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The Gold Crown Chapter Awards honor outstanding achievements by American Student Dental Association chapters in serving members in accordance with the Ideal Chapter criteria. All materials must be uploaded and received by Jan. 31, 2014. Please note: All entries must be submitted as both a PDF and a hard copy or iBook. Applications cannot be submitted by a district trustee or any ASDA national leader.

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Categories Your application must include this page, a one page description of the chapter’s achievements in the award categories you are applying for and supporting materials as needed. You may apply for more than one category. Please check all categories you’re applying for below. !

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Ideal ASDA Chapter Most Improved Chapter Rookie Chapter of the Year Outstanding Membership & Communication Outstanding Involvement with Organized Dentistry Outstanding Activities Outstanding Fundraising Outstanding Predental Involvement Outstanding Ethical Awareness

The following awards will also be presented but do not require an application: 1. The recruited chapter with the largest membership market share as of Dec. 31, 2013. 2. The application that has the best design. 3. Chapters that convert to automatic enrollment between for the 2014 membership year.

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Applying for Ideal ASDA & Most Improved Chapter ASDASF represents ASDA’s core values of passion, community, engagement, and integrity, and continually strives to improve itself as a chapter.

Aligning our chapter's aims with ASDA's core tenets, ASDASF's members strive to emanate the spirit of ASDA through all that we do. It is easy to generate ardent fervor and rally behind an organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights of the future of dentistry that is, the dental students. Eager to represent, ASDASF members undergo a strenuous application process to become a part of the eclectic UCSF delegation, consistently boasting eight to ten candidates that defend and echo the voice of ASDASF at national conferences. Additionally, our chapter focuses on expanding beyond our local presence by assisting four ASDASF members in attaining two national leadership positions along with two district positions. At home, ASDASF is a vanguard in all facets of student life, aspiring to equip students to not only become competent clinicians but altruistic leaders of their community. From organizing dental screenings to volunteering at food banks, ASDASF is determined to extend a helping hand to those in need. Recognizing our outreach efforts in developing an oral hygiene education program at the Berkeley Free Clinic, national ADSA awarded our chapter the "Taking Oral Hygiene Awareness to Rural and Underserved America" grant. ASDASF is constantly seeking ways to improve our students' educational experience as well. Recognizing a dearth of ethics courses in our curriculum, ASDASF brought the issue to light and collaborated with the administration in providing thought-provoking ethics lunch and learns and established a Student Professional Ethics Association (SPEA) chapter under the ASDA banner. With the emerging movement gaining traction, we are working to cement ethics as a mandatory component of our education by developing an ethics course series. With a stringent vendor policy and exclusivity agreements in place with select companies, UCSF exposes its students to a very narrow scope of dental instruments and materials. To rectify this deficiency, ASDASF holds an annual exhibitor's fair, featuring in excess of 30 vendors, that is frequented by over 300 dental students, alumni, and faculty. While we demand a lot out of our ASDASF members, we also shower them with appreciation through membership benefits, team-building socials, and appreciation banquets. Perpetuating the tireless work ethic and devout dedication of its members, ASDASF hopes to propel our burgeoning chapter to greater heights.

