Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award Recipients

First Name
Last Name
Institution
Mahmoud Elashiry Augusta University
Laura Becerra Boston University
Rosemary Wu California Northstate University College of Dental Medicine
Mercurious Mina Case Western Reserve University
Mahmoud Hamad Harvard University
Yoon Jeong Kim Loma Linda University
Panagiotis Dragonas Louisiana State University
Renita Burrell Marquette University
Pinar Emecen-Huja Medical University of South Carolina
Jingyuan Fan Midwestern University – Illinois
Mitchell Bloom New York University
James Katancik Oregon Health and Science University
Steven Zove Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine
Rashmi Hegde Texas A&M University
Binnaz Leblebicioglu The Ohio State University
Joshua Grant University of Buffalo
John Herrington University of Alabama at Birmingham
Rana Tarzemany University of British Columbia
Beatriz de Brito Bezerra University of California Los Angeles
Lan-Lin Chiou University at California San Francisco
Michael Cunningham University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael Spector University of Iowa
Sandra Stuhr University of Michigan
William Buchanan University of Mississippi
Katherine Rodriguez University of Puerto Rico
Vivien Kwok University of Rochester
Theresia Laksmana University of Southern California
Mostafa Shehabeldin University of Texas at San Antonio
Maria Elkins University of Texas Health Houston
Thomas Faber University of Washington
Moshe Benarroch Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles
Rafael Siqueira Virginia Commonwealth University
K Zaremba-Rabatin West Virginia University
Lesli Hapak Western University, Schulich School of Dentistry

Thank you to Crest + Oral-B for sponsoring the 2026 awards.