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The Buckeye Periodontal Alumni Newsletter
the Cutting Edge
JULY 2008
Drs. Irma Iskandar/Weiting Ho, Editors
Dr. Lewis Claman, Faculty Advisor
Volume 11
Issue 1
building on the past - shaping the present - charting the future
EDITOR:Editor:
DR. Pooja
IRMA Maney,
ISKANDAR
FACULTY
ADVISOR:
DR.
LEWIS
CLAMAN
BDH, MPH
Faculty
Advisor:
Lewis
Claman,
DDS
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“Ljodhhus”
Angelo Mariotti, DDS, PhD, Chair
Names can be
funny (think Angelo) and selection of names for
children can be
tricky. I know
that when my
wife and I were
thinking of
names for our
children, we wanted to have something that sounded nice and had
meaning but we also didn’t want a
name that was too strange (think Angelo). There are many names that
we run across in the day but none
has the same ring as Lewis
(pronounced LOO iss).
The name Lewis is a derivation of the
Norwegian name Ljodhhus, meaning
the "sounding house." The "sounding
house" was a building that housed
the men who took the depth of the
seas in the local area. Later the Scandinavian name Ljodhhus was further
modified in old Frankish Hludwig and
old Germanic Chlodowech to become
Lewis with a change of meaning to
"famous warrior." In Latin it was transformed into Ludovicus, and in Gaelic
to Clovis. Medieval Italians turned it
into Aloisius, while the French
adopted Louis. In the 1940’s, Lewis
was one of the more popular names
to select for a child in the United
States. In fact, during the ‘40s it was
ranked as one of the top 120 names
to select for a boy.
There have not been many famous
people with the first name Lewis.
Personally I can think of only two people of renown with that name: Lewis
Carroll and Lewis Claman.
Lewis Carroll lived over 150 years
ago in England and wrote surreal stories while Lewis Claman lives in
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From the Editor
Greetings everyone! I hope everyone is having a wonderful and relaxing summer. Despite the warm and
balmy weather, the OSU Perio clinic
is as busy as ever, and the Division is
in full swing as the incoming first
years start taking their first classes
and are getting adapted to our program.
I want to thank my mentor of the
Cutting Edge, Dr. Claman, and the
immediate past editor, Dr. Ho, for
their guidance and help. I also want
to recognize our new cub reporter,
first year Dr. Kevin Harrison, who will
Inside this issue:
Dr. Irma Iskandar
be helping with the organization and
publishing of this newsletter.
I hope you enjoy the new issue of
the Cutting Edge. We will continue
profiling OSU alumni, and in this issue we highlight Dr. S. Timothy Rose
and his successful contributions to
the field of periodontology.
Last, please mark your calendar for
many important upcoming events
including the American Academy of
Periodontology annual meeting in
Seattle and Dr. Claman’s retirement
party. I hope to see you all there.
Chairman’s Note
1
From the Editor
1
Voice of the Director
3
Predoctoral Report
5
Awards & New Diplomates
6
Chairman’s Choice
7
2007 Published Articles
15
Perio Alumni Profile
17
Photos
19
Honor Roll of Giving
29
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Columbus, Ohio and teaches real students at The Ohio State University College of Dentistry. Lewis Claman has been a “famous warrior” in periodontics since the 1970’s and remains a prominent, passionate, honest, industrious, erudite, compassionate, effusive, frank,
conscientious, affable man. Most everyone associated with OSU Periodontics knows of
“Lewis” but few know that this will be his last six months of full time employment at OSU.
Yes…I know it is surprising because it seems like only yesterday that he started to teach at
OSU but every good thing must come to an end sometime. So if Lewis Claman was one of
those people who came into your life and changed it for the better, then take some time out
of your busy schedule and come to Columbus this December to let him know that you won’t
forget him. Because any name, whether it be peculiar (think Angelo) or spectacular can be
forgotten unless you remember the man behind that name (think Lewis Claman).
IMPORTANT NEWS
“Ljodhhus” Retirement Symposium
For Dr. Lewis Claman
Friday, December 5, 2008
@
The Faculty Club on OSU Campus
Save the date!
The American Academy
of Periodontology
Meeting
Seattle, Washington
September 6-9, 2008
Hope to see you there!
1:00-5:00 pm CE (Prior library)
6:00-11:00 pm Dinner (black-tie optional)
The Claman Endowment
The “Claman Award” will be a new honor bestowed annually on one dental student who
Department faculty believe exemplifies excellence in clinical periodontics. Eligible senior
dental students must be excellent students with an interest in periodontics. Special consideration will
be given to those individuals who are considering a career in academic dentistry. It is the
intent of the Department to provide a grant with additional academic rewards (certificate, journal
subscription, etc.) for the winner of the Claman Award. Therefore, please consider making a
donation to The Claman Endowment so that we can fund this award and increase the
interest in OSU dental students to become periodontists that have an inclination to teach.
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Voice of the Director
Dimitris
Tatakis
DDS, PhD
Dear Alumni and
Friends,
It is almost a year
since the last issue of
the Cutting Edge, and
the last 12 months,
full of the many activities of a graduate program, went by very fast.
The interview process for the 2008 incoming
class took place last autumn. It is very encouraging, both for the program and the specialty, that we had a record number of applicants this past year. The usual two days of
interviews became three, and as a result our
faculty, residents and staff were quite busy;
without everyone being so generous with
their time and effort this interview process
would not have been possible. We also enjoyed the benefit of having several alumni Drs. Sam DeAngelo (’06), Scott Lightfoot
(’04), Ehsan Rezvan (’05), and Ralph Wilson (’02) - participate in the interviews. My
sincere thanks go to all involved.
Speaking of interviews and candidate selection, I know that some of you are aware of
recent allegations that donations influenced
admissions into a highly competitive and
well-regarded Advanced Dental Education
program in California (http://dailybruin.com/
news/2007/nov/13/). The above allegations
serve as a reminder that a candidate selection process should be above suspicion as
well as above reproach. I want to assure you
that all of us here are well aware of the potential conflicts of interest that can arise during the selection process, and that all of the
faculty are committed to bringing into the
program the most highly qualified applicants
we can recruit.
The newest members of our Buckeye family,
the colleagues who were selected last September and started in the program this July,
are: Dr. Eric Anderson (Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska), Dr. Pinar Emecen
(Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey), Dr.
Kevin Harrison (Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia), and Dr. Nidhi Jain
(Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts).
We are all very pleased they accepted our
invitation to join OSU.