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Membership & Communications ASDASF currently has no automatic billing or 4-year membership process, so the membership drive is a significant part of the chapter’s efforts every year. ASDASF’s First-Ever Online Membership Survey (New!) - Utilized an online survey to receive feedback from the members about chapter activities, communications, and the reasons why our members join ASDA - 79 members participated in the helpful survey “All about ASDA” Lunch ‘n Learns - Orientation Lunch ‘n Learns held for each class to educate students about the importance of organized dentistry, their class-specific ASDA membership benefits, and ways to get involved in ASDA - Advertised lunches with emails, class announcements, and Facebook posts - Raffled eye-catching prizes, including Apple Ipod shuffles, Amazon gift cards, ASDA scrubs, and Waterpik Waterflossers New Membership Benefits for Upperclassmen (New!) - Introduced new membership benefits for D3s, D4s, and members in the International Dentist Program (ID3s and ID4s) including free Henry Schein Sheer White Strips, Oral-B Extra-soft Triple Pack Refill Heads, and Crest Luxe Whitening Deluxe Whitening Toothpaste - Continued our “Endo teeth for WREBs” program (started in 2012). Dropped off jars for teeth collection at various dental offices, and spent hours screening for appropriate teeth to make available to our D4 members who took the Western Regional Exam Board - Maintained relationships with Oral-B and Sonicare to provide free electric toothbrushes for D1 and D2 members Strength in Numbers - Our membership can be broken down to: - 80% of the D1s (last year: 94%) - 85.7% of the D2s (last year: 81%) - 49.1% of the D3s & ID3s (last year: 49.5%) - 57.9% of the D4s & ID4s (last year: 50.9%) Recognizing & Appreciating our Members and Faculty - Recognized our dedicated committee members, faculty, and officers with certificates of appreciation and a special dinner at the UCSF Alumni House - Surprised members with personalized goodie bags, full of study snacks, during Finals Week ASDASF Quarterly Newsletter - The chapter newsletter is published 3 times per school year: Winter, Spring, Fall - Copies of the newsletter are distributed into student and faculty mailboxes and electronic versions of the newsletter are posted on the official online school forum and the ASDASF website. Newsletters illuminate important and relevant dental news, chapter activities, and interviews with faculty and students. Increasing Contributions to Dental Publications (Improved!) - ASDASF made a total 18 contributions to national publications and 1 to district publications - 12 Mouthing Off blog posts (last year: 2) - 3 ASDA News articles (last year: 0) - 3 Mouth magazine articles (last year: 0) - 1 District 11 newsletter article (last year: 0) ASDA Branding - ASDA banners and signage used at lunches and events. ASDA letterhead used for letters sent to faculty, alumni, and Dean’s Office. Membership benefits posted on school’s official bulletin boards Increasing Communications with Members on the Web (New!) - Along with the traditional methods of emails, class announcements, flyers, and Facebook posts, ASDASF has made some improvements to our communications, including linking our chapter Facebook group and Twitter accounts to the chapter website - Created Twitter account @asdaatucsf to provide same-day updates of the Lunch ‘n Learn locations and topics - Utilized a community Google Doc to facilitate the buying and selling of decks, textbooks, dental equipment, etc. - Tripled the number of Facebook posts on the chapter Facebook group to communicate chapter activities, national ASDA initiatives, and important dental news Green and Sustainable Practices - ASDASF advertises most events electronically, and uses paper flyers sparingly - Keeps a locker at school to store extra supplies, paper cups, and banners to reuse at events

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Organized Dentistry ASDASF inspires new leaders who are eager to serve at the chapter, district, and national levels.

Officer Leadership Training (Improved!) - Sharing leadership advice at the monthly board meetings has become a helpful tradition for our committee chairs and new officers - It is a great opportunity to share the nuggets of wisdom we learned at the national conferences - To help transition from the current to newly elected leaders, the chapter hosts our annual Transition Dinner where current and new leaders meet, offer leadership advice, and discuss the ins and outs of their positions District Level Leadership (Improved!) - 2 students serve at the District 11 level (double the number from last year): - Jolie Goodman, ‘15- ASDA District 11 Northern California Outreach Coordinator: In this role Jolie has worked with students at University of the Pacific Dental to organize community outreach events for ASDA members of both UOP and UCSF to attend. These events have included preparing lunches for the poor at Glide Memorial Church and working with intellectually and developmentally disabled kids to encourage courage through exercise. - Karina Lee, ‘15- ASDA District 11 Communications Chair: Managed the ASDA District 11 Facebook and website - 4 students attended the District 11 meeting at Los Angeles in October 2013 Involvement in National Leadership (Improved!) - 2 students serve at the National level (double the number from last year): - Nicole LaMantia, ‘16- ASDA’s Electronic Editor - Tiffany Hsu, ‘15- associate to the Council on Communications ADPAC Membership Drive (Improved!) - 2 Lunch ‘n Learns held to encourage involvement in dental advocacy and APDAC - 121 ADPAC members gained (approx 44% of ASDA members), nearly double the number of ADPAC members from last year (last year: 67 ADPAC members) Lobbying at the National Level (Improved!) - 11 ASDA members joined the lobbying efforts at the 2013 National Dental Student Lobby Day. - 5 of the attendees provided a video reflection as part of a National ASDA video on 2013 National Lobby Day - 8 congressional appointments scheduled by ASDASF (last year: 2) - ASDASF appreciates the UCSF School of Dentistry for financial support. We look forward to Lobby Day 2014! Attendance at National Meetings - Despite a major drop in school funding support for meetings, ASDASF maintained strong attendance at national meetings - 8 members attended 2013 Annual Session in Atlanta, Georgia (last year: 8) - 11 members attended 2013 National Dental Student Lobby Day in Washington, DC (last year: 10) - 8 attended 2013 National Leadership Conference in Chicago (last year: 6) Collaborations with Other Professional & Dental Organizations - American Dental Education Association (ADEA): ASDA/ADEA simulation lab tutorial for the D1s, ASDA/ADEA Lunch ‘n Learn, ASDA/ADEA elections are also held simultaneously. - UCSF Office of Career & Professional Development: Provided members with all 4 installments of the ADA Success Series Lunch ‘n Learns - American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons: ASDA/AAOMS Lunch ‘n Learn - ADEA/HSDA/SNDA: Annual Pre-dental Impressions Conference - California Public Health Association (CPHA): The annual Give Kids A Smile dental event at UCSF is managed by CPHA. However, ASDASF is one of the event sponsors by making monetary donations each year that contributes to decorations and food for the volunteers. - California Dental Association (CDA): Student voting representation in CDA House of Delegates at UCSF is through CDA chapter leaders. These leaders however meet ahead of time to discuss how they will vote at House of Delegates, and ASDA leaders are invited to attend. Furthermore, ASDASF leaders meet with CDA chapter leaders monthly to discuss any updates and matters that affect both organizations. Legislative Newsletter Articles and Updates - Provided legislative updates to members through chapter newsletter articles. - Each of ASDASF’s quarterly newsletters shares insight into the critical trends affecting the future of dentistry.

