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The official

utsd ASDA

newsletter

Skiing and networking at

the District 9 Meeting

Kelsey Edmondson

A few of the ASDA officers

went to Breckenridge, Colorado Feb 7-

10 for the ASDA District 9 meeting. We

met with representatives from OU,

University of Colorado, UTHSC-SA, and

Baylor, the other schools in D9. The

weekend was full of meetings and getting

to know each other, all while enjoying

Breckenridge to boot. I think its safe to

say weve all caught another case of

ASDA Fever.

Most of the attendees arrived

Thursday evening, trickling in as flights

arrived and our wonderful hosts from the

University of Colorado chauffeured us

the 2 hour drive to the lodge that would

serve as our weekend home. Friday

morning and afternoon we were on our

own to meet and ski with the other

District 9 members. After getting to

know several of them, Id say D9 is

mighty fine, and there are some other

very busy and successful ASDA chapter

in our district. Dinner Friday was

sponsored by Heartland Dental. After

dinner, we listened to some great

lectures by national ASDA vice presiden

Ben Youel (UIC) and Alex Barton

(Virginia Commonwealth University) o

developing your ASDA chapters brand

and involving your local pre-dental

Welcome to the second UTSD ASDA Newsletter!

With a new year upon us, there are many new events and socials for us totell you about.

As you read through the article, you will learn about the recent DistrictColorado Meeting and even a little about the DS1 Gross Anatomy

course!

As always, we encourage feedback and, if you would like to write anarticle for future newsletters then please contact us.

Finally, thank you for all of the support from the staff and students at UTHouston School of Dentistry!

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Edition 2: Spring 2013

Inside this Edition

Welcome .P.

District 9 Colorado

Meeting..P.1

Save The Date.P

Letter from the PresidentP.

Movember.P.

ASDA Dodgeball...P.

Recipe of the Week.P

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Save the Date organization, respectively. Then weheard from Taylor Koren (Legislative

Liaison - Baylor) on the current

involvement of ASDA in legislative

advocacy and government affairs. Later

in the evening we had a social hour with

Dr. Clint Herzog, DDS of FLOSS,

despite his ER-worthy injuries from a

rough day on the slopes. Despite heavy

snow all day Saturday we gathered for

dinner sponsored by Medical Protective.

Do you know the difference between

occurrence and claims-made insurance?

Id be lying if I said I did, but Austin

Holler from MedPro is there to answer

this and all of our other questions when

these kind of questions arise. Dinner was

followed by some incredibly entertaining

and informative lectures by dentists Dr.

Chris Salierno, DDS of the Curious

Dentist blog and Dr. Ryan Dulde, DDS,

former ASDA president. Dr. Salierno

taught us the key features of a successful

meeting and Dr. Dulde told us about

transitioning from student to dentist

and how to manage your finances in

the meantime. Both Dr. Salierno (Ne

York) and Dr. Dulde (Wisconsin) ru

successful practices and have made it

through the student-dentist transition

to come out on top. Check out

Thecurioiusdentist.com

o

Dr. Duldes blog Excursives.com

to read u

on some of the information they

shared at the meeting. We then heard

testimonials from new dentists with

Pacific Dental on their experience wi

the company. Saturday nights

meetings concluded with a reception

sponsored by Aspen Dental.

UTSD ASDA has lots of

improvements in the works and wer

bringing some great ideas home! In

addition to the more structured

meetings and lectures, we had the

opportunity to exchange ideas with t

officers of the other D9 chapters. Th

weekend went off without a hitch

(other than a slightly delayed flight

home) and we returned Sunday,

exhausted, but with full notebooks o

how to build up our chapter and mak

ASDA more enjoyable for all of its

members. Look forward to some new

and exciting events for ASDA very

soon!

3/1 - UTHSCSIC Volunteer

Event withHouston Food

Bank

3/22 - ProjectSaving Smiles

Volunteer Day

3/28 ASDAVendor Fair

4/27 - HealthyKids Day with

the YMCA

TBA - Star ofHope Volunteer

event

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The University of Texas School of

