We hope you plan to join us at the AAP Annual Meeting in San Diego this October! When you're there, don't miss these fun and informative Foundation events.
The AAP Foundation has many ways for you to reach your target audience while supporting periodontology! The AAPF is the only 501(c)(3) charitable organizaiton deducated exclusively to periodontology. Your support helps ensure the future of the specialty remains strong.
The AAP Foundation celebrates our 2022 Foundation award recipients who appeared in our newly-published annual report. You can vew the entire annual report here, or read the individual award recipient articles below.
Are you ready to PerioDash?! Join us for the 10th anniversary of this well-loved AAP Foundation event. PerioDash is a virtual run/walk, which means you register, pick a day during the first two weeks of October, and run at a time that works best for you. Indoors or outside, on your own or with a team, walking or running, the choice is yours! Help support the future of periodontal education and have a great time while doing so! Register today!
The AAP Foundation is gearing up for our annual Silent Auction, to be held in conjunction with the 2024 AAP Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. The Silent Auction has been a centerpiece of the AAP Foundation booth at the Annual Meeting for more than 17 years, and continues to raise vital funds to support periodontal education and research. Popular items include products from exhibitors, stays at vacation properties, wine & spirits, tickets to sporting events, jewelry, and other luxury items. Your donation's fair market value is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
"Apart from helping me financially, this award has strengthened my commitment to dental education. I will be in academics for life," says Satheesh Elangovan, BDS, ScD, DMSc, a 2011 Abram and Sylvia Chasens Teaching and Research Fellow. Dr. Elangovan is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. He is also the AAP Foundation's 2008 Tarrson Regeneration Scholar.
We fund research to keep periodontology at the cutting edge of scientific dentistry. Read more...
We ensure the future of periodontology by strengthening future generations. Read more...
The Visionary Society was launched in 2000 to encourage the gift of future assets. Read more...
Congratulations to Fatemeh “Flora” Momen-Heravi, DDS, PhD, (2017 Educator Scholar, 2018 Dr. D. Walter Cohen Teaching Award Recipient) assistant professor of dental medicine at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, who was named the 2020 recipient of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) Anne D. Haffajee Fellowship. The award provides early-career women researchers in the field of oral biology with financial support for training and research activities that will advance their academic careers. Read more here.