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Department of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery
Mass General Hospital
55 Fruit Street—Warren 1201 Boston,
MA 02114
Phone: 617.726.8222
FAX: 617.726.2814
www.mghOMS.org
DEPARTMENT OF ORAL &
MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY
Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD
Chief of Service
Maria J. Troulis, DDS, MSc
Residency Program Director
Shelly Abramowicz, DMD,MPH
Meredith August, DMD, MD
Sung-Kiang Chuang, DMD, MD
Thomas B. Dodson, DMD, MPH
R. Bruce Donoff, DMD, MD
Walter C. Guralnick, DMD
David A. Keith, FDSRCS, DMD
Edward T. Lahey, III, DMD, MD
Bonnie L. Padwa, DMD, MD
Zachary Peacock, DMD, MD
Jeffry R. Shaefer, DDS
GENERAL DENTISTRY
Agnes Lau, DMD
Chief of Division
SKELETAL BIOLOGY RESEARCH
CENTER
Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD
Maria J. Troulis, DDS, MSc
CENTER FOR APPLIED CLINICAL
INVESTIGATION
Thomas B. Dodson, DMD, MPH
Sung-Kiang Chuang, DMD MD DMSc
PART-TIME FACULTY
John Buehler, DMD, MD
Richard Catrambone, DMD, MD
Robert S. Gilardetti, DMD, MD
Carol Lorente, DMD, PhD
Earle H. Rosenberg, DMD
Jennifer Smith-Williams, DMD
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In this issue:
Chief’s Corner
Department Highlights
Resident News
Dental Group
CACI
Alumni News
Chief’s Corner by Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD. This past June, 125 faculty, staff, residents and guests celebrated the . . . [read more]
Department Highlights A review of milestones and accomplishments by faculty, fellows and residents . . . [read more]
Resident News by Maria Troulis, DDS, MSc. The terrific Chief residents who graduate this June, Andrea Burke, . . . [read more]
Division of Dentistry by Agnes Lau, DDS. For over ten years, Arnold Weiss has practiced hi magic for pediatric patients . . . [read more]
Center for Applied Clinical Investigation by Thomas Dodson, DMD, MPH. Now competing our ninth year, CACI cont . . . [read more]
Orofacial Pain Group by David Keith, BDS, DMD, FDSRCS . HSDM was selected by National Institutes of Health (NIH) . . . [read more]
Predoctoral OMS at HSDM by Sung-Kiang Chuang, DDS, MD DMSc. HSDM is graduating 39 new dentists in 2013. . . [read more]
Alumni News All MGH alumni are invited to contribute professional or personal announcements to our bi-annual newsletter. . . [read more]
Mark Your Calendars:
AAOMS 95th Annual Meeting,
Scientific Sessions and
Exhibition October 7 - 12,
2013, Orlando, FL
Annual Mass General Alumni
Dinner --TBD
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Chief’s Corner by Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD
This past June, 125 faculty, staff, residents and guests celebrated the
graduation of our Chief Residents and Fellows at a wonderful dinner, on a clear sunny night, overlooking the Boston Harbor. This was my 20th change party as Chief and I was recently reminiscing with Steve Roser, an alumnus and my senior resident, about our 1st change party in 1970. It was held on the balcony of the White Building with about 25 people in attendance. My, how we have grown. This time of year is always a uniquely academic experience with nostalgia for the graduating and departing residents and enthusiasm and anticipation for the new interns, returning juniors and new chief residents. In one respect, times don’t change. It seems like each year is better than the previous one and this year is no different. I think I speak for the entire faculty and resident staff, when I say this year was something special. It was a great moment in time. You had to be there to appreciate the feeling. The interns were extremely capable and coalesced into a cohesive group that worked well together and with the juniors and chiefs. The chiefs were especially dedicated to running the service efficiently and to teaching the interns and mentoring the juniors. You could literally ‘feel the love.’ Finishing Interns Corbett Haas, Mark Green and Matthew Lawler will be going on to Harvard Medical School for 2 years. Jason Schultz, who did an amazing job in the Preliminary Resident position, will now remain at MGH as a 6 year Categorical Resident. On behalf of all our faculty, residents and staff, I want to welcome our new Categorical Interns: Jason Lee (University of Pennsylvania), Qian Yang (HSDM), Jason Schultz (University of Oregon/MGH) our returning Juniors, Batya Goldwaser, Ricky Ortiz and Mariusz Wrzosek; and our three chief residents, Yedeh Ying, Natalie Tung and Amir Laviv. Our MGH Clinical and Research Fellow in Pediatric OMS will be Christopher Pace. Chris received his DMD degree from Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine and did his residency in OMS at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. He will be concentrating his research efforts on our ongoing distraction osteogenesis program and pediatric OMS and will serve as a junior faculty member on the clinical staff.