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Activities ASDASF inspires members and new faculty advisors to get involved and give back to the community.

Increasing Faculty Support (Improved!) - ASDASF is happy to gain 3 new faculty advisors who are excited to engage our members in organized dentistry and enhance the interaction between our members and faculty Planned: Student & Faculty/Local Dentists Mentorship Program (New!) - Developing a mentorship program for ASDASF members who seek clinical and career advice - Planning to host social and networking events to encourage strong mentor-mentee relationships ASDA/ADEA D1 & D2 tutorials - Collaborated with the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) to host 2 large sim lab tutorial sessions for all the D1s and D2s where faculty were present in the evening sessions to sign-off student work - Provided food for the attendees and teaching credit for D3 and D4 tutors Frequent Lunch ‘n Learns (LnLs) - 6-9 LnLs held each quarter. Notable LnLs: The interactive two-day lunch series hosted by attorney at Law, Jason Wood, taught students about partnerships, associateship, liabilities and every-day case scenarios WREBs Student Panel (New!) - Organized an evening panel with 5 D4s who presented their wise advice for students planning to take the WREBs - 41 students attended, mostly D3s th 18 Annual Exhibitor’s Day (Improved!) - This year’s vendor fair was our largest and most profitable vendor fair yet. Attendance went up by approx 45% for a total of 300 students, faculty, residents, and alumni District 11 Leadership Involvement (Improved!) - 2 ASDASF members serve on the District 11 cabinet (last year: 1): - Jolie Goodman, ‘15- ASDA District 11 Northern California Outreach Coordinator - Karina Lee, ‘15- ASDA District 11 Communications Chair - 4 ASDASF members attended the District 11 meeting at Los Angeles in October Habitat for Humanity (New!) - 10 ASDASF volunteers joined Habitat for Humanity Greater SF to help put the finishing touches on a 36 unit condominium that will house low-income families. With the help of our team, the condominium was completed and opened to the families shortly thereafter. “Taking Oral Hygiene Awareness to Rural and Underserved America” Grant (New!) - ASDASF is one of few schools to have been awarded this generous grant, providing funding support for The Berkeley Free Clinic (BFC) dental team to enhance their dental services through oral hygiene education and prevention services to BFC patients. Approximately 25 ASDASF volunteers did routine visits to the site for several months prior to training their volunteers. This education program continues today and is provided now to all BFC patients. Reusuable ASDASF Water Bottle (New!) - In honor of Earth Day, ASDASF sold stainless steel reusable water bottles to encourage students to discontinue the use of non-reusable plastic bottles Raphael House dental screening (New!) - 9 ASDASF volunteers accompanied by a UCSF faculty member joined forces with The Raphael House to provide dental screenings, fluoride varnish and oral hygiene education to homeless families in SF - 17 families were served with generous donations by Colgate Bay Area Science Festival at AT&T Ballpark - 14 ASDASF volunteers joined forces with the Science and Health Education Partnership (SEP) to run the science festival booth focused on tooth morphology and function “Encourage Courage” Joint Community Service Event (New!) - 15 ASDA volunteers from UCSF and UOP teamed up in a joint community service event to engage in fun sporting activities with children who have various intellectual and developmental disabilities. UOP/UCSF Glide Joint Community Service Event (New!) - 16 ASDA volunteers from UCSF and UOP joined forces with GLIDE Memorial Church to prepare bag lunches for GLIDE’s daily free meals program that feeds the poor, homeless and hungry La Casa Outreach Event (New!) - 4 ASDASF volunteers donated goodie bags with dental supplies and provided oral health instruction and education to the women of La Casa De Las Madres, a domestic violence support center

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Fundraising Being fiscally-conscious results in greater financial flexibility for ASDASF.

