Dr. Leon Assael, Portland, Ore., has been appointed chairman of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Oregon Health and Sciences University School of Dentistry, and Eric Anderson, Portland, Ore., was named assistant professor of restorative dentistry.
Reva Barewal, Portland, Ore., received a Tissue Prostheses Award from the Astra Tech World Congress.
Dr. William Carpenter, San Francisco, received the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award from the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Bruce R. DeGinder, Williamsburg, Va., was installed as president of the Academy of General Dentistry. Other officers are Dr. Vincent Mayer, Haddonfield, N.J., president-elect; Dr. Paula Jones, Naperville, Ill., vice president; Dr. David Halpern, Columbia, Md., secretary; Dr. Jeffrey Cole, Wilmington, Del., treasurer; Dr. Howard R. Gamble, Sheffield, Ala., speaker of the house; and Dr. Roger D. Winland, Athens, Ohio, editor.
Dr. Albert Guckes, Chapel Hill, N.C., received the National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias’ John E. Gilster, DDS, Outstanding Service Through Dentistry Award.
Dr. Kathleen O’Loughlin, Charlestown, Mass., was elected to the Tufts University School of Dentistry Board of Trustees.
Dr. Paul Subar, Mill Valley, Calif., received the California Dental Association’s first Arthur A. Dugoni Faculty Award.
Dr. Rodney Vergotine, Chicago, has been named clinical assistant professor of pediatric dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry; Dr. Jeffrey K. Collins, Chicago, has been named assistant clinical professor in the school’s Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; Dr. Sara C. Gordon, Chicago, was hired as an associate professor and director of oral pathology graduate education for the Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences; and Dr. Xiaofeng "Charlie" Zhou, Chicago, is an assistant professor, Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases.
