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CDA: Year in Review
Produced by Global Communications Ltd., Body &
Health featured a special oral health segment during
National Oral Health Month. Four episodes of Dentist on
Call with then CDA president Dr. Tom Breneman aired in
April. Newspaper and Internet versions of Dentist on Call
were also produced. To learn more about Body & Health,
visit the program’s Web site at http://www.canada.com/
health/body/bodyandhealth/.
President’s Award
The President’s Award is granted to graduating students
who have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities,
scholarship, character and humanity. This year’s recipients
were Lucien Jules Bellamy of the University of British
Columbia; Blair Campbell Dalgliesh of the University of
Manitoba; Yasaman Khalili-Garkani of the University of
Western Ontario; Steven Ma of the University of Alberta;
Paul David Morton of McGill University; Genny Ilona
Ordog of the University of Toronto; Sheena Shukla of
Dalhousie University; Kirk Adam Slywka of the University
of Saskatchewan (4th-year program); Xuan Huong Tran of
Laval University; and Thomas Yu of the University of
Saskatchewan (5th-year program).
Friend of Dentistry Award
The Special Friend
of Canadian Dentistry
Award is given in appreciation
for assistance to the
Association. This year,
the award went to
Dr. Abbyann Day Lynch
of Toronto. A leader in
the field of medical
ethics, Dr. Lynch is the
director of ethics at Health
Care Associates, a private
consulting group based in
Dr. Abbyann Day Lynch
Toronto. She is the founding director of the bioethics
department at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. ■
654 November 2003, Vol. 69, No. 10
Thanks to Ash Temple
CDA wishes to thank Ash Temple Limited for its five years of generous sponsorship
of the CDA Awards Ceremony & Luncheon.
www.ashtemple.com
PDP Helps New Dentists
Dental students have a great deal to ponder before
graduating. They need to examine their career
options and goals and decide what’s right for them
— becoming an associate, purchasing a practice, forming a
partnership or starting a new practice. Then they must
consider financial management, insurance and investment
planning, patient management, marketing, case management,
appointment control, payment control, relations
with third parties and staff management.
To help senior dental students through this complex
maze of decisions and options, CDA is again offering its
Practice Development Program (PDP), this time to thirdand
fourth-year dental students in dental faculties across
Canada. Most faculties of dentistry have committed to a
PDP presentation day between now and the end of March
2004, says Lorraine Emmerson, CDA’s coordinator of
education. “The students enjoy these presentations and find
them very informative,” she notes. “We now schedule the
presentations earlier in the year for their convenience. This
gives the graduating students more time to prepare themselves
for post-graduation. We try to give them some idea of
what to expect when they begin practising dentistry in
earnest, whether as an associate in a clinic or as an individual
practitioner.”
This year’s presenters are Dr. Paul Hogan, consultant
for The Maritime Life Assurance Company in Halifax;
Dr. Edward McIntyre from the University of Alberta; and
Dr. Jim Stich from the University of British Columbia.
The PDP is now in the process of being revamped
and CDA will report on new features as they are introduced.
The program is sponsored by Canadian Dental
Service Plans Inc. (CDSPI); ING Novex Insurance
Company of Canada; Quikcard Solutions Inc.; Ash Temple;
and AVIVA Canada Inc. ■
Journal of the Canadian Dental Association