AAP Foundation Wins Prestigious Gies Award

The AAP Foundation has been awarded a 2014 William J. Gies Award from the ADEAGies Foundation.

The ADEAGies Foundation selected the AAP Foundation as a recipient of this prestigious award because of our "superior demonstration of outstanding achievement by a public or private partner in support of dental education." The AAP Foundation is honored to be a recipient of this important award. To learn more, read the ADEAGies Foundation's Media Release.

 

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"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.

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Past Award Winners Update

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.

 
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