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WEST ALLIS, WIS., Nov. 20, 2007 – Brookfield resident Dr. Monica Hebl was sworn in as the 136th president of the 2,900-member Wisconsin Dental Association on Nov. 10, 2007 at the organization’s annual House of Delegates meeting in Middleton.

Hebl, a general dentist in Milwaukee, joined the father and son team of Drs. Stanley and Michael Donohoo in practice after she graduated from Marquette University School of Dentistry in 1985.

“I fell in love with dentistry when I was 14 and working my first real job as a dental assistant for my mentor Dr. Stan Donohoo. At the tender age of 15, I decided dentistry was the career for me,” explains Hebl.

A Medicaid provider for 22 years, Hebl was the only general dentist from the private sector to serve on the Governor’s Task Force to Improve Access to Oral Health Care in 2004 and 2005. Her professional credentials include Greater Milwaukee Dental Association president, trustee for the WDA Greater Milwaukee Region 3 and a member of the WDA delegation to the American Dental Association annual House of Delegates since 1999.

Her extensive involvement on behalf of organized dentistry has been recognized with two WDA Pyramid of Pride awards and fellowship in the International College of Dentists and the Pierre Fauchard Academy.

Other WDA officers include:

• President-Elect Dr. H. Michael Kaske is a general dentist who lives and practices in Twin Lakes. A 1977 graduate of MUSOD, Kaske is past-president of the Burlington Dental Society and recently served as WDA trustee for Southeast Region 4. He holds the rank of captain in the U.S. Navy with 31 years of service, including 28 in the reserves. The first dental officer competitively selected for a major medical command, Kaske was commanding officer of the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in California from 2002 – 2004.

• Vice President Dr. Kent Vandehaar is a private-practicing general dentist who lives and works in Chippewa Falls. Vandehaar has represented the WDA Northwest Region 1 as trustee since 2002 and is currently fulfilling a four-year term on the ADA Council on Dental Practice. Locally, he was president of the Northwest District Dental Society in 1996 and has been a member of the Chippewa Falls 2010 Oral Health Task Force since 2002. Vandehaar graduated from the University of Iowa’s School of Dentistry in 1981. 

• Dr. Michael Donohoo, Wauwatosa resident and general dentist practicing in Milwaukee for 27 years, was re-elected to his fourth term as speaker of the WDA House of Delegates. A 1980 Marquette dental school graduate, Donohoo was GMDA president in 1994 – 1995 and WDA president in 2002 – 2003. Donohoo served on the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration Advisory Committee on Primary Care Training, Medicine and Dentistry from 2002 – 2005.

• Dr. John R. Moser, a Milwaukee resident with a general dentistry practice in the city’s Third Ward, is the new treasurer. A 1982 graduate of Marquette dental school, he completed the American Academy of Orthodontics for the General Practitioner Twin Wire Orthodontics Clinical Course in 1989. Moser has been an adjunct clinical assistant professor in Marquette’s Department of General Dentistry since 1994. He is active in organized dentistry at the local, state and national levels, including serving as GMDA president in 2001 – 2002 and as WDA trustee for Greater Milwaukee Region 3 since 2002. He has been honored with fellowship in the American College of Dentists and the Pierre Fauchard Academy, two ADA Golden Apple Awards and two WDA Pyramids of Pride.

• Eva C. Dahl, DDS, MS, who lives in Onalaska, is immediate past-president of the WDA. Dahl graduated in 1976 from the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry and earned a certificate in endodontics there in 1982. She was with Gundersen Clinic for 14 years before opening Endodontic Specialists of La Crosse, Ltd. in Onalaska in 1996. From 1986 – 1994, Dahl served on Wisconsin’s Dentistry Examining Board. She has held a variety of local, state and national organized dentistry posts, including several years as trustee for the 21-county WDA Southwest Region 5.

The WDA board is also welcoming four new trustees:

• Dr. David Kenyon will help represent Northwest Region 1. Kenyon, an Eau Claire resident has a general dentistry practice in Altoona.

• New Berlin resident and Hales Corner general dentist Dr. Thomas Raimann will serve as one of three Milwaukee-area Region 3 trustees on the board.

• Dr. L. Stanley Brysh, a Middleton resident and chair of the Department of Dentistry at Madison’s Meriter Hospital, is the newest trustee from Southwest Region 5.

• Marinette native and Milwaukee resident Laura Barrette is a third-year dental student at Marquette. She’ll represent all of the school’s dental students on the WDA board for one year. 

Established in 1870, the Wisconsin Dental Association (WDA) is headquartered in West Allis. With more than 2,900 members statewide, the WDA represents the vast majority of practicing dentists in Wisconsin. Its members are committed to promoting professional excellence and quality oral health care. The WDA is one of 53 constituent (state-territorial) dental societies of the American Dental Association. For more information on the WDA, call 414-276-4520 or visit www.wda.org.

CONTACT:                 Carol S. Weber, APR, Director of Public Relations
PHONE:                     414-755-4108
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