This award is given at each dental school to the periodontal educator who has demonstrated a commitment to excellence in providing education in the full scope of clinical periodontics and relays that enthusiasm to students...

2009 AAP Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring in Periodontics

This award is given at each dental school to the periodontal educator who has demonstrated a commitment to excellence in providing education in the full scope of clinical periodontics and relays that enthusiasm to students.

To receive this award, an educator must be an AAP member and can be a pre- or postdoctoral educator and a full- or part-time faculty member. The AAP congratulates the 2009 award recipients listed below.

Jeffery J. Becker Case Western Reserve University
Col. Lawrence G. Breault United States Army Dental Activity
Nadine Brodala University of North Carolina
Joseph Califano University of Illinois at Chicago
Paulo M. Camargo University of California Los Angeles
Karim Chalaby McGill University School of Dentistry
Lewis J. Claman Ohio State University
Charles M. Cobb University of Missouri Kansas City
Michael J. Conlan Wilford Hall Medical Center
Massimo Costalonga University of Minnesota
Eric Dale University of Colorado
John A. Diana SUNY at Stony Brook
Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou University of Connecticut
Howard J. Drew University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Saulius E. Drukteinis Nova Southeastern University
Robert Durand Université de Montreal
Henry David Epstein Harvard University
Irwin Feinberg Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health
Richard S. Finlayson University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Neil Fleisher Boston University
William B. Gillette Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Indianapolis
Mitchel S. Godat University of Tennessee
Valerie Godfrey University of California San Francisco
Michael Kevin Gossweiler Indiana University School of Dentistry
Lisa A. Harpenau University of the Pacific
Donald W. Hogan Medical College of Georgia
Gary Hyman University of Manitoba
Ravichandra Juluri Meharry Medical College
Claire Kaugers Virginia Commonwealth University
Marvin P. Levin Oregon Health & Science University
Michael J. LevineSUNY at Buffalo
Georgia McDonald Louisiana State University
Francisco Otero-Cagide University of Saskatchewan
Kavitha Parthasarathy University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Jacqueline M. Plemons Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center
Fanasy Ann Prokop Deming      University of Mississippi
Allen Rasheed Medical University of South Carolina
Harold H. Reed West Virginia University
Philip S. Richards University of Michigan
Cdr. Ivan Roman Naval Postgraduate Dental School
Robert J. Rudy Tufts University
Lauri Staretz University of Nevada Las Vegas
Alvin W. Stevens, Jr. University of Alabama
Janet Stoupel Columbia University
Peter Dat Ta University of Western Ontario
Robert Turnbull University of Toronto
Guzin Uzel University of Pennsylvania
I-Chung Johnny Wang University of Washington
Albert M. Weissman Loma Linda University
Colin Boyd Wiebe University of British Columbia

2009 AAP Dental Student Awards for Achievement in Periodontology

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