Scholarships
Educator Scholarships
Two $12,000 scholarships are awarded annually to provide financial support for periodontal residents committed to careers as full-time educators.
Full-time faculty are the backbone of the dental professional educational process, bearing responsibility for predoctoral and postdoctoral periodontal education. Significant educational debt is a disincentive to talented, qualified individuals when considering academic careers. The Educator Scholarships were first established to address this concern by a major grant to the AAP Foundation by the American Academy of Periodontology, whose members continue to support it through their unrestricted support and gifts to the Education Action Fund. Educator Scholarships provide support for tuition and living expenses during residency and may also be used for debt reduction.
Application deadline
June 1
Selection
Recipients are selected by an award committee appointed by the AAP Foundation president. Finalists are required to attend a personal interview with the selection committee, conducted via videoconference.
This award’s selection committee
Ahmed Refaat El-Awady, Chair
David T. Wu
Srinivas Myneni
Amanda Finger Stadler
Gregory A. Farris, University of Iowa | |
Nika Mehrnia, Harvard University | |
Y. W. Stacy Cho, Harvard University | |
Tanay V. Chaubal, University of Oklahoma | |
Prita Dhaimade, University of Oklahoma | |
Sandrine M. Couldwell, Tufts University | |
Zhaozhao Chen, University of Michigan | |
Halide Namli Kilic, Indiana University | |
Farahnaz Fahimipour, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
David T. Wu, Harvard University | |
Mohamed M. Meghil, Augusta University | |
Andrea Ravidà, University of Michigan | |
Martinna Bertolini, University of Connecticut | |
Kyle Diehl, University of Colorado | |
Amanda Finger Stadler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
Sing-Wai Wong, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
Kang I. Ko, University of Pennsylvania | |
Amarpreet Sabharwal, University at Buffalo | |
Kevin Byrd, University of North Carolina | |
Fatemeh Momen Heravi, Columbia University | |
Ann Decker, University of Michigan | |
Bruno S. Herrera, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
Ahmed Refaat El-Awady, Georgia Regents University | |
Chin-Wei (Jeff) Wang, Harvard University | |
Georgios Kotsakis, University of Minnesota | |
Srinivas Myneni, University at Buffalo | |
Satish Kumar, University of Southern California | |
Shaoping Zhang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
Roger Arce, University of North Carolina | |
Jingyuan Fan, University of Rochester | |
Jennifer L. Bain, University of Alabama | |
Soo-Woo Kim, Harvard University | |
Ioanna Tsolaki, Ohio State University | |
Julio A. Carrion, State University of New York at Stony Brook | |
Hector Rios, University of Michigan | |
Flavia Q. Pirih, University of Michigan | |
Meggan M.H. Wehmeyer, University of North Carolina | |
Patricia I. Diaz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
Stephanie Mullins, University of Missouri, Kansas City |
2026 recipient
Gregory A. Farris
University of Iowa