GDA Action September 2019

September 2019 • 11 SEEN& HEARD Members making news and news for GDA members. Welcome New Members! The following members joined GDA in April. Danielle Greene Northern Timothy Jaeger Eastern Ronald Smith Northern W L M E OC E Lunch & Learn on June 7 GDA Hosted an ADA Success Program, “The State of the Dental Profession,” at the Dental College of Georgia. ADA Success speaker and GDA member Dr. Rico Short spoke to around 130 students. Applications for Loan Repayment Program DEADLINE: OCTOBER 31, 2019 Applications for the Dentists for Rural Areas Assistance Program (Georgia’s student loan repayment program for dentists in rural areas) will be accepted September 1, 2019 through October 31, 2019. To apply, please visit http://gbpw.georgia.gov/loan- repayment-programs. For more information of eligibility and requirements of the program, please contact Emily, GDA’s Director of Health Policy, at 404.636.7553 or emily@gadental.org . Georgia Counties Eligible for the Dentists for Rural Areas Assistance Program *Have a population of 50,000 or less Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Baldwin Banks Ben Hill Berrien Bleckley Brantley Brooke Bryan Burke Butts Calhoun Candler Charlton Chattahoochee Chattooga Clay Clinch Coffee Colquitt Cook Crawford Crisp Dade Dawson Decatur Dodge Dooly Early Echols Elbert Emmanuel Evans Fannin Franklin Gilmer Glascock Grady Greene Habersham Hancock Harralson Harris Hart Heard Irwin Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln Long Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion McDuffie McIntosh Merriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Oconee Oglethorpe Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Schley Screven Seminole Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Turner Twiggs Union Upson Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth