The PFA International Board of Trustees met Oct. 2-Oct. 4, 2009, at the Sheraton Waikiki in Honolulu, HI, in conjunction with the ADA Annual Meeting. The weather was outstanding and the hospitality and location a reward after long days of meetings.

The meeting started off with the Section Chair Caucus which was hosted by Region 3 Trustee Karyn Stockwell of Georgia. Twenty-four people were in attendance. Chairpersons Jay Harrington of Georgia, John Reese of South Carolina, Cindy Bolton of North Carolina, Richard Petty of Utah, Frank Braun of Germany, Barry Feder of Washington, Roger Turkel of Rhode Island, Kushi Matsumoto of Japan, Greg McGann of New Jersey, Hermogenes Villareal of the Philippines, Diampo Lim of the Philippines, Norberto Montheil of Argentina and Lynne Halik of New York shared ideas and information about their respective sections and collectively dialoged about ways and means of bettering the Academy at local levels.

The PFA Web manager, Mark Stanley, debuted the new Academy Web site (www.fauchard.org) to the Chairpersons and informed them that a special page is now available exclusively for each Section Chair to post relative information for their respective regions. All that is required for a Chair to post and edit new updates to the Web site is current registration of their e-mail address with the Central Office. Section chairs can login to the Web site and create their own password.

The Board of Trustees began their sessions on October 2. The first order of business was a moment of silence for long-time Secretary General Dr. Richard Kozal. In Dr. Kozal's memory, a scholarship will be established in his name for dental assistant students at UNLV School of Dentistry and the dental museum at Las Vegas Community Dental Hygiene School will be named after him.

Foundation President, Dr. Jim Long, introduced the new Foundation Executive Director, Mrs. Laura Fleming Doyle of Herndon, VA, to the Board. Dr. Long informed all that in 2008 the Foundation received 40 grant requests, of which 35 were approved resulting in over $385,000 of funds awarded. Due to the recent global economic slowdown, grant rewards are expected to be more conservative for the coming year.

BUSINESS MEETINGS

The budget was reviewed and discussed. A balanced budget was passed. The dues remain unchanged at $125. Many cost-saving measures were proposed for implementation in 2010.

The Constitution and By-Laws were reviewed. Non-functioning committees were eliminated. The President and Board of Trustee's power to create Ad Hoc committees when deemed necessary was reconfirmed.

Life membership was previously awarded to Fellows of 10 years who no longer claim dentistry as a means of earning a living; or, Fellows of 10 years and 65 years of age or older. The condition of Life Membership is now only constituted to the previous.

The new Academy Executive Director Judith Kozal's job description was reviewed and discussed. In May 2009, Mrs. Kozal was given a 3-year contract.

Procedurally, Academy meetings will be conducted according to Sturgis Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure as opposed to the previously application of Robert's Rules.

AWARDS LUNCHEON

The following various awards were presented at the Awards Luncheon: PFA Gold Medal Award was given to 
Dr. Eugene Sekiguchi; the Certificate of Merit was given to 
Dr. (General) Robert E. Brady; the Elmer S. Best Award for 2009 was given to Dr. Zbigniew Janczuk (Poland); and the Elmer S. Best Award for 2010 was given to Dr. Jose Carlos Elgoyhen.

The Dental Trade and Industry Award was given to Mr. Gilles Pierson, The President's Award was given to 
Dr. Malcolm David Campbell and Dr. Nicholas Saccone.

Dr. Steve Hedlund (US), Dr. Hubert Ouvrard (France) and Dr. Joseph Harris (US) were installed as President, President-Elect and Vice President respectively. Dr. Karyn Stockwell of Georgia (Region 3 Trustee) and Dr. Daniel Castagna of California (Region 5 Trustee) were reappointed & installed for second terms.

Dr. Richard Walsh of Rhode Island completed his second term of outstanding service as Region 2 Trustee. Due to term limits Dr. Walsh has been replaced by Dr. Lynne Halik of New York.

PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION

Saturday evening gave everyone a chance to relax and socialize after sunset.

