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From the President

Brian Ciporin, DDS at some of our board meetings. Dr. Hae-Lim Ji, outgoing president
of NYUCD, and Seung Jin Kim, the president-elect of NYUCD,
HOW AM I DOING? gave us a PowerPoint presentation on their busy year as a student
chapter.
I am evaluating myself since half of my term
as NYSAGD President has now passed. Al- This November, at The Greater New York Dental Meeting, we will
though it is a challenge to accomplish this, I be hosting a member benefit lecture, which our Dental Education
will attempt it. First and most importantly, I Committee is working on.
hope that I have gained the respect and con-
fidence of my fellow board members. They The Master Track Committee will be presenting Pain Management
have certainly earned my respect and confi- as their fall program. This is a new requirement for those seeking
dence. Mastership in the AGD.

Our committee chairs are working diligently to accomplish their I have sent out a three question survey via email to our members.
goals. The Member Benefits Committee has found a dental prod- The survey concerns our presence on social media. We just want
ucts company offering our members up to a 20% discount and to get a handle on the importance social media has on a young-
our members may join free of charge. (Please see DPG’s ad on er dentists’ decision to join the AGD. The survey also asks for
page 27.) The Communications Committee will be sending our opinions on what people would like to see us present on future
journal electronically to our members. I believe that the younger webinars.
members will find this to be in their comfort level. Our social me-
dia presence has increased substantially and we are second among We have also improved our website. It is easier to navigate and is
all AGD regions in Facebook likes. Mr. Henry Lin, our wonderful more user-friendly. New courses are being posted regularly.
college student, is responsible for this. No one knows social media
better than a young person. The Budget and Finance Committee I was honored to represent the NYSAGD at the NY Technical
reports an increase in income over last year. We will be reinvest- College Dental Hygiene graduation ceremony where I presented
ing this on benefits for our members. a graduate a certificate on behalf of the NYSAGD, Bounrern Eric
Masanque won the award for exceptional teamwork.
We have restructured the funding for our student chapters at NYU,
Columbia, and Buffalo dental schools, which should ensure that This is the summary of our activities. We have a few events and
we can get students involved and introduced to the AGD at an benefits in the works, which you should notice shortly. My grade
early stage in their careers. The NYSAGD Board of Trustees was as president is incomplete at present. Soon, my term in its entirety
delighted to have some NYU dental students and recent graduates will be graded down the road, but I believe your grade on my ef-
forts is more important than my grade to myself.

From the National Trustee

Abe Dyzenhaus, DDS, FAGD much of the city. The second bus tour took us to areas that tourists
don’t normally go to and we got to see the neighborhoods that
I’m writing this as I’m sitting on the plane on were destroyed and were in the process of being rebuilt. The city
my return flight from the AGD2018 Meeting in of New Orleans did a terrific job in rebuilding. I would highly
New Orleans. New Orleans is a great city for recommend going to New Orleans the next time the AGD has a
meetings. Over the years, I have been in New meeting there.
Orleans for other meetings including the ADA
Annual Meeting, AGD Annual Meetings, and I enjoyed this AGD2018 Meeting because I attended it as a card
AGD council meetings. carrying member rather than as the national trustee. Other than
attending the AGD Foundation Board meeting, I had no other ob-
This city is a fun city; I can’t think of another ligations. I attended fourteen hours of participation courses as I
way to describe it. There are so many things to see and do there work my way toward my goal of obtaining my MAGD. Thirteen
including wonderful restaurants, music, and museums. years ago, I was in the initial Master Track program established by
the NYSAGD. Unfortunately, along the way I developed a health
My first visit to New Orleans was before Hurricane Katrina. Any- issue and had to drop out. I have been taking courses on my own
time my wife and I come to a city that we have not been to before, since then and I am getting very close.
we take a bus tour of that city. The tour guides can usually give you
ideas on where to go and what to see through the eyes of a local My national trustee duties have taken me to several meetings,
rather than recommendations from a tour book. New Orleans is some face to face and others via teleconference. The AGD Board
the only city we ever took a second bus tour of because the second meets four times a year in person, but we also have monthly meet-
time we visited was a few years after Hurricane Katrina destroyed ings using the Zoom teleconference software which is also techni-
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