This year our Orofacial Pain Fellow was Nicole Holland, who distinguished herself as an excellent Fellow both clinically and academically (see Orofacial Pain Report below). She will be taking a full time faculty position at Tufts University.
Our graduating chief residents are Seenu Susarla, Ryan Smart and Andrea Burke. Seenu has been a distinguished student and resident throughout his career. In high school, he was a National Merit Scholarship semi-finalist and an AP scholar with Distinction. He then went on to Princeton where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in Chemistry. He received several awards at
Princeton including the spirit of Princeton Award given out once per year to a student for distinguished community service. He was elected to the Sigma Xi Scientific Honors Society. Seenu then went on to HSDM where he also graduated magna cum laude. In my mind, Seenu’s most important achievement was his receipt of an HMS junior faculty award for mentoring students---which he received while an OMS resident/HMS student. Think of my joy, when I pointed out to the Dean, that Seenu was an OMS resident and medical student and not a faculty member. They let him keep the award. Kidding aside, Seenu is a very gifted teacher. It is one of his natural attributes. Seenu was a stellar resident throughout his 6 years. He was a conscientious and enthusiastic clinician and took excellent care of his patients. He has a kind and empathetic bedside manner and makes his patients feel they are very important to him. He is always observant in the OR and has a pleasant way of warning the attending when he sees the attending about to make an error. He clearly has the “sense of wonder”---always asking questions and working to answer them. He also set the record for peer reviewed publications by a resident in our Department at 74. Seenu is going to Johns Hopkins to do a Plastic Surgery Residency and I am sure he will make us proud as a dual boarded surgeon. We expect him to develop into a leader in craniomaxillofacial surgery. Ryan Smart grew up in Montana and as such, he has an important legacy to maintain--- Montana is the birthplace and current home of Roger West, a contemporary of mine and a very fine oral and maxillofacial surgeon and a pioneer in the field of orthognathic surgery. Ryan graduated with a B.A. from Carroll College (Helena, MT) with honors. After college he spent a year as a VISTA volunteer in the Montana Department of Health and Human Services. He then attended Tufts University School of Dental Medicine where he graduated summa cum laude. During his career, Ryan has won many awards including: Frank Susi Endowed Prize for Excellence in Research, American Society of Dental Anesthesiology Horace Wells Senior Dental Student Award, Omicron Kappa Upsilon and a Tufts Merit Scholarship. But perhaps the awards that best characterize him as a person are: American College of Dentists Senior Dental Student Award for Ethics and Professionalism, Joshua O’Dette Award for Leadership and Creativit,y and selection as an Honorary Torch Bearer for the 2002 Winter Olympics. We have all been impressed by Ryan over the years. He projects a very strong, but kind, careful, thoughtful, competent, sincere, wise and dignified demeanor, as only someone who grew up in the rugged, individualistic environment of the Northwest can do. As a resident, he has been enthusiastic, hard working, never complains, takes excellent care of his patients and accepts criticism and suggestions for improvement. He has a calm and caring approach---a great bedside manner. Dr. Smart is a good role model for his colleagues and some day for the residents he will train. Ryan has given his future serious thought and has made an informed and mature decision to do a head and neck oncology and microsurgery fellowship and he remains committed to an academic career. I am confident he will be a leader in our profession and hopefully on the faculty here when he finishes. Of the 3 chiefs this year, because of rotations or other circumstances, I became close to Andrea Burke mostly during her Chief’s rotation. I knew that as an intern, she was diligent and hard-working, an integral member of the team. She was an eager learner with an excellent fund of basic and clinical knowledge. Then she was off to HMS and General Surgery, so I didn’t have the opportunity to work closely with Andrea until she assumed her role as Chief Resident last summer. I found Andrea to be conscientious, always putting patient care first and sacrificing her own time to ensure high standards of care. She is always well-prepared for the operating room and clinic, helping our patients to have the best possible outcomes. She has an excellent bedside manner and rapport with patients and their families. As a surgeon, she has been honing her skills in the operating room and she has proven herself to be technically gifted. She is a highly skilled clinical surgeon and has excellent clinical judgment. She is highly regarded and respected by our faculty, her co-residents and interns alike. As a resident, she has
