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Dr. Jane Margaret Chalmers passed away on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008, at her home in Iowa City following a long illness. Born Feb. 25, 1965, in Sydney, Australia, she married Knute Carter on Dec. 28, 1996. She received her Bachelor of Dental Science degree from the University of Melbourne in 1987. On leave from her position as head of the Community Dental Health Department at the United Dental Hospital in Sydney she completed a master of Dental Science degree in Dental Public Health at the University Of Iowa College Of Dentistry in 1995. After returning to Australia to work at the Dental Statistics and Research Unit she received her doctorate from the University of Adelaide in 2001. Since 2004 she was teaching and researching as an associate professor in Preventive and Community Dentistry at the University of Iowa. Jane will be remembered by patients and colleagues alike for her dedication to special care dentistry. She was an editor and reviewer for numerous journals, and throughout her career her work and contributions were repeatedly acknowledged as outstanding. Jane was internationally recognized as an expert in the care of those with special needs providing continuing education and seminars to dentists in many countries.

In memory and in honor of a valued colleague, Special Care Dentistry announces The Jane Chalmers Memorial Award. The Jane Chalmers Memorial Award will be presented annually to a member of the Special Care Dentistry Association who has demonstrated an outstanding achievement in the areas of minimally invasive dentistry, prevention and/or restorative oral health care. Please send contributions to: Special Care Dentistry Association, 401 North Michigan Ave., No. 2200, Attention: Ms. Sue Hanacek, Chicago, IL 60611.

2 of Jane's articles on Minimal Intervention Dentistry in Older Adults:

MID 1 Chalmers JCDA 2006

MID 2 Chalmers JCDA 2006