Faculty Member Explores Link Between WWI Facial Trauma and Modern Plastic Surgery
Dr. Shahid Aziz has spent hours poring over case histories and letters of World War I soldiers who returned home with disfiguring facial injuries. He is an expert on how veterans of the war helped shape the future of plastic surgery.
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Need for Special Care Dental Providers Could Still Lead to Resources for RSDM
Dean Cecile Feldman is hopeful that permanent funding for RSDM’s special care clinic will be approved this year.
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RSDM Match Rate More than 20 Percent Above National Average
Students celebrated the milestone of Match Day last month at RSDM’s annual ceremony, reflecting back on the lessons of dental school and looking forward to the future. Dean Cecile Feldman noted that RSDM match rate was 87 percent, compared to the national match rate of 64 percent.
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Dr. Narayanan Ramasubbu Tapped to Head RSDM Office of Research
Dr. Narayanan Ramasubbu has been appointed Associate Dean of Research, Dean Cecile A. Feldman announced. Dr. Ramasubbu, known as “Subbu,” is a recognized authority in biofilm research who in 2018 received a $437,250 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how a bacterium that causes periodontal disease is able to survive in the body.
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