b'SECTION REPORTSSection IUSASection I has relaunched their annual meeting while driving forward access to project data and plans to provide dental care for veterans.Presidents Greetingto develop a similar list for Speciallando, Florida, at the Hilton Orlando Daniel W. Fridh Olympians.Buena Vista Palace, from Oct. 3-6, Helping Veterans 2023. We offered eight credits (four sessions)ofcontinuingeducation I have a particular passion to pro- on Wednesday, Oct. 4. Our execu-videdentalcareforveteransintive team is very excited about our need. Only eight percent of veter- future.ans can receive dental care throughEncouraging ParticipationtheU.S.VeteransAdministration. Thatleavesabout10millionU.S.Iacceptedaninvitationtogive veteranswithoutcare.PTSD,re- apresentationonMay21atthe tirement with minimal income, fear,Midwest Dental Conference in In-and embarrassment are all reasonsdianapolisentitled,Humanitarian why many veterans do not receive I t isl a great honor and privilegedental care. We are increasing par- service opportunities at home and ticipation in our projects Operation:abroad.Itismyhopethatsome toserveasthePresidentofStand Down, Everyone for Veteransof the hundreds who attended my SectionIUSA.Ihavevisited(E4V), and several local and districtsession were inspired to seek op-severa Districtmeetings,andIprojects.Weplantohireanindi- portunities to serve. am impressed by the enthusiasmvidualtocoordinatecontactinfor- I want to thank our excellent ICD andnumberofICDhumanitarianmation for each project. Our personUSA Section staff led by our Execu-service projects across the country. could help coordinate or scheduletive Director Elaine Wagner. We all the events. I feel that we have theknow how hard they work to make Aims and Ambitions opportunity to take a leadership roleour USA Section thrive.As part of our signature project, Iin coordinating and providing these hope to create a national databankhumanitarian services. Foundation Report of all the humanitarian service proj- Our Annual Meeting Michael Bydalekects we do. With this databank on our webpage, any Fellow could lookOne of my goals for this year is toTheUSASection up current project activities in theirbring Fellows back to a national an- Foundation (USAF) area.Non-memberscouldhavenual meeting, along with our con- BoardofTrustees accesstothesamedatasourcevocationandagreatcontinuing(BOT) has been dy-toresearchspecialservicesandeducationprogram,completewithnamicinitsreturn get contact information about eachvendors who would help to defrayto an effective num-project. We already have a list ofthe cost of the meeting. This yearberoftrustees(8), FellowswhowillgivefreePeacehasbeenastartingpointforcre- allowingincreasedvarietyinnew Corps dental exams that is acces- ating our national meeting format.strengthsandexperiencesforthe sibletoanyone.WearestartingOur annual meeting will be in Or- Foundation.4 J OURNAL OF THEI NTERNATIONALC OLLEGE OFD ENTISTS'