2025 Award Winners

2025 Leverett Graduate Student Merit Award Winners for

Outstanding Achievement in Dental Public Health 

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First Place:
Dr. Fatemeh Movaghari Pour
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

              

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Second Place: 
Dr. Fatemah Abdullah
Boston University, Henry M. Goldman 
School of Dental Medicine

 

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Third Place:
Dr. Iriana Pena
National Institute of Dental
and Craniofacial Research

 

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Honorable Mention: 
Dr. Mona Alhassan
Harvard School of 
Dental Medicine
 

 2025 Predoctoral Student Merit Award Winners for 

Outstanding Achievement in Community Dentistry

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First Place: 
Dr. Ankineedu Babu Dasari
Meharry Medical College 
School of Dentistry
 

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Second Place:
Alex Matthews
Case Western
Reserve University

 

 

2025 Dental Hygiene Student Merit Award Winner

for Outstanding Achievement in Dental Public Health

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First Place:
Maisy Miller
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Adams School of Dentistry
 

2025 AAPHD Foundation $10,000 Grant

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Dr. Christine Chiao
Boston University Henry M. Goldman
School of Dental Medicine

Title: Pediatric Nutritional Supplement Drink Consumption and Early Childhood Caries 

2025 AAPHD Foundation $5,000 Grant

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Dr. Vanessa Mareno
Jacobi Medical Center

Title: ‘THRIVE’: An oral health education pilot project in the Comprehensive Addiction
Treatment Center (CATC) at Jacobi Medical Center

 

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Dr. May Salama
Old Dominion University

Title: The Impact of Maternal Periodontal Disease and Its Treatment on Birth Outcomes:
Evidence from PRAMS

2025 Herschel S. Horowitz Scholarship Recipient Dentist

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Dr. LaQuita M. Holt

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

2025 Herschel S. Horowitz Scholarship Recipient Dental Hygienist

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Tina Treloar
University of Florida College of Dentistry

 

2025 Dr. R. Gary Rozier Memorial DPH Educational Scholarship

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Amy Szacilo
University of Montana

2025 Amos Deinard Award

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Dr. Constance Gundacker, MD, MDH

 

2025 Richard Ferraro Award

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Dr. Kala M. Smith, DMD

2025 AAPHD President's Award

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Dr. Mary Tavares, DMD, MPH

2025 AAPHD Distinguished Service Award

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Steve Geiermann, DDS, FICD, FACD
Captain, U.S. Public Health Service (retired)

2025 Public Service Award

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The Maryland Dental Action Coalition