had the opportunity to teach and train interns, residents, and dental students; their feedback indicates that she has been an exemplary teacher. It is clear that Andrea is interested in and committed to an academic career as a surgeon, clinician scholar and investigator. Her research interests are in craniofacial biology. Prior to dental school, she worked at the Columbia University School of Dental Medicine in the Bone Molecular Biology Research Laboratory of Dr. Regina Landesberg, where she was able to study platelet-rich plasma, dental implant materials, and wound healing in rat osteoblasts. During this time she assisted with grant writing, presented research at conferences, and published two articles in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. At the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, she was very active with the student research groups, and spent a summer at the NIDCR, studying dentinogenesis and the dspp gene in knockout mice. In our department Andrea has participated in patient oriented research projects in the areas of orthognathic surgery and sialoendoscopy. On a personal level, I very much enjoyed working with Andrea, and I am very proud of the fact that she will be doing the NIDCR Clinical Research Fellowship with Michael Collins in the Muscular Skeletal Group with a particular interest in fibrous dysplasia. He assures me that she will be able to return to MGH as a fully funded investigator after two years, and I very much look forward to working with Andrea in that capacity.
Two major changes will be occurring on the faculty this year. First, I would like to welcome Steve Scrivani back to the MGH. Steve is an MGH alumnus of the Orofacial Pain (OFP) program and received a Dr. Med.Sci from HSDM. He is returning to MGH from his position at Tufts University where he was a Professor in the Craniofacial Pain Program. He will succeed David Keith as the Director of the MGH OFP program and he will be working with Dr. Keith and Jeff Shaefer to develop a new Division of OFP and an accredited OFP training program at MGH. Dr. Scrivani will also continue his research on functional MRI imaging for facial pain at McLean’s Hospital. Second, it is with great pride and some sadness that I officially announce Tom Dodson will be leaving MGH in September to be Professor and Chairman of OMS at University of Washington (Seattle). I want to take some time to publicly acknowledge his contributions to the Department. Tom was on the faculty for 15 years: 7 years as Residency Program Director, Director of the Center for Applied Clinical Investigation, and most recently as Professor of OMS. During the past 15 years, Tom rose from Associate Professor to full Professor, becoming the first oral and maxillofacial surgery non-chief promotion to professor in our Department’s history. Tom also served as the Department Quality and Safety Chairman, our representative to the MGH Research Council and the MGH Surgical Coordinating Committee. He served on many HSDM Committees including the Harvard Forsyth Advisory Committee and the Committee on Appointments, Reappointments and Promotions. As you all know, Tom has a national reputation for his clinical care, research and teaching accomplishments and serves as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. On a personal note, Tom and I have worked together closely since 1984, except for his short stint at Emory University. He was an HSDM student, trained at UCSF while I was chief there, remained on the faculty for a few years and then joined me here at MGH in 1998. It has been a great run for the two of us and I will miss him personally. However, he will always be part of the MGH family. [return to top]
Department Highlights Congratulations to Rachel and Corbett Haas on the birth of their daughter Isabel on
4/22/2013, weighing 7 lbs and measuring 19 inches.
