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Recognizing
Our Faculty
At its
annual meeting in March,
the Louisiana Dental
Hygienists’ Association
(LDHA) presented Suzanne
Farrar, RDH, MSHCM,
director of clinical staff
and patient services, with
the Outstanding Dental
Hygienist's Award for
2016-2017. The award is
presented for excellence
in service and outstanding
contributions to the art
and science of dental
hygiene and to the LDHA.
Ms. Farrar served as
interim director of the
LSUSD Dental Hygiene
Program from July 2016
until Jane Walsh, RDH, JD,
was able to join the
school. Ms. Farrar has
also recently been
reappointed by Louisiana
Governor John Bel Edwards
to the Fluoridation
Advisory Board.
In January Ms. Farrar
arranged for Betty Kabel,
president of the American
Dental Hygiene Association
to visit LSUSD. Ms. Kabel
spoke to students in both
dental hygiene classes and
met with the dental
hygiene faculty. She
manages a dental outreach
program in Florida for a
federally qualified health
center where she developed
and implemented a
school-based program that
provides preventive
services and dental
outreach to elementary
school children. She has
been honored for her
effort to improve oral and
overall health, including
the FDHA Distinguished
Service Award in 2013. Ms.
Kabel spoke to the hygiene
students on the role of
the national organization
in helping dental
hygienists expand their
professional
opportunities.
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ADHA
President Betty
Kabel (third
from left) with
NODHA President
Leslie LeGrange
(left), Suzanne
Farrar, and Jane
Walsh, LSUSD
hygiene program
director
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Mairi
Noverr, PhD,
professor in the
Department of
Prosthodontics, has been
invited to serve as
chairperson of the
National Institutes of
Health (NIH) Center for
Scientific Review
Pathogenic Eukaryotes
Study Section for a
two-year term beginning
this July. Members of NIH
study sections are
selected on the basis of
their demonstrated
competence and achievement
in their scientific
discipline. Dr. Noverr’s
participation as
chairperson of the review
committee will assure the
quality of the NIH peer
review process.
Dr. Noverr received her
PhD in microbiology and
immunology from the
University of Michigan in
2002. In 2009 she came to
LSUSD from Wayne State
University School of
Medicine in Detroit.
Originally a member of the
LSUSD faculty in the
Department of Oral and
Craniofacial Biology, she
joined the Department of
Prosthodontics in 2012.
She has been the recipient
of several NIH grants, the
most recent of which is a
five-year RO1 grant for
$1.7 million for the study
of biofilms. She is
extensively involved in
the academic microbiology
and immunology community
as grant and journal
reviewer, invited
lecturer, and journal
article author.
Toula
Palaiologou, DDS, MS,
director of advanced
education in periodontics,
has been elected
vice-chair of the
Postdoctoral Directors
Committee of the American
Academy of Periodontology
(AAP). The committee is
comprised of directors of
all U.S. and Canadian
periodontics advanced
education programs. Dr.
Palaiologou will serve as
vice-chair until September
2018, when she will become
chair for two years.
Dr. Palaiogolou received
her DDS in 1995 from the
National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens
School of Dentistry, and
her certificate in
periodontics and MS from
LSUSD in 2000. She then
participated in private
practice limited to
periodontics and implants
in Greece, returning to
LSUSD in 2007 to join the
periodontics faculty. In
2009 she became director
of the periodontics
advanced education
program. She has been
involved in numerous
research projects, with
six grant awards and
twenty published research
articles. In 2013 she
received the AAP
Outstanding Educator Award
for Teaching and
Mentoring.
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Toula
Palaiologou,
DDS, MS
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