer Student Practitioner Program Experience
Student and Mentor Comments Spotlight: James Chen Read this story in a PDF Return to more feature stories.

Craniofacial Research—How Human Faces Form and Develop
Dr. Virginia Diewert has been unravelling the enigma of how the human face is created ever since completing her orthodontics training at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1970.

Fourth-Year DMD Travel Clinics—Alumni Pay Their Experiences Forward
Travel clinics reveal that dentistry is a valuable skill transferable to almost anywhere in the world, UBC student participants also learn that helping those less fortunate can bring satisfaction back home—on the job and in their own communities.

Dental hygiene students on rotation to Vietnam
Two fourth-year students dental hygiene students, and a faculty leader undertook a volunteer dental hygiene rotation to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in December 2015

Oral cancer under the blue spotlight: Dr. Catherine Poh
Advances in oral cancer research and knowledge translation: Dr. Catherine Poh, fluorescence visualization, COOLS trial, malignant transformation

Clinical Trials Research: Between the Lab Bench and Chairside Practice
In his first year as director of UBC Dentistry’s Frontier Clinical Research Centre, Dr. Alan Lowe has overseen the launch of 14 new clinical research studies in areas ranging from root canals and implant stability measurement systems to oral cancer screening and obstructive sleep apnea treatments.

UBC Alumni and Students in Nepal 2014
Larry Hill DMD 1987 and other alumni travel in Nepal delivering oral health care over five days in several villages to close to 300 patients.

Ansuiya Lalji: My 34 Years as a Patient at UBC’s Dental Clinic
Ansuiya Lalji reflects on 34 years as a patient at UBC’s dental clinic.