In our lives, there are milestones that celebrate the hard work, diligence, and academic achievement that it takes to become a professional. Today, is one of these milestones. Graduation! It is a time of celebration! The College of Dentistry and the University of Illinois at Chicago community sincerely congratulate you on this extraordinary achievement. We want to thank you for working with the faculty and staff as they helped you for the new challenges of patient care, scholarly pursuit and leadership in dentistry that no previous generation has ever seen. Graduation is one step in this lifelong education that defines excellence in oral health care. Clark M. Stanford, DDS, PhD

UIC Distinguished Professor and Dean College of Dentistry

MAY 7, 2016

Dear Graduates, Family, and Friends,

The faculty and staff of your college wish you the very best. We look forward to hearing your successes and welcoming you back as an important alumni and life-long member of our dental family. You are a key member of the oral-health community that is changing dentistry, forever. Congratulations! Warmest Regards, Clark M. Stanford, DDS, PhD

THE DENTIST’S PLEDGE As a member of the dental profession, I shall keep this pledge and these stipulations.

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I understand and accept that my primary responsibility is to my patients, and I shall dedicate myself to render, to the best of my ability, the highest standard of oral health care and to maintain a relationship of respect and confidence. Therefore, let all come to me safe in the knowledge that their total health and well-being are my first considerations.

I acknowledge my obligation to support and sustain the honor and integrity of the profession and to conduct myself in all endeavors such that I shall merit the respect of patients, colleagues, and my community. I further commit myself to the betterment of my community for the benefit of all of society. I shall faithfully observe the Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct set forth by the profession. All this I pledge with pride in my commitment to the profession and the public it serves.

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I shall accept the responsibility that, as a professional, my competence rests on continuing the attainment of knowledge and skill in the arts and sciences of dentistry.

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CLASS OF 2016 Prelude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brassworks Quintet Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Rowan

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR CLINICAL AFFAIRS

PROCESSIONAL

University of Illinois at Chicago Banner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adrianne Jang

SECRETARY, DMD CLASS OF 2016

College of Dentistry Banner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vivek Patel

TREASURER, DMD CLASS OF 2016

Graduate College Banner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zaid Abed

VICE PRESIDENT, DMDAS CLASS OF 2016

Faculty Marshals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seema Ashrafi

INTERIM ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Lyndon Cooper

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH AFFAIRS

Student Marshals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larry Salzmann

DIRECTOR, PREDOCTORAL PROGRAM PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY

Satish Alapati

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ENDODONTICS

National Anthem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Denise Six “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” (FRANCIS SCOTT KEY)

DMDAS CLASS OF 2016

Introduction of Platform Party. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Rowan Greetings from the University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael D. Amiridis

CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINIOS AT CHICAGO

Greetings from the Graduates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rubecca Hasan Shahid

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PRESIDENT, DMDAS CLASS OF 2016

Keynote Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clark Stanford DEAN

PRESENTATION OF POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION CANDIDATES Endodontics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bradford Johnson

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Christopher Wenckus

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Miloro

DEPARTMENT HEAD

William Flick

CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Orthodontics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carla Evans

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Pediatric Dentistry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marcio da Fonseca

DEPARTMENT HEAD

DENTISTRY

David Avenetti

POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Periodontics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Salvador Nares

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Praveen Gajendrareddy

POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM DIRECTOR

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POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Farhad Fayz

CLINICAL PROFESSOR

Conferral of Master of Science in Oral Sciences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael D. Amiridis (see list on page 16) Recognition of Master of Science in Oral Sciences Graduates. . . . . . . Lyndon Cooper Laura Junker

MAY 7, 2016

Prosthodontics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rand Harlow

ASSOCIATE DEAN OF THE HONORS COLLEGE

Conferral of Doctor of Dental Medicine and DMD Advanced Standing Degree Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael D. Amiridis (see list on page 16) Darryl Pendleton

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR STUDENT AND DIVERSITY AFFAIRS

Recognition of DMD Advanced Standing Graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adriana Semprum-Clavier

CODIRECTOR, DMD ADVANCED STANDING DEGREE PROGRAM

Recognition of Doctor of Dental Medicine Graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alison Doubleday

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Distribution of Diploma Covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Valentino

ASSISTANT VICE CHANCELLOR FOR DEVELOPMENT

Michael Harner

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

Hooders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Baker

CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

James Bryniarski

MANAGING PARTNER, GERSHWIN CLINIC

Michael Dunlap

MANAGING PARTNER, BACH CLINIC

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Larry Salzmann Michael Santucci

MANAGING PARTNER, BRAHAMS CLINIC

Michael Spector

MANAGING PARTNER, MOZART CLINIC

Dentist’s Pledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caswell Evans

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR PREVENTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE

Response from the Graduates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kelvin Jung

PRESIDENT, DMD CLASS OF 2016

Adjournment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Rowan

AUDIENCE IS REQUESTED TO REMAIN SEATED UNTIL THE ACADEMIC RECESSION IS COMPLETED.

