The $15,000 Education Fellowship Funded by OMNI Preventive Care is intended to encourage academic periodontology as a career choice...

AAP Foundation Awards First Education Fellowship to Dr. Yong Hur

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The $15,000 Education Fellowship Funded by OMNI Preventive Care is intended to encourage academic periodontology as a career choice.

CHICAGO—July 12, 2006—The American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) Foundation recently awarded the first AAP Foundation Education Fellowship Funded by OMNI Preventive Care to Yong Hur, DDS, of Tufts University Department of Periodontology.

Dr. Hur’s research seeks to develop evidence-based information to better predict therapeutic outcomes by studying various risk factors involved in periodontal disease. His project title is “Comparison of a clinical risk assessment using a risk calculator based on genetic and microbiologic analysis: Evaluation of treatment outcomes in a periodontal treatment population.” He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Oral Health and certificate in Periodontology.

Dr. Hur plans to pursue a career path in periodontal education and research. “Professors do more than lecture,” observes Dr. Hur. “They give students role models, goals and inspiration.”

“We are thrilled with the Foundation’s selection of the first Fellow and we look forward to the future of this new program,” says Jennifer J. Spresser, National Sales Manager of OMNII Preventive Care, a New 3M Company.

The $15,000 Education Fellowship Funded by OMNI Preventive Care is intended to encourage academic periodontology as a career choice as well as to support research generating new knowledge about the prevention of periodontitis. Applicants for the award must be students in their first or second year of a U.S. periodontal postdoctoral program and their application packet must include a proposal for their research project.

The American Academy of Periodontology Foundation is dedicated to improving the periodontal and general health of the public by increasing public and professional awareness of periodontal diseases; stimulating and supporting clinical research and the generation of new knowledge; and enhancing educational programs and opportunities in periodontology. Periodontics is one of nine dental specialties recognized by the American Dental Association.

To get more information about any AAP Foundation activities, please contact Sharon Mellor at 312/573-3256 or sharon@perio.org.

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