Congratulations to Drs. Sam Khoury (’07)
and Jeff Wessel (’07), our newest Diplomates of the American Board of Periodontology!!
In April we held our annual OSU Perio Research Day, with Dr. Gerald M. Bowers
(’62) as the featured speaker. It was a wonderful event, and the several alumni who
attended the preceding dinner and Research
Day enjoyed both the camaraderie and the
presentations from our invited speaker and
the residents.
Our 2008 graduating class, Drs. Huei-Ling
Chang, Pooja Maney, Vlad Shapiro and
Jessica Stilley, have all completed their
clinical requirements. Drs. Chang, Shapiro,
and Stilley have also completed their MS
thesis research work and have left Columbus, while Dr. Maney, who is completing her
PhD degree research work, will be finishing
by the end of the year. Dr. Jessica Stilley,
2007-2008 Chief Resident, whose thesis
was on “The effect of local and systemic
factors on tongue piercing-associated gingival recession”, presented her research at the
recent IADR meeting in Toronto, Canada
(July 2-5) and is now in private practice in
Florida. Jessica, despite being an ardent
Gators fan, has plans to come back to visit
OSU before the end of the year. Dr. Ling
Chang, whose research was on “Human
periodontal clinical phenotypes: Identification
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Voice of the Director - Continued
based on gingival and dental characteristics”, was one of the three Research Forum
finalists at this year’s annual Midwest Society of Periodontology meeting in Chicago
(February 22-24). This is the third year in a
row that our program has had a finalist at
this meeting, a testament to the hard work of
our residents. Ling, who scored at the 95th
percentile among all periodontal residents
during this year’s AAP In-Service Examination, resides now in Tennessee and is pursuing private practice opportunities. Dr. Pooja
Maney, who presented her work on
“Neutrophil formylpeptide receptor genetics
and aggressive periodontitis” at IADR, is our
newest Orban prize finalist; she will compete
during the upcoming AAP meeting in Seattle,
WA (September 6-9). Pooja’s participation
marks the third time an OSU resident has
become an Orban competition finalist since
2004. Pooja is planning to continue on in an
academic career, and is already exploring
potential faculty positions. Dr. Vlad Shapiro,
who also presented his thesis work on
“Resonance frequency analysis and biomarkers around one stage dental implants”
at IADR, has moved to Cincinnati and is in
private practice. Vlad, who during the residency broke all previous clinic production
records, has promised to come back and
show the new residents how it’s done. Congratulations to Jessica, Ling, Pooja, and Vlad
for their accomplishments!
The residents and I greatly appreciate your
continuing support of the program as we
keep on receiving referrals for patients who
cannot afford periodontal treatment in a private practice setting or who represent specialized treatment challenges. Should you
need to contact the clinic for a patient referral or any other reason, please call 614-2924927. You can always reach me at
[email protected] or at 614-292-0371.
I know that I do not need to mention to any
of you the contributions Dr. Lewis Claman
has made to the program over his many
years of service at OSU. However, I do want
to mention that on December 5th of this year
the Division will be hosting a celebration to
honor Dr. Claman as he plans to retire in
early 2009. Please mark the date and make
your travel plans early.
I look forward to seeing you all at the Buckeye Reception, which will be held on Monday, September 8 at 5:30 pm in the Madrona
Room of the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, during
the upcoming AAP meeting in Seattle.
Please Join Us
Best wishes,
Buckeye
Reception
Dimitris Tatakis
AAP Meeting in
Seattle
Sheraton Seattle
Hotel
September 8, 2008
5:30 p.m.
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Predoctoral Director’s Report
Lewis Claman,
DDS, MS
We are excited to
report on two major changes in the
predoctoral clinical
program that have
been implemented
in the past few
months.
Periodontal Screening and Recording (PSR)
Implementation of the PSR was discussed in
the last Cutting Edge. Our objectives in using
this system for screening new patients is:
To identify patients in periodontal health or
with gingivitis, who can be managed by
students under the supervision of any College of Dentistry clinical faculty.
To identify patients with destructive periodontal diseases who will be comprehensively
charted, treatment planned and appropriately referred.
To expedite patient treatment by allowing new
patients with gingival health or gingivitis to
be scheduled in the Primary Care Clinic
under the supervision of dental faculty.
The Clinic had a smooth transition into the
PSR, largely through the cooperation of the
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Dr. Stan
Vermilyea, the Chair of Primary Care, Dr.
Meade Van Putten, the Director of the Screening Clinic, Dr. Joen Ianucci and support staff.
Dental students seem to appreciate the opportunity to fast-track patients who are healthy or
have problems limited to gingivitis and are very
responsive to comprehensive charting, when it
is indicated.
The Screening Clinic receptionist pages periodontal faculty whenever patients have PSR
Codes of 4. At this time, a panoramic radiograph is available. The periodontal faculty then
decides whether the patient should be directly
referred to the Graduate Periodontics Clinic.
All patients with PSR codes of 3 are comprehensively charted in the Primary Care Clinic
under the supervision of Periodontal Faculty.
Patients with PSR Codes of 0, 1 or 2 may be
seen under the supervision of any dental faculty for an adult prophylaxis following an initial
plaque score. However, they must have their
periodontal status confirmed and treatment
plan signed by a periodontal faculty in an appointment before they begin cast restorations,
major reconstruction or if there are no major
dental needs, before completed treatment can
be approved. When the periodontal faculty
evaluates the patient, a minimum of bite-wing
radiographs are available. Periodontal faculty
will confirm the pocket depths and examine for
other periodontal problems such as gingival
recession, mucogingival defects and esthetic
crown lengthening, if these problems have not
yet been recognized.
We believe use of the PSR has streamlined
patient evaluation while an emphasis is placed
on evaluating, referring and treating patients
with periodontitis and periodontal conditions.
Dent Competency Examination and Direct
Mentoring Experience
We have made major revisions in the Competency Examination for third year dental students. In an effort to stress competency in
basic periodontal diagnostic skills, we have
gone from a strictly manikin-based exam to one
that is patient-based for periodontal measurements and an Objective Structured Clinical
Exam for observing basic periodontal examination skills. The critical periodontal skills of probing technique and calculus detection will still be
on a manikin, while composite radiographs will
be used to evaluate student ability to recognize
periodontal bone loss, angular defects, furcation radiolucencies, calculus, caries and defective restorations.
