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The UCLA School of Dentistry’s 60th Anniversary Celebration will be held on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, at UCLA's Geffen Hall! The event – welcoming students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the wider UCLA and dental communities –  will showcase the four pillars of excellence on which the School was founded in 1964: 

Susan Gerski, RDA, the longest-serving staff member in UCLA School of Dentistry history, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the age of 76.

Reprinted with permission from the Western Los Angeles Dental Society, from the winter 2024 edition of WestViews Magazine.

By Teresa Yang, D.D.S. ‘83

UCLA School of Dentistry names were well-represented in the Journal of the California Dental Association this fall, with D.D.S. students and residents partnering with primary investigators and other researchers on four peer-reviewed publications.

These collaborations reinforce UCLA Dentistry’s ongoing commitment to providing unique opportunities for dental, undergraduate, and graduate students to participate in a wide range of important oral health research while under the mentorship of some of the world’s most prolific investigators.

For UCLA School of Dentistry students, it’s not just their minds that are constantly flexing but also their muscles. Two Associated Student Body-affiliated groups – the Dental Golf Club at UCLA and Flossin' and Fitness – are taking the dental students out of scrubs and into their athlete personas.

A busy autumn season of professional networking and continuing education for the UCLA School of Dentistry’s Section of Orthodontics included November’s Western Orthodontic Conference (WOCON) and October’s Consortium for Orthodontic Advances in Science and Technology (COAST) Biennial Meeting.

The UCLA School of Dentistry had a robust presence at the recently concluded 2024 American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) Annual Meeting in San Diego, highlighted by faculty, residents, graduates, and researchers bringing numerous awards back to Westwood.

“Raise your hand if you’ve seen a dentist that looks like you,” asked Dr. Laila Hishaw in the UCLA School of Dentistry’s simulation lab, upon which three or four arms sheepishly extended into the air.

The American Dental Association (ADA) has announced that Dr. Yvonne Hernandez-Kapila, the UCLA School of Dentistry’s associate dean for research and holder of the Felix and Mildred Yip Endowed Chair, has been awarded the Norton M. Ross Award for Excellence in Clinical Research.

Dr. William Solberg, a UCLA School of Dentistry faculty member for 27 years and a significant contributor to the study of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders and orofacial pain, passed away on Sept. 2 in Los Angeles. He was 88.

UCLA will lower the flag at Dickson Court to half-mast on Thursday, Nov. 7 in his memory.