Lunch ‘n Learns (Improved!) - ASDASF Lunch ‘n Learns (LNLs) raised a total of $4350 ($1750 more than last year!) - Winter Quarter: 6 LNLs raised $800 - Spring Quarter: 6 LNLs raised $1500 - Fall Quarter: 9 LNLs raised $2050 18th Annual Exhibitor’s Day (Improved!) - Attendance increased by approximately 45%, for a total of over 300 students, faculty, residents, and alumni - Free catered lunch for attendees - Free ASDA T-shirts for all members and extra raffle tickets for wearing the T-shirt to Expo Day - $1500 dollars-worth of raffle prizes - Advertised and increased ASDA awareness with personal letters resulting in Alumni and residents' attendance - Increased net profit and number of vendors

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Planned: 19th Annual Exhibitor’s Day to be held on February 14, 2014 To increase the number and variety of vendors and companies; to increase the number of students by providing more raffle tickets, prizes, and better advertisements; to increase participation of dental residents, alumni, and faculty Being Smart Travelers - Being economical and implementing cost-saving measures - Instead of purchasing flight tickets, ASDASF rented cars and drove to the District 11 meeting in LA. With many thanks to UCLA-ASDA, our members were provided free housing arrangements with UCLA-ASDA members. By doing this, ASDASF saved over $1500. - For Annual Session, ASDASF will again utilize ground transportation to send 8 representatives to Anaheim. -

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Predental Involvement Because UCSF lacks an undergraduate campus, our ASDASF Predental Committee faces a unique challenge in reaching out to the predental community.

Recruiting & Mentoring (New!) - ASDASF successfully recruited 8 Predental ASDA members for the 2013 year - Collaborating with the UCSF Dean’s Office, the ASDASF Predental Committee provides tours of the dental school, and arranges full-day shadowing tours for predentals that allows them to observe life as a dental student - Predental Mentorship Program provides mentors to 50 predentals from Stanford, CSU Fresno, CSU Sacramento, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, and the SFSU Post-Baccalaureate Program - Mentors are ASDA members who review dental applications, revise personal statements, provide interview tips, and great support and advice for predentals Sacramento State Pre-Dental Day 2013 (New!) - 24 predental students attended the event - The day’s events included a presentation on the application process, personal accounts of students' unique paths before dental school, a campus tour, simlab demonstrations, and advice on taking the DAT, writing the personal statement, and interviewing UCSF’s Inaugural Admit Day (New!) - After 6 months of planning and fundraising, ASDASF held UCSF’s inaugural Admit Day, with 38 students in attendance out of the 88 incoming student body of the Class of 2017 - Highlights from the event included a series of student-prepared mini-lectures ranging from craniofacial nerve anatomy, G.V. Black’s Classification of Cavity preparations, preparing for post-graduate education, to summer research opportunities - ASDA leaders also presented strategies for selecting housing options and student Q&A panels with representatives from all four years of dental school were incorporated - Admit Day offered prospective students the opportunity to mingle with UCSF faculty, admissions committee personnel, research faculty, housing representatives, and various student leaders and organizations - Visiting students concluded the day with firsthand experience taking alginate impressions, preparing and restoring cavities, and identifying adult tooth anatomy in the Pre-Doctoral Simulations Lab - ASDA members provided complimentary housing and food for attendees - Attendees participated in a survey to provide feedback of the event - Due to the highly positive feedback and response from the attendees, the Dean’s Office and Admissions plans to turn Admit Day into an annual tradition 3rd Annual International Dentist Program Day (Improved!) - The annual event prepared 39 international dentists (UCSF IDP candidates) for their upcoming Fall interviews - In contrast to last year, this year’s event allowed attendees to enjoy free attendance - ASDA leaders presented interview strategies, information on the IDP program itself, and perspectives from current international students - ASDA volunteers led technical exam demonstrations held throughout the week prior to IDP Day to better prepare the candidates for the technical aspect of their interviews - A dinner social after the event was organized for the attendees and current IDP students to mingle and network in a relaxed environment th 6 Annual Undergraduate Dental Impressions Conference - ASDASF collaborated with 3 other student groups (the American Dental Education Association, Student National Dental Association, and Hispanic Student Dental Association) in hosting over 120 undergraduate pre-dental students from all over the state in this one-day conference - Over 50 ASDA volunteers assisted with demos, tours, and mock interviews/ personal statement reviews - The purpose of the annual event is to expose and excite undergraduate students from diverse/underrepresented backgrounds and/or underserved communities in the Bay Area about dentistry and to provide information about applying to dental school

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Ethical Awareness ASDASF challenges students to not only become competent clinicians but also ethical healthcare providers.

