During the 2025–26 academic year, 31 University of Iowa College of Dentistry students, one resident, and one dentist volunteered their time at His Hands Dental Clinic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where they provided dental care to 56 patients over 16 Saturdays throughout the fall 2025 and spring 2026 semesters.
The clinic, run by 1987 College of Dentistry graduate Dr. Jeff Akey, continued its partnership with Dr. Dan Caplan, professor of preventive and community dentistry, and the College of Dentistry to expand access to care for underserved patients in eastern Iowa.
Over the course of the year, volunteers completed 77 student visits and provided a range of services, including 22 hygiene, exam, and x-ray appointments; 22 operative procedures; 10 oral surgery procedures; one prosthetics service; and one endodontics service.
“It has been such a blessing and privilege to interact with these amazing students,” says Akey, “The students are positive, kind, professional, and upbeat. Their skills reflect the high-quality education they are receiving and it’s a great joy to work with them.”
The following students, resident, and dentist volunteered their time:
Dentist
- Dr. Hunter Duncan
Resident
- Dr. Justin Nichols
D4
- *Morgan Schumacher
- Tanveer Vasdev
- John Lee
- Rachel Kellogg
- Anna Ellis
- *Brooke Swain
- Destiny Ho
D3
- Jeffrey Abraham
- Katy Volz
- Ben Fischl
- Sebastian Alberti
- Nick Williams
- Elise Amerongen
D2
- *Avery Duncan
- Joshua Bliss
- *Katie Prior
- Rachael Daniels
- Marta Grabowski
- Satnam Aulakh
- *Maggie Manson
- Kayla Minor
- Luke Haganman
- Hannah Loewen
- *Julia Paul
- Andrew Dixon
- Madelyn Waters
- David Geitner
- Blake Anderson
- Audrey Fashimpaur
- Alan Kim
- Clayton Henriksen
*Student Leader
