Dental Hygiene Department

Miranda Drake, Chairperson
Center for Health Education, Room 317
(605) 658-5964
dh@usd.edu
www.usd.edu/dh

FACULTY

Associate Professors:

Carissa Regnerus, Lead Clinic Director, Clinical Dental Hygiene

Assistant Professor of Practice:

Miranda Drake, Chair, Clinical Dental Hygiene

Assistant Professors:

Molly Molencamp, Clinical Dental Hygiene
Katie Williams, Clinical Dental Hygiene

Clinical Instructors:

Melissa Brandner, Dentist
Ann Grunewaldt, Clinic Manager, Clinical Dental Hygiene
Kelsey Irish, Clinical Dental Hygiene
Michelle Jarding, Sioux Falls Clinic Director, Clinical Dental Hygiene
Tara Koele, Clinical Dental Hygiene
Blake Kopf, Dentist
Heather Prosser, Clinical Dental Hygiene
Alleana Schwiesow, Clinical Dental Hygiene
Lasandra Wilson, Clinical Dental Hygiene

Staff:

Crystal Barnes, Sioux Falls Clinic Receptionist
Julie Fallan, Pre-DH Academic Advisor
Jessica Pierret, Sioux Falls Dental Assistant
Katie Ray, Delta Dental Oral Health Center Receptionist
Nicole Solomon, Program Assistant

Emeritus:

Ann Brunick, Emeritus
Beverly Kennedy, Emeritus
Robert Nelson, Emeritus
Debralee Nelson, Emeritus

MAJOR:

Dental Hygiene, B.S.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Please contact the department for additional information about available scholarships and awards. Also see School of Health Sciences for school level scholarships. Some awards have very specific criteria and/or may be designated for the University’s Promise Scholars Program.

Black Hills District Dental Society Scholarship
USD Dental Hygiene Alumni Scholarship
Dental Hygiene Scholarship
Dr. Carmen Sutley Memorial Scholarship
Dorothy Francis Yeoman Memorial Scholarship
Dr. Darrell R. & Gretchen Ludeman Scholarship
John & Shelly Aesoph Dental Hygiene Scholarship
Lonna Wallway Jones Dental Hygiene Scholarship
Lulu B. Wheeler-Dental Hygiene Scholarship
Scott & Julia Jones Leadership Scholarship
Kevin Burr and Leslie Sanders Dental Hygiene Scholarship
SD Dental Foundation Scholarship
Stephanie Asheim Young Memorial Scholarship
Southeast SD District Dental Society Scholarship
SD Dental Hygienists’ Association Scholarship
USD DH Public Health Service Scholarship
Jeff & Marcia Sven Scholarship

Student Learning Outcomes for Dental Hygiene (B.S.)

Students will intentionally engage with diversity in ways that increase awareness, content knowledge, cognitive sophistication, and empathic understanding of the complex ways individuals interact within systems and institutions leading to opportunities for equal access to participation in educational and community programs for all members of society.
Students will be able to assess their own ethical values and the social context of problems, recognize ethical issues in a variety of settings, think about how different ethical perspectives might be applied to ethical dilemmas and consider the ramifications of alternative actions.
Students will design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.
Students will interact with other students and evaluate the effort put into team tasks, interactions with others, and the quantity and quality made to team discussions.
Students will comprehensively explore issues, ideas, artifacts and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion, and combine or synthesize existing ideas, images or expertise in original ways reflecting a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
Students will demonstrate knowledge that is fundamental to the discipline of dental hygiene.
Students will demonstrate clinical skills acceptable to the discipline of dental hygiene.
Students will demonstrate appropriate professional demeanor and ethical reasoning.

Programs

Dental Hygiene (B.S.)