AOS MEMBERSHIP NEWS Rupp Scholarship Awarded for Excellence The American Orthodontic Society 2011 Officers & Directors President & Academy Director Chris Baker, RN, DMD President-Elect Mitchell S. Parker, DDS Vice President Juan J. Solano, DDS Secretary-Treasurer John N. Hanchon, DDS Immediate Past President & JAOS Co-Editor Jordan J. Balvich, DMD Dr. Jordan Balvich, recipient Meagan Rondeau, and Dr. Steven Graham. Board of Directors Azita Anissi, DDS Juan C. Echeverri, DDS Debra Ettle-Resnick, DDS Robert G. Gerety, DDS Joseph M. Haack, DDS Michael J. Newman, DDS David M. Thorfinnson, DDS William E. Wyatt, Sr., DDS The AOS Foundation Dr. Roger P. Rupp Scholarship for Outstanding Performance was established in 2005 and is offered each year to talented students at the University of Missouri, Kansas City who have demonstrated superior performance in academic and clinical dental pursuits. In a dinner ceremony on the UMKC campus September 20, Dr. Steven Graham and AOS President Dr. Jordan Balvich, presented this year’s scholarship to Ms. Meagan Rondeau, a senior dental student who is the first in her family to go into the field of dentistry. After post-graduate stud-ies at UMKC, she plans to practice general dentistry and orthodontics in her hometown of Kansas City. Congratulations to Ms. Rondeau! The late Dr. Roger Rupp was a lifetime member of the AOS, as well as past-president and Diplomate, and a recipient of AOS’s highest honor, the Dr. Richard L. Moore Lifetime Achievement Award. The AOS Charitable Founda-tion provides educational grants only through the generous support of AOS members. If you would like to know more about our scholarship program or assist by pledging funds, please contact our Executive Director, Tom Chapman, at (800) 448-1601 or tchapman@orthodontics.com. AOS Upcoming Ortho Courses Our calendar is crowded with courses designed for you from now until the end of 2011! Here are just a few of those upcom-ing. Visit our website at www.orthodontics.com or call (800) 448-1601. Two of our most experienced instructors, Dr. Larry White and Dr. William Wyatt, Sr., kick off the course schedule in 2011 with their lecture and participation class, Orthodontics in Today’s Dental Practice: Concepts & Tech-niques. Fundamentals of temporary anchorage devices and skills to treat Class II and Class III malocclusions are just the tip of the bicuspid of the knowledge you’ll gain from this session-by-session class. It begins January 28-29 in Dallas, with remaining sessions offered March 11-12, April 8-9 and May 20-21. (16 credit hours per session) The first weekend of February, Dr. Leonard Carapezza will conduct his Early Treatment of Malocclusion “ultimate” two--day class in Phoenix, AZ! This hands-on utility archwire course will give the clinician the ability to treat 90% of the common dento-alveolar problems that are evident (continued next page) Board of Examiners W. Edward Gonzalez, Jr., DMD, P.A David W. Jackson, DDS Joseph R. Schmidbauer, DDS Executive Director Thomas N. Chapman, CAE JAOS Editor Greg Cannizzo, DDS 44 November/December 2010 JAOS
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