About the Association of Army Dentistry
To promote Army Dentistry, to support the U.S. Army Dental Corps, the Army Medical Department, our Army and our Country, and to recognize efforts that made the Army Dental Corps strong for more than 100 years.
The Association of Army Dentistry (AAD) is incorporated in the state of Texas and recognized by the IRS as non-profit under IRS Section 501(C)(3).
The Association is managed by a:
- Board of Directors
- Elected President
- Executive Director
- Secretary-Treasurer
- Constitution and By-Laws
“Once a Soldier, Always a Soldier…a Soldier for Life”
The “U.S. Army Retired Soldier Handbook” is for Soldiers and family members. It provides information on retirement programs, benefits and entitlements.
We are organized to provide ways and means to continue service to our nation and its soldiers. Please join us in activities to promote morale, support recruitment, recognize and honor past accomplishments and all who serve and have served the nation by means of Army Dentistry.
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4) Select “Edit Profile”
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After US Army Dental Corps career, I continued my professional career in academics. First at Emory U. and then the Medical college of Georgia. I retired in 2007, moved to Maryland and saw patients on several OMFS offices part time until 2016 when Parkinson’s made practice inappropriate. Over all the years since retirement from WRAMC, I kept in touch visiting a number of DENTACs as a consultant and by membership and active participation on the Board of Directors, including President of the Walter Reed Society. That organization is completely volunteer and serves to support military patients, their families and their caregivers at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Ft Belvoir and surrounding installations. The Board is comprised primarily of retired senior health care officers and NCO, many of whom I enjoyed serving with at WRAMC. WRS membership numbers over 600 military, dependents and friends of WRAMC, WRNMMC, and anyone interested in assisting in our altruistic mission. My participation has given meaning to my retirement and kept me in touch with similarly motivated people. I highly recommend you, my colleagues inquire by visiting the Walter Reed Society web site.
Joe
I invite any interested AAD members to the annual Walter Reed Society Holiday get together on 8 December from 1300 to 1600 at the Dining Hall of USUHS Medical School on the Bethesda Campus of Walter Reed [WRNMMC] at my expense. Just let me know you will attend and whether you will be accompanied. my email is: j_ konzelman@comcast.net. We are also planning a reunion of former Walter Reed Army Medical Center staff to be held on the WRAMC campus in October of 2020. That promises to be a truly memorable event for those of us who served at that outstanding installation.
I had previously been in the ADC AD 6/80 to 6/84, where I did a 1 yr GPR & then was selected by my CO Col. Emery Russell, (OS) ,to go to the 97th Gen. Hosp. OS Depart. & participate in a 1 yr of Exodontia & Anesthesia Program before assuming the position of Chief of the OS Service at the Hansa Allee DC in Frankfurt, Germany. I also frequently got to go back to the 97th’s OR to be 2nd, then 1st Surgeon on Trauma & Orthognathic cases. I left the military & established a very successful practice & after hiring a couple of Gen. Dentist I was able to limit my practice to OS, with also a strong referral base from other GD’s. I was requested to return to ADC on AD in 9/08, after being out for 25 yrs w/o any add’l military training & was stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY to serve as the Chief of the OS Service & asst. OIC at Taylor DC. I then deployed to Iraq summer & fall of 09′ to be the OIC at the Taji DC. I was quartered 1/2 mile from a Burn Pit & in late Fall helicoptered to Ballad where I was involve in an incident that broke 2 lower vertebra in my lower back, severe damaged to my R wrist, Neck & L knee. Also while in Taji I developed what later, continued to worsen , & became a Serv. Conn’d permanent 40% loose of lung function, again from exposure to the BP’s as I was also exposed to in Ballad. After redeploying to the Ft. Campbell, I had multiple surgeries & while healing went back to work at my clinic. I completed my 4 yr obligation & returned to practice for a short time before I had to retire & shortly after that discovered I had developed Multiple Myeloma, which had journey has continued ever since, till now they have done all the treatment options available & that’s after 2 different Transplants & every Chemo Therapy they have, at both the Mayo Clinic & the Univ. of Iowa Oncology Departments. And after multiple claims I have not had any success Service Connecting the cancer. I would appreciated a Membership Roster so I can contact some of the officers I served with while I am still around.
Thanks, Jim Townsend, DDS, LTC (Rev).