The Meeting concluded with a wonderful dinner Sunday evening where everyone had a chance to relax, mingle, and enjoy each other's company, plus take a few photographs of their special memories!

 

HAWAII 2009 SECTION CAUCUS REPORT

A well-attended Annual Section Caucus was held on October 2 at the Sheraton Waikiki in Honolulu, Hawaii in conjunction with the ADA annual meeting.

The following Section Chairs were in attendance: Argentina: Dr. Norberto Montheil, Georgia: Dr. Jay Harrington, Germany: Dr. Frank Braun, Japan: Dr. Kushi Matsumoto, New Jersey: Dr. Greg McGann, New York: Dr. Lynne Halik, North Carolina: Dr. Cindy Bolton, Philippines: Dr. Diampo Lim and Dr. Hermogenes Villareal, Rhode Island: Dr. Roger Turkel, South Carolina: Dr. John Reese, Utah: Dr. Richard Petty and Washington: Dr. Barry Feder.

The Board of Trustees and the Management Team was present at the beginning of the Caucus to welcome the attendees. After an entertaining "Hula" dance video, and a short power point review of the Academy's mission, goals and objectives, President Eller and President-Elect Hedlund provided opening remarks and a review of the year's activities to the attendees.

Our PFA Web manager Mark Stanley debuted the new look for the Academy's Web site during the Caucus and taught the Section Chairs how to post current information for their Section on their designated Web page. The Chairs were charged with the task to communicate to their Section's Fellows how they can now go online to get any information they need for local activities (of course this means the each Section Chair must keep his/her Web page updated) as well as activities of the entire Academy.

The Chairs were also able to meet the Foundation's new Executive Director, Ms. Laura Fleming Doyle. After reviewing how to apply for Section Grants (forms are available on the Web site), and what types of programs are eligible for grants, she was able to answer questions as well as ask for input on how the Foundation could improve the process. The Chairs were also charged with being leaders by example with their donations to the Foundation, ($100 was suggested as an amount for a Section Chair to contribute and $500 for a Trustee, with a goal of all in leadership positions to strive to become Shira Fellows at the $1000 level). The Chairs gave Ms. Doyle many good ideas and positive input.

All the Chairs shared ideas and information about their respective sections and collectively dialoged about ways and means of bettering the Academy at the grassroots level as well as how the Academy could help them to serve their Section better. The Chairs also shared the types of service programs their Sections were involved in from additional scholarships to local charity clinics in which Fellows volunteer. It was pointed out that one of the nicer things about the Section Caucus is to see the concept of service within the profession on an international level. For new Section Chairs this exchange is invaluable for helping them see the bigger picture and get ideas they can take back and implement in their Section. Chairs who have previously attended can also be exposed to fresh ideas as well as mentor a new Chair and have the opportunity to make connections and share camaraderie on an International level.

The idea that a Section Chair should being required to attend a Caucus at least once during their 3-year tenure was brought up for discussion. As the ADA meeting moves around the country, in any given year there should be a location that it is more convenient for Section Chairs to attend. If Section Chairs from other countries can make the effort to attend the Caucus during the ADA, then certainly we expect no less from our Section Chairs in the States. The general feeling was that since there is a stipend to offset the costs, that attendance at least once during their tenure be mandatory for Section Chairs. For Sections where the term of office is only one year, they can follow South Carolina's lead and send their Chair-elect to the Caucus. Dr. Frank Braun of Germany brought up the idea of an International induction of New Fellows to be concurrent with the FDI meeting. This idea generated much discussion and excitement with the general feeling that the Board of Trustees should explore this possibility as a way of making all the Fellows feel part of a truly International Academy. The idea is that Fellows could choose to be inducted into Fellowship either on the local or international level. Any input on this idea from Section Chairs not in attendance would be appreciated.

The Chairs also would like to be able to pay dues online and were pleased to hear that a secure, password protected area of the website has been designed for that purpose. All that is required to log-in and pay dues is a current e-mail address registered at the Central Office, and the secure web server can e-mail you a temporary password (or send you another new temporary one if you forget it). You can then choose a password (of at least 8 letters or numbers) that you prefer.