Spring 2013 Ethics Lunch Seminar (New!) - Over 90 students and 7 faculty joined in on a discussion of 3 recent ethical cases where dentists lost their licenses due to unethical behaviors Fall 2013 Ethics Lunch Seminar - A panel of 7clinical faculty members were in attendance, asking students questions, and leading small group discussions on clinical ethical situations - The student participants were given worksheets to contemplate on some of the ethical issues concerning the patient, student provider, and faculty Planned: Winter 2013 Ethics Lunch Seminar - 3 faculty members will share their clinical wisdom and acumen in dealing with ethically complicated situations - The Oklahoma dental office infection control issue as well as the San Diego OMS accident will be the main topics of discussion Student Professionalism and Ethics Association (New!) - After learning about the Student Professionalism and Ethics Association (SPEA) at the National Leadership Conference, the ASDASF Ethics Committee was inspired to start a SPEA chapter at UCSF - Currently, 3 faculty members serve as faculty preceptors to the SPEA chapter - Establishing SPEA at UCSF, ASDASF can freely access SPEA's vast resources including SPEA’s guidelines on dealing with ethical issues that commonly take place in dental school, as well as the bank of ethical study cases to hold regular faculty-student luncheons ASDA Code of Ethics Revision - The ASDASF Ethics Committee continues to review the ASDA Code of Ethics and compare the ASDA Code of Ethics to UCSF Code of Ethics. The Committee recommends any revisions if necessary to UCSF School of Dentistry. - The Committee distributes copies of the Code of Ethics to students at the beginning of the year

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Admit Day

Newly admitted UCSF dental students were invited to spend a day at UCSF to meet fellow students, hear presentations about the school, and practice dental skills in the simulation laboratory.

ASDASF participated in the JDRF Diabetes Walk around the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge. This event was a collaboration of the Northern California ASDA Chapters with UoP. Students walked to raise money to support the cause for finding a cure for Type I Diabetes.

ASDASF volunteers joined forces with the Science and Health Education Partnership (SEP) to run the science festival booth focused on tooth morphology and function.

A full week of ASDA Lunch ‘n Learns educating students about the importance of organized dentistry, ethical awareness, and dental advocacy.

ASDASF’s 3rd Annual International Dentist Program Day prepared 39 international dentists (IDP candidates) for their upcoming Fall interviews. ASDA leaders presented interview strategies, information on the IDP program, and perspectives from current international students. ASDA volunteers led technical exam demonstrations held throughout the week prior to IDP Day to better prepare the candidates for the technical aspect of the interviews.

ASDASF leaders gathered for dinner in Little Italy, San Francisco at the end of the school year to celebrate past chapter officers and bring a warm welcome to new officers. Delicious food and laughs marked a celebration of a wonderful year of ASDA past and the hope for a continued one in the future.

ASDASF leaders attended the District 11 meeting in Los Angeles. Two ASDASF students serve at the district level, including Jolie Goodman, ‘15-ASDA District 11 Northern California Outreach Coordinator, and Karina Lee, ‘15-ASDA District 11 Communications Chair.

UCSF Fall Quarterly Newsletter, 2013

Blending in: A journey to a new life So many dentists from around the world immigrate to the US to gain more knowledge and skills but the path through the dental program in the US is full of obstacles. Some schools including UCSF have tried to incorporate special programs into their training to better accommodate international students. Here at UCSF the International Dentist Program (IDP) is a unique and remarkable way of training international applicants. American Student Dental Association (ASDA) also plays a major role here by trying to bridge the gap between American and international students; ASDA provides a unique opportunity for both groups of students to collaborate on several aspects of education and dental practice. (continued on page 3)

Whose plate is this? Find out more about this UCSF ASDA Alum’s life on Page 4!

Hello UCSF ASDA members! 

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If you still can't get enough of ASDA and are stricken with ASDA fever, check these online resources for more information on the happenings within the world of organized dentistry: 

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Chapter website: www.asdaucsf.com The chapter website has information on the benefits of ASDA membership, a calendar of upcoming events, photos and articles from past events, and other resources.  