DentistryAmerican Student Dental Association

Officers

President:Sam Carrell 14

President-elect: Katie Sowa 15

Immediate Past President: Hannah Ye 13

First-year Delegate: J. Graham Reed 16

Treasurers: Grant Glauser 13 & Hunter Owen

15

Historian: Khushbu Patel 14

Outreach Coordinators: Kelly Beckham 13,

Lindsey Minor 13

Assistant Outreach Coordinators: Tim

Woernley 14, Kelsey Edmonson 15, Shivani

Patel 16

Legislative Liason: Coleman Meadows 13

Assistant Legislative Liasons: Bryce Gates 14,

Kyle Hale 16

Events/Meetings Coordinator: Aaron

Menchaca 14 & Andrew Smith 15

Assistant Events/Meetings Coordinator: Marisa

McKee 16

Pre-Dental Coordinators: Iliana Saavedra 15,

Paola Salazar 16

Publication Editors: Laura Nelson 16 &

Macey Cartrite 16

SPEA Liason: Nathalie Dunwoody 13

Website Manager: Andre Ngyuen 15

American Student Dental Association

Executive Committee

President: Colleen Greene, Harvard 13

Vice Presdient: Ben Youel, Illinois 13

Vice President: Alex Barton, Virginia 13

District 9 Trustee: Seth Brooks, Oklahoma 14

Welcome to the second edition

of the Houston Fill! We're delighted to con

tinue using this newsletter as a way to broa

dcast ASDA's voice to the entire UTSD fam

ily. We aim to supplement the national pub

lications, ASDA News and Mouth, in order

to keep you aware of what's going on at bot

h a national and local level within ASDA.

This past November nearly 400

dental students from around the country, in

cluding six UTSD students, convened in Ch

icago for ASDA's first-ever National Leader

ship Conference. At this meeting officers n

etwork with other dental students to build

professional relationships and gather new id

eas to take home to their local ASDA chapt

ers. Dozens of presenters provide informati

ve lectures and discussion sessions on a wid

e variety of topics, including organized dent

istry, leadership and management, career pl

anning and political advocacy. These session

s provide educational opportunities to atten

dees that supplement dental school, encour

aging students to become not only great cli

nicians but leaders in their schools and com

munities. All presentations given at NLC ar

e available online (www.asdanet.org/nlc) f

or each of you to review at your leisure. W

e had a terrific time and can't wait to send

more UTSD leaders to Chicago this fall!

In early March a total of twelve

ASDA at UTSD officers will attend Annual

Session in Atlanta. Annual Session is a four

day event held each spring in different citiesand is when much of the business of the nat

ional organization takes place. At ASDA's H

ouse of Delegates, the body which sets the a

ssociation's policies each year by voting on r

esolutions and referenda, UTSD will be rep

resented by two voting delegates: myself an

d Katie Sowa. To ensure a successful new y

ear, at Annual Session the House also elects

a new executive committee and speaker of

the House. Attendees are also exposed to n

ew developments in dentistry at an exhibit fair

with over 75 vendors and research poster sessio

ns. After all the hard work of the organization i

s completed, students celebrate with the red-ca

rpet-style Gold Crown Awards and the Preside

nt's Gala, a formal dinner dance. All twelve UT

SD attendees are excited to experience a busy,

informative and fun-filled week in Atlanta and

anticipate bringing back great ideas to impleme

nt here in Houston!

As ASDA members, all UTSD students have much to look forward to this spring.

On Thursday, March 28 we will be holding our

annual vendor fair right here in the Cooley Co

nference Center! So far dozens of vendors have

registered to visit with UTSD students and sha

re with us their knowledge, products and servi

ces. As in past years, we will be serving snacks

and refreshments, including a keg, and will hav

e a raffle with dozens of prizes. We hope to see

you all there! Soon after, on April 11, we will

have our annual family picnic. This annual even

t allows us to celebrate the end of a terrific yea

r with the entire ASDA/UTSD family. Stay tun

ed for more details.

I hope you find this newsletter infor

mative and engaging. If you have any questions

or ideas for ASDA, or if you're interested in get

ting involved with the organization, feel free to

speak to any of your ASDA at UTSD officers!

Best wishes,

Samuel Carrell, c/o 2014

Letter from

the president

Sam Carrell 14

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This past November

brought in a new perspective in

mens moustache abilities at the

University of Texas School of

Dentistry. The efforts of Moustache

Movember or just Movember, was

to raise awareness of Mens Health

Month. Movember is an organized

international movement that is

responsible for the sprouting of

moustaches on thousands of mens

faces, in the US and around the

world. With their Mo's, these men

raise vital awareness and funds for

men's health issues, specifically

prostate and testicular cancer

initiatives. Mo Bros effectively

become walking, talking billboards

for the 30 days of November.

Through their actions and words they

raise awareness by prompting private

and public conversation around the

often ignored issue of mens health.

Just a few weeks prior to

Movember we had the time capsule

opening which seemingly leaked a

blast from the past of facial hair

fashion from decades ago. In rolled

again the era of the moustache at the

UTDB/SD. Well at least for the

month. UTSD ASDA and Psi

Omega Dental Fraternity chapters

teamed up to fight for the cause byorganizing a public straight edge razor

shaving. The bold men donating their

face to the cause were, Dean Velenza,

Dr. Kenneth Abromavich, and Dr.

