VCU Dental Care serves underinsured families at annual Give Kids a Smile event
On Friday, Feb. 18, 76 children from local families received free oral health care at the VCU Dental Care Pediatric Dentistry Clinic. Part of the American Dental Association’s Give Kids a Smile initiative, each year students, faculty and staff from VCU School of Dentistry and VCU Dental Care come together to provide oral health care […]
Awab Abdulmajeed named director of the International Dentist Program at VCU School of Dentistry
Awab Abdulmajeed, D.S.S., M.S., has officially been named director of the International Dentist Program at VCU School of Dentistry. “Dr. Abdulmajeed has been carrying out many of the duties of this role in an unofficial capacity for some time now and has taken steps to smooth our international students’ entry into the D.D.S. curriculum and […]
Black History Month 2022: Continuing to Celebrate Cultural Heritage at VCU School of Dentistry
Contributed by Carlos Smith, D.D.S., M.Div., director of diversity, equity and inclusion and the ethics curriculum and associate professor at VCU School of Dentistry …at the beginning of the twentieth century, America’s subordinated race was called colored. Later, we came to think of it as Negro, first with a lowercase and then with a capital […]
VCU School of Dentistry celebrates MLK Day and National Day of Racial Healing
Contributed by Carlos Smith, D.D.S., M.Div., director of diversity, equity and inclusion and the ethics curriculum and associate professor at VCU School of Dentistry Martin Luther King Jr. Day – Jan. 17 A celebrated humanitarian, civil rights activist, freedom fighter and advocate for nonviolent social change, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his […]
Lyndon Cooper named dean of VCU School of Dentistry
Lyndon F. Cooper, D.D.S., Ph.D., has been named dean of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry, effective April 18. Cooper currently serves as associate dean for research and head of the Department of Oral Biology at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Dentistry. “Dr. Cooper is an internationally renowned and innovative patient-oriented researcher and […]
VCU Dental Care and CHoR team up with Glen Lea Elementary School to keep kids healthy and in the classroom
When a student sees the school nurse for a stomachache, tooth pain or other non-emergency medical situation, parents are often asked to pick them up and come back with a note from the doctor. This means kids miss school and adults lose time from work or other responsibilities. A new program between Children’s Hospital of […]
Success starts with admissions
VCU School of Dentistry’s Interview Days provide a window to the next four years for prospective Doctor of Dental Surgery students VCU School of Dentistry recently completed its final fall Interview Day for 2021, an exciting process during which Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) applicants visit the school for a mix of orientation and interviews. […]
‘That is a brilliant idea’: Faculty and students are creating dental supply kits for Afghan refugees
A group at the VCU School of Dentistry has put together over 100 bags of toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss and mouthwash that will be distributed to refugees at Fort Lee. After the August withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Omar Abubaker wanted to find out how one of his students, Nadia Abdul-Ghafoor, a native of Afghanistan, was […]
Diversity Dialogues: Native American, American Indian and Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month 2021
Written by Dr. Carlos Smith, director of diversity, equity and inclusion at VCU School of Dentistry Native American, American Indian and Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month, often referred to as National American Indian Heritage Month, is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people. […]
VCU Pediatric Dental Clinic receives interior design award
The VCU Pediatric Dental Clinic located in the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU (CHoR) Children’s Pavilion was recently awarded an Interior Design Excellence Award by the Virginia/West Virginia Chapter of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA). Completed in January, the clinic brought VCU Dental Care’s downtown pediatric dental care under the same roof as […]