University of Illinois at Chicago Banner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristina Varga

TREASURER, DMDAS CLASS OF 2016

College of Dentistry Banner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mollie Rojas

VICE PRESIDENT, DMD CLASS OF 2016

Graduate College Banner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henna Abbasi

SECRETARY, DMDAS CLASS OF 2016

Reception. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rochford Tent, Lot 14

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RECESSIONAL

MAY 7, 2016

Doctor of Dental Medicine Class of 2016

Matthew Anderson

Thomas Angerame

Khushbu Barot

Eva Bici

Daniel Bordatto

Justin Bortz

Courtney Botica

Katerine Dimoulis

Jihan Doss

Sarah Duchaj

Yusuf Fahmy

Nishi Garg

Chad Goeke

Stephen Griffith

Natasha Kanchwala

Morae Kang

Olga Kats

Haein Kil

Annamarion Kolencherry

Anthony Lotesto

John Luczak

Nancy Nguyen

Prutha Parikh

Sapana Parikh

Vivek Patel

Matthew Pearce

Shouvik Ponnusamy

Vu Quach

Vincas Sidrys

Rutger Stache

Stacey Tatro

Zachary Tilden

Irena Todorova

Mark White

Thomas Woolf

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Not Pictured: Fatima Saeed

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

MAY 7, 2016 Ryan Bradley

Alexander Brodeur

Craig Brown

Dante Brown

Pierce Brown

William Burns

Tudor Chertes

Chander Gupta

Henry Hackney

Michael Hansen

Mina Hwang

Agnieszka Iwaszczyszyn

Adrianna (Mi) Jang

Kelvin Jung

Taras Martyniouk

Sindhu Mathew

Jeri McCombs

Alex Moore

Eric Moy

Alexander Munaretto

Randa Nakib

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Shohreh Raoof

Mohammad Rehman

David Reisinger

Mollie Rojas

Amatul Salma

Garrett Sendor

Punita Shukla

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

DENTISTRY

Deborah Yim

MAY 7, 2016

Doctor of Dental Medicine Advanced Standing Class of 2016

Henna Abbasi

Zaid Abed

Olubanwo Abejide

Tarek Abourass

Ali Al Mustafa

Mustafa Al Obaidi

Radhwan Al Sinawi

Haider Aljewari

Najwan Alroubaie

Sulaiman Alshaar

Ali Alsuhail

Carolina Boege

Shalini Dosala

Haitham Eljack

Reihaneh Ghoreishi

Christin Girgis

Usha Gope

Subodh Gurung

Juveria Hussain

Jyothish Joseph

Ramya Joshua

Sameer Kapil

Hidayathulla Khan

Arundati Kharel

Katrina Lo

Natasa Manasovska

Crystal Mangat

Shilpa Narayanaswamy

Zaid Nasar

Samar Odeh

Uvoh Onoriobe

Loolul Pallikalath Kooloth

Priyanka Pandya

Aena Patel

Dina Rashid

Rubecca Shahid

Denise Six

Qiujing Song

Marium Sultan

Kristina Varga

Adam Zaher

Jelena Zivkovic

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Postgraduate Certificates Class of 2016

Allison Alberts

Lauren Allegretti

Saleh Al-Kharsa

Abdurahman Alwadei

Andok Barseghyan

Joanna Basaya

Benjamin Belavsky

Helen Bono

Anne Compton

Cynthia Czaperacker

Ginu Dahiya

Scott Drucker

Alan Garrett

David Goldberg

Dustin Haupt

Virginia Hogsett

Paul Lazari

Alexandra Martella

Amitoj Mehta

Nisha Mehta

Serena Mitchual

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Adriana Padron

Charles Palin

Ankur Patel

Daniel Pinkston

John Polivka

Kala Rousu

Jennifer Shango

Craig Sikora

Samia Suleiman-Ata

Conner Vinikoor

Alec Zurek

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

Lorenzo Prieto

DENTISTRY

Lora Nation

MAY 7, 2016

FACULTY PARTICIPANTS HONORED GUESTS Michael D. Amiridis . . . . . . . Chancellor, University of Illinois at Chicago Robert Barish. . . . . . . . . . . . Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Laura Junker. . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Dean, Graduate College ADMINISTRATION Clark Stanford, Dean Seema Ashrafi Lyndon Cooper Caswell Evans Michael Harner Darryl Pendleton Susan Rowan Mark Valentino ENDODONTICS Bradford Johnson, Head Satish Alapati James Bahcall Mark Baker Ronald Milnarik Charles Neach Steve Weeks Christopher Wenckus Qian Xie

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ORAL BIOLOGY Lyndon Cooper, Head Rhonna Cohen Xianghong Luan ORAL MEDICINE AND DIAGNOSTIC SCIENCES Blase Brown Alison Doubleday M. Beth Miloro Stephanie Ward-Harris

DENTISTRY

ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY Michael Miloro, Head William Flick

PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY Marcio da Fonseca, Head Sahar Alrayyes David Avenetti Evelina Kratunova Charles LeHew Ian Marion Indru Punwani Larry Salzmann Darien Weatherspoon Christine Wu PERIODONTICS Salvador Nares, Head Luisa DiPietro Praveen Gajendrareddy David Gaston Nadia Kawar Nuha Nakib Michael Schmerman Keiko Watanabe RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY Alice Boghosian Jennifer Bereckis James Bryniarski Priscilla Chang Melissa Davis Michael Dunlap Marcela Escobar Farhad Fayz Kenneth Gehrke Bruce Graham Rand Harlow Courtney Lamb Teofilo Limosnero Daisy Salazar Michael Santucci Michael Spector Adriana Semprum-Clavier Robin Waner

ORTHODONTICS Carla Evans, Head Mohammed Elnagar

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