Recent awards by the ADEAGies Foundation

ADEA/William J. Gies Educational Fellowship. This fellowship provides $10,000 in funding for a senior dental educator to work with ADEA staff in the Center for Educational Policy and Research on a major policy issue facing dental education. The residency period is up to three months. Project areas have included: survey and recommendations regarding dental school faculty shortages, the scholarship of teaching, international dental education; clinical licensure reform, ADEA Leadership Institute outcomes study, and the development of competencies for dental faculty.

William J. Gies Student Research Scholarship. The foundation continues to fund two multiyear grants, each totaling $35,000, to encourage and support dental student research at the predoctoral level. The programs currently receiving support are the dental schools at the University of California, San Francisco and University of Alabama. Past recipients include Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery, the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Dental School, and the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry.

Editorial Awards Program. This funding to the American Association of Dental Editors (AADE) provides $3,000 in awards and $1,500 in support of the presentation ceremony.

Periodontal and Oral Surgery Awards. These awards are $500 for an outstanding periodontal educator, in conjunction with the American Association of Periodontology, and $500 for an outstanding oral surgery educator, in conjunction with the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Gies Lecture Series. The William J. Gies Lecture Series includes two lectures, one that occurs at the Greater New York Dental Meeting and another that takes place at the Chicago Dental Society meeting or another major meeting.

Advanced Dental Education Summit II. A grant of $10,000 was approved to help support ADEA's Advanced Dental Education Summit II, which will be held December 7-9, 2006, in Baltimore, Maryland, as a part of the ADEA Fall 2006 Meetings. This summit will convene the nation's educational leadership in both general dentistry and the dental specialties to discuss the challenges and opportunities confronting contemporary advanced dental education.

ADEA Commission on Improving Access to Oral Health Care for All Americans:
Roles and Responsibilities of Academic Dental Institutions. The foundation provided $15,000 to this commission of national experts to study and recommend policy on the role of academic dental institutions in addressing access to oral health care across the nation. The commission convened in 2002, and an extensive report was issued in March 2003. The report contains a series of recommendations in five different areas with the purpose of focusing academic dentistry on a common set of strategies to improve the oral health of all Americans, especially the underserved.

Workshop on the Ethics of Access to Oral Health Care. A grant of $5,000 was approved to support a workshop on the ethics of access to oral health care. The workshop, which includes collaboration with the American College of Dentists (ACD)and the American Dental Association (ADA), built upon the 2003 ADEA President's Commission Report, "Improving the Oral Health of All Americans: Roles and Responsibilities of Academic Dental Institutions."

Online Journal of Dental Research. In 2004, the foundation provided a grant of $15,000 to the International Association of Dental Research to support placing the Journal of Dental Research (JDR) online.