Awards to be Presented at Celebration in Conjunction with the
2010 American Dental Education Association Annual Session and Exhibition
WASHINGTON, DC (November 23, 2009)—The ADEAGies Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation, and Achievement. The Gies Awards, named after dental education pioneer William J. Gies, Ph.D., honor individuals and organizations exemplifying dedication to the highest standards of vision, innovation, and achievement in global oral health and dental education, research, and leadership.
The Gies Awards will be presented at a highly anticipated celebration in conjunction with the 2010 ADEA Annual Session and Exhibition. The 2010 ADEA Annual Session and Exhibition will be held February 27-March 3, 2010, at the Gaylord National Harbor in Washington, DC. The Gies Awards will be conferred on February 27, 2010. The 2010 honorees were selected by a distinguished panel of judges consisting of the ADEAGies Foundation Board of Trustees. The winners in alphabetical order are:
Dental Fears Research Clinic at the University of Washington School of Dentistry
Outstanding Innovation - Academic Dental Institution
The Forsyth Institute
Outstanding Achievement - Academic Dental Institution
Israel Kleinberg, D.D.S., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.D.
Outstanding Innovation - Dental Educator
Patricia Nunn, R.D.H., M.S.
Outstanding Vision - Dental Educator
Ms. Mary Otto
Outstanding Achievement - Public or Private Partner
No-Hee Park, D.M.D., Ph.D.
Outstanding Achievement - Dental Educator
Barbara J. Sabol, M.A., W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Outstanding Vision - Public or Private Partner
International Association of Student Clinicians-American Dental Association (SCADA) Program
Outstanding Innovation - Public or Private Partner
Mr. Michael R. Sudzina
Outstanding Achievement - Public or Private Partner
University of Minnesota School of Dentistry
Outstanding Vision - Academic Dental Institution
“The awardees exemplify great achievement, innovation, and vision in dental education, much as William J. Gies did,” said Richard W. Valachovic, D.M.D., M.P.H., President of the ADEAGies Foundation and Executive Director of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA). "It is an honor to recognize their exceptional work and positive impact."
The Gies Awards are presented by the ADEAGies Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the American Dental Education Association. For more than 50 years, the ADEAGies Foundation has enhanced the oral health of the public through programs that support dental education, research, leadership, and recognition.
Tickets for the celebration are $125 and can be purchased online at www.adea.org. Sponsored tables are available. For more information, please contact Julia Cockren Merrill at 703-506-3260.
About The William J. Gies Foundation: The William J. Gies (pronounced guys) Foundation was established in 1950 by colleagues and admirers of Dr. Gies with seed funds raised by the American College of Dentists. It was a private foundation and the first U.S. foundation to support dental education and scholarship. In 2002, it joined with the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) to form ADEAGies Foundation, a public foundation.
About William J. Gies and the Gies Report: William Gies was a Columbia University biochemistry professor and founder of the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia University where he was interested in dental education, science, and clinical applications. In 1926, as part of a series of studies on U.S. professional education funded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Dr. Gies published a landmark report that established the importance of dentistry as a healing science and an essential component of higher education in the health professions. The Gies Report, Dental Education in the United States and Canada, took five years to research and write. It consists of 250 pages of text and more than 400 pages of appendices, including lengthy descriptions and evaluations of the existing dental schools, each of which Dr. Gies visited. Since the Gies Report, there have been many other reports on dental education in the context of health professions education. However, Dental Education in the United States and Canada remains to this day the most relevant survey of dental education and critical issues within the field.
About ADEA: The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is the voice of dental education. Its members include all U.S. and Canadian dental schools and many allied and postdoctoral dental education programs, corporations, faculty, and students. The mission of ADEA is to lead individuals and institutions of the dental education community to address contemporary issues influencing education, research, and the delivery of oral health care for the health of the public. ADEA’s activities encompass a wide range of research, advocacy, faculty development, meetings, and communications like the esteemed Journal of Dental Education, as well as the dental school admissions services AADSAS and PASS.