The Chairs were also eager to hear when the dues rebate program would be reinstated.

The Section Chairs look forward to a productive 2010 and are very committed to Academy.

Karyn L. Stockwell, DMD
Chair, 2009 Section Caucus

AWARDS

73rd Pierre Fauchard Academy Gold Medal

Eugene Sekiguchi, DDS MSEE BSEE

Dr. Eugene Sekiguchi is a 1974 graduate of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry in Los Angeles and has been in general practice for over 35 years. He has served as the President of the American Dental Association, California Dental Association, San Gabriel Valley Dental Society, USC Dental Alumni Association and Part Time Faculty Assembly and as the Executive Director of the California Dental Association. Currently, he is the Associate Dean for International, Professional and Legislative Affairs, Director for the Advance Standing Program for International Dentists, Group Practice Director, and Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California, School of Dentistry in addition to his private practice.

He was born in San Diego, CA, the first-born of an immigrant father and American-born mother. Eugene and his sisters were interred in Heart Mountain, WY, while his father was sent to a labor camp during WWII. After the war, they returned to Los Angeles, where he graduated from Roosevelt High School. Taking advantage of a four-year scholarship he won, Eugene graduated from the University of California in Berkley, where he earned a BSEE and worked as a licensed electrical engineer for the next 10 years. Never giving up his plans of becoming a doctor, deferential to the influence of his father-in-law, Dr. Henry K. Kawamoto, and with the support of his wife, Claire, an elementary school teacher, he entered dental school.

Upon graduation and licensure in 1974, he began practice in Monterey Park with Dr. Kawamoto and volunteered as a part-time faculty at USC School of Dentistry in removable prosthetics department. Dr. Sekiguchi has always been an active member of organized dentistry and has served on numerous committees at the local and state levels, cumulating with the Presidencies of the SGVDS, CDA and ADA. He continues to serve the profession in roles with the American and International Colleges, and the community on various non-profit boards.

Dr. Sekiguchi's Professional memberships include PFA, ACD, ICD, ADI FDI, ADA, CDA, CDS, JADS, HDS and the NDA as well as many other Professional and Honorary organizations. He has also held elected and appointed offices in many of these organizations.

He is currently the Associate Dean for International, Professional and Legislative Affairs at USC School of Dentistry.

He resides with his wife Claire, and practices in Southern California.

Elmer S. Best Memorial Award

Professor Zbigniew Janczuk

Professor Zbigniew Janczuk was born on July 31, 1924, in Polaniec, Poland. He graduated with honors from the Medical Academy in Lodz in 1952, where he studied dentistry as a third year student, he began working in the Department of Conservative Dentistry first as an assistant's helper, and then after graduation as an assistant. In 1956 he became Senior Assistant and in 1961, a lecturer. Professor Janczuk received his PhD in Dentistry in 1959 at the Medical Academy in Lodz. The doctoral dissertation which he defended was entitled "Reactioning keratinization of oral epithelium". On April 30, 1964, he attained habilitation at the Medical Academy in Lodz in the field of Conservative Dentistry. He became an Associate professor in 1971 and in 1977, a full Professor.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Professor Janczuk was a Member of The Pathophysiology, Commission within the Poznan section of the Polish Academy of Sciences and until now is a member of the Szczecin Scientific Society. For his numerous activities for the Medical Academy and other institutions, the Professor was presented with many National Awards, prizes and scientific and didactic distinctions. He has written and published many scientific papers, monographs, books, summaries and reports written after congresses in German, English, French, Russian and Hungarian. He has worked on the World Health Organization and Federation Dentaire International Commissions.

He has been a Fellow of the Pierre Fauchard Academy since 1985 and founded the Polish Section of the Academy in 1989.

This is the first time the Elmer S. Best Memorial Award was granted to the representative of Central and Eastern Europe.

Dental Trade & Industry Award

Gilles Pierson

Gilles Pierson, 55 years old, graduated from Bordeaux School of Management in 1979 and studied Mathematics and Fundamental Physics at the CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) from 1977 to 1979.