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Facebook: https:// www.facebook.com/groups/ UCSFASDA/ Find out about upcoming Lunch n Learns, and ASDA events, merchandise sales on the chapter Facebook group. 

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Twitter: @asdaatucsf Follow UCSF ASDA on Twitter for same day updates on the location and topic of Lunch n Learns!

The UCSF ASDA Chapter is one of few schools to have been awarded the “Taking Oral Hygiene Awareness to Rural and Underserved America” grant this year. This grant provides funding support for oral hygiene education initiatives to underserved communities that could greatly benefit from oral hygiene education. Students at UCSF have partnered with members of The Berkeley Free Clinic (BFC) team to enhance their dental services through this grant. The BFC is a clinic located 15 miles outside of San Francisco that has for over 40 years stood as an icon to the community and as a safe haven to receive free medical, dental, and counseling services regardless of race, age, gender, or economic status. The Dental Section currently provides cleanings, extractions, and restorative services to those

-Neha Tamhane, ASDA Website, ’16

Why join ASDA? Turn the page and let Eileen tell you!

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UCSF ASDA Receives Grant for Project with Berkeley Clinic Jolie Goodman and Iveta Markova

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giving smiles to dental students since 1971

The American Student Dental Association is a national student-run organization that protects and advances the rights, interests and welfare of dental students. It introduces students to lifelong involvement in organized dentistry and provides services, information, education, representation and advocacy. ASDA ucsf

[Left] Dr. Daniel Nam, shows a patient his dental work with help from volunteers, Stacy Kim and Jassell Cabugao at the Berkeley Free Clinic (via: sfgate. com) [Right] Jolie Goodman and Iveta Markova have received a grant to help the clinic provide oral hygiene education and prevention services.

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National ASDA Positions Filled By UCSF Students

When is it Appropriate to Fire a Patient?

All About ASDA!

Devin Bernhardt

It has been said that 5% of patients cause 95% of the problems in a dental practice. Everyone has a mouth and nearly everyone will visit the dentist. That means that you will meet the most wonderful people, but also patients that may not be so wonderful and it will be up to you to decide how to manage these patients. As a dental professional we have obligations, one of which is that the patient’s

All members of ASDA at UCSF receive: FREE and NOW automatically enrolled Life insurance and Disability insurance from ADA Member Insurance Plans. -Upon graduation, graduates receive

• FREE Life and Disability insurance until the December following graduation (6 FREE months of coverage!) • Free Externship and National Boards Disability Insurance from Medical Protective. • With the New Dentist plus ASDA Member Discount, ASDA graduates can get a $50 first year policy. • Automatic Dual Membership to ADA • And more! See www.asdanet.org/benefits for more information.

Additionally, members of ASDA receive gifts each year! D1's receive an Oral-B Professional Care Electric Toothbrush D2's receive Sonicare FlexCare Platinum toothbrush D3/ID3/D4/ID4's receive  Crest 3D White Luxe Glamorous Whitening Toothpaste, 3 Oral-B Extra-Soft Power Brush Refills, and SheerWhite Strips by Henry Schein (limited quantities available)

welfare comes first. But sometimes whats best for the patient is to not have you be their provider. There are a number of acceptable reasons to dismiss a patient the most common include: unreasonable demands or expectations, failure to pay for services, too many missed appointments, not able to comply with your recommendations and exhibiting rude or difficult behavior toward you or your staff. If a patient acts inappropriately and will not change their behavior after a reasonable effort

is made by the dentist, it is in the best interest of both to end the relationship. However, a patient cannot be let go for any reason. Patients have rights and cannot be dismissed based on disability, race, creed, ethnicity, gender or age and also cannot be abandoned. “Abandonment of a case by a physician without sufficient notice or adequate excuse is a dereliction of duty, and if injury results there from, the physician may be held liable in continued on page 8 damages.”

