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Jeffrey Okeson, D.M.D., professor and
director of the Orofacial Pain Center at the University
of Kentucky College of Dentistry, and David Nash, D.M.D., Ed.D., former dean and
professor at UK, were named "visionaries in American dentistry" by the American
Student Dental Association.
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LEXINGTON, KY (June 8, 1999)
– Jeffrey Okeson, D.M.D., professor and director of the Orofacial Pain Center at the
University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, and David Nash, D.M.D., Ed.D., former dean
and professor at UK, were named "visionaries in American dentistry" by the
American Student Dental Association. Twenty-five dental professionals nationwide were
honored. The dentists were listed in the summer edition of Dentistry99, the
quarterly journal of the American Student Dental Association, and chosen by the
journal’s editors and readers.
Nash, former dean of the UK College of Dentistry and the William R. Willard professor
of dental education, "laid the groundwork for his philosophy that dental education
must become more integrated with medicine and the wider health care community,"
according to the publication.
Okeson established the Orofacial Pain Center at UK, one of three graduate orofacial
programs in the United States. The clinic opened in 1977 as a training program for
graduate dentists and was established as a master’s program in 1993. It was the first
graduate training program in orofacial pain to receive national accreditation by the
National Accrediting Organization. The field of orofacial pain "pushes you to the
outer limits of your knowledge base," Okeson said. "It is exciting, frustrating,
humbling and challenging." |