Meredith August was awarded the Harvard Medical School Excellence in Tutoring
Award (ETA) in January for her work in her Patient-Doctor I course
Zachary Peacock was the recipient of the Partners in Excellence Award for quality Treatment
and Service
The book Minimally Invasive Maxillofacial Surgery, edited by Maria J. Troulis and Leonard B.
Kaban, was published in 2013 by People’s Medical Publishing House-USA, Ltd.
Nicole Holland gave a Minuteman Lecture ‘Health Literacy: Reframing the Patient Experience’ at
the Yankee Dental Congress in February
David Keith lectured at the Yankee Dental Congress in February and the Massachusetts Dental
Society Yankee Institute in May as well as at local Study clubs on ‘Pain Management for Dentists’
as a requirement for dental licensing
Thomas B. Dodson was an invited lecturer in January at the CalAAOMS Annual Meeting on
AAOMS anesthesia and third molars outcomes study; in February he lectured on ‘So your
mother uses Fosamax’ ….. at the Oregon Health Sciences University School of Dentistry in
Portland, OR and the University of Washington School of Dentistry in Seattle, WA. At the
Oregon Society of OMS Surgeons Annual Meeting in April he spoke on ‘Evidence-based clinical
decision-making in OMS’, Sessions 1 and 2 and at the MGH OMS Grand Rounds he lectured on
‘New Name, New Directions, New Dimensions: An Update on Anti-resorptive Osteonecrosis of
the Jaws’. Dr. Dodson and Dr. Sung-Kiang Chuang were Co-course Directors of the continuing
educational course sponsored by MGH and HSDM Departments of OMS and HSDM Office of
Continuing Education: “Evidence-based implant dentistry: Improving quality and outcomes of
your implant practice” Dr. Dodson lectured on Principles of evidence based implant dentistry:
Improving quality and outcomes of your implant practice. Course participants were from Korea,
USA, Mexico, Chile and Spain.
Edward Seldin was this year’s HSDM recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award on the
occasion of his 45th reunion in May
Leonard B. Kaban, who was elected as the first President of the American Academy of
Craniomaxillofacial Surgeons, hosted the 2nd Annual Meeting of the organization at the MGH
from May 31-June 2. Other members of the department who are founding fellows include
Shelly Abramowicz, Thomas B. Dodson, Edward Lahey, Bonnie Padwa, Zachary Peacock and
Maria J. Troulis. Walter C. Guralnick was made Honorary Fellow. Dr. Kaban gave the
Presidential Address on Education, Mentoring and Research: the Future of Craniomaxillofacial
Surgery. Bonnie Padwa co-moderated the session on Pediatric Craniomaxillofacial and
Orthognathic surgery and abstracts were presented by:
Shelly Abramowicz – Clinical, Radiographic and Magnetic Resonance findings associated
with active temporomandibular joint synovitis in children with Juvenile Idiopathic
Arthritis
Zachary S. Peacock – The Quest for a buried, automated, continuous distraction device:
an Update and The Role of computed tomographic angiography in the management of
TMJ Ankylosis
Maria J. Troulis – Endoscopic Vertical Ramus Osteotomy: A long-term prospective study
Thomas B. Dodson – New Name, New Directions, New Dimensions: Update on anti-
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Residency Program by Maria Troulis, DDS, MSc
The terrific Chief residents who graduate this June, Andrea Burke, Ryan Smart and Seenu Susarla have
done a wonderful job. I am thrilled to announce that all three (100%) are pursuing academic careers.
Andrea is going to the NIH, Ryan is starting a head and neck surgical oncology and microvascular
reconstructive fellowship at Louisiana State University Shreveport, and Seenu is starting a Plastic
Reconstruction Residency at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. We wish them all well and look
forward to hearing about their future accomplishments. We are all very proud of you!!!!
Our four graduating interns have done a superb job. Corbett Haas, Matt Lawler and Mark Green are
heading to Harvard Medical School. Jason Schultz (aka “Schultzie") will be starting his residency with us.
We are thrilled!!! I keep hearing that this is the "Best intern group ever!!!"
We welcome the 2013-14 categorical interns: Qian Yang, Jason W. Lee (aka JW) and Jason Schultz.
