Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists Bulletin Fall 2019 - 9

2019 PCSO Honorees

2019 PCSO Lifetime Achievement
Award
This award recognizes a PCSO member with at
least 20 years in the practice of orthodontics who
has demonstrated exceptional personal effort
to advance the art and science of the orthodontic specialty. The individual must exemplify the
highest ethical standards in all aspects of life
and the practice of orthodontics and live his or
her professional life committed to the pursuit of
excellence.

Dr. Gary R. Baughman

Dr. Gary R. Baughman was raised in a small Ohio
town as the second of four children, attended
public schools, and graduated summa cum laude
from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1969
with a degree in chemistry and as a member of
the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa academic honor
society. Following college, he was married to
his high school sweetheart, Carol, and graduated from The Ohio State University College of
Dentistry in 1973 as class valedictorian. He then
served in the US Navy as a dental officer in Alameda, California, for two years before returning
to his native Midwest and orthodontic residency
in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1977.
The Baughmans returned to Northern California,
and after an interim time working in the Bay Area,
settled in Stockton, where he practiced for the
next 38 years, totaling 44 years in dentistry and
40 years in the great specialty of orthodontics
before retiring in December 2017.
He has been a diplomate of the American Board
of Orthodontics (ABO) since 1989 and is a member of the American College of Dentists and the
International College of Dentists.
Along the way, service to his specialty became a
way of repaying everyone who encouraged and
mentored him throughout his career. It started
with his service as president of the San Joaquin
Dental Society, then as a delegate to the California Dental Association, where he learned the
importance of being active in organized dentistry
with other politically involved dentists.

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Shortly thereafter, he became involved in the
PCSO at the committee level, then its Board of
Directors, and eventually served as president in
1997-1998. Simultaneously, Dr. Baughman joined
the Edward H. Angle Society, which has also been
one of his life's passions. He served the Northern
California Component as a board member for
nine years, then as president in 1995, only to follow that opportunity as director of the Northern
California Component to the Central Body Board
of Directors, ultimately serving as International
Angle Society president from 2003-2005.
Beginning in 1980 and for the next 20 years, he
devoted one afternoon each month to serving on
the San Joaquin County Craniofacial Anomalies
panel, rendering orthodontic services and counseling to needy patients and their families.
In the mid-1980s, he was asked to participate in an
outstanding study club, the Peninsula Orthodontic
Research Group (PORG), which now includes his
closest friends and mentors in orthodontics.
In the early 1990s, he was recruited to conduct
a mock ABO Board examination for graduating
residents at the University of the Pacific, which
he continues today with three of his close colleagues.
In 1991, Dr. Baughman was appointed to the PCSO
Delegation to the AAO House of Delegates, serving as a delegate for the next 20 years, six of them
as PCSO Delegation chair. During that time, he
served on many AAO committees and task forces.
He ended his career serving as AAO speaker of the
house and member of the AAO Board of Trustees
from 2013-2015, which he describes as an incredible and inspirational opportunity to serve with
outstanding AAO leaders from across the nation.
He has been recognized as a recipient of the
Callahan Memorial Award from the Ohio Dental
Association, the PCSO Award of Merit, the PCSO
Annual Session Honoree, the California Association of Orthodontists Distinguished Service

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