To better prepare students for the important
Dent 3 competency examination, we have also
developed a Direct Mentoring Experience, optional for this year and required next year. The
purpose of the experience will be to have full
time and part time periodontal faculty guide the
student in critical periodontal examination techniques on a patient with signs of periodontal
disease. While it is easy to assume each faculty evaluates techniques as they work with
students, sometimes, because of time restraints, the results (measurements) are evaluated, but techniques are not observed. In previous clinical competency examinations we
have observed students using incorrect techniques, especially for probe placement and
exploring for calculus. Since it is not appropriate for faculty to correct techniques during a
competency exam, the direct mentoring experience will be a helpful exercise to provide feedback to students before the graded competency exam takes place.
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Recent Awards to Faculty and Students
Purnima Kumar
2008 Educator Award of the American Academy of Periodontology
Huei-Ling Chang
Honorable Mention
Graduate Student Research Forum (Midwest Society of Periodontology 2008)
Vladimir Shapiro
Second Place
Astra Night Research Competition, Columbus OH
Pooja Maney
Orban Competition Finalist
Congratulations
Congratulations to Our New Diplomates
Samer Khoury ‘07
Jeff Wessel ‘07
Special Recognition
Dr. John E. Horton, former Chair and Program Director, Section of
Periodontics, has been recognized as the Fifth Distinguished Alumni of the Advanced
Training Program in Periodontics, Baylor College of Dentistry. Texas A & M
University Health Science Center. Dr. Horton was cited for his "remarkable career
as an educator, clinician, and researcher", wherein he established a role for
cell-mediated reactions in the pathophysiology of periodontal disease,
initially detected the cytokine IL-1 ("osteoclast activating factor"). and
provided initial clinical and histological studies on the use of ultrasonic
instrumentation in bone surgery. Dr. Horton received his dental training at Tufts
School of Dental Medicine, his specialty training in Periodontics at Baylor
College of Dentistry, studies in Higher Education at George Washington
University, and conducted research at the National Institute of Dental Research and
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, prior to his appointment as Professor at The
Ohio State University College of Dentistry. He is presently an Emeritus
Professor and resides in Columbus, Ohio.
Congratulations are in order to Huei-Ling Chang for her excellent
performance on the In-Service Exam in 2008! Dr. Chang achieved the 19th
highest score among 439 periodontal residents who took the exam nationwide.
to all award
winners and new
diplomates!
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CHAIRMAN’S CHOICE
JENNIFER COUZIN
Truth and Consequences
FROM SCIENCE
When a scientist is accused of falsifying data, what happens to that scientist's lab? As Jennifer Couzin reports,
the lab's post-docs and young researchers can pay as much if a price
as the wrongdoer.
In those first disorienting months, as
fall last year turned to winter and the
sailboats were hauled out of nearby
lakes, the graduate students sometimes gathered at the Union Terrace, a
popular student hangout. There, they
clumped together at one of the brightly
colored tables that look north over
Lake Mendota, drinking beer and circling endlessly around one agonizing
question: What do you do when your
professor apparently fakes data, and
you are the only ones who know?
Chantal Ly, 32, had already waded
through 7 years of a Ph.D. program at
the University of Wisconsin (UW),
Madison. Turning in her mentor, Ly
was certain, meant that "something
bad was going to happen to the lab."
Another of the six students felt that
their adviser, geneticist Elizabeth
Goodwin, deserved a second chance
and wasn't certain the university would
provide it. A third was unable for
weeks to believe Goodwin had done
anything wrong and was so distressed
by the possibility that she refused to
examine available evidence.
Two days before winter break, as the
moral compass of all six swung in the
same direction, they shared their concerns with a university administrator.
In late May, a UW investigation reported data falsification in Goodwin's
past grant applications and raised
questions about some of her papers.
The case has since been referred to
the federal Office of Research Integrity
(ORI) in Washington, DC. Goodwin,
maintaining her innocence, resigned
from the university at the end of February. (Through her attorney, Goodwin
declined to comment for this story.)
Although the university handled the
case by the book, the graduate students caught in the middle have found
that for all the talk about honesty's
place in science, little good has come
to them. Three of the students, who
had invested a combined 16 years in
obtaining their Ph.D.s, have quit
school. Two others are starting over,
one moving to a lab at the University
of Colorado, extending the amount of
time it will take them to get their doctorates by years. The five graduate
students who spoke with Science also
described discouraging encounters
with other faculty members, whom
they say sided with Goodwin before all
the facts became available.
Fraud investigators acknowledge that
outcomes like these are typical. "My
feeling is it's never a good career
move to become a whistle-blower”,
says Kay Fields, a scientific investigator for ORI, who depends on precisely
this occurrence for misconduct cases
to come to light. ORI officials estimate
that between a third and half of nonclinical misconduct cases - those involving basic scientific research - are
brought by postdoctoral fellows or
graduate students like those in Goodwin's lab. And the ones who come forward, admits ORI's John Dahlberg,
often suffer a "loss of time, loss of
prestige, [and a] loss of credibility of
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your publications."
Indeed, Goodwin's graduate students
spent long hours debating how a decision to alert administrators might unravel. Sarah LaMartina, 29, who gravitated to biology after its appeal outshone her childhood plan to become a
veterinarian, had already spent 6
years in graduate school and worried
whether all that time and effort would
go to waste. "We kept thinking, 'Are
we just stupid [to turn Goodwin in]?'"
says LaMartina, whose midwestern
accent reflects her Wisconsin roots.
"Sure, it's the right thing to do, but right
for who? ... Who is going to benefit
from this? Nobody."
Goodwin, in her late 40s, had come to
the University of Wisconsin in 2000
from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, and was awarded tenure
by UW soon after. Landing in Wisconsin was something of a homecoming
for her; she had done a postdoc under
Judith Kimble, a prominent developmental geneticist in the same department. Goodwin studied sex determination in worms during their early development and has published more than
20 papers on that and other subjects
in various prominent journals
(including, in 2003, Science). Goodwin
was also the oldest of a crop of female
faculty members hired in recent years
by genetics department chair Michael
Culbertson. "She was the role model,”
he says.
In the beginning, the Goodwin lab had
a spark. Students recall being swept
up in its leader's enthusiasm when,
seeking a lab in which to settle, they
rotated through for a month during
their first year of graduate school.
Goodwin pushed her students to be-
lieve that compelling scientific results
were always possible, boosting their
spirits during the low points that invariably strike Ph.D. hopefuls. She
held annual Christmas parties at her
home west of Madison. Once, she
took the entire lab on a horsebackriding trip.
