NDA Journal 20 Lori Benvin nnds@nndental.org News from the Northern Nevada Dental Society NNDS Executive Director’s Message It’s warming up finally, what a winter it has been. I want to welcome a few elected changes to our Executive Board and Committee members. First and foremost, I must thank our outgoing President Dr. Hannah Beus for her outstanding presidential year and her exceptional dedication to the Executive Board for the past several years. Dr. Beus brought the FUN and togetherness back to the NNDS that we had been missing for many years. Our 2022 Holiday party was the perfect storm that she created, as we broke record attendance in over 10 years. Her ability to appreciate and embrace the room at our dinner meetings was beyond reproach and her ideas of an amazing Leadership Conference and bringing back the Mystery Bus Trip now scheduled for this October, will definitely jump start a new beginning for the future for the NNDS. You have been stellar Dr. Hannah, you will be missed greatly but we will count on you to continue to contribute to our amazing society, THANK YOU! As Dr. Beus becomes our Past President on June 1, please help us welcome Dr. Christopher Galea as our new NNDS President, Dr. K.C. Gilbert as Vice President, Dr. Garrett Swanson as Secretary/Treasurer, Dr. Ben Syndergaard as Member at Large, and newest Members at Large Dr. Megan Utter and Dr. Debra Peterson. Dr. Scott Sutter will remain our Chief Delegate and ADA Alt. Delegate. Dr. Whitney Bryant will become our new CE Chair with Dr. Beus as her co-chair and Dr. Amy Nygren takes over as our New Dentist Chair. A HUGE thank you goes out to Dr. John McLennan who is stepping down as Member at Large but his bigger and more significant role with the NNDS for these past years has been CE Chair. Thank you, Dr. Johnny, for your dedication and time committed to this role, and thank you for bringing an impressive lineup of amazing speakers to the north, you will be sorely missed. We once again are grateful to our committed Delegation from the north who represent YOU our valued members: Dr. Aimee Abittan, Dr. Troy Savant, Dr. Amy Nygren, Dr. Kellie McGinley, Dr. Justin Kiggins and Dr. Deaudre LeCato. We know you all are a huge asset to our society and its members, and we thank you for joining the ranks for 2023/24. On April 29 our non-profit program Healthy Smile Healthy Child (HSHC) a program of the Northern Nevada Dental Health Programs (NNDHP) held our first of 2023 Give Kids A Smile event at TMCC dental clinic. Last year we hosted three of these events at Truckee Meadows Community College and their gracious Dental Assisting Academic Program Director Julie Muhle offered up their amazing dental clinic on the TMCC campus. This state-of-theart facility is the home to the TMCC Dental Assisting program and the TMCC Dental Hygiene program. The students from both scholastic programs volunteer at our events alongside our volunteer dentists, UNR Pre-dent students, and staff volunteers. These events screen uninsured low-income children by appointment and children are then placed with one of our volunteer NNDHP providers for dental treatment. If a child is identified as only needing preventive care, the TMCC DH program students will take those children for follow-up after our event for needed prophies. Our HSHC program is a year-round program that has existed since 1985 Jesse Cardenas, DDS–General WELCOME BACK! Katharina Fung, DMD–Orthodontics Kaelie Reviglio, DMD–General WELCOME BACK! Jonny Winfield, DDS–Prosthodontics Welcome Newest NNDS Members
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