Alpha Omega The Oldest International Dental Organization
Alpha Omega is the oldest international dental organization in the world and was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1907 by a group of dental students originally to fight discrimination in dental schools. 2010 marks another milestone in our storied 103 year history as Alpha Omega welcomes our first female International President, Dr. Charlene Berkman of Bayside, New York. Dr. Berkman along with Dr. Marcy Schwartzman of Vancouver, Canada, who is the current International Secretary, were elected to the Alpha Omega Administrative Committee at the 2008 Annual Convention which was held in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Concept of the Global Oral Health Initiative
A Project of the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity
 Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity (Alpha Omega) is a 100+ year old organization, founded by Jewish dental students at the University of Baltimore and Philadelphia dental schools in 1907. Originally, its purpose was for the battling of discrimination which was prevalent in the dental community. Preference for Caucasian non-Jews in dental school admission processes and in being included as equal members in the practicing community, created an environment that propagated stereotypes and prevented a diversification of ideas, growth, and development in dentistry. Alpha Omega’s charge was to raise awareness of these issues and to stand up when race or creed was used to make decisions concerning dental education and practice.
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A Survivor's Story
Dov Friedman
 I was born in 1921 in Czechoslovakia in the town of Sevlush which had a Jewish population of 3,000. *
My family consisted of two parents and 5 brothers and sisters. I don't know what happened to them during the war, according to my knowledge they all died.
My father was a grain merchant who had a good life and made a good living, we lived in a house and my two sisters were married. I had ten years of formal education and then I learned to be a tailor, in the evening I learned in a "Heder".
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Your AO Board Hard At Work
A great time was had by all, and much was accomplished at Alpha Omega’s Board of Directors midyear meeting at the Marriott Harbor Beach Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Meeting from July 22 – 24 with our new management company, Third Eye, the meetings were very productive. We are still the voice of the Jew in dentistry, and, to that end, we continue to be vigilant in speaking out against anti-Semitism, discrimination and insensitivity, wherever it shows it’s ugly head. Our younger members have expressed interest in social action and so we spent considerable time on discussion of better ways to provide community service.
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The Tel Aviv University School of Dental Medicine Reopens It is with much pleasure that I announce that the Tel Aviv University
Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, Founded by the Alpha
Omega Fraternity, has begun admission of new students for the first year
of studies. This step constitutes a final commitment by the University
to "reopen" the School. All that has happened followed the agreement by
the University that an objective committee be appointed with a mandate
to investigate the most pressing needs of the Dental School.
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Dr. Silverstein Receives Trudi Birger Award
Chicago, Il June 7, 2010, ADA News -- Dr. Irvin Silverstein, La Mesa, Calif., received the 2009
Trudi Birger Award for volunteerism from the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity.
The award is named in honor of Trudi Birger, a Holocaust survivor and
founder of the Dental Volunteers for Israel free clinic in Jerusalem,
which treats children of all faiths and nationalities, ages 5-18.
Read Article>>> (by clicking on link you will be taken to the ADA website)
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Frater Ben Williamowsky at Capitol Hill News Conference
WASHINGTON, May 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Barbara Kennelly of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and Dr. Ben Williamowsky of Silver Spring, Md., a Medicare recipient, held a news conference today to discuss benefits of and misconceptions about the Affordable Care Act and Medicare.
The participants highlighted a four-page brochure, Medicare and the New Health Care Law, What it Means for You, which was mailed by HHS this week to seniors. It outlines the benefits for Medicare recipients in the new health insurance reform law.
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