Patty and Paul Levi Research Award
The research should be associated with prevention of periodontal or peri-implant diseases. Prevention can be defined broadly to include epidemiologic studies, studies involving teaching non-surgical periodontology to undergraduate students especially in the first year of their dental school training, non-surgical periodontal therapy, or providing information about periodontal diseases to the public especially to students. Levi Research Awardees are expected to submit their research to the American Academy of Periodontology requesting inclusion in the AAP Annual Meeting Program.
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Patty and Paul Levi
The AAP Foundation is grateful to Patty and Dr. Paul Levi and more than a hundred other donors who made this award possible.
Patty Levi has supported Paul for nearly fifty years in his endeavor to teach and practice periodontology. After they were married Paul entered the post-doctoral periodontal program Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM). They moved to Burlington, Vermont where Paul taught at the University of Vermont Dental Hygiene School for 27 years. Paul then began teaching at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and he and Patty would drive to Boston for two days. After nine years of teaching at Harvard, Paul accepted a half-time position at TUSDM, while still teaching several days a year at Harvard. They are very honored to have this named award and feel strongly that it will enhance the knowledge of preventive dentistry and periodontology to students and to the public.
Jack (Yu-Chi) Cheng, Harvard University | |
Vivian Ha, University of Illinois at Chicago | |
Nishma P. Vias, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
Joseph M. Montesano, Harvard University | |
Kayla Lieuw, University of California, San Francisco | |
Eric Lee, University of California, San Francisco | |
April G. Martinez, University of California, San Francisco | |
Lincoln Nguyen, University of California, San Francisco | |
Hongying Pan, University of Michigan | |
Hanna Brody, University of California, San Francisco | |
James L. Zaiger, University of California, Los Angeles | |
Lynsie Sprouse, Case Western Reserve University |
2026 recipient
Jack (Yu-Chi) Cheng
Harvard University