The $30,000 fellowship is a career development award for outstanding academic periodontists...

AAP Foundation Awards Tarrson Fellowship to Dr. James Katancik

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The $30,000 fellowship is a career development award for outstanding academic periodontists.

CHICAGO, November 29, 2003 – The American Academy of Periodontology Foundation recently named Dr. James Katancik as 2003 recipient of the Bud and Linda Tarrson Fellowship. The $30,000 fellowship is a career development award for outstanding academic periodontists.

Dr. Katancik joined the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry Department of Periodontology in 1998, following completion of his periodontal specialty training at SUNY at Buffalo. He also holds a Ph.D. in Oral Biology from the same university. He received his D.D.S. at Emory University.

Dr. Katancik has produced numerous peer-reviewed abstracts and articles. He has received considerable support for his research, including a Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Award from the NIH.

The Bud and Linda Tarrson Fellowship was created to encourage gifted periodontal clinicians who have a demonstrated facility for teaching, to pursue an academic career. Created out of an initiative by the late Bud Tarrson and his wife Linda, the award is the largest individual privately funded fellowship in periodontology. Candidates must be either full-time or part-time faculty members at the instructor or assistant level and affiliated with a degree-granting institution for 10 years or less. They must have a stated career goal in periodontal education and research. Nominations for the fellowship are made by periodontal program directors. Evaluation is made on both academic and clinical strengths as well as the candidate's potential for a leadership role in teaching.

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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