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Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Opens its Doors to Dental Scholars

November 6, 2011 | Story

The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program will begin to do for the dental profession what it has done for medicine: increase diversity in education and practice, and narrow health disparities.

Free Dental Clinic Cares for Impoverished Phoenix Children

August 15, 2011 | Story

Community Health Leader Kris Volcheck, D.D.S., creates a model for providing free dental care to kids in underserved communities.

From noncompetitive grades to dental school with the help of the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program

April 12, 2011 | Story

"It is a great, compacted program that gives you everything you need to get into medicine and dentistry, as long as you are willing to work hard," Okoh says.

Kris Volcheck Honored for Creating Free Dental Clinic for the Homeless

August 23, 2010 | Story

2010 Community Health Leader Award winner created a free dental clinic for the homeless in Phoenix.

Carl Ebert, DDS

March 1, 2002 | Story

In 1991, Dr. Ebert finally found a way to bring his dreams to fruition, when he discovered an organization that could provide him with enthusiastic support - Apple Tree Dental of Minneapolis.

Providence Smiles

August 13, 2012 | Story

Clinical Director James R. Hosmer, DMD, explains how the program dramatically improves the oral health of children in Rhode Island.

The Good Neighbor Policy May Interfere With Oral Health

April 22, 2013 | Story

Forgetting your dental checkup? It may have something to do with your community.

Life-Long Dream Comes True for Medical Student

May 23, 2012 | Story

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-sponsored summer program is helping to increase ranks of minority doctors.

Rhys Jones, DDS, MS

March 24, 2006 | Story

In the 1980s Rhys B. Jones became concerned about the increasing use of spit tobacco - and the ads that employed major league baseball players to promote spit-tobacco products.

Shannon Wiegand, Minority Medical Education Program, 1989

July 27, 2011 | Story

Growing up in Alaska, she knew no female physicians, no Native American physicians and no physicians of color. "You don't know what you can do until you're exposed to the possibility," she says.

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