Tufts UNIVERSITY School of Dental Medicine Chapter
The American Student Dental Association is a national student-run organization that protects and advances the rights, interests, and welfare of students pursuing careers in dentistry. As a national professional organization, ASDA provides a forum for expression of dental student concerns. It introduces students to lifelong involvement in organized dentistry. ASDA currently has more than 22,000 predoctoral members at each of the 66 U.S. dental school chapters.
Organization Goals:
- Promote welfare of dental students
- Advocate just treatment of dental students
- Represent needs, interests and welfare of association members
- Identify and promote needed change in dental education
- Introduce and promote organized dentistry (ADA, MDS)
- Disseminate pertinent information to dental students
- Improve dental care and delivery to all people by identifying public dental needs
WHAT WE DO:
- National Dental Student Lobby Day
- National Leadership Conference
- ASDA Small Council Meetings
- ASDA Annual Session
- ADA District Caucuses
- MDS House of Delegates
- Interschool Debate (Tufts, Harvard, BU)
- Tufts Pre-dental Day (w/ Tufts ADEA)
- Vermont Special Olympics
- ASDA Smile Share & Care
- New England Center for Homeless Veterans
- Hale House
- Yankee Dental
- ADPAC Drive
- Socials
- Health and Wellness
- Wellness
- ASDA Vendor Fair
- Leadership Summit
REPRESENT YOUR CLASS AND SCHOOL:
Leadership within Tufts ASDA: Class reps, Committee chairs, Legislative Liaison, and other Leadership Positions
Leadership at the National Level: Elected Positions (elected by House of Delegates or chapter delegates at Annual Session), Appointed Positions (selected from a pool of applicants by board of trustees)
Externships in Washington, D.C. and Chicago
OUR OFFICERS:
2019-2020
D20 Representative: Airy Choi
D21 Representative: Allie Penta
D22 Representative: Alia Osseiran
D23 Representative: Giang Nguyen
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joanne Falzone
Hale House Director: Olivia Capotorto (D21)
- Hale House Assistant Director: Jacob Itskovich (D21)
Fundraising Committee: Anika Solanki, Samantha Parad, Lindsey Chun
- D23 Fundraising Liaison TBD
Advocacy Legislative Chairs: Devon Ptak (D20), Sho Taniguchi (D21)
Advocacy Legislative Liaisons:
- Annie Rao (D20): Rao@tufts.edu
- Mary Chalino (D21): chalino@tufts.edu
- Jamie Abraham (D21): abraham@tufts.edu
- Adnan Omran (D21): omran@tufts.edu
- Jonathan Pierpoline: pierpoline@tufts.edu
Events Chair: Russel Smith (D22)
Events Vice-chair: Justice Johnson (D22)
Pre-Dental Chairs: Hemali Patel (D20) & Mehran Payandeh (D21)
Pre-Dental Vice-chairs:
- Divya Suresh (D20): suresh@tufts.edu
- Jessica Boucher (D22): Boucher@tufts.edu
- Diego Lopez (D22): lopez@tufts.edu
- D23 predental liaison: TBD
Communication Chairs: Alexander-Huy Nguyen (D21) & Jamie Chan (D22)
- D23 Communication Liaison: TBD
- Communication Counselor: Matthew Lee (D20)
Graphic Designer: Rachel Young (D21)
Media Production Directors:
- Darien Lam(D22): Lam@tufts.edu
- Gina Kim (D22): kim@tufts.edu
Smile Share Care Director: Sophia Heitmiller (D21)
Smile Share and Care Assistant Directors:
- Shivani Bhatt (D20) (bhatt@tufts.edu)
- Kylie Walker (D22) (Walker@tufts.edu)
New England Center for Homeless Veterans Director: Taylor Vanhouten (D20) & Shelby Jackson (D21)
Health & Wellness Chairs: Shannon Dugan (D21), Kristina Caravelli (D21)
Health & Wellness Vice-Chairs: Ambika Kumaran (D21) & Emily Abay (D21)
D23 Health and Wellness Liaison: TBD
Newsletter Layout Editor-in-Chiefs: Anna Lam (D20) & David Alpert (D21)
Newsletter Layout: Mostafa Mohamed (IS21)
Newsletter Aide: Courtney Eato (D22)
External Affairs Directors: Deepa Patel (D20) & Evaneet Sidhu (D21)
- External Affairs Assistant Director: Maggie Wu (D22)
Cards for a Cause Director: Dylan Batlle (D21)
Gold Crown Chairs: Anna Lam (D20), Matthew Lee (D20), Marina Kanakos (D21)
- D23 Gold Crown Liaison: TBD
Global Health Chair: Omar Hamrouche (D21)
Global Health Vice Chair: James Cruz (D22)