February 2012
The ADEE executive held its executive meeting at Birmingham. The School of Dentistry will be the venue for the annual conference in 2013 and it is customary for the Executive to visit the site of the future meeting 18 months before hand. The visitors who included the President Cecilia Christersson from Malmo University met in the Board Room of the Dental Hospital and School on the first day and this was followed by a tour of the conference facilities on the second day of the visit. David Oram from the College of Medical and Dental Sciences CPD centre is arranging the lecture and breakout rooms and the various venues for the social activities including the gala dinner. The ADEE committee were pleased with what they saw and now it is up to the local organising committee to start putting together the programme. Watch this space over the following months.
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"Dr Tracy De Peralta is Associate Professor/Associate Director of Clinical Dentistry and is visiting us from Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry. She is currently being trained in a range of molecular and cell biology laboratory techniques by Michelle Holder and Gay Smith and is collaborating with Prof Tony Smith and Drs Ben Scheven & Paul Cooper in the area of neuropeptide/neurotrophic factor influences on odontoblast and dental pulp cell function." BTW Paul Cooper is the flash behind the photograph.
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Always fun when there is a birthday around and Donald Spence was 65 last week. The first floor secretaries have prepared a special visitor for him. Not sure what he said when he saw a skeleton!
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There were two parties arranged this month. One for John Wilson who is one of the research technicians on the 8th Floor and another for Jo Alekna who is going to have a baby very soon. John has worked in the building for over 30 years and we wish him well on his retirement. As for Jo we are looking forward to hearing her news in the coming weeks.
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Congratulations to Gay Smith, Research Technician at the School of Dentistry who won the award of “Best Support for Research” at the BUAFTA. This award recognises an individual or team whose work in support of research reflects the values of the University: excellence, distinctiveness, impact, confidence and pride. Consideration is given to those who work directly with academic staff and students as well as those whose role indirectly supports research.
Gay received her award at a gala dinner and awards ceremony in the University’s prestigious Great Hall. The picture shows Gay with her award and her colleague Michelle Holder and Professor Tony Smith.
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The Students Clinician Prize was held at the Royal Horse Guards Hotel and the Birmingham representative was Daniel Caga. The title of his poster presentation was "The effects of red light laser exposure on the cell growth and inflammatory response of an oral epithelial cell line in vitro" and was supervised by Dr Mike Milward and Dr Paul Cooper. Although not successful in winning the main prizes of the evening, the School is proud of Dan's performance and there is certainly more research on this exciting topic. Many Birmingham staff made the journey down to London to support Dan where we treated to a great evening as guests of Dentsply, the British Dental Association and the Dental Defence Union. The dinning room was made to look like an old fashioned library and there were great views of the London eye. Following the dinner there was dancing and conversation into the early hours of the following morning.
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January 2012
Negar Mirzai - 3rd Year Dental Student writes :-
'The 126th Annual Dental Ball was held at The Burlington Hotel this Saturday with a Carnival theme. The venue was very classy and the BUDSS Ice Sculpture added an extra elegance to the theme. There were exciting performances from the Carnival Brazilian dancers and the Jamaican Steel Drum band. Once the wonderful meal was served and students won lots of prizes in the raffle, it was on to the dance floor! The night was a complete success as both students and staff enjoyed themselves greatly. Thank you Sarah Franks and the rest of the BUDSS committee for an unforgettable night filled with Chocolate Fountain, Gift Bags, BUDSS Cupcakes and Great music! '
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Professor Walmsley, Secretary General of ADEE reports on a recent DentCPD partnership meeting. DentCPD is a 2 year European project which aims to identify agreed essential CPD requirements of an EU graduate dentist and provide guidelines for the management and delivery of high quality CPD by European dental schools.
"The DentCPD team arrived to warm welcome in a chilly but bright Athens. The first evening was spent getting up-to-date on all activities over a typical Greek Meal in the Plaka area of the city. The group reconvened on Thursday morning in the Electra Palace meetings rooms and addressed a busy agenda. At the start the Chairman Professor Jon Cowpe welcomed the delegates and this was followed by an address from the Dean of Athens Dental School, Professor Kostos Tsiklaki from Athens Dental School.
After the introductions, the group members gave presentations on each Work Packages for which they were the lead partners. Each presentation was followed by useful discussion. Furthermore there was input from the team in Cardiff via a unique style of teleconference and Skype. There was a report from Alison Bullock on the recent Co-ordinators meeting held in Brussels earlier in the week. DentCPD was one of two projects selected for presentation to the rest of the conference and Alison received favourable feedback on the work undertaken to date."
For more details: - http://www.dentcpd.org
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On the way in to work and it is lashing down with rain. I found all the puddles that you could find around the Dental Hospital. It is a tough week not only weather wise. There are examinations for 3rd and 5th year students and the 4th year on residencies. But there is light at the end of the week as the BUDSS Student Ball takes place on Saturday and all the examinations and weather can be forgotten for a few hours at least!
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The AML as it is affectionately shown on all our timetables has had a facelift. It has a new AV system and most of all it has a great new sound system. This is just what is needed for the Dental School has Talent. Great to see the Grand Old Guy getting upgraded. Here are some pictures of the theatre and if you want to test it out then keep on reading till the end of the article.
An update in Restorative Dentistry, presented by the staff of the School of Dentistry
Friday, 3 February 2012 – Alex McGregor Lecture Theatre 9.30 – 4.30 pm
Speakers:
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