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Show FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT HEADS DENTISTRY UNIT Dept. of the Army, Office of the Surgeon General, Tech. Liaison Division, Di-vision, Washington 25, D. C Lt. Col. Russell W. Sumnicht, DC, has arrived at the Army Surgeon General's Gen-eral's Office to set up the new Preventive Pre-ventive Dentistry Branch. For the past year he has been a consultant to the chief of the Army Dental Corps, while serving on the staff of the Medical Field Service School, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Colonel Sumnicht was selected to head the new branch being established estab-lished to coordinate the preventive dentistry program, which is aimed at reducing the incidence of dental disease within the Army through the application of public health philosophies. In addition to his DDS degree fiom the University of Southern California (1940), Col. Sumnicht holds a Master of Public Health degree (1956) from the Johns Hopkins Hop-kins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Both Col. Sumnicht and his wife, the former Miss Iva Andreason, are natives of Bingham Canyon, Utah. The Colonel attended the University Univer-sity of Utah prior to his enrollment at the University of Southern California, Cali-fornia, and returned there for post graduate study after he left the service at the end of World War 11. As a member of the Utah National Na-tional Guard, Dr. Sumnicht was called to active duty in March 1941 and went to Hawaii as a dental officer of-ficer with the antLaircraft artillery that December. He remained there until May of 1945 when he returned return-ed to the Station Hospital, Fort Douglas, Utah, until discharged at the end of the year. On July 15, 1946, he was given a regular army commission, and held dental assignments at Brooke General, Walter Reed Army Institute Insti-tute of Research, and served a tour of duty in Germany, where in addition addi-tion to commanding a medical detachment, de-tachment, he was consultant in public health dentistry to the chief surgeon, U.S. Army Europe. |