Then, last October, everything
changed. One afternoon, in the conference room down the hall from the lab,
Ly told Goodwin she was concerned
about her progress: The project she'd
been working on, Ly felt, wasn't yielding usable results. Despite months of
effort, Ly was unable to replicate earlier observations from the lab.
"At that time, she gave me three
pages of a grant [application]”, Ly recalled recently. The proposal, which
was under review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), sought to
broaden a worm genetics project that
another student, third-year Garett
Padilla, had begun. Goodwin, Ly says,
told her that the project, on a new, developmentally important worm gene,
was "really promising, but there's so
many aspects of it there's no way she
can work on everything." Goodwin
urged Ly to peruse the pages and see
whether the gene might interest her as
a new project.
Reading the grant application set off
alarm bells for Ly. One figure, she
quickly noticed, was represented as
unpublished data even though it had
appeared in a 2004 paper published
by Goodwin's lab.
Ly and Padilla sat back to back at
desks in the corridor outside the lab.
When she showed him the pages from
the grant application, he too was
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shaken. "There was one experiment
that I had just not done as well as several published and unpublished figures
that seemed to have been manipulated”, he says. Two images apparently identical to those already published were presented as unpublished
and as representing proteins different
from the published versions. "I remember being overwhelmed and not being
able to deal with it at that moment”,
says Padilla.
A bearish 25-year-old with a closely
cropped beard and wire-rimmed
glasses, Padilla speaks softly, with
deliberation. Bored by bench work, he
was considering leaving biology research for law school and had discussed the possibility with Goodwin.
She had urged him to "stick it out”, he
says. "Everybody goes through a
phase where they don't want to be
here,” he recalls Goodwin telling him.
At a loss after seeing the grant application, Padilla consulted two scientists
for advice: his fiancée’s adviser, a
physiology professor at the university,
and Scott Kuersten, a former postdoc
in Goodwin's lab who had been dating
LaMartina for several years and who
happened to be in town. Kuersten and
Padilla talked for about an hour and
together examined the pages of the
proposal. Kuersten, now at Ambion, a
biotechnology company in Austin,
Texas, advised Padilla to ask Goodwin
for an explanation, as did the physiologist.
Padilla steeled himself for a confrontation. On Halloween day, he paced
nervously outside Goodwin's office,
summoning the courage to knock. The
conversation did not go well, says
Padilla. In a computer log of events he
had begun to keep at Kuersten's urging, which he shared with Science,
Padilla wrote that Goodwin denied lifting a Western blot image from a published paper and presenting it as unpublished work, although, he added in
the log, "She became extremely nervous and repeatedly said, 'I f—-- up.'''
Padilla also noted: "I left feeling that
no issues were resolved." His confusion deepened when Goodwin later
that day blamed the problem on a
computer file mix-up.
Meanwhile, word was leaking out to
others in the lab that something was
terribly wrong. Two days later, Padilla
called a meeting of all current lab
members: six graduate students and
the lab technician. To ensure privacy,
the group, minus Ly, who had recently
had a baby girl, convened in the
nearby engineering library. Padilla laid
out the grant papers for all to see.
In that meeting, ensconced in the library, the grad students hesitated at
the thought of speaking with the administration. "We had no idea what
would happen to us, we had no idea
what would happen to Betsy, we had
no idea how the university would react,” says LaMartina, who admits to
some distrust of authority and also a
belief that people who err deserve a
second chance.
Ly felt less charitable toward Goodwin
but confesses that at first she considered only her own predicament. In
many ways, just reaching graduate
school was a triumph for Ly, and she
badly wanted that doctorate. In 1981,
when Ly was 8 years old, her family
fled Cambodia for the Chicago suburbs. Around Ly's neck hangs a goldplated French coin, a 20-franc piece
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her curator father had collected before
he was killed in his country's civil war.
In Chicago, Ly's mother worked long
hours and put her daughter through
Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
When Ly moved to Madison, so did
her husband, now an anesthesia resident, and her mother, who speaks little
English and cannot drive. "Here I am,
I've invested so much time in grad
school, and this happens. If we let
someone know …” she says, her voice
trailing off.
The students decided that Padilla
needed to speak with Goodwin a second time, in hope of extracting a clear
account of what went wrong or even a
retraction of the grant application. Four
days after his first nerve-wracking encounter, Padilla was in Goodwin's office again. This time, the conversation
put him at ease. Padilla says Goodwin
asked for forgiveness and praised him
for, as he wrote in the log, "pushing
this issue." She told him that the grant
application was unlikely to be funded an assertion that turned out to be untrue given that NIH approved it - but
offered to e-mail her NIH contact citing
some of the problems in the application. Goodwin subsequently sent that
e-mail, on which Padilla was copied.
He left the encounter relieved.
"At that point, I was pretty content to
leave it alone;' he says.”I felt like we
had compromised on a resolution."
Another student, however, was finding
little peace. Mary Allen, 25 and in her
fourth year of graduate school, couldn't shake a sense of torment about
what her mentor might have done. A
bookworm who squeezed 3 years of
high school into one and entered college at age 15, Allen is guided by un-
ambiguous morals and deep religious
convictions, attending a local church
regularly and leading a youth group
there. She could not fathom that
Goodwin had falsified data; at one
point, Allen refused even to examine
another suspect grant application. But,
concerned because Goodwin seemed
to have admitted to some wrongdoing,
Allen felt she needed to switch labs.
Allen alerted Goodwin that she would
likely be moving on. Their mentor then
began offering additional explanations
for the grant application, say Allen and
the others. Goodwin told them that she
had mixed up some files and asserted
that the files had come to her unlabeled. In a private conversation with
Allen, she adamantly denied faking
data.
As November wore on, the lab's atmosphere grew ever more stressful
and surreal. When Goodwin was present, she chatted with the students
about their worm experiments and
their families-the same conversations
they'd always had.
Yet the strain was taking its toll. LaMartina's appetite declined, and she
began losing weight, shedding 15
pounds before the ordeal was over.
Padilla called former postdoc Kuersten
nearly weekly for advice, and the students talked obsessively with one another. Careful to maintain confidentiality, "the only people we could bounce
ideas and solutions off of were each
other”, says Padilla. The tension even
penetrated Goodwin's annual Christmas party. For the first time, several
lab members didn't show up.
Deeply worried about how speaking
with administrators might impact the
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more senior students, lab members
chose not to alert the university unless
the desire to do so was unanimous.
Gradually all, including Ly and LaMartina, the most senior among them,
agreed that their mentor's denials left
them uncomfortable and concerned
that she might falsify data in the future.
