February Issue

February 2024

Faculty

Elizabeth Roberts flipped to the ads section of the American Dental Association journal. She penned letters to each company that might help her combine her passion for dentistry and business.

One of those letters gave her a big break. She was hired by Prudential followed by other big names, including Deloitte, Pfizer, and Johnson and Johnson.

Patient Care

New Year, New Smile

Sometimes in unsanitary conditions, other times under excessive stress, Eugene Brown put his nation’s needs over his health and served in the US Army for 24 and a half years both overseas and at home. He's now a patient at RSDM's VETSmile program.

Students

Soon-to-be-Grads Match with Dental Programs

From New Jersey to Georgia to Hawaii, the Class of 2024 has been selected for postgraduate dental programs across the nation through the Postdoctoral Dental Matching Program. The school’s match rate this year was 86 percent, which is significantly over the national rate of 66 percent.

School

2024 State of the School Address

At the beginning of each year, Dean Cecile A. Feldman delivers her State of the School presentation to the RSDM community. This year, she met with alumni on Jan. 24 and then with RSDM students, staff, and faculty on Jan. 25. The presentation covered updates from all areas of the school and laid out new projects on the horizon.

Shout-Outs

Co-chaired by RSDM's Jill York (center) and Steven Toth (right) and facilitated by Susan Garcia (left) from Rutgers School of Nursing, the New Jersey State Cross-Part Collaborative Clinical Quality Management Oral Health Steering Subcommittee unites stakeholders, ranging from dentists to social workers to state officials, to champion the highest quality of oral health services and HIV best practices.

Congrats to Julia Lazzara (left), Student Government Association President Michael Pignataro, and Kelly Devlin, who organized the successful 2024 RSDM Gala!