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Volume 37 • Issue 2
Can Your Practice Withstand an Online Search? First impressions count. And the first impression potential patients get of your practice is likely formed after an online search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
NEWS AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE NEW YORK STATE DENTAL ASSOCIATION
Prabha Krishnan
Maurice Edwards
For Service Above and Beyond NYSDA prepares to present its highest honors to two exceptional members, Scott Firestone and Frank Barnashuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Do Your Collections Measure Up? What if you were to compare your credit card collections with those of your professional peers? Would you find that your fees and payments aren’t keeping up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Amarilis Jacobo
Paul Leary
William Karp
Prabha Krishnan Heads Slate of Officers Being Installed at Annual House Meeting
T
he New York State Dental Association will welcome its 2024-2025 officers when the Association hosts the annual meeting of its House of Delegates May 31-June 2 at Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona. Slated to be installed at the meeting are President Prabha Krishnan, President-Elect Maurice Edwards, Vice President Amarilis Jacobo, Secretary-Treasurer Paul Leary and Speaker of the House William Karp.
Prabha Krishnan, D.D.S., a periodontist in private practice in Forest Hills, is a past president of Queens County Dental Society, former chair of the NYSDA Council on Governmental Affairs and immediate past chair of the ADA Council on Communications. She has served on NYSDA councils, was a member of the Empire Dental Political Action Committee and the New York State Dental Foundation. In 2015, she became the first woman to sit on the NYSDA Board of Trustees. While working full time in her practice, Dr. Krishnan also holds the position of attending and chief of periodontics at Flushing Hospital Medical Center. And she is a member of the Indian Dental Association Board of Trustees. Maurice Edwards Maurice Edwards, D.M.D., an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who practices in New York City, has been active at all three levels of organized dentistry, as well as in the American and New York State societies of oral and maxillofacial surgeons and the New York Society of Forensic Dentistry. He is a past president of the New York County Dental Society and former chair of the NYSDA Council on Membership and Communications. A graduate of the ADA Institute for Diversity in Leadership, he served for four years as a member of the ADA Council on Diversity and Inclusion.
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