Welcome to Pam Morrison. She is our newest Physician Extender, a wonderful addition to our resident
clinical team!
Thank you to all the auxiliary staff, under John McGillivray’s leadership, for your support of the residency
training program. A personal thank you to Suzanne Byrne. Suzanne is our wonderful Residency
Coordinator who keeps our program organized. More importantly, she cares deeply about the program
and the residents.
Thank you to all the faculty who make it possible to run such a busy and wonderful progam. Most
importantly, thank you to the residents…you are the reason we all do what we do!!!
Finally, CONGRATULATIONS to my predecessor, colleague and friend, Tom Dodson. Many warm wishes
for much success and happiness.
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Division of Dentistry|
MGH & MGH North Dental Group by Agnes Lau, DMD D
For over ten years, Arnold Weiss has practiced his magic for pediatric patients of the MGH Dental Group.
His clinical practice at the MGH ended in May, and although he will still be on staff at the MGH, we will
miss his superb care of our patients. Dr. Weiss is an ardent supporter of our mission, and his efforts in
teaching our residents and in helping us to maintain the highest standards of care and operations are
much appreciated.
Members of the Division have been active in a number of professional activities. Nicholas Dello
Russo chaired a section on periodontic-orthodontic interrelationships at the 11th International
Symposium on Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry in June. He also wrote a letter to the editor in the
May 2013 edition of the Journal of the American Dental Association about the cost of dental education,
a growing concern in our profession. Jennifer Magee presented a talk entitled “Dentistry Is More Than
Just Your Smile” to employees of the Sylvania Corporation and the MGH/North Shore Center for
Outpatient Care. David Kim presented four research posters on bone grafting at the Osteology
Symposium in Monaco. Miguel Vidal was the featured lecturer at the Osseintegration Symposium VIII in
Bogota, Colombia in February. His talks were entitled "Achieving Predictable Esthetic Outcomes for
Anterior Implants" and "Mandibular Implant Overdentures - Simplification and Optimization of Use."
Jeff Shaefer presented a lecture on Orofacial Pain Disorders for a video series on Pain Management at
the American Pain Society meeting in New Orleans in May. As co-principal investigator of the NIH Pain
Consortium grant that supports the Center of Excellence in Pain Education at Harvard School of Dental
Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he also presented at this meeting cutting edge digital
case-based training modules developed as part of the center’s mission. In April Dr. Shaefer began a 3-
year appointment on the American Academy of Orofacial Pain executive council. He co-authored the
following publication: “Pain and temporomandibular disorders: a pharmaco-gender dilemma” by
Shaefer JR, Holland N, Whelan JS, Velly AM in Dent Clin N Am 57(2013) 233-262. Michelle Anderson and
Katherine Klein presented a discussion on dental and orthodontic concerns for the pediatric physician to
the Department of Pediatrics. Katherine Klein was selected by the American Association of Orthodontics
as a participant in the “Young Leaders in Orthodontics: Shaping a Vision for the Profession” program,
and was appointed to the Communications Committee of the New England Society of Orthodontics.
Along with Thomas Dodson of OMFS, Agnes Lau was nominated for the Brian A. McGovern Award for
Clinical Excellence, which is awarded to those who are “viewed by colleagues as the ‘go-to’ person in
their area of practice, make compassion and kindness the cornerstone of their practice, make an extra
effort to ensure patient needs are met, and are often the ‘unsung hero’ whose contributions make the
MGH a better place to work and receive care.”
Our residents, Jessica Wilson Williams, Megan Swanson, Rosa Mathai, and Melanie Yuen,
performed cheek swabs and took bite registrations on children in a child identification effort sponsored
by the Freemasons at the East Boston YMCA in April. They also helped run a tobacco free fair at Boston
Healthcare for the Homeless and performed oral cancer screenings for the homeless at Saint Francis
House. We congratulate our general practice residents, who were a pleasure to work with and who
formed a cohesive, productive, and effective team. Jessica Wilson Williams will become an attending
dentist at MGH. Megan Swanson and Melanie Yuen will be entering private practice in Massachusetts,
and Rosa Mathai will be pursuing private practice in San Francisco.
