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2020 and 2021 AAOM Awards

2020 Awards

Craig S. Miller Diamond Pin Award

  • Miriam R. Robbins, DDS, MS

Samuel Charles Miller Award

  • Cesar Migliorati, DDS, MS, PhD

Herschfus Memorial Award

  • Andres Pinto, DMD, MPH, MSCE, MBA

Honorary Fellowship

  • Nelson Rhodus, DMD, MPH, FICD, FRCSEd
  • Craig Miller, DMD, MS

President Award

  • Lauren Patton, DDS

Academic Fellowship Award

  • Yaser Alhazmi, BDS
  • Abdullah Alsoghier, BDS, MSc (oral med), PhD
  • Mark Bornfeld, DDS
  • Monica Chana, DMD
  • Elizabeth Kapral, DDS, MS
  • Jennifer Frustino, DDS, PhD
  • Rekha Reddy, DMD, DABOMP, FAAOM
  • Savitha Siddappa, DMD, MS, AEGD
  • Savvas Titisinides, DDS, MSc Oral Medicine, MSc Oral Surgery, PhD candidate

Affiliate Academic Fellowship

  • Heather Perry, A.A.S, B.S., AAFAAOM, RDH

Certificate of Merit

  • Arwa Farag, BDS, DMSc, Dip ABOM, Dip ABOP, FRCSEd
  • Kentaro Ikeda, DDS
  • Bhavik Desai, DMD, PhD
  • Alessandro Villa, DDS, PhD, MPH
  • Nathaniel Treister, DMD, DMSc

Millard Award

Impact of salivary hypofunction on incidence of orofungal infections with use of topical steroids for management of oral lichen planus and xerostomia.

  • Mary Edens, DDS
  • Michael Carpenter, MPH
  • Joel Napeñas, DDS, FDSRCS(Ed)
  • Michael Brennan, DDS, MHS

Outstanding Educator Award – Organization of Teachers of Oral Diagnosis

  • Miriam R. Robbins, DDS, MS

Lester Burket Award

  • Katrina J. Myers, DMD
  • Anwar AlMuzaini, DDS, MS

Case Report Award

  • Chitra Priya Emperumal, BDS, MS
  • Elizabeth Hatton, DDS
  • Nikoleta Papageorgiou, DDS student
  • Fatmah Alhendi, DDS, oral medicine resident
  • Shaiba Sandhu, DDS

2021 Awards

Millard Award

Risk factors for caries development in primary Sjogren’s syndrome

  • Nicola Berman, MD
  • Frederick Vivino, MD, MSa
  • Joshua Baker, MD, MSCEac
  • Jonathan Dunham, MD
  • Andres Pinto, DMD, MPH, MSCE, MBAe

James Little and Don Falace Award

  • Carol Stewart, MS, DDS, MS

Sol Silverman Lecture Award

  • Joel Palefsky, MD

Jonathan Ship Lecture Award

  • Thomas