"My biggest worry was what if we didn't turn her in ... and different grad students got stuck in our position,” says
Allen.
Two days before exams ended, on 21
December, Ly and Padilla met together with Culbertson and showed
him the suspect grant pages. Culbertson didn't know what to think at first,
he says, but "when somebody comes
to me with something like that, I have
to investigate."
Culbertson quickly referred the matter
to two university deans, who launched
an informal inquiry to determine
whether a more formal investigation
was warranted. As is customary,
Goodwin remained on staff at the university during this time. She vigorously
denied the charges against her, telling
Culbertson and the students in a joint
meeting that the figures in question
were placeholders she had forgotten
to swap out. According to Padilla's log
of that meeting, Goodwin explained
that she "was juggling too many commitments at once" when the proposal
was submitted.
Two biology professors ran the informal inquiry, conducting interviews with
Goodwin and her students. One of the
two, Irwin Goldman, was also a dean,
and he became the students' unofficial
therapist and news source. At their
first meeting in January, Goldman reassured the six that their salaries
would continue uninterrupted.
The informal inquiry wrapped up a few
weeks later, endorsing a more formal
investigation. Three university deans,
including Goldman, appointed three
faculty scientists to the task.
At about this time, says Goldman, the
university grew uneasy about possible
fraud not only in the first grant application that the students had seen but
also in two others that had garnered
funding, from NIH and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The school
canceled all three grants. After a panicky 2 weeks during which the lab went
unfunded, Goldman drew on money
from both the college of agricultural
and life sciences and the medical
school. (Goodwin had a joint appointment at the two.) The students peppered Goldman regularly with questions, seeking advice on whether to
talk to a local reporter or how their
funding might shake out.
Still, because privacy rules prevented
sharing the details, "we felt isolated up
on our floor”, says Padilla.”There were
faculty nearby, but they didn't really
know what was going on."
Goodwin, meanwhile, all but disappeared from the lab, appearing only
once or twice after the investigation
began. The students tried to keep up
with their projects as they'd always
done. They held lab meetings alone
before being invited to weekly gatherings with geneticist Philip Anderson's
lab.
Most faculty members were aware that
an investigation had been launched,
and some had heard that Goodwin's
students were the informers. That led
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to disheartening exchanges. A faculty
member, asked by one of the students
whether they'd done the right thing,
told her he didn't know. Rumors
reached the students that Goodwin
had had "to fake something because
her students couldn't produce enough
data”, says Ly.
In late February, Goodwin resigned.
The students say they learned of her
departure from a biologist who worked
in a neighboring lab.
Three months later, the university released its investigation report, which
described "evidence of deliberate falsification" in the three applications for
the cancelled grants, totaling $1.8 million in federal funds. In the school's
report, which university officials shared
with Science, investigators also raised
questions about three published papers, in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology,
and Molecular Cell.
None has been retracted or corrected
so far. "We are considering the implications" of the university report, said
Lynne Herndon, president and CEO of
Cell Press, which publishes Molecular
Cell, in a statement. The editor of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
said she was awaiting the results of
the ORI investigation, and the other
authors of the Developmental Biology
paper are reviewing the relevant data,
says the journal's editor in chief, Robb
Krumlauf of the Stowers Institute for
Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri.
The university investigators also noted
other problems in the Goodwin lab. "It
appears from the testimony of her
graduate students that Dr. Goodwin's
mentoring of her graduate students
included behaviors that could be considered scientific misconduct-namely,
pressuring students to conceal research results that disagreed with desired outcomes and urging them to
over-interpret data that the students
themselves considered to be preliminary and weak”, they wrote in their report.
Goodwin's lawyer in Madison, Dean
Strang, disputes the reliability of the
school's report. The investigation was
"designed under the applicable UW
rules to be an informal screening proceeding” and, because Goodwin resigned, "there was no adjudicative proceeding at the administrative level or
elsewhere," Strang wrote in an e-mail
message. He added that "there are no
problems with the three published papers cited in the report (or any others)." Strang declined to address
whether Goodwin pressed students to
over-interpret data. "Dr. Goodwin will
not respond at all to assertions of students in this forum,” he wrote.
Culbertson distributed the investigating
committee's report to all department
faculty members; it even appeared on
Madison's evening news. Still, the rapprochement some of the students had
hoped for never materialized. "No one
ever came up and said, 'I'm sorry”,
Padilla says.
As the graduate students contemplated their futures this spring, they did
have one point in their favor. Ironically
enough, the sluggish pace of their projects meant that almost none had coauthored papers with Goodwin. But
when several of them sat down with
their thesis committees to assess their
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futures, the prognosis was grim. Only
one student of the six, who did not reply to Science's request for an interview, was permitted to continue with
her original project. She has moved to
another Wisconsin lab and hopes to
complete her Ph.D. within about a
year, according to the others.
Thesis committees and faculty members told Ly, LaMartina, and fourthyear Jacque Baca, 27, that much of
their work from Goodwin's lab was not
usable and recommended that they
start over with a new doctoral project.
The reason wasn't necessarily data
fraud, the students say, but rather
Goodwin's relentless optimism that
some now believe kept them clinging
to questionable results. Allen, for example, says she sometimes argued
but gave in to Goodwin's suggestions
that she stick with molecular data Allen
considered of dubious quality or steer
clear of performing studies that might
guard against bias. Ly, on her third,
floundering project, says, "I thought I
was doing something wrong experimentally that I couldn't repeat these
things."
Despite her setback, Baca has chosen
to stay at Wisconsin. "It's kind of hard
to say" how much time she'll lose,
says Baca, who notes that her thesis
committee was supportive in helping
her find a new lab. The other four - Ly,
LaMartina, Padilla, and Allen - have
scattered. Only Allen plans on finishing
her Ph.D.. Determined to leave Wisconsin behind, she relocated in late
March to the University of Colorado,
Boulder, where she hopes to start
fresh. Members of her church, her
husband, and her parents persuaded
her to stay in science, which she
adores, but she still wonders about the
future. "We unintentionally suffer the
consequences" of turning Goodwin in,
Allen says, noting that it will now take
her 8 or 9 years in all to finish graduate school. To her husband's disappointment, their plans for having children have been deferred, as Allen always wanted to wait until she had
completed her degree.
For Padilla, the experience cemented
the pull of the law. In late July, a
month after his wedding, he and his
wife moved to Minneapolis - St. Paul,
Minnesota, not far from where Padilla
grew up, because his wife's adviser,
the physiologist, had shifted his lab
there. Padilla began law school in the
city last week.
