Pitt Dental Medicine would like to thank everyone who helped make Pitt Day of Giving (PDoG) 2025 a success.
Your support for Pitt Dental Medicine helped us reach our PDoG goals with a lot of noteworthy milestones and celebrations along the way.
The most exciting news is that Pitt Dental Medicine raised a whopping $137,545 from 302 donors, including a challenge gift of $12,500 from the Pitt Dental Medicine Board of Visitors because we surpassed our PDoG goals.
Not only was the day full of generosity and kindness, but it was a day about community and togetherness.
Pitt Dental Medicine once again brought our community together at the annual Pitt Dental Medicine PDoG Dog and Mini-Panther show. This year we beat past participation records and had more than 80 entries for the show from students, residents, staff, and faculty.
Here are the Pitt Dental Medicine PDoG Giving Stats
This year, Pitt Dental Medicine ranked seventh in the PDoG School & College Raise the Bar Leaderboard challenge among all schools at Pitt, and we were eighth in the School & College Level Up Leaderboard challenge.
Reaching a spot on the PDoG School & College Leaderboards unlocks challenge money from the University. We do not have the amount from the University leaderboard challenge yet – but know that our grand total raised on PDoG 2025 will increase even more once that is all said and done! Stay tuned!
- We had an exciting display of community with Challenge Gifts from members of the Pitt Dental Medicine Alumni Association who incentivized giving to department funds:
• Orthodontics unlocked $3,000 from Dr. Steve Iszkula (DMD ’07, Ortho ’10);
• Pediatric Dentistry unlocked $1,000 from Dr. Deb Studen-Pavlovich (DMD ’80, Pedo ’83); and
• Endodontics unlocked a $1,000 gift from Dr. Patrick DeMarco (DMD’94, Endo ’97). - The Center for Patients with Special Needs (CPSN) unlocked a gift of $500 from an anonymous donor.
- We had a tremendous response from our school community who participated in the Dean Oakley challenges:
• Residents and OCS students had a 92% participation rate in this year’s PDoG which unlocked lunch provided by Dean Oakley;
• The Dental Hygiene Program Fund had the most donors and unlocked an additional $500 from Dean Oakley; and
• The Graduate Endodontic Program in Dental Medicine Fund raised the most money ($12,260) and unlocked an extra $500 from Dean Oakley - Bonus: An additional $500 donation was made by Dean Oakley to Pediatric Dentistry for increases in total number of PDoG donors that was shared between both the Pediatric Dentistry Resident Fund and the Pediatric Dental Care Fund.
Together we made it “Possible at Pitt” and kept our Panther Pride going. Thank you to those who were able to join us in person at this event and everyone who supported our school with your energy and involvement.
Pitt Dental Medicine personally thanks the following supporters who agreed to permit us to share their names:
Maryam Abbasi
Halima Abukabbos
Abi Adewumi
Ishan Ahuja
Snigdha Arora
Huda Aziz
Nicole Badilla
Susan Ban
Martinna Bertolini
Jeffrey Borandi
David Borota
Willow Boswinkle
Maria Brasili
Colton Brown
Joseph Browning
Karen Buckenheimer
Terry Buckenheimer
Lauren Burrell
Cynthia Caldwell
Fiorella Candamo
Brooke Capolupo
David Capolupo
Teresa Capristo
Antonio Cardoso
Leticia Chaves de Souza
Yejin Cho
Kelly Colwell
Matthew Cooke
Richard Craven
Jennifer Dawkins-Hill
Donna DeMarco
Patrick DeMarco
Megan Denny
Emma Di Carlo
Sara Dickey
Craig Dietz
Rosann Donahoe
Kira Douglas
Jim Earle
Debra Evans
Cecile Feldman
Kristen Felser
Adam Feuer
Matthew Ficca
Thomas Forrest
Cindy Franceschelli
Pat M Franceschelli
Jadyn Garbart
Rand Ghazala
Joseph Giovannitti
Joshua Goldfaden
Adriana Gomes Da Silva
Richard Gradisek
Sarah Grafton
Holly Green
Reagan Griffith
Michael Grimes
Michael Hanna
Soleman Haque
Theresa Heaton
Daniel Hengst
Suzie Hengst
John Hoglund
Katherine Horn
Richard Horwat
Steven Kaltman
Giuseppe Intini
Jill Iszkula
Steve Iszkula
Tyler Jacques
Shobena Jeevan Jeevan Sethu
Ryan Jenkens
Renee Kalp
Xiomara Kanhai
Sidharth Kannan
Nadia Kasinec
Jon Katherine
Jamie Kaufer
Salil Kawatra
Carol Keane
Caroline Kearney
Ariana Kelly
Angie Kim
Doug Kistler
Jason Klevansky
Joseph Klevansky
Julie Klevansky
Matthew Korbich
Michael Korch
Edward Korenman
Courtney Kramer
Amy Krause
Kevin Kryder
Maribeth Krzesinski
Steve Kukunas
Britt Kush
Heather Laabs
Michael LaFrankie
Richard Laing
Nick Lang
Joan LaVigna
Nick LaVigna
William LaVigna
Ariadne Letra
Philip Levinson
Winnie Levinson
Barbara Liberati
Gary Liberati
Tiffany Lieu
Denise Mancini
James Mancini
Janel Marcelino
Henry Margolis
Megan Mauer
Lawrence Mauro
Ean Maxwell
Madison Maxwell
Molly McManus
Sarah McMullen
Alex Menard
Justin Meyer
James Meyers
Kimberly Meyers
Philip Michaelson
Doris Mierwald
Mark Mooney
Cyrus Mozayan
Regina Munsch
Robert Nassif
Fred Natale
Charlene Nerone
Randy Nerone
Robert Nerone
Roberta Nerone
Michael Nimmich
Megan Nixon
Isaac No
Marnie Oakley
Thomas Palumbo
Eunah Park
Lauri Passeri
George Pavlovich
Roger Pflugfelder
Brittany Platt
Lee Pollan
Jenna Pollock
Anitha Potluri
Indira Rai
Keith Richmond
Alyssa Rick
Tabitha Riggio
Adrien Roberts
Neil Robertson
Sara Ruby
Mark Saxen
Francesca Scaramucci
Nathaniel Semanek
Al Seyedain
Alivia Shasteen
Revathi Shekar
Patricia Siana
Lucas Silva
Sean Simon
Ellen Slone
Jeffrey Slone
Anthony Smith
Michael Spithaler
John Staivecki
Jo Stern
Norman Stern
Linda Straub-Bruce
Regina Stroud
Sara Jane Studen
Deborah Studen-Pavlovich
Lotus Su
Cortino Sukotjo
Kurt Summersgill
David Susko
Kayla Swiech
James Tauberg
Robert Tisot
Kelly Tsimidis Vukas
Joe Virga
Steven Vukas
Bruno Walkowiak
Isabel Walkowiak
Marcia Walsh
Rebecca Watkins
Jacob Watts
Simon Weinstein
Sally Weiser
William Weiser
Saul Weisfeld
Ilsa West
Chris Whitford
Debbie Whitford
Elyza Wiles
Sydney Williams
Marian Wolford
Ashley Yarabinec
Christine Zielmanski
Harry Zohn