ANNOUNCEMENT - July 18, 2012
We received a message from the IADR that nominations for the PTT Award are now open. Dr.Stuart Fischman is the Chair of this committee. The link for submission of documents is: http://www.iadr.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid:3424
The following are eligible from prior years and are still active: Peter Holbrook, J. Mark Thomason, Nicholas Girdler.
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Dr. Anthony R. Volpe
Dr. Anthony R. Volpe, a founding sponsor/member of the Task Force on Design and Analysis in Oral Health Research was recently awarded The William J. Gies Award by the American Dental Education Association. He was recognized for the Vision, Innovation and Achievement in Dentistry as both a public and private partner.
Dr. Volpe is Vice President of Clinical Dental Research and Scientific Affairs at the Colgate-Palmolive Technology Center in Piscataway, New Jersey. He also is a staff member at St. Peter's Medical Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey and has practiced general dentistry in New Jersey. In addition, he has been a clinical Professor of Pharmacology at the Fairleight-Dickenson University School of Dentistry and currently is a Clinical Professor of Periodontics at the University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey Dental School. Dr. Volpe has served on technical committees of major worldwide dental organizations, including the National Institute of Research, The World Health Organization and the Federation Dentaire Internationale. He served as president of the American Dental Association Foundation from 1997 to 2003 and was presented in 2004 with the American Dental Association's Distinguished Service Award. In 2004 Dr. Volpe was further honored to receive the American Association of Public Health Dentistry's Special Merit Award and the Hadassah Special Award from the Hebrew University, Israel.
Dr. Melissa Begg
Dr. Melissa Begg, a member of the Task Force on Design and Analysis in Oral Health Research, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. The award is in recognition of her excellence in leadership, development and delivery of training and mentoring programs for young clinical investigators, for promotion of statistics in biomedical research, for advancing statistics education and for service to the research community.
Dr. Begg is Vice Dean for Education and Professor of Clinical Biostatistics at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She earned her doctorate in biostatistics from Harvard in 1989 and joined the Columbia faculty immediately thereafter. Her areas of focus include: advancing interdisciplinary science; clinical reserach education; statistical methods in psychiatry and oral health; and analysis of cluster-correlated and sibling data. She also leads 2 NIH-funded career development programs to promote diversity: one aimed at college undergraduates, introducing them to careers in the public health sciences; and one aimed at diverse junior faculty, providing grant-writing advice, career support, and mentorship. Dr. Begg's teaching skills have been recognized on several occasions; she was inducted into the university's Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy in 2005 and received both the university-wide Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Mailman School Teaching Award from the Graduating Class in 2006. She was invited to join the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2007 and was elected to the Board of the Association for Clincal Research Training in 2008. Formerly Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs, she was appointed as Vice Dean for Education on October 1st 2010 and is overseeing the implementation of a major curriculum renewal initiative for Columbia's MPH program to launch in the Fall 2012.


Faculty and Attendees at the Clinical Research Workshop held in Tampa, Florida, March 19-23, 2012. The workshop was sponsored by the Task Force on Design and Analysis in Oral Health Research.
The Task Force on Design and Analysis supported the Proceedings of the Istanbul Conference and a publication from the conference is now published. This reference is now listed uunder our "Publications" page.


Board of Directors member, Maria Ryan, D.D.S., Ph.D. Professor of Oral Biology and Pathology in the Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine, was recently named the winner of an international award that recognized her work in advancing women's health care by focusing her research efforts on the development of risk assessment strategies and biochemical testing for early identification of periodontal disease. Dr. Ryan was presented with the first ever Victress Award in Health at an August gala in Berlin, Germany.
 
The Victress Award in Health was created to honor a scientist or doctor
who is researching or developing in a field that is gender specific or
who provides a breakthrough for women's health. The winner also serves
as a role model for young women who want to follow a similar career
path. The award recognizes that women have different medical needs,
sometimes show different symptoms or respond differently to medication,
and is meant to promote some of the brilliant women in science who are
usually not as visible as their male colleagues.


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Dr. Athena Papas, Tufts University and Dr. Stuart Gansky, University of California San Francisco both became Active Members at our May 4, 2010 meeting held in Newark, NJ.  We welcome them to our membership.


NOVEMBER 2010:
The Task Force on Design and Analysis presented the Dr. J. Murray Gavel Clinical Research Lectureship Continuing Education Workshop and Conference on November 11-12, 2010 at the Forsyth Institute.

MARCH 2010:
ANNOUNCEMENT:
4th International Meeting -- Methodological Issues Oral Health Research: Interventional Studies
Dates: April 21-23, 2010
Location: Istanbul,Turkey
Additional Information and Registration:  www.dentalbiostat2010.org

Aims of the Conference:
1) Provide an overview of methods to improve the design, conduct and analysis of interventional oral health research.
2) Enhance communication between oral health researchers and statisticians.

The conference will focus on the design, conduct and analysis of interventional oral health research and will provide a forum for formal and informal interaction between oral health researchers and statisticians. The program includes invited speakers and peer-reviewed oral and poster sessions.

November 2009:  Frank Scannapieco, Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral Biology at the State University of New York at Buffalo was elected to membership in the Task Force on Design & Analysis in Oral Health Research at our November 2009 meeting. 

May 2009:  Deborah Dawson, PhD, Sc.M., Morris Bernstein Professor of Dentistry; Director of Biostatistics and Research Design, Dows Research Institute, College of Dentistry; Departments of Preventive and Community Dentistry & Biostatistics, and Interdisciplinary Programs in Genetics and Informatics at the University of Iowa was elected to membership in the Task Force on Design & Analysis in Oral Health Research at our May 2009 meeting.

Welcome new members!
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Dr. Stuart Fischman (SUNY Buffalo) received the Distinguished Scientist Award in Pharmacology from the Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics Group of the International Association for Dental Research in Toronto, Ontario Canada during their summer 2008 meeting.  Dr. Fischman is shown receiving the plaque from Dr. Deborah Greenspan, President of the International Association for Dental Research.

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