{"id":179701,"date":"2021-12-02T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=179701"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:36:07","slug":"international-college-of-dentists-welcomes-uconn-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/12\/international-college-of-dentists-welcomes-uconn-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"International College of Dentists Welcomes UConn Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_179746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179746\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-179746 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lepowsky-steven-20200107-encarnacion-0006-311x389-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Steven Lepowsky portrait, white coat\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lepowsky-steven-20200107-encarnacion-0006-311x389-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lepowsky-steven-20200107-encarnacion-0006-311x389-1.jpg 311w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/200;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Steven Lepowsky is dean of the UConn School of Dental Medicine. (Photo by Tina Encarnacion)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Saturday, November 13<sup>th<\/sup>, the International College of Dentists (USA Section) welcomed new fellows during its virtual convocation ceremony. Fellowship in the College is extended by invitation only and nominated dentists must pass a rigorous, peer-reviewed process leading to the recognition of the individuals&#8217; \u201coutstanding professional achievement, meritorious service, and dedication of the continued progress of dentistry for the benefit of humankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_179745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179745\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-179745 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/eisenberg-ellen-20171030-encarnacion-6793-800x1000-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Ellen Eisenberg portait, white coat\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/eisenberg-ellen-20171030-encarnacion-6793-800x1000-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/eisenberg-ellen-20171030-encarnacion-6793-800x1000-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/eisenberg-ellen-20171030-encarnacion-6793-800x1000-1-336x420.jpg 336w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/eisenberg-ellen-20171030-encarnacion-6793-800x1000-1-532x665.jpg 532w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/eisenberg-ellen-20171030-encarnacion-6793-800x1000-1.jpg 800w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/200;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Ellen Eisenberg is a professor in the UConn School of Dental Medicine. (Photo by Tina Encarnacion)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three faculty in the UConn School of Dental Medicine are members of the 2021 Fellowship Class: Ron Albert, clinical assistant professor in the Division of General Dentistry; Ellen Eisenberg, professor in the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences; and Steven Lepowsky, professor and dean of the School of Dental Medicine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_179747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179747\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-179747 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/South-Dakota-service-project-Oct-Albert-crop-229x287-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Ronald Albert cropped from group portrait\" width=\"160\" height=\"201\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/201;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Ronald Albert is an assistant professor in the UConn School of Dental Medicine. (file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The other individuals receiving the fellowship award from Connecticut also have UConn connections. Dr. Mimi DeLessio-Matta is a 1993 alumnus of the School of Dental Medicine, and Dr. Steven Ureles is a volunteer faculty member in the Division of Pediatric Dentistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn dental faculty and alums recognized for &#8220;outstanding professional achievement, meritorious service, and dedication of the continued progress of dentistry for the benefit of humankind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":133541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2166],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2315],"class_list":["post-179701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sdm"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:31:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179748,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179701\/revisions\/179748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/133541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179701"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=179701"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=179701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}