Two $15,000 Fellowships are awarded annually to individuals who are in their third year of post-doctoral training and intend to pursue full-time periodontal teaching and research...

AAP Foundation Awards Chasens Fellowship to Drs. Kholy and Yuen

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Two $15,000 Fellowships are awarded annually to individuals who are in their third year of post-doctoral training and intend to pursue full-time periodontal teaching and research.

CHICAGO—June 18, 2007–The American Academy of Periodontology Foundation recently awarded a $15,000 Abram and Sylvia Chasens Teaching and Research Fellowship to Drs. Kholy and Yuen. Two Chasens Fellowships of $15,000 each are awarded annually to uniquely talented individuals who are in their third year of an accredited post-doctoral training program in the U.S. and intend to pursue full-time periodontal teaching and research.

Dr. Kholy is in the Indiana University Department of Periodontics training program and has been accepted into the Accelerated Degree Program at the University of Detroit-Mercy. Dr. Yuen is a graduate of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine where she will complete her Masters in Oral Biology and Certificate in Periodontology this month.

The Chasens Fellowship was created by Dr. and Mrs. Chasens out of concern about the shortage of dental educators. Dr. Chasens taught for more than 30 years, which included a full-time post from 1957 to 1971 at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he started the department of periodontics and oral medicine.

About AAP Foundation: The mission of the American Academy of Periodontology Foundation is to improve the periodontal and general health of the public through increasing public and professional knowledge of periodontal diseases and their therapies, stimulating basic and clinical research to generate new knowledge, and enhancing educational programs at all levels to create opportunities in periodontal education and practice. Periodontics is one of nine dental specialties recognized by the American Dental Association.

To get more information about any AAP Foundation activities, please contact Robert A. Vitas, PhD, CAE, CFRE, Executive Director, at 312/573-3256 or bob@perio.org.

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