Gary Frey. This job was entrusted to

the professionally licensed straight edge

razor operators of Houstons elegant

Gentelmens Barber Shop, Shave. In a

matter of a lunch hour these iconic

bearded and goateed figures of UTSD

were shaved down to a moustache for

Movember. The spectacle caught the

attention of Meredith Raine, UTHealth

Media Relations, who was able to alert

the local channel 9 NewsFix interest.

Subsequently an entertaining bit of

UTSD ended up on the evening news.

More importantly the event

was able to raise over $1,400. This

number was an accumulation that

ranged from students donating loose

change to faculty making larger

contributions. The highest auction

amount for shaving of the faculty

came in for Dr. Freys jolly St. Nickbeard. Dr. Kimberly Rouna was the

highest single contributor. In

conjunction with her generous

donation she also shared a story of a

close friend who had suffered and

survived prostate cancer, reminding

us that the support and funds do ma

a real difference when it comes to

research for prevention and

treatment.

This first annual Movembe

was able to positively enrich traditio

of philanthropy at UTSD. It is our

greater hopes and ambitions to next

year include participation from the

other schools of the UTHealth

system. The Movember movement

was able to successfully achieve its

goals of raising donations and

awareness, but the true test of its

achievements will be measured in th

support of Mens Health for future

years to come.

UTSD Movember

By Bryce Gates

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Lunch and Learns

March 5th - Heartland Dental CareMarch 6th- TDA Financial Services Insurance Program

March 12th - Medical ProtectiveMarch 27th- Pacific Dental Services

Weve all seen the classicmovie entitled Dodgeball: A True

Underdog Story. Comedic actors

such as Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller

dress up in spandex and battle for the

ultimate win. Although the sport

makes for good laughs, it also enticed

many ASDA members and UTSD

students to a night full of sweat and

lots of running around.

The annual ASDA Dodgeball

tournament was held at the REC

tennis courts this past February 2013.

The large turnout was met with fierce

competition as teams whirled plastic

balls over the tennis nets. The

premise of the game: knock out

members of the opposing team while

trying not to get hit by balls yourself.

The hardest part of the game, in my

opinion, was trying to launch light-

weight plastic balls towards the other

team. As you can guess, many balls

were caught in the air, which requires

the player who threw the ball to exit

the game. The sport did help to relieve

some academic pressures for a few

hours and many people sat on the

sidelines to enjoy Rice Crispy Treats,

Fruit Snacks, and Gatorades.

About 10 groups signed

up, all with creative team names of

course, and competed for positions

in the winning and losing brackets.

The sport lasted either for three

full games or until 11 minutes had

passed. Through many rounds of

double elimination, a final team

had out dodged the rest. Kevin

Baethge, Colt Riley, Bryce Gates,

Jimmy Le, Jennifer Ge, and Rache

Speck won the tournament and

received Starbucks gift cards for

their efforts. The team members

celebrated and took photos at the

end of the games. Hopefully next

year will provide even more fun

and rivalry!

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Recipe of the Month

Chicken Fajita Sizzling Salad with Cilantro Line Vinaigrette

Ingredients:

12oz chicken breasts, cut into strips1/2 onion, thinly sliced1 zucchini, cut into sticks or 1 green bell pepper, sliced1 Tablespoon canola or vegetable oil, divided6 cups chopped romaine lettuce1 tomato, cut into wedges1/2 avocado, chopped

Marinade:juice of 1/2 lime1/4 cup cilantro2 Tablespoons canola or vegetable oil1 Tablespoon red wine vinegar1 garlic clove

salt & pepper

Directions:

1. Combine ingredients for Cilantro-Lime Vinaigrette in a food processor or blender then process until smooth. Set aside.2. Heat 1/2 Tablespoon oil in a large cast iron pot or skillet, or heavy-bottomed skillet on high. Carefully add in one layer of chicken on

the bottom and cook for 1 minute undisturbed. Heat until cooked through, about another minute or two. Remove chicken to a plateand set aside.

3. Heat remaining 1/2 Tablespoon oil in pot then add onions and zucchini (or bell pepper, if using.) Cook for 1 minute, undisturbed,then stir and saute until tender, about another minute. Add chicken back into the pot then stir to combine.

4. Divide lettuce, tomatoes, and avocado between two plates then top with cooked chicen. Drizzle with Cilantro-Lime Vinaigrette.

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