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NYSAGD/NYU Students and Faculty Participate at
Health Screening and Residency Fair at the GNYDM 2022

By Seung-Hee Rhee, DDS, MAGD

The Greater NY Dental Meeting took place from November 25th to 30th, 2022 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention
Center in NYC and NYSAGD was again an active participant in this yearly event. The General Practice Residency
Fair was well attended and NYSAGD was there to answer questions about AGD, attaining your Fellowship (FAGD)
and Mastership (MAGD), and the importance of life-long
learning. Special thanks to our volunteers from NYSAGD
Board of Trustees – Dr. Shahram Shekib, Dr. Kayatoon
Noroozi-Leibowitz, Dr. Seung-Hee Rhee, and Mrs. Paula
Bostick - for their time.

Students and faculty members of NYU Dental were
also on hand to perform head & neck and intra & extra
oral cancer screening free to all attendees. More than 70
screenings were performed during this 2-day event. Spe-
cial thanks to our members of AGD Student Chapter at
NYU Dental, and our NYSAGD Board of Trustees and
NYU Dental faculty members, Dr. Analia Veitz-Keenan,
Dr. James Keenan, and Dr. Debra Ferraiolo for participat-
ing in this event. More than 33,000 attendees from 162 Left to right. Back row: Dr. D. Ferraiolo, Janani Thiruvengadam,
countries were represented at this year’s GNYDM. Yeonji Lee, Kevin Kim, Di Xu, Zhaohan Jia, and Paula Bostick.
Front row: Dr. A. Veitz-Keenan, Zhenhong Li, and Isabelle Cruz.

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