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 The OSAP Report Online
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| February 2012 |
Vol. 8, No. 2
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Dear Valued OSAP Member:
This online newsletter brings you the latest news regarding dental infection prevention and safety. You can scan the headlines, click on a topic and get an instant summary of infection prevention news, agency and association updates, and more!
Sponsors of this publication include the following OSAP corporate members who are proud OSAP Super Sponsors:
 
 
 
We hope you enjoy and benefit from this important OSAP "members-only" publication.
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Register Now!
2012 OSAP Symposium
Connecting To Drive Compliance
June 21-23, 2012
Atlanta, GA
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Headlines
Harte Awarded OSAP's Highest Honor
At its February meeting, the OSAP Board of Directors voted to award the Dr. James J. Crawford Award to Jennifer Harte DDS MS. This award, named in honor of one of the founding fathers of dental infection control, recognizes lifetime achievement in the field. Nominees should have made major contributions in science, education, or public policy related to OSAP's core competencies of dental infection control, office safety and occupational health. Previous awardees include James J. Crawford PhD, John Molinari PhD, Robert Runnells DDS, Walter W. Bond MS RCSA, Herman H. Langkamp III MS, Chris Miller PhD, John Young DDS MSc, Donald Marianos DDS MPH, Robert Kolstad PhD, Sam Rosen PhD, William Rutala PhD MPH, Eve Cuny RDA MS, Enrique Acosta-Gio DDS PhD, and Jennifer Cleveland DDS MPH.
Dr. Harte has been a tireless advocate for infection prevention. She gained recognition as an expert in the field on various assignments around the world through her career with the United States Air Force. She was tapped to co-author the 2003 dental infection control guidelines and the update of the seminal Molinari/Cottone textbook on dental infection control. Dr. Harte has worked with OSAP through a Memorandum of Understanding on the annual infection control course for the military and has participated as a speaker at OSAP's annual symposia. She has contributed many novel teaching tools to help instill infection prevention knowledge and understanding, has developed excellent reviews of infection control issues, and can always be counted upon to deliver sound, evidence-based responses to every infection control question.
Dr. Harte recently retired as the Military Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General for Dental Infection Control and Director of Professional Services at the USAF Dental Evaluation and Consultation Service, Fort Sam Houston, TX. Dr. Harte has been responsible for the direct oversight of dental and medical infection control programs in military health-care clinical settings for over 19 years.
OSAP Dental Infection Prevention Safety Symposium
Abstract Deadline March 5, 2012
OSAP has announced a call for abstracts to be presented during the Symposium in Atlanta, GA on Friday, June 22, 2012.
The objective of this call is to advance development of OSAP's dental infection prevention and patient/provider research agenda, specifically related to:
- prevention and control of healthcare associated infections (HAIs) among dental patients and
- prevention and control of occupationally acquired injuries and infectious disease among dental healthcare personnel.
Click here for more information about submitting an abstract. The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 5, 2012.
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Infection Prevention & Safety Updates
Stay on top of the latest infection prevention and safety news updates each month. Whether it be news from a governmental agency or a news release about a journal article, be sure to take a few minutes to browse the links below. Some of the news items from this month's issue include: Look alike anesthetic cartridges and a case of Legionnaire's Disease linked to a dental office.
Link to In The News.
Link to Agency & Association Update.
Remember to check the OSAP Web site each day for Daily News Updates.
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We THANK Our Members!
Your Generosity makes a BIG DIFFERENCE
Thanks to the following OSAP members who made generous donations to the OSAP Foundation during January:
A. Enrique Acosta-Gio DDS PhD, Daryl Frederick DDS, Peter Piche DDS, and Paul Smith DDS.
It's an easy thing to do, and it goes a long way to help OSAP achieve its vision of Safe Dental Care for People Everywhere.
Welcome New Members
Please join the Board in welcoming the following new members who have joined during January:
Laurie Clark RDH, Nichole Eagle, Daniel Rodriquez DDS, Mary Skaggs, and Debbie Thomas RDH DA.
Please Help OSAP Grow
Every OSAP member (that means YOU) should try to bring in at least one new member each month. The result---more people around the world with the information to help make dentistry safer. Please encourage a colleague to join today. You can make a difference. Plus, you'll earn $10 OSAP Bucks for each new member you refer. Click here to learn more about becoming an OSAP member.
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International
OSAP's mission reaches around the world. OSAP is seeking international reporters. If you would like to become an international reporter for OSAP, or you know someone who would like to become one, please contact Office@OSAP.org.
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OSAP Book Club
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What are you reading? Therese Long just finished and highly recommends The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Amazom.com reviewer Tom Nissley wrote this: From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories?
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Job Opportunities
SUNY Buffalo Dental Job Posting - Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
SUNY Buffalo is currently conducting a search for the position of Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. The Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs is a member of the faculty and the senior leadership team of the School of Dental Medicine (SDM) and plays a critical role in achieving the SDM mission and vision in an environment grounded in SDM's core values of integrity, compassion, and innovation. As a part of the senior leadership team, this individual will encourage open communication and champion the school's initiatives internally and externally. Click here to learn more about the position.
Dental Directors, Community Service Learning Centers, East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine
East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine seeks two full-time faculty dental directors for their innovative new Community Service Learning Centers in Ahoskie and Elizabeth City, North Carolina. These dental directors will provide leadership and supervision of all clinical activities in each of the Community Service Learning Centers while providing a full range of general dentistry services. Responsibilities include oversight of clinical operations, both as a provider and as a mentor to dental students and AEGD residents. These positions report directly to the Director of Community Dental Practices of the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine.
Candidates must possess high ethical standards, outstanding clinical skills, excellent interpersonal communication and written skills and a record of building consensus in an academic setting. Proficiency in the practice of all disciplines of general dentistry, including pediatric dentistry, management and operation of a dental practice serving underserved and disadvantaged patients (preferably in a rural setting) and experience in successfully working with students is required.
Candidates must possess a dental degree and complete eligibility for a North Carolina dental license. Advanced education in dentistry (such as AEGD, GPR or military general dentistry experience) is desirable.
Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae and the names of three professional references by April 1, 2012 to Michael L. Scholtz, DMD, Director, Service Learning Centers/Associate Professor, East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine, Lakeside Annex #7 Mail Stop 701, Greenville, NC 27834 or via e-mail to Scholtzm@ecu.edu .
These positions are open until filled. ECU School of Dental Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. The University undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunity for underutilized minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, and for covered veterans
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Featured Product
 If Saliva Were Red Training Video (DVD)
Named for Dr. James Crawford's landmark 1970s study that confirmed the presence of contamination in the dental operatory, the OSAP-produced video training system "If Saliva Were Red" features an 8-minute video (on DVD) that uses real dental professionals to highlight:
- common infection control and safety flaws,
- the cross-contamination dental workers would see if saliva were red, and
- how controlling contamination by using personal barrier protection, safe work practices, and effective infection control products, reduces the risk of exposure.
Learn more.
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Editor:
Patricia Podolak DDS MPH
Editorial Review Board:
Lawrence Fish MBA
Therese Long MBA CAE
Anne Mills RN MSN COHN-S
Official publication of the Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP).
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