A TRIBUTE TO THE PHARMACY TEAM FOR CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF COLLABORATION WITH THE JDM

Since 2006, just six years after our mission first began in 2000, our pharmacy partners have stood shoulder to shoulder with us, transforming what started as a hopeful vision into a powerful, life-changing reality.

To the extraordinary team of pharmacists, pharmacy students, and pharmacist alumni: your service has never been simple—it has been foundational.

You review medical histories with precision and care, ensuring every patient is treated safely and thoughtfully. You take vital signs, conduct screenings for diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease, and help identify health concerns that might otherwise go unnoticed. You dispense medications with both expertise and compassion. You conduct meaningful research that strengthens our mission’s impact. And in countless ways, both visible and behind the scenes, you provide the steady support that allows our dentists and dental students to focus fully on delivering clinical care.

Because of you, we expanded access to dental services for underserved, marginalized, vulnerable, and disadvantaged populations. Because of you, more children are treated, more families are cared for, and more lives are touched.

But your impact goes beyond clinical excellence.

You bring warmth into every room. You ease anxieties with kind words. You bring joy to every child by placing a toy in their hands after treatment—turning what could be a fearful experience into a moment of happiness. That joy is medicine, too.

Your partnership represents the very best of inter-professional education and collaborative care. Together, we model what healthcare should look like: unified, respectful, coordinated, and centered on the patient. You have helped shape generations of healthcare professionals who understand that collaboration multiplies impact.

For nearly two decades, you have given your time, your expertise, your energy, and your hearts. Your dedication has strengthened our mission beyond measure.

Cheers to the pharmacists.

Cheers to the student pharmacists.

Cheers to the alumni who continue to give back.

Your service is truly invaluable. Your partnership makes all the difference. And as we celebrate all that we have accomplished together, we look forward with gratitude and excitement:

Here’s to another 20 years of healing, hope, collaboration, and joy.