LaMartina spent 2 months in a different Wisconsin genetics lab, laboring
over a new worm project she'd recently started under Goodwin. That
project, however, fell apart in June.
She then spent 3 weeks in Seattle and
Alaska with Kuersten. During the trip,
LaMartina abandoned her Ph.D. plans,
and in July, she left Wisconsin for
Texas, joining Kuersten at Ambion as
a lab technician.
When Ly learned from her thesis committee that her years in the Goodwin
lab had come to naught, she left the
program and, as a stop-gap, joined a
cancer lab as a technician. "I decided
that I had put my life on hold long
enough,” Ly says. She intends to leave
science altogether and is considering
business school.
For Goldman, the dean who supported
the graduate students, the experience
was bittersweet. Impressed by the students' professionalism and grace under trying circumstances, he came to
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- Continued
believe strongly that science needs
individuals like them. And although he
admits that it's "horrible" that so many
of the students were told to start over,
"I don't see us changing our standards
in terms of what a Ph.D. means," he
says.
Still, Goldman does plan to craft formal
policies for students who might encounter this situation in the future. The
policies, he says, would guarantee that
the university protects students from
retribution and that their funding remains secure. He hopes that codifying
such safeguards will offer potential
whistleblowers peace of mind.
In a building with a lobby graced by a
fountain shaped like DNA, the Goodwin lab now sits deserted on the second floor. Incubators, pipettes, and
empty plastic shoeboxes that once
held worms litter its counters. Ly's
original fear months before, that something bad would happen to the lab, had
proved more prescient than she had
imagined.
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OSU Section of Periodontology
2007 Published Articles (alphabetically, by first author)
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
1) DeAngelo SJ, Kumar PS, Beck FM, Tatakis DN, Leblebicioglu B. Early soft tissue healing around one-stage
dental implants: clinical and microbiologic parameters. J Periodontol. 2007 Oct;78(10):1878-86.
2) DeAngelo S, Murphy J, Claman L, Kalmar J, Leblebicioglu B. Hereditary gingival fibromatosis--a review.
Compend Contin Educ Dent. 2007 Mar;28(3):138-43; quiz 144, 152. Review.
3) Fitzgerald RR, Walters JD. Accumulation of topical naproxen by cultured oral epithelium. J Dent Res. 2007
Aug;86(8):775-9.
4) Kumar PS, Leblebicioglu B. Pain control during nonsurgical periodontal therapy. Compend Contin Educ Dent.
2007 Dec;28(12):666-9; quiz 670-1. Review.
5) Leblebicioglu B, Rawal S, Mariotti A. A review of the functional and esthetic requirements for dental implants. J
Am Dent Assoc. 2007 Mar;138(3):321-9.
6) Parashis AO, Tatakis DN. Subepithelial connective tissue graft for root coverage: a case report of an unusual
late complication of epithelial origin. J Periodontol. 2007 Oct;78(10):2051-6.
7) Rawal SY, Burrell R, Hamidi CS, Kalmar JR, Tatakis DN. Diffuse pigmentation of maxillary attached gingiva:
four cases of the cultural practice of gingival tattoo. J Periodontol. 2007 Jan;78(1):170-6.
8) Rawal SY, Kalmar JR, Tatakis DN. Verruciform xanthoma: immunohistochemical characterization of xanthoma
cell phenotypes. J Periodontol. 2007 Mar;78(3):504-9.
9) Silva CO, Almeida AS, Pereira AA, Sallum AW, Hanemann JA, Tatakis DN. Gingival involvement in oral paracoccidioidomycosis. J Periodontol. 2007 Jul;78(7):1229-34.
10) Silva CO, de Lima AF, Sallum AW, Tatakis DN. Coronally positioned flap for root coverage in smokers and
non-smokers: stability of outcomes between 6 months and 2 years. J Periodontol. 2007 Sep;78(9):1702-7.
11) Silva CO, Sallum AW, do Couto-Filho CE, Costa Pereira AA, Hanemann JA, Tatakis DN. Localized gingival
enlargement associated with alveolar process expansion: peripheral ossifying fibroma coincident with central odontogenic fibroma. J Periodontol. 2007 Jul;78(7):1354-9.
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ABSTRACTS
Chien HH. Effects of Lau-Ya-San on the expression of angiogenesis genes in
human gingival fibroblasts. AAP 2007 annual meeting at Washington DC.
Chang HL. Clinical periodontal phenotypes: Identification based on gingival and
dental characteristics.
Khoury S, Thomas L, Sheridan J, Leblebicioglu B. Evaluation of Early Healing
Indices Following Implant Placement. J. Dent. Res. 86 (Special issue A): Abstract #520, 2007.
May B, Hanke M, Leblebicioglu B, Sheridan J. Effect of mucosal wounding on
restraint stress induced catecholamine levels. J.Dent.Res 86 (Special issue A):
Abstract # 707, 2007.
Paulus B, Leblebicioglu B, Beck FM, Tatakis DN, Mariotti A. Peri-implant health
and patient satisfaction. J. Dent. Res. 86 (Special issue A): Abstract #522,
2007.
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OSU Periodontal Alumnus Profile
the Wisconsin Society of Periodontists from
1976 to 1978 and of the Midwest Society of
Periodontology in 1986. His most impressive contribution to Periodontics has been
through positions he has held in the American Academy of Periodontology, including
nine AAP committees. His most notable
accomplishments in the AAP include the
Executive Committee, the Board of Trustees,
and most significantly, President of the AAP
(1997-1998).
Considered alone, Tim’s accomplishments in
the AAP represent an impressive career in
public service. What makes his resume
most impressive is his parallel service to
other dental organizations. In the Wisconsin
Dental Association, he was Chair of twelve
committees, including the Executive Committee, a member of the Board of Trustees, and
Vice President, President Elect and President (1991-1992).
We continue to dedicate a section of each
issue of the Cutting Edge to recognize the
careers of Ohio State Periodontal Alumni,
who have had distinguished and unique dental careers. In this issue, we are honoring Dr.
S. Timothy Rose, who has had a remarkable
career in public service.
