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The 2016 Greater New York Dental Meeting

Health Screening Program

“A small but successful start! I think we can certainly expand on Additional thanks to Dr. Andrew Schenkel, Associate Director of
this event, promote it earlier, and possibly also get sponsorship,” Community Based Dental Education and Assistant chair,
said Dr. Marc Gainor after the recent health screening event at the Department of Cariology and Comprehensive Care at NYUCD
GNYDM held on Sunday November 27, 2016 at the Jacob K. for the generous donation of materials and supplies from
Javits Convention Center. The event took place from 10:30am to NYUCD’s Outreach Department and the coordination of student
3:00pm in the exhibit hall and included caries and oral cancer volunteers; Dr. Michael McGovern, Chief Medical Officer of the
screenings, as well as vision, hearing, and blood pressure screen- University Eye Center at SUNY College of Optometry for the
ings. There was a ribbon cutting ceremony to open the screenings. provision of his students, material and equipment; Colgate for
Both Dr. Marc Gainor and Dr. James Keenan cut the ribbon. their donation of toothpaste and toothbrush samples; and AdDent
for providing their Bioscreen oral cancer screening lights.
There were 52 volunteers at the event consisting of 23 students
and faculty from the SUNY School of Optometry who conducted The NYSAGD hopes to continue this collaboration with a broad-
vision screenings, and 29 dental volunteers that included hygiene ened offering of services to more people and welcomes volun-
students from New York City College of Technology, NYU den- teers, sponsors, and promotion of our future events.
tal students and faculty, and NYSAGD board members who con-
ducted the dental/oral cancer screenings. Additional volunteers
consisted of nursing students and faculty doing blood pressure
screenings. Hearing screenings were also provided by the Center
for Hearing and Communication.

Additionally, Ms. Kelly Welch, Executive Director of Team
Maureen (from Boston, MA) was present with a table to promote
HPV awareness and its link to oral cancer. She had about 100
educational toolkits to distribute to any interested dental profes-
sional. NYSAGD also provided additional educational material.
The event was promoted to GNYDM attendees via program
guides and email blasts from SDDS, NYCDS, and NYSAGD. Dr.
Robert Edwab contacted Javits’ employees and there was signage
at the exhibit floor entrances advertising the event.
Approximately 70 patients received dental screenings and about
80 patients were screened at the vision station.

Supplies for this event were donated by the GNYDM, NYUCD’s
Outreach Department, NYU and Colgate. AdDent loaned three of Drs. Kay Oen, Jennifer Sylvia and Brian Ciporin.
their Bioscreen oral cancer screening lights for use during the
event and Dr. Keenan supplied one of his lights. The GNYDM
also ordered three automatic blood pressure machines for the Dr. Mark Bornfeld.
nurses to use for their blood pressure screenings.
Drs. Edwab and Gainor worked on a screening form in both
English and Spanish, as well as an oral cancer referral form for
suspicious lesions. Dr. Brian Ciporin.

Through the NYSAGD journal, we wish to recognize everyone
who participated in this screening program. On behalf of the
NYSAGD board, we wish to extend our gratitude to Dr. Gainor
for taking the initiative on this screening, along with his tireless
efforts to organize and to promote it, and most of all, his invita-
tion to collaborate with him and GNYDM on this very meaning-
ful and significant event. Additional thanks to Mrs. Tisha Gainor,
Dr. Robert Edwab, and the GNYDM committee.

We would like to thank Dr. Jennifer Sylvia, Mrs. Paula Bostick,
and Dr. James Keenan for supervising the caries and oral cancer
screening stations, Dr. Lorna Flamer-Caldera for supervising the
hygiene students, and Dr. Susan Young for supervising the vision
station.

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