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| Note:
As these photos show, the group also had time to enjoy some of the
many splendors of Taiwan and China, including the Great Wall. |
Last April a group of 57 faculty members and one student from NYUCD, Sheila
Soo, 03, set out on a two-week trip to China and Taiwan to visit dental
schools and hospitals in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taipei, where
they attended the 23rd Asian Pacific Dental Congress. The NYUCD contingent
was joined by a group of six faculty members from the Columbia University
School of Dental and Oral Surgery, including Dean Allan J. Formicola.
Both the 23rd Asian Pacific Dental Congress and the trip were arranged by
the Chinese American Dental Association (CADA), whose president, Dr. Yon
Lai, is a member of the NYUCD orthodontics faculty. Other CADA members on
the faculty who were instrumental in arranging both events were Dr. Steven
Lee (prosthodontics), Dr. Samuel Jung (cariology and operative dentistry),
Dr. Kenneth Liao (endodontics), and Dr. Daniel Yen (general dentistry and
management science).
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The trip also offered
an opportunity for NYUCD to reaffirm the strong ties that exist between
it and the dental schools at National Yang Ming University in Taipei and
Shangahi Second Medical University in China, with both of whom NYUCD signed
formal affiliation agreements over a decade ago. As a symbol of the friendship
between NYUCD and each of the schools, Dean Alfano and the dean of the dental
school at National Yang Ming University, Dr. Tzee-Hwai Lin, and the dean
at the dental school at Shanghai Second Medical University, Dr. Zhi-yuan
Zhang, re-signed their respective affiliation agreements. |