Health Sciences Center for Global Health

OSU dentistry professor Cheryl Lampe examines a patient at a makeshift clinic near Kampala.

While many students packed their bags and headed home for the 2008 winter break, a group of OSU dental students traveled to Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, to provide local villagers with free dental care and oral health education.

Having already made a successful excursion to Uganda in 2007, the students recruited more volunteers to join the team for the December 2008 visit, which included: Cheryl Lampe, DDS (OSU faculty member), Chris Balsly and Jennifer Cohen (4th year dental students) and Dawn Broyles, Andy Gilbert and Tyrun Ray (3rd year dental students).