Another very significant contribution to public
service has been Dr. Rose’s prominent role
in the American Dental Association. He was
Chair of four ADA standing or ad hoc committees, a member of four special committees for the Board of Trustees and a member
of the Board of Directors for two ADA foundations. Most impressively, he has held ofDr. Rose received his DDS at Ohio State in
fice at the highest levels of the ADA. He was
1967. After completing dental school, Tim
on the ADA Board of Trustees from 1993 to
was stationed as a dental officer in the US
1997 (i.e 9th District Trustee), ADA President
Elect from 1997 to 1998 and ADA President
Army. He received his Masters of Science
from 1998 to 1999. Moreover, Tim’s preemiand Certificate in Periodontics from Ohio
nent prominence in the dental community at
State in 1972. He has been in full time private practice limited to Periodontics in Apple- a national level provided a platform for his
direct involvement in many contemporary
ton, Wisconsin for his entire periodontal career, where he is currently a partner in Valley issues in dentistry. On an international level,
Dr. Rose was the World Dental FederationPeriodontics.
FDI USA National Secretary from 1999 to
2003 and a delegate to the FDI House of
Tim has made a major mark in his career
Delegates from 1998 to 2003.
through his long and distinguished dedication to service at every level of organized
dentistry, where he has been uniquely active Through his leadership dental organizations,
Dr. Rose has not only been a representative
at local, regional and national levels. His
of dentistry at regional, national and internaservice has been in both the General Dentistry arena (principally through the American tional levels, but has also been in contact
with other health professions and the general
Dental Association) and several periodontal
public. He was on the 2000 Governor’s task
organizations.
Force on the Future of Dentistry in Wisconsin, the 2000 Editorial Board for the U.S DeIn periodontics, Dr. Rose was President of
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OSU Periodontal Alumnus Profile - Continued
partment of Health Report: Healthy People,
The Oversight Committee- Surgeons General’s Report: Oral Health Status of the
American People (2000), the NIH-NHAINS
Study Group (2000) and The NIDCR- National Project for Oral Cancer Awareness.
As president of the ADA, he was interviewed
about dental issues on the network shows
“60 Minutes”, “20/20”, “Dateline” “Good
Morning America” and “The Today Show”.
He has testified before 7 Congressional
Committees on oral health care issues and
health care reform. Transcripts of his interviews on oral health and dental issues have
appeared in many scientific journals and
other publications.
Dr. Rose has also pursued scholarly activity.
He has been the presenter at 26 continuing
education courses on periodontology and
dental informatics. Tim was a contributing
author on 5 publications in refereed dental
journals and one dental abstract. He has
participated in five Phase III studies, including testing of local delivery of tetracycline
(Actisite®), use of Naproxen for postoperative pain and the use of minocycline microspheres (Arestin®). He has been a member
of the Journal of the American Dental Association Editorial Board and the American
Journal of Periodontology Editorial Board
since 1996. At Marquette University, Tim
was a member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee from 1984 to 1998, the Search Committee for Dean in 1985 and the Colleges
Building Committee from 1999 to 2002.
It is no surprise that Dr. Rose has been the
recipient of many honors. At Ohio State, Tim
received The Ohio State University College
of Dentistry Section of Periodontology Outstanding Alumni Award in 1985 and was the
recipient of the OSU College of Dentistry
Distinguished Alumnus Award at the Post
College Assembly.
At local and regional levels Dr. Rose was a
recipient of the Wisconsin Society of Periodontists Leadership Award in 1987, the Wisconsin Dental Association Outstanding Dentist Award in 1993, the Distinguished Service
Award- Wisconsin Chapter of the American
College of Dentists in 1987, The Thomas P.
Hinman Dental Association Leadership
Award in 1999, the Michigan Dental Association Leadership Award In 1999, and the Wisconsin Dental Association President’s Award
in 2000.
Nationally, Dr. Rose received the American
Society of Periodontists Annual Award in
1967. The Pierre Fauchard Academy Distinguished Service Award in 1997 and most
significantly, the 2000 American Academy of
Periodontology President’s Award. He is a
fellow of four dental honorary organizations
and an honorary member of two dental academies.
Dr. Rose also has been very active in local
community affairs. He has been on the
Board of Directors or Board of Trustees of 8
civic organizations, including the Fox Cities
Chamber of Commerce, the Fox Valley Arts
Alliance and Tri Park Development Corporations. Tim has resided in Appleton, Wisconsin since 1972. He married Virginia (Rogers)
Rose in 1963 and has 3 children: Catherine
Rose-Peria, Thomas Rose and James Rose.
Dr. Rose has several thoughts on his education at Ohio State. "Two of the many memories I have when I think of my post-doctoral
training at OSU are first: "The George App
Filing System". George had piles of papers,
journals, etc. on his desk - an unbelievable
amount of paper; yet when you asked him a
question he could find the exact document
on his desk to explain the issue. It was an
amazing process to watch!!!. A second memory is: Dr. John Wolf doing the complement
cascade on the blackboard in the seminar
room without notes from memory. The process started on one blackboard and extended
across three walls of the room. The process
is still talked about some 40 years later when
those of us that trained with John get together".
The Division of Periodontology is proud of
Dr. Rose’s many years of dedicated service
and numerous honors.
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AAP Meeting October 2007
Washington D.C.
Clockwise from left: Second year perio residents: Pat Kelsey, Stacey Papapostolou, Mabel
Salas, and Weiting Ho do the OH-IO!; Group shot of the perio residents at the Straumann Party;
third year perio residents Vlad Shapiro, Jessica Stilley, Ling Chang, and Pooja Maney. Group
shot of the “boys” in the program.
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Traditional Thanksgiving dinner at Dr. Claman’s, November 2007
At dinner with the Claman family.
The famous Claman turkey!
Picture time with Dr. Claman.
This is what made all the residents
very sleepy after the dinner!
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Dr. Purnima Kumar’s house warming party, December 2007
Dr. Leblebicioglu and her husband
Dr. Bulent Bekcioglu, Dr. Tatakis.
Pooja Maney with Drs. John Walters
and Anne Walters.
Dr. Kumar, Dr. Wei Tatakis, and
Mrs. Mariotti.
Linda Hallberg-Henson with her parents
visiting from Florida.
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Farewell to Dr. Pinar Emecen, December 2007
The residents and faculty throw a party
for Dr. Emecen to wish her farewell
back to Turkey and a safe return on
July 2008.
Dr. Mariotti with Dr. Emecen.
Joan Sachs poses with La Romaine.
Dr. Tatakis with Deb Hooper.
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Periodontal Research Day Dinner
April 17, 2008
Dr. Bowers, Dr. Kumar, Jessica Stilley,
Dr. Claman.
Periodontal alumni, faculty, and friends
around the table.
Dr. Mariotti presents Dr. Bowers with
several OSU-themed gifts, including an
Ohio State Dentistry t-shirt. Go Bucks!!
