News
Mina Mahdian, DDS, MDSc, associate professor in the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine Department of Prosthodontics and Digital Technology, and Prateek Prasanna, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, have received a $300,000 grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore whether routine dental imaging can be used to detect early signs of heart disease.
Jennifer Englebright, BA ’05, DMD, a longtime general dentist on the north shore of Long Island, has been appointed a full-time clinical assistant professor in the Department of General Dentistry at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Englebright, who will join the SDM faculty in July, has spent the past 15 years in private practice, most recently in Port Jefferson.
In front of family and friends, 46 first-year students at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine’s Class of 2028 pledged their commitment to excellence and ethics in patient care at the annual White Coat Ceremony, held at the Sidney Gelber Auditorium on Stony Brook University’s main campus.
Gregory Maddalena, DDS ’05, GPR ’06, chief dental officer for Sun River Health in New Paltz, New York, the largest network of oral health Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in the state, is the 2025 recipient of the School of Dental Medicine’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
Pride and joy brimmed and – fittingly – smiles stretched from ear to ear as Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine’s Class of 2025 proudly crossed the stage to receive their dental school degrees and advanced degree certificates at the annual convocation ceremony held at Stony Brook University’s Staller Center for the Arts.
Together with staff from across the Stony Brook University campus, as well as corporate partners, the School of Dental Medicine officially opened its new prosthodontics residency laboratory with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 26. Equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and instruments, the lab will enable residents can learn, experiment and master how to best use the newest innovations in prosthodontics.
Sachem Dental Group, together with the Stony Brook Foundation, has agreed to establish the Sachem Dental Group Endodontics Scholarship Fund at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine. The fund will provide financial assistance for select high-achieving residents enrolled in the school’s Advanced Dental Education Program in Endodontics.
Abdel Hameed Mahmoud, DDS, a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student in the Department of Oral Biology and Pathology at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine (SDM), earned first place for his research poster at the American Association of Endodontics (AAE) annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, last week.
Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine has agreed to become a part of the BigMouthDental Data Repository, joining 17 other member dental schools and institutions that combine to contribute over six million patient records to the BigMouth database. The collaboration will enable students, residents and faculty to utilize the data source to advance their research, answer clinical questions, and treat and serve patients better.
Mina Mahdian, DDS, MDSc, is helping to lay the foundation for artificial intelligence in dentistry — step by step, study by study. As the world of AI expands and accelerates at a blistering pace, the director of the Advanced Education Program in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine understands that the precision, diligence and patience that she and her colleagues demonstrate now, are crucial to supporting all the developments that follow.