Devin Bernhardt Tiffany Hsu and Nicole (Neek) LaMantia have been selected for national American Student Dental Association (ASDA) positions: as Council Associate to the Council on Communications, and as Electronic Editor, respectively. Fifteen dental students from the six California dental schools, along with many more from dental schools all over the United States, applied for national ASDA positions. Only four California students were selected to serve for national ASDA, two of whom are UCSF Dentistry students. Tiffany Hsu (D2) has received the position of Council Associate to the Council on Communications. There are four members on the council, which is responsible for improving communications between ASDA’s leadership and membership, and is a huge resource for chapters that seek to improve their communication efforts. Tiffany will be traveling to Chicago for council meetings, along with other national Tiffany Hsu and Neek LaMantia were selected for the position of Council Associate to leaders, throughout the year. the Council on Comunications and Electronic Editor, respectively. Nicole (Neek) LaMantia has hometown. been selected as the Electronic EdIn addition, D2s Jolie Gooditor, and will be managing nicole (neek) lamantia man and Karina Lee were recently tiffany hsu (d2) has rethe national ASDA blog, ceived the position of counhas been selected as the appointed as the ASDA District Mouthing Off, which is recommended reading: cil associate to the council electronic editor, and will 11 Northern California Outreach www.asdablog.com. She on communications. be managing the national Coordinator and Communications Chair, respectively. ASDA District will attend all National asda blog, mouthing off. 11 encompasses all California Editorial meetings, most Congratulations to Tiffany, Nicole, Jolie and dental school ASDA chapters. of which are held in Chicago at ASDA’s Karina! headquarters. Chicago also happens to be her

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ASDA Week and EXPO Day at UCSF

Who’s Who? Meet your 2013-2014 ASDA Board Members: Front, from left to right: Neha Tamhane ’16 (Website Editor), Bahar Movahed ’15 (IDP Representative), Samira Fares ’16 (Lunch & Learn Coordinator, Neek LaMantia ’16 (Newsletter Editor), Gabriella Orona-Bateman ’16 (Community Service Outreach), Kimiko Agari ’16 (Pre-Dental Coordinator), Maria Naanaa ’17 (D1 Representative), Karina Lee ’15 (Treasurer), Tiffany Hsu ’15 (President), Dien Sun ’17 (Historian), Ivy Fua ’16 (Community Service Outreach). Back, from left to right: Oscar Humberto ’16 (Legislative Committee), Grace Manliu Yang ’17 (Secretary), Nathan Palanker ’16 (Expo Day Coordinator), Devin Bernhardt ’15 (Marketing and Public Relations), Eileen Welch ’15 (Membership Committee), Michael Hong ’15 (Vice President), Shahab Parsa ’14 (Immediate Past President), Stalin Gill ’14 (ID4 Representative). Not pictured: Dongkook Lim ’16 (Ethics & Licensure Committee).

Kaitlin Benchimol UCSF’s American Student Dental Association held its annual ASDA Week this past February. This year’s ASDA Week consisted of three lunch and learn events leading up to Expo Day on Friday. Kicking off ASDA Week was a Delta Dental lunch and learn with Dr. Yamamoto, Vice President of Professional Services for Delta Dental. He touched on a variety of topics including, positive and

Dr. Mendoza, Dr. Mong, Dr. Pollick and Dr. Centore. They presented some of the most controversial case studies of malpractice lawsuits and discussed, from ethical perspectives, what could have been done to prevent such sticky situations. We finished up the lunch and learn

series with Dr. Mark Campbell, an ADPAC representative. ADPAC stands for the American Dental Political Action Committee and it works to elect congressional candidates who understand the importance of dentistry and the link continued on page 5

ucsf at asda annual session in atlanta Neek LaMantia

participate in district position elections. Devin Bernhardt (D2), and to all the contributDuring the Gold Crown Awards Ceremony, ing writers for their outstanding work. Eight students from UCSF School of DenUCSF’s ASDA chapter was recognized for ASDA’s Annual Session was loaded with tistry attended this year’s American Student their superb writing skills and coverage of a tremendous number of possibilities for Dental Association Annual Session, held in hot topics in dentistry, landing attendees. Atlanta, Georgia on March 6-9th, 2013. The during the Gold crown awards them the “Best Newsletter in The event event hosted over 470 dental students repCompetition” award. ceremony, ucsf’s asda chapter was was complete resenting 61 dental the event hosted over 470 dental recognized for their superb writing skills with a mobile The newsletter was schools from across students representing 61 dental highlighted for “mak- and coverage of hot topics in dentistry, app to help the US. The Annual schools from across the us. ing leaps and bounds landing them the “Best newsletter in members Session encompassed in progress,” and for “standallocate several House of Delegates business meetings, competition” award. ing well above the rest of the their time a student research poster session, exhibit fair, entries.” ASDA’s quarterly newsletter features effectively and locate their break out sessions, break-out learning sessions, the Gold Crown district meetings, and free time options. Some Awards Ceremony, and the President’s Gala. faculty spotlights, providing a comprehensive of the break out sessions included lectures on The UCSF dental school was well repreoverview of ASDA’s excellence at UCSF. Digital Dentistry and the Future, How to Stay sented, and the chapter competed for numerCongratulations to ASDA’s Newsletter Editor, ous awards, as well as having several students continued on page 9

asda expo day was successful in providing students exposure to the dental world outside of school.

