{"id":4751,"date":"2019-10-17T18:55:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T18:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2019-10-17T19:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T19:39:36","slug":"flushing-hospitals-dr-chad-p-gehani-elected-president-of-the-american-dental-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/flushing-hospitals-dr-chad-p-gehani-elected-president-of-the-american-dental-association\/","title":{"rendered":"In The News: Flushing Hospital\u2019s Dr. Chad P. Gehani Elected President of The American Dental Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/flushing-hospitals-dr-chad-p-gehani-elected-president-of-the-american-dental-association\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>Founded in 1859, the American Dental Association (ADA) is our nation\u2019s oldest and largest dental association.\u00a0 For more than 150 years the organization has been known nationally and internationally as the leading resource for all things related to oral health. Many of the oral care guidelines we are familiar with today were established by the American Dental Association and hundreds of dental care products that we use proudly bear the ADA\u2019s Seal of Acceptance as a symbol of quality assurance.<\/p>\n<p>Recently chosen to lead this globally recognized and influential American institution is Flushing Hospital Medical Center&#8217;s\u00a0own Dr. Chad P. Gehani, Chair of Endodontics. Dr. Gehani was elected as the 156<sup>th<\/sup> President of the American Dental Association in September.<\/p>\n<p>As President, Dr. Gehani describes his role as a servant-leader. \u00a0\u00a0He will lead close to 200,000\u00a0members of the ADA while advocating for patients\u2019 rights to access quality oral healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to serving as President of the ADA, Dr. Gehani\u00a0will continue to serve as a teacher and mentor to dental residents at Flushing Hospital.\u00a0 &#8220;My religious place is teaching at the hospital,&#8221; shared Dr. Gehani in a recent interview with NY1 News.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"dr gehani\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8NQgUH1y3UI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to have Dr. Gehani as Chair of Endodontics at Flushing Hospital and just as proud that he has been elected President of the American Dental Association.\u00a0 Dr. Gehani abides by a strict code of ethics which is reflected in the work that he does.\u00a0 He is community-oriented which is the culture promoted here at our hospital,\u201d said Mr. Robert Levine, Executive Vice President and COO of Flushing Hospital.\u00a0As Chair of Endodontics for the hospital,\u00a0Dr. Gehani&#8217;s goal\u00a0is to offer high-quality dental services to patients and provide resources that will benefit the community.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, Flushing Hospital collaborates with the American Dental Association to promote the Give Kids a Smile Program, providing a day of free preventative dental care to children in the community.\u00a0\u00a0 The hospital\u2019s dental department also offers free dental screenings, oral cancer screenings, and oral health education in schools, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and several local organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareFounded in 1859, the American Dental Association (ADA) is our nation\u2019s oldest and largest dental association.\u00a0 For more than 150 years the organization has been known nationally and internationally as the leading resource for all things related to oral health. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/flushing-hospitals-dr-chad-p-gehani-elected-president-of-the-american-dental-association\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4761,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/4761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}