Few alumni groups have been as intimately involved—or as generous in sharing the three Ts of volunteer power: time, talent and treasury—with their alma maters as the Dugoni School of Dentistry’s Alumni Association.
“In these trying times where access to care is a major issue, I want to create a model here in Berkeley that others can emulate and improve upon to deliver quality care to our fellow citizens who need assistance with their dental health,” says Nam.
In what has become an annual event, second-year DDS and IDS students joined forces to provide complete denture prosthodontic services to a group of underserved individuals.
Among our many other responsibilities as healthcare providers, we are responsible for possessing an honest passion for what we do.
Students visited from schools throughout San Francisco, San Jose, Stockton, Santa Rosa, and Sacramento and many other areas in the region. All were excited to come to the dental school to learn more about careers in oral health.
Around here, we often say, “The greatness of Pacific Dugoni is its people.” No one can imitate what we do because no one else has built, over decades, a group so completely dedicated to making its school great.
You might think that teaching full time or establishing a private dental practice would leave little time for other pursuits. But that’s not the case with the dental school alumni and faculty members that we feature here.