Media Advisory: Renowned fashion photographer and NBC’s “The Voice” finalist to gift photoshoots, music to WNY children with disabilities at UB dental clinic

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Award-successful style photographer Rick Guidotti will take a look at the University at Buffalo Faculty of Dental Drugs to market the natural beauty of human variety and the use of extra inclusive imagery in health care schooling, as nicely as to deliver specialist photoshoots for small children and youth with disabilities in Western New York. 

NBC’s “The Voice” finalist and Lockport indigenous Joshua Vacanti will also execute music at the celebration with his spouse, Sam Olewnik.

Guidotti is the founder of Constructive Publicity, a nonprofit devoted to developing a additional inclusive planet via photography, film, exhibitions, lectures and instructional programs. The charitable software has partnered with hospitals, health care faculties and academic establishments close to the earth to reframe affected person depictions in clinical education. 

Guidotti will visit UB from Jan. 20-21 to fulfill with many UB dental, healthcare and health and fitness sciences faculty, employees and college students. The images sessions will manifest on Jan. 21.

When: Saturday, Jan. 21 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Vacanti and Olewnik will carry out from 11-11:30 a.m.

The place: UB Section of Pediatric and Local community Dentistry at 1091 Key St., Buffalo, 2nd flooring.

What: Guidotti will reward qualified images to nearby little ones with disabilities. The clinic will also be loaded with arts, crafts and instructional actions for youngsters. Vacanti and Olewnik will conduct a vary of music for attendees.

Media are invited to attend.

“Rick Guidotti delivers to Buffalo the option to showcase how a great deal we care for inclusivity within our individual group. His get the job done is highlighted in the American Academy of Developmental Medication and Dentistry’s journal HELEN as an powerful instructing device in clinical colleges and elsewhere,” claims Meelin D. Chin Kit-Wells, DDS, clinical assistant professor of pediatric and group dentistry at the UB School of Dental Drugs, Beneficial Exposure board member and American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry president-elect.

“With his stop by, we can instruct inclusivity by motion. With grace, we can rejoice every single person for who they are,” she claims.

Commitment to inclusive oral health and fitness care

The UB College of Dental Medicine provides holistic oral wellness treatment to clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities in supportive, caring and respectful environments. In addition to hosting extensive outreach applications, these as their annual Give Young ones A Smile Day, the UB Section of Pediatric and Neighborhood Dentistry is optimizing treatment for clients with disabilities by collaborating with occupational therapists to dwelling the professions underneath a person roof. 

The college is investing $1 million into a new place devoted to sufferers with disabilities in its Squire Hall dental clinic on the South Campus. The clinic will attribute specialty products for individuals in wheelchairs, with autism or who are medically complex, as properly as tilt platforms, bariatric chairs, oversized doors and seating for caregivers.

The UB Faculty of Dental Drugs has also entered into a partnership with Arc GLOW to present dental treatment to people with disabilities in Genesee, Livingston, Orleans and Wyoming counties via its S-Miles To Go method, which operates via two point out-of-the-art cellular dental vans.