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10th Annual Run for Outreach
 The 2016 Run for Outreach is quickly approaching, and the organizing team is excited to see you all on Saturday September 24th for race day. Please remember the minimum pledge is $25 in addition to the $12 registration. Fundraising can be done on our event’s Seeds of Change page here.
Meet Dr. Nathalie Morin, New Clinic Director
.png) As of November 1st 2016, Dr. Nathalie Morin will be entering her new role as Clinic Director at the Faculty of Dentistry. To highlight the upcoming start of her mandate, we spoke with her about her career path, patient care and what makes her most proud of working at McGill. Read the interview here.
2016 Summer Institute, a success!
 The Summer Institute in Applied Mixed Methods for Oral Health and Primary Care Research held July 25-29 at the Faculty was a great success, with 11 participants from Canada, the US, Brazil and Hong Kong. Belinda Nicolau, the main organizer, was assisted by Alissa Levine, Geneviève Castonguay, Sreenath Madathil, Nora Makansi, Farnaz Rashid Kandvani, Nioushah Noushi (Faculty of Dentistry), Pierre Pluye and Quan Nha Hong (Department of Family Medicine).
Two grants for Dr. Nicolau
 Congratulations to Dr. Belinda Nicolau who was recently awarded two grants as principal investigator for her project on the role of human papillomaviruses in head and neck cancers: one from FRQS ('16-'18, ranked 1st & only grant awarded in the cancer research competition) and one from the Cancer Research Society ('16-'18).
Valerie Khayat, interim Communications Officer for the Faculty
 As you know, our communications officer, Brenna Kaukonen, is currently on maternity leave. Until the end of January 2017, Valerie Khayat has agreed to return as communications officer during Brenna’s leave. Valerie previously worked at the Faculty from 2012 - 2014 spearheading the communications campaign for Our New Facility among other initiatives. Contact Valerie at valerie.khayat@mcgill.ca / 514-398-4165
Andrew Just, Webmaster for the Faculty
 The Faculty of Dentistry is happy to welcome Andrew Just as its new webmaster. Andrew is a 4th year McGill Finance student, and has been developing websites since the young age of 13. If you have any website change requests, he can be reached at webmaster.dentistry@mcgill.ca (please copy valerie.khayat@mcgill.ca)
Fifteenth Annual White Coat Ceremony
Yesterday evening, the fifteenth Annual White Coat Ceremony took place at Redpath Hall. Congratulations to all!
Watch a video of the Class of 2018 taking their pledge guided by Dr. John Blomfield here (official photos to come in our next issue)
Student Excellence
Nioushah Noushi
President of the McGill Dentistry Graduate Students Society
Arij Kazmi
President of the Dental Students Society
See the full 2016-2017 Executive Committees for graduate and undergraduate students here
For a wide smile
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Congratulations to Dr. Johanna Pham, this year’s winner of the Dr. Ralph Silverstone Teaching Award. Read more 