We welcome our new residents for the academic year 2013-2014, Jennifer Kusner and Laura Hanson
Vaccariello, both from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.
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Center for Applied Clinical Investigation
by Thomas Dodson, DMD, MPH
Now in its ninth year, CACI continues to gain traction as a high quality source of patient-oriented
research.
Since the last update, CACI faculty and fellows, in collaboration with residents and HSDM
students, published 15 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and editorials, spanning the topics: outcomes
in head and neck cancer patients, implant survival, reconstructive surgery with a particular emphasis in
facial transplant patients, management of keratocysts, and bisophosphonate-related osteonecrosis of
the jaws.
Dr. Dodson completed his second year as the Associate Editor of JOMS and has reviewed nearly
1600 manuscript submissions. Dr. Dodson also continues to be a member of the OMS Foundation’s
Board of Directors, currently serving as vice-chair and scheduled to become chair in the next cycle. Dr.
Dodson has been interviewed by several media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and
the Boston Globe regarding the proper care and management of third molars. His personal quest—
working to find the middle ground between the "extractionistas" and the "wisdom tooth police"—
continues to be a focus of evidence-based analysis and clinical investigation.
During 2012-13, CACI presented two continuing-education programs on Evidence-Based Implant
Dentistry, continuing to draw attendees from South America, Mexico, and Asia. In November, 2013,
CACI goes on the road with Dr. Dodson, Dr. Nadeem Karimbux, Dr. Miguel Vidal and Dr. Mark Wang to
present a modified version of this popular program at UNICOC in Bogota, Colombia.
We want to emphasize that the excellence of our student research is a direct result of OMS
Foundation support. We are proud of the contributions by our faculty group, the Mass Society of OMS,
and MGH alumni that helped make New England a leader in the Foundation’s REAP program. We urge
those of you who benefit from our continued research to support our activities through REAP and our
Department’s ERF. Visit CACI at www.caciOMS.org.
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Oro-Facial Pain Group
By David Keith, BDS, DMD, FDSRCS
HSDM was selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pain Consortium as one of twelve
health profession schools nationwide to serve as Centers of Excellence in Pain Education. Jeffry Shaefer
will lead this grant at HSDM, which is the only dental school chosen as a lead institution. This is a three
year grant administered by Altarum Institute/Palladian Partners. The goals of the study are:
1. To promote independent learning via uni-professional case-based modules on patients with acute and
chronic pain.
- Cases tailored to the students’ clinical background in dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, or nursing
2. To conduct regular uni-professional small group sessions led by “pain champions” to discuss these
cases (i.e. 3rd year medical and dental students, 4th year nursing and pharmacy students)
3. To conduct inter-professional workshops to promote collaboration in pain management education
between our medical, dental, nursing and pharmacy schools.
Dr. Shaefer published the results of a study with the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine
demonstrating the benefit of their approach to TMD patients. Coauthors Jaya Sarin and Ashkan Saadi
were former Orofacial Pain Fellows.
Our current Fellow Nicole Holland has had a very productive year working on the NIH grant and
attending rotations in Anesthesia Pain, Sleep Medicine, Neuroradiology, Physical Therapy, Headache
Management, etc. Next year she will be working at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine as
Director of Health Communication, Education, and Promotion and Assistant Professor in the
Department of Public Health and Community Service. She will be seeing patients one day/week in
private practice. Congratulations, Nicole!
The BIG NEWS! Last year we started a search process for a Director of Orofacial Pain and Chief
of the Division of Orofacial Pain in the OMFS Department. We received many well qualified applicants
and we are delighted to announce that Dr. Steven Scrivani has accepted the position. Many of us know
Steve from his days as the HSDM/MGH DMSc Fellow. Following completion of that program, Steve went
back to Columbia University in New York as Director of their Orofacial Pain Program and then returned
to Boston where he is currently Professor, The Craniofacial Pain and Headache Center, Department of
Diagnosis and Health Promotion. One of his major responsibilities will be to develop our CODA
application for accreditation for a new two-year Orofacial pain program at the MGH. He will join us in
September. Welcome back to the MGH Steve!
