Touro SPEA

12/04/2022

Hi everyone!

Come learn about ethical dilemmas and leadership in dentistry with Dr. Rico Short, DMD. Dr. Short is a well-noted lecturer and endodontist. He owns a private practice in Georgia. This lecture will occur on December 8 at 5:15 pm in the testing center. Pizza and drinks will be provided! Hope to see you there!

12/01/2020

Don't forget to join us TOMORROW for SPEA's (Student Professionalism and Ethics Association) Interest Meeting at 6:00pm via Zoom. The purpose of this meeting will be to share information on the club, events, and discuss future elections for all positions. Join us to find out what SPEA is all about!

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/93343491202?pwd=YUJXU01LWGVxeU53cmUzQzA4U0tTUT09

Meeting ID: 933 4349 1202
Passcode: 5VZJPa

10/27/2020

🚨FINAL REMINDER🚨

‼️Tune in Wednesday, October 28th @ 6:30pm via zoom with our guest speaker Dr. Alex Barrera, DDS on the topic- LGBTQ+ In Dentistry: Become a Better Ally‼️

Dr. Barrera currently lives in Texas and has had a lot of discussions with local Texas dental schools on equality in the dental field. We are very lucky to have him join us! You don’t want to miss out🦷

10/07/2020

🚨FINAL REMINDER🚨

‼️Tune in Tuesday, October 28th @ 6:30pm via zoom with our guest speaker Dr. Alex Barrera, DDS on the topic- LGBTQ+ In Dentistry: Become a Better Ally‼️

Dr. Barrera currently lives in Texas and has had a lot of discussions with local Texas dental schools on equality in the dental field. We are very lucky to have him join us! You don’t want to miss out🦷

02/19/2020

Congratulations to our 2019 SPEA Ping Pong Champions 🦋🎊
Singles Champion, Roman Serniak ‘21 (runner up Andrew Gibbs ‘21)
Doubles Champions, Roman Serniak ‘21 and Andrew Gibbs ‘21 🏓
Roman and Andrew have been training for our tournament and it showed!! Hard work and effort pay off 💪🏼
Thanks to everyone who came out and played/supported 🙌🏻🔥
See you all next year 🤞🏼

06/21/2019

Check out our President, Jessica Li ‘20, and VP of Finance, Sabrina Mellusi ‘20, in the May 2019 issue of New York State Dental Association News representing our Student Professionalism and Ethics Association in Dentistry (SPEA) Chapter 🙌🏻

03/27/2019

A flower for you, a flower for you, and a flower for you too!
Spread some appreciation for your classmates, faculty, and staff by sending some of your favorite people carnations!
The SPEA Carnation Appreciation Fundraiser kicks off today where orders can be made via the google form below. The google form will remain open until Monday, April 29th and all flowers will be delivered on Monday, May 6th and Tuesday, May 7th.
Flowers are 1 for $2 and 3 flowers for $5. All payments can be made to Sabrina Mellusi or Venmo .
Buy as many carnations as you would like by clicking the link below!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TsGdfmbBnU5XMJg5pTQV5RKJUYQYxXn-Q30BQqXByYA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1eldkILETGvZM3qTE2JuCnTGu9HKsZMBUnN11SlE6565qL82cEaNciz0Y&edit_requested=true

02/21/2019

Good morning!
Just a reminder that today is the last day to pick up a TCDM PROUD pin in the lounge from 12pm-1pm!

02/05/2019

What’s Touro SPEA been up to?! This past weekend and attended the ACD Regency 1 meeting in Boston. Amazing ideas were shared and much was learned from other SPEA chapters. Stay tuned for a special Touro SPEA launch in a couple of weeks!! . 📸 cred to the amazing .bauman .
@ Seaport Boston Hotel

01/07/2019

💡STUDENT SPOTLIGHT💡
Our 5th and final Student Spotlight features out Chapter Founder & President, 👩🏻‍⚕️
Jessica founded our SPEA chapter in the fall of 2016 with our Chapter’s faculty advisor, Dr. Eric Wachs. Under her leadership and the hard work & dedication of our executive board, our chapter has held 8 events in just over 2 years 🙌🏻
Double tap to show Jessica some love 💞
Thank you for following our Student Spotlight features & stay tuned for more info on upcoming events and (potentially) new executive board members 🎊

12/30/2018

💡STUDENT SPOTLIGHT💡
Meet our VP of Finance and another one of our MVPs, Sabrina 👏🏼
Sabrina helped to make our 2018 ADA CEBJA Video and she was also FEATURED in it as the main character 😱🎊 You can view this full video by click on one of our previous posts 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Like this image to show Sabrina some love 💞

12/27/2018

Check out our winning entry for this year‘s American Dental Association Dental Student Ethics Video Contest featuring our very talented peers.
Thank you to all of our actors: Ahono Gildersleeve, Josh Lilly, Jennifer Mehrens, Umar Pasha, and of course our wonderful executive board actors: Jessica Li, Lisa Perlow, Sabrina Mellusi, Venessa Callejo, and George Rubin. Special thank you to our videographer and editor, Joonho Hong.
Joonho can be reached at Johong729@gmail.com

Sabrina Mellusi and Jessica Li of the Touro College of Dental Medicine won the Grand Prize for CEBJA’s 2018 Student Ethics Video Contest. The students create...