2024-2025 Executive Committee

UKCD ASDA’s Executive Committee consists of President, President Elect, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. These five are responsible for overseeing the organization’s committees, ensuring that there are ongoing events that are inclusive for all members. Exec plans and executes our FEVER Week each fall and works together to make sure that members see the value in ASDA membership! Exec attends ASDA’s annual conferences to represent our chapter when advocating for our students and chapters, and selects our national leaders.

Victoria Crane

President | Class of 2025

Morgan Dailey

Secretary | Class of 2026

Sydney Wahl

President Elect | Class of 2026

Wyatt Vanlangendonck

Treasurer | Class of 2025

Ciara Sandefur

Vice President | Class of 2025

Saturday Morning Clinic Committee

Saturday Morning Clinic (SMC) is a clinic that UKCD ASDA hosts for children in the Lexington community once a month and is organized by Saturday Morning Clinic Committee. SMC was started more than 40 years ago by students wanting to promote good oral health, while giving back to the community. Its mission is to serve as a dental home for the children of Lexington and central Kentucky who are from underserved communities, uninsured and underinsured. The committee, composed of 5 D3s and 5 D4s, is responsible for communicating with student volunteers and students on rotation, calling patients to confirm appointments, ordering breakfast for all volunteers, and coordinating students with patients based on treatment needs and student abilities. Cooridnators are also responsible for patient check in and check out, ensuring that each SMC is ran efficiently, and reporting correct dental codes, determining number of services provided and monetary amount of care received so that a final report can be sent out monthly. We are proud to say that we, on average, we provide over $4,000 in dental care every month!

Predental Committee

Our predental committee works hard to plan engaging and helpful events, not only for predental students at the University of Kentucky, but for predental students across the state of Kentucky. In the past, we have hosted webinars and hand skills events like drilling and filling. This past spring, we hosted a Residency Panel that allowed students to talk with current residents and professionals about their respective programs and fields of study. Stay tuned for future events - we look forward to serving predental students from across the nation to encourage them to join such a great profession.

Gold Crown Committee

ASDA’s Gold Crown Awards are presented annually at Annual Session. Gold Crown Awards recognize chapters that are committed to promoting ASDA’s missions through chapter programming. Categories include member engagement & value, community service, advocacy, health & wellness, member communications, and professional development & leadership. There is even an overall “Gold Crown” award presented to one outstanding chapter each year. UKCD ASDA’s Gold Crown Committee is tasked with writing and submitting our Gold Crown Awards application for consideration in being presented with one of these awards. They also work to create a video that highlights our chapter’s events and successes from the previous year. We are hopeful to win one or more awards in the coming year!

ASDA Day Committee

ASDA Day Committee coordinates our ASDA Day, a day of professional development including a lecture course in the morning followed by vendor fair in the afternoon. The keynote speaker selected to present at ASDA Day is a leader in their respective field and allows students the explore dentistry in a new light. This committee is in charge of vendor relations, organizing a vendor fair where students are able to speak with various vendors, network with local businesses, and explore potential job opportunities. Students are able to experience the dental landscape as they prepare to enter practice.

Lunch & Learn Committee

Lunch & Learns nourish students’ minds and bodies. Students are able to engage in meaningful conversations with partners in the dental industry, learn about possible job opportunities, and connect with dental partners through programming during their lunch hour. Lunch & Learn Committee is tasked with coordinating said Lunch & Learns with various dental partners, arrange the delivery of lunch, send out registration for each event, and ensure that students who sign up to attend, attend the lunch.

Fundraising Committee

Fundraising Committee is responsible for helping us raise money for the organization. Our fundraising team uses their creative sides to come up with exciting, new UKCD merchandise that is appealing to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and family members! Each semester, we hold a clothing drive using different designs so that there is something for everybody. In the recent past we have held FIGS fundraisers, Dental Socks fundraisers, an ornament fundraiser painted by a local artist, koozies, and held a Pet Madness bracket during March Madness. We look forward to seeing what our current fundraising committee comes up over the next year.

Council on Advocacy

The Council on Advocacy serves to encourage advocacy among our students and provide knowledge on current legislation that affects us as providers as well as the patients we are going to serve. The Licensure Chair provides information on licensure to our fourth year students, and the Legislative Liaison is responsible for planning advocacy events for all of our students. We have some exciting events in the works, including a Lunch & Learn with members of our faculty who are involved in the KDA and ADA. Our Legislative Liaison also helps coordinate the students who will attend the ADA & ASDA Dentist & Student Lobby Day in Washington, D.C.

Niki Armstrong

Licensure Chair | Class of 2025

Hannah Tsai

Legislative Liaison | Class of 2026

Social Committee

ASDA certainly knows how to have fun - Social Committee assists the organization in hosting social events for our members. Some of our favorites include Keeneland Tailgates, our annual Halloween Party at XOXO, Mr. Molar, and tailgates at various UK sporting events. We want members to feel that they are getting value out of their membership in ASDA, so this committee works hard to ensure events are happening that students actually want to go to! Some other events in the works include bar crawls, welcome back picnic, and kickball, volleyball, and pickleball.

ASDA Class Representatives

ASDA Class Representatives keep communication open between students and exec - representatives inform students of the events that are going on and how to be involved. Class reps send flyers in their respective group chats, ensuring that no one is left without communication.

Tanner Sauley

D4 Class Rep | Class of 2025

Lance Johnson

D3 Class Rep | Class of 2026

Josh Howells

D2 Class Rep | Class of 2027

Wellness Committee

Wellness Committee hosts wellness events for our students. In the past, we used to host Wellness Week once per semester, but we hosted a successful Wellness Moth this past April. Students were able to focus on wellness, balancing both their professional and personal lives. The committee arranges for weekly breakfasts and workout classes so that there is something for everyone to participate in. This year we encouraged participation in a 5K hosted by our school, aligning with physical and environmental wellness. There were weekly activities to participate in, such as an energy drink giveaway, compliment wall, and bracelet making. Each week there was a raffle for those who participated in the weekly activities. Members were also eligible for the raffle by completing one of our social media challenges highlighting one of ASDA’s pillars of wellness. We are super proud of our Wellness Committee and excited to see what they accomplish next semester.

Philanthropy Committee

Our Philanthropy Committee is dedicated to helping our Lexington community. This committee organizes volunteer nights at Mission Lexington, a local clinic that provides free dental care to the uninsured. Members are able to volunteer monthly under the supervision of one of our faculty from UKCD. Each year, ASDA hosts Wine Night, our largest philanthropic event of the year. Wine Night is a wine tasting event coupled with a silent auction, and proceeds from the event are donated to Mission Lex. This past semester, Philanthropy came up with lots of ideas of how we can better serve our community as an organization. For Memorial Day, we had a tabling event making hygiene bags that were donated to Veterans Affairs. We intend to do this biannually, for Memorial Day and Veterans Day! We are excited to see all of the ways we can give back this upcoming semester.

Diversity & Inclusion Chair

Our Diversity & Inclusion Chair works hard to ensure that every voice is heard and represented within UKCD and beyond. We have created a highlight reel on our Instagram dedicated to celebrating people, ensuring that everyone feels heard, valued, and represented. Our D&I chair creates these posts and has done a wonderful job so far!

Social Media

Our social media team manages our social media, creates content and videos for our social media and Gold Crown Awards, and keeps our website up to date. Our Social Media Chair also creates appealing content to post on our social media platforms that engages students and members with our organization.