The MGH celebrated its bicentennial in 2011. As part of that celebration, Stephen Dretler
researched the original Admissions Book and the appropriate case histories to each of the Hospital
Departments. We received Case # 66 which describes a 71 year old male who was admitted with
intractable facial pain. In an article by Drs Keith, Dodson and Kaban to be published in JOMS, that case
history is reproduced and a case series of six similar patients published by Dr. John Warren in 1828 is
presented. We comment on the diagnosis, treatment and outcome of these patients in the context of
the contemporaneous health care environment and in light of the current knowledge of facial pain
disorders.
Historical Review: First facial pain patient admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital, February 1823
and first case series. JOMS 2013 (In Press). This article will be posted on our website.
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Predoctoral-OMS at HSDM
By Sung-Kiang Chuang, DDS, MD, PhD, DMSc
HSDM is graduating thirty-nine new dentists in the class of 2013. Six members of the class will
begin oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) residencies: Alicia Follmar (Highland General Hospital,
Oakland, CA), Austin Eckard (Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA), Peter Dennis (Oregon Health and
Science University, Portland, OR), Qian Yang (MGH, Boston), Sajal Swaroop (Tufts, Boston), and Thomas
Burk (University of Texas, Southwestern, Dallas). Congratulations to all, and welcome to our specialty.
The Advanced Surgical Treatment Course (ASTX) featured returning tutors Ed Seldin and Shelly
Abramowicz, and new tutor Mindy Gil, all of whom received superb reviews from the students. With
thirteen consecutive years of service, Sung-Kiang Chuang was also well-appreciated. Jeff Shaefer served
as an able substitute tutor as well.
Sung-Kiang Chuang has joined as a committee member of the AAOMS Task Force for Evidence-
Based Third Molar Management chaired by Tom Dodson to enhance our specialty.
Tom Dodson, a close mentor of Sung-Kiang Chuang, will move to University of Washington
School of Dentistry Department of OMS at Seattle becoming Professor and Chairman after 15 years at
the MGH and HSDM. Thank you for your mentorship and guidance!
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Alumni News In January 2012, Dexter Johnson was appointed to the Admissions Committee
at McGill University Dental School for a three year term.
Congratulations to the following MGH OMS graduates who have completed the ABOMS
certification process:
• Paul Gordon (2011)
• Nancy McDermott (2008)
• Cory Resnick (2011)
• John Tannyhill (2002)
• W. Bradford Williams (2011)
In addition, the following graduates passed the 2013 Qualifying Examination:
• Ali R. Attarpour (2012)
• Sang Kim (2012)
• Richard Rolle (2007)
Congratulations to Dr. Janice Lee (2000) who was promoted to full Professor as of July 1, 2013 at
UCSF.
Congratulations to Paul Gordon and his wife Jen on the birth of Ella Sophia on 6/23/2013
weighing 7 lbs7oz , measuring 20.5 inches.
John Tannyhill’s practice is doing well. He has an associate and is the OMS for the Denver
Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and the USA Cycling Team. John travels with the cycling team as
team physician. He attended the World Championships in the Netherlands last fall and will go to
Florence this September. John is also in the program to become an Olympic doctor, with plans
to go to Brazil in 2016. On the home front, John’s family is doing well. His daughter was
recently married, one child is starting BYU in the fall, and the two youngest have been accepted
to prep school at Kent Denver in Colorado.
MGH Alumni Newsletter
MGH has an Alumni Newsletter to keep alumni up-to-date on things going on at MGH, including
innovative research, staff accomplishments and upcoming events. This bimonthly e-newsletter is
a vehicle to reconnect alumni with colleagues and friends via a "Class Notes" section. To sign up,
please email [email protected]. To submit "Class Notes" information, visit
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5MLKSHM.
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Watch your email for the next OMS Newsletter, Volume 15, Issue 2, arriving in the Winter of
2013. Please contact us at [email protected] to update your contact information.