A Strategic Success: Clinicians and Basic Scientists Collaborate and Endodontic Residents Win Awards
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Dr. Paul A. Rosenberg |
Soon after becoming Chairman of the Department of Endodontics*
in 1990, Dr. Paul A. Rosenberg outlined the following goals for
the Advanced Education Program in Endodontics: enrich the educational
program, provide a meaningful research experience for postgraduate
students, and increase the national visibility and prestige of the
program. To achieve these goals, he had to overcome a major obstacle
-- the lack of endodontic faculty with extensive backgrounds in
basic research. Dr. Rosenberg made the decision to compensate for
that lack by reaching out to basic scientists at NYUCD and inviting
them to form collaborative relationships designed to encourage and
mentor postgraduate endodontic student research. That strategy,
he says, has been pivotal in producing postgraduate endodontic students
who have won major research prizes and written articles that have
appeared in refereed journals.
"Through the years, the basic scientists I have invited to collaborate have been consistently enthusiastic and supportive," says Dr. Rosenberg. "In fact, the research produced by our residents as a result of their collaboration is even more impressive when you consider that in national competitions, our two-year postgraduate endodontic Certificate Program students compete against students enrolled in combined Endodontic Certificate/Master's degree programs." The following are highlights of the clinician/basic scientist collaboration in the postgraduate endodontics program. *The Dr. Ignatius N. and Sally Quartararo Department of Endodontics was named in 1997. Mentored Student Research Prize Winners 2005: Prize Winner, Annual Competition, American Association of Endodontists Postgraduate Student Research Competition: First Place Prize, Postgraduate Research Competition, Annual Research Day, NYU College of Dentistry: Heteroduplex Analysis of Bacteria Associated with Periodontal and Pulpal Disease. Zaveloff, P.M., Di Fiore, P. M., Rosenberg, P.A., Lin, L.M., Fotodar, L., Terracio, L. 2001: First Place Prize, Postgraduate Research Competition, Annual Research Day, NYU College of Dentistry: An Immunoregulatory Role for VD2+GDT Cells in Periradicular Lesions. Hayashi, R., Lombardo, D., Licari, B, Liu, Y., Bahadori, M., Tahari, L., Rosenberg, P.A., and McCutcheon, J.A. Finalist: Annual Competition, American Association of Endodontists Postgraduate Student Research Competition: An Immunoregulatory Role for VD2+GDT Cells in Periradicular Lesions. Lombardo, D., Hayashi, R., Licari, B, Liu, Y., Bahadori, M., Tahari, L., Rosenberg, P.A., and McCutcheon, J.A. 2000: Finalist: Annual Competition, American Association of Endodontists Postgraduate Student Research Competition: Extracellular Calcium Effect on Mobilization of Intracellular Calcium in Odontoblasts. Corollo, S., Hoang, S., Le, F., Davidson, R., Rosenberg, P.A. 1995: First Place Prize: Annual Competition, American Association of Endodontists Postgraduate Student Research Competition: An Evaluation of the Cemetogenic Potential of Endodontic Materials, Journal of Endodontics 1995; 21:4. Zuroff, M., Craig, R., Rosenberg, P.A. |