Dr. Kumar posing with Dr. Mariotti after
being presented the 2008 Educator
Award from the American Academy of
Periodontology.
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Periodontal Research Day Presentations
April 18, 2008
The perio residents pose with Dr. Bowers.
Clockwise
from left:
Jessica Stilley
presents her
findings of oral
piercings;
Vlad Shapiro
presents
wound healing
biomarkers of
one-stage implants; Pat
Kelsey with
Jeff
Wessel ’07
and
Dr. Bowers
chatting with
the perio
residents.
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Dr. Tatakis’s Barbeque for Residents
May 31, 2008
Drs. Dimitris and Wei Tatakis with
residents Weiting Ho and
Mabel Salas.
Pat Kelsey, Vlad Shapiro,
and Shaun Rotenberg
with family and friends.
Irma Iskandar, Stacey Papapostolou,
Mabel Salas,
and Weiting Ho.
Dr. Tatakis and the residents.
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Dr. Leblebicioglu’s BBQ
June 4, 2008
Dr. Chen, Ling Chang, and
Weiting Ho.
Pooja Maney, Jessica Stilley,
Stacey Papostolou, and Dr. Kumar
enjoying dessert at the backyard.
Linda Hallberg-Henson and
Dr. Claman.
Perio clinic staff Joan Sachs,
La Romine, and Lisa Howard.
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Graduating Class of 2008
Faculty Club Luncheon
June 5, 2008
Dr. Tatakis and the graduating class of
2008: Jessica Stilley, Ling Chang, Pooja
Maney, Vlad Shapiro.
Staff members and faculty enjoying
the lunch.
The graduating residents with
Dr. Tatakis.
First and second year residents with
Dr. Leblebicioglu.
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The New Residents (Class of 2011)
Dr. Tatakis
welcomes the new
periodontal
residents at the
New Residents
Reception.
From left:
Eric Anderson,
Nidhi Jain,
Kevin Harrison,
Pinar Emecen.
The new first year
residents pose
with Dr. Tatakis
at the Medical
Heritage Center.
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Honor Roll of Giving
Gifts to the Division of Periodontology can be conferred to the following funds:
Endowed Chair for Periodontology: To help ensure the long-term health and stability of the Division of Periodontology at the OSU
College of Dentistry, alumni and friends of the division have established a Campaign to raise $1.5 million to create an Endowed Chair in Periodontology. For the division to not only retain outstanding faculty, but to also recruit new faculty to fill
the open positions today and in the future, it must distinguish itself even further from the other periodontal programs across
the country. One of the best ways to do this is through the establishment of an endowed chair. For more information on
what an endowed chair is and does or to talk about your interest in supporting this campaign, please contact Colleen
Garland, Director of Development and Alumni Affairs, at (614) 366-4990.
The George R. App Periodontal Endowment Fund: Interest from the Endowment is used to support graduate student education
and development with special interest in providing funds for travel to meetings by Ohio State University periodontal graduate students.
Periodontal Research and Training Fund: This fund is used to support a wide variety of periodontal activities by the Division of
Periodontology in the College of Dentistry. More specifically this fund is used for but not limited to the purchase of equipment for the graduate program, support of alumni activities (e.g. the annual AAP Buckeye Reception, CE courses,
mailings, etc.), endowment of graduate research projects, purchase of food for graduate student activities, etc.
Center for Research in Periodontology: Periodontal research in the Division of Periodontology involves both basic science and
clinical science research projects.
The Lewis Claman Periodontal Endowment Fund: Interest from the Endowment will be used to support an award for OSU dental
students who exhibit clinical excellence in periodontics. Special consideration will be given to students who want to
choose a career in academic periodontics.
Donors to the Periodontal Endowed Chair
Donations and Pledges ($50,000 and up)
Dr. Ronald and Mrs. Marcia Garvey
Donations and Pledges ($25,000 -$49,999):
Dr. Joseph and Mrs. Melanie Koberlein
Dr. Winfield and Mrs. Jayne Meek
Dr. James and Mrs. Patricia Palermo
Dr. Fred and Mrs. Jody Sakamoto
Dr. R. Jeffrey and Mrs. Diana Stephens
Donations and Pledges ($2,500-$4,999)
Donations and Pledges ($1,000-$2,499)
Project Advantage
Dr. David and Mrs. Renne Cacchillo
Dr. Russell Hatfield
Dr. John Kukucka
Dr. Barry and Mrs. Denise Blank
Dr. Laurie McCauley
Ms. Helen Dennis
Mr. Matt Dennis
Dr. Timothy and Mrs. Catherine Coffelt
Donations and Pledges (up to $999)
Dr. Michael P. Rethman
Dr. Charles and Mrs. Doris Solt
Dr. Timothy and Mrs. Moore
Dr. Binnaz Leblebicioglu
Dr. Lewis and Mrs. Nancy Claman
Dr. Thomas J. and Mrs. Michelle Miller
Total Pledges and Gifts: $217,000
Goal: $1,500,000
Balance: $1,283,000
For more information, please do not hesitate to contact our
development office at 614-366-1393 or visit our website at
http://dent.osu.edu/alumni/support.php.
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Upcoming Events
September 6-9, 2008
American Academy of Periodontology Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
October 18, 2008
Ohio Academy of Periodontists, Columbus, OH
December 5, 2008
Dr. Lewis Claman’s Retirement Party, OSU Faculty Club, Columbus OH
February 26-28, 2009
Academy of Osseointegration, San Diego, CA
February 28-March 1, 2009
Midewest Society of Periodontology Meeting, Chicago, IL
It’s Noteworthy
the Cutting Edge is available electronically! If you would like to receive it by email, please email us at
[email protected] and let us know where you would like it delivered. It can also be accessed on the web.
We encourage all alumni of our program to visit The Division of Periodontology on the OSU College of Dentistry
website. The website has been recently updated and is very detailed.
1. The web address of the college is http://dent.osu.edu
2. Click on Academic Sections
3. Click on Periodontology and you will be at the Periodontal Homepage
You can then navigate to the Division of Periodontology’s History, Faculty, Staff, Predoctoral Program, Postdoctoral
Program, Research, Service, Continuing Education, Alumni, Patients and the upcoming Volpe 2009 competition.
To access current or past Cutting Edge issues:
1. Click on alumni
2. Click on the Cutting Edge
3. Click on any issue to open or download.
The direct Web address for the Cutting Edge is: http://dent.osu.edu/perio/alumni_the_cutting_edge.php
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