His career in the dental industry began in 1979 when he joined Satelec as Area Manager at which time the company was developing the first ever piezoelectric dental scaler. In 1981, he became General Manager of Satelec. The company profits during this time were approximately 2M€.

By 1984, the company spread out worldwide by opening subsidiaries in Düsseldorf and Barcelona, and was the first ever dental companv to open a subsidiary in Beijing. By 1986, when Satelec merged with Pierre Rolland Laboratories, profits had reached 17M€.

In 1991, Gilles Pierson became President of Satelec-Pierre Rolland Group, which changed its name to Acteon Group in 2003.

From 1990 to 2007, the Group continued its growth, while increasing its turnover from 20M€ to 110M€. Gilles Pierson led two LBO (Leverage Buy Out) operations, in 1991 and in 2005. Many subsidiaries have been set up: in the Philippines (1992), Korea (1993), India and Jordan (1994), UK (1999), Thailand (2004), Costa Rica (2005), Australia and Russia (2006). The Group acquired commercial and industrial companies: in Bilbao (manufacture of autoclaves) in 1998; the distributor Amadent in Philadelphia, in 1998; Riskontrol in 2000 (France); Sopro (France), specialist in dental and medical cameras, in 2001; SEDR (France), LED curing light, in 2003; Geyser (France), insufflators and irrigators for laparoscopic surgery, in 2004; COMEG (Germany), surgical endoscopes, in 2006; DE GÖTZEN (Italy), manufacturing of intraoral X-Ray generators, in 2007.

Under Gilles Pierson's management, the Group has launched many innovative dental products such as Expasyl (a unique paste for gingival retraction) and disposable tips for air/water syringes. it has specialized in the application of ultrasonics to periodontology, endodontics, bone surgery and implantology (Piezotome in 2005), has invented an intraoral camera with shade matching function, Hémostasyl (thixotropic hemostatic) in 2006, an intraoral camera for caries detection by fluorescence in 2008.

In 2008, Acteon Group achieved a turnover of II0M€ with 750 employees, half of whom live outside France: Germany (92), Spain (41), Thailand (40), North America (38), India (35), Italy (33), the Philippines (31), Hungary (25), China (22), the UK (12), the Middle East (8), Korea (7), Australia / New Zealand (4), Russia (3) and Latin America (2).

Certificate of Merit


Dr. Robert E. Brady

Born in New Haven, CT, and reared in North Haven, he attended that city's Notre Dame High School. Following graduation from Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA, he entered Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston, graduating in 1965.

In August 1965, Dr. Brady was commissioned as a Captain in the U.S. Army with a tour of duty at Fort Rucker, AL. Both he and his wife enjoyed their experience at Fort Rucker and decided to stay in the Army. He applied for and received a Regular Army Commission and then went on to complete a 30 year military career.

Service has seen him in Vietnam with the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division; Fort Sam Houston, TX; Fort Lewis, WA; West Germany; Walter Reed Army Medical Center, VA; Fort Bragg, NC; and the Pentagon. He has commanded dental units in Germany, Fort Bragg, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and in his last assignment was the Commanding General, 30th Medical Brigade, Germany.

Following his residency in Removable Prosthodontics, he was certified by the American Board of Prosthodontics. He has attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Center for Creative Leadership, and the JFK School of Government, Harvard University.

Dr. Brady has attended more than 50 graduate courses, published a dozen articles, directed the Removable Prosthodontics Residency Training Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, presented papers and clinics extensively and holds memberships in eight professional organizations. Additionally, he has been the Consultant to the Surgeon General, U.S. Army, for Removable Prosthodontics. His military service is exemplified by his receiving thirteen military awards headed by the U.S. Army Distinguished Service Medal, two Legions of Merit, two Bronze Star Medals, the Combat Medic Badge and retirement at the rank of Brigadier General.

He is married to the former Janet Fappiano and they have three daughters and one son and currently 11 grandchildren.

At the present time, Dr. Brady is the Secretary General of the International College of Dentists and the Registrar of the USA Section.