Dr. Steven L. Fletcher has been appointed as an examiner for the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ABOMS).  This prestigious appointment by the ABOMS is reserved for elite surgeons in the United States who have established themselves as leaders in the specialty. Read more.

At the 2018 AADR meeting, Dr. Bruno Cavalcanti was appointed as a member of the AADR Constitution Committee. He joins Dean David Johnsen, who serves on the Government Affairs Committee, and Dr. David Drake who serves as treasurer on the AADR Board of Directors. Read more.

​Azeez Butali recently wrote about newborn screening procedures and communicating across cultural barriers in a health-care context. The work was part of a larger volume that interviewed a host of experts on the Newborn Screening Program, and it was supported by the Iowa Department of Public Health and the Iowa Newborn Screening Program among others. In his contribution, Dr. Butali drew from both his scholarly expertise and his family's personal experience with newborn screenings. Read more.