This unique honor is given at each dental school to the graduating senior who displays the highest level of academic and clinical achievement related to periodontics...

2009 AAP Dental Student Awards for Achievement in Periodontology

This award is given at each dental school to the graduating senior who displays outstanding performance in periodontics.

The Academy invites deans from each accredited dental school in the United States and Canada to select the best and the brightest to receive the award. The Dental Student Award for Achievement in Periodontology is underwritten by a generous grant from the Procter & Gamble Professional Oral Health. The AAP congratulates the award recipients listed below.

Angela Ash University of Saskatchewan
Jason Au-Yeung University of Detroit Mercy
Andrew Baker Ohio State University
Sandrine Barakat Université de Montreal
Kathleen A. Beaudry Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health
Zachary J. Beecroft University of Minnesota
Jeffrey A. Bergen University of Manitoba
Gauri Bhagwat University of California San Francisco
Katherine R. Bodford University of Tennessee
Holly A. Bourek Creighton University
Amy Bouvier Nova Southeastern University
Fayth Burns Temple University
Nicholas Berne Calcaterra SUNY at Buffalo
Vinna Calise-Norris University of Colorado
Joshua R. Chapa University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Michael Chiulli Marquette University
Jessica A. Cohen Case Western Reserve University
Jennifer Craft-Bain University of Mississippi
Beatrice Criveanu Loma Linda University
Ashley E. Dameron Virginia Commonwealth University
Michael J. Davidson University of Iowa College of Dentistry
Sunny Lee DrakeOregon Health & Science University
Tarek El-Sayegh University of Western Ontario
Joanie Faucher Université Laval
Graig A. Fischgrund University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Ian Fontenot Louisiana State University
Vanisia Harris University of Florida
Viktorya Havrylyuk University of Pennsylvania
Donna L. Henley-Jackson Howard University
Nolan Spencer Jangaard University of Southern California
Julia A. Javarone University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Matthew A. Johanson University of Connecticut
Andrew Kim University of the Pacific
Kathryn R. Kosten Southern Illinois University
Hoang-Oanh Thi Le University of Nebraska
Connie A. Lee University of Michigan
Vanessa Lugo-Hart New York University
Joseph Emanuel Pechter Tufts University
Valerie Perrine West Virginia University
Thomas Lawrence Peterson      Medical College of Georgia
Carrigan Pick Harvard University
Ursula May Price Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center
Jessica-Ann Pulla McGill University School of Dentistry
Richard Rauth University of California Los Angeles
Jonathan Reside University of North Carolina
Kristina Rodriguez Columbia University
Robin Ross University of Oklahoma
Hak Joon Seok University of Maryland
Alyssa Sprowl Meharry Medical College
Joanna Lin-Yao Sun University of Washington
Laurie Tedder University of Kentucky
Alec Jacob Temlock Boston University
Benjamin T. Tingey University of Nevada Las Vegas
Corin Todd-Marantz SUNY at Stony Brook
Valerie Trotter University of Alabama
Michael Umaki University of Missouri Kansas City
Julie Anne VanKalker Indiana University School of Dentistry
Jompobe Vuthiganon Medical University of South Carolina
Cameron Walker University of Illinois at Chicago
Kurt Wallin University of Pittsburgh
Gretchen Anne Wigand University of Louisville

2009 AAP Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring in Periodontics

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