Meet your ASDA Faculty Faculty Now & Later

negative effects of third party payers in health care, how insurance companies set reimbursement rates to dentists, how will “Obama Care” will affect Delta Dental and much more. On Tuesday we held one of our most popular and well attended lunch and learn, an Ethics Seminar, featuring some of our most beloved faculty, Dr. Vaderhobli, D2

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Shahab Parsa President

Sara Adabi Vice President

Ramina Sarmicanic Treasurer

Devin Bernhardt Newsletter Editor

Michael Hong Pre-Dental Chair

Dongkook (DK) Lim D1 Representative

Neha Temhane Secretary

Stallinjeet Gill IDP 3 Representative

Our ASDA Chapter is delighted to announce our new faculty sponsors:

What do you remember about being an ASDA member? What I remember most about being an ASDA member were the free lunches and the pertinent information presented at those lunches.

Dr. Robert Ho, Dr. Oanh Le, and Dr.

What’s your favorite dental procedure to do? My favorite dental procedure to do is an extraction because it is so simple.

volunteered their time and guidance

How has networking helped you find success? Of course networking has helped me find success. People that know you, promote you.

Paul Atkinson, three incredible clinical professors who have graciously to improving our chapter and introducing our members to lifelong involvement in organized dentistry.  

Prashant Poplai IDP 4 Representative

ASDA at UCSF is very proud and grateful to have Dr. Ho, Dr. Le, and

What is your fondest dental school memory? Graduation is my fondest dental school memory.

Dr. Atkinson join the ASDA team!

Name 3 characteristics that you think describe a good dentist. A good dentist, in my opinion, needs to be empathetic, goal driven, and have integrity.

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Berkeley Free Clinic Grant

Your ASDA Cabinet

Justin Becerra talks to one of the many vendors during Expo Day.

ASDA Recognizes Three New Faculty Sponsors

Name: Dr. Daniel Mendoza UCSF Department: PRDS Hometown: Whittier, Ca What dental school did you attend? I attended the University of California, San Francisco.

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Polin Nikolay, Sara Adabi and Ramina Sarmicanic (L to R) try on loops at the ASDA vendor fair.

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Eddie Molina Jolie Goodman Communications Chair Community Service Co-Chair

in need, however lacks prevention services. Through this grant, ASDA Community Outreach members will address these needs by providing oral hygiene education and prevention services. The patients of the BFC could greatly benefit from. The mission of the UCSF ASDA chapter is to identify needs in our community and to address those needs. Our vision for this endeavor is to educate the patients of the BFC about proper oral hygiene practices, and also to modify lessons so as to provide a way that these practices are feasible for the target population not only now but in the future. Many of the BFC patients are of high caries risk and homeless, as a result the most feasible practices for them are different than others. Many of them would greatly benefit from fluoride treatments such as prescription toothpaste, fluoride rinses, or varnish. This grant will provide UCSF Dental Students the funding and resources to enhance the current dental services at the BFC through prevention services.

Tiffany Hsu Legislative Liason D2 Representative

What made you choose to come to UCSF? UCSF was the #2 Dental School in the Country! The dental schools were ranked back then. What is your biggest fear related to dentistry? Failure, in the sense that I may hurt someone, is my biggest fear related to dentistry. What is your favorite tooth and why? My favorite tooth is the First Maxillary Molar because it’s big, beautiful and I like it. -Advice you’d give to a first year dental student: My advice to a first year dental student would be to work hard and not fall behind. My motto is: Become a Master of your Profession!

-Amin Abdallah, ’16

Jonathan Collins Past President

Nicole (Neek) LaMantia Historian

William Kim Licensure and Ethics Chair

Karina Lee Membership Chair

Photos courtesy of David Hand

Kaitlin Benchimol Lunch and Learn Committee Chair

Iveta Markova Community Service Co-Chair

Jeffrey Lee D4 Representative

Kulginder Sran D3 Representative

Shanne Sastiel Expo Day Chair

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Jason Wood, Attorney. In a highly informative two-day session, Jason Wood, a practicing attorney for dentists, spoke to the students about issues on partnerships, associateships, and liabilities.

Ethics. Students acted out situations in which dentists are put into potentially ethically-compromised situations with their patients. UCSF faculty helped facilitate discussion of what the proper way of handling such occurrences. 24