The pass key Volume 19, issue 1 MAY 2022 OPENING THE DOOR TO THE INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF DENTISTS IN THE MARYLAND CHAPTER OF DISTRICT 4
From the Deputy Regent Life is slowly returning to normal. Hopefully, our Maryland Chapter will, as well. We have not been able to hold our annual Fall business meeting for the last two years. Likewise, our combined meetings with the Maryland ACD Chapter have also been cancelled. In order to plan a dinner/meeting event for the early part of this year, we would have had to make monetary commitments in January which was right during the height of the Omicron variant spike. Painfully, we felt that we had no choice but to wait one more year. As of March 2022, the University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD) still required masks. Hopefully, we can resume our affiliation with their Practice Management Study Club and the student Global Health Initiative as the University of Maryland and Baltimore City restrictions are relaxed. As of yet, I have not been able to restart our Veterans Oral Health Program through Baltimore Station. I am in the process of moving to a new downtown clinic. Since this project has been dormant for over two years, it will take quite a bit of effort to restart it. Hopefully, we will be able to resume this Summer. I will again solicit for volunteer Dentists as soon as I am able to resume patient screening. Please stand by. A Word About Nominating Future ICD Fellows The District 4 Regent has tasked our Maryland component to recruit seven new members this year. As of this writing we have seven candidates in process. Thank you, Karl Zeren(2), Diana Capobianco, Marshall Chey, Vanessa Benavent(2) and Ahmed Sherif Sultan. If you have an outstanding colleague whom you would like to recognize, please do not hesitate to approach him or her about becoming a Fellow of THE most prestigious, honorary Dental association – ICD-USA. Nomination instructions are posted in the website. The process is very simple; first a nominating note is sent to me. Next, the Candidate Information Form is filled out by your nominee and uploaded. Finally, a secIn This Issue: ond letter of endorsement is submitted from a current Fellow who is acquainted with your nominee. That’s all there is to it. From the Deputy Regent We have a new Treasurer. Fellow Deven Shroff has agreed to take over from Fellow Arpana Verma; as I am sure that most of MD Chapter Leadership you already know, Arpana has been appointed President of the ICD Student Awards Maryland State Board of Dental Examiners. Congratulations, UMSOD Ethics Curriculum Arpana! Thank you for your many years of service. And thank you Deven, for stepping up. Deven’s first TreasurReport of the Treasurer er’s report is included in this newsletter. As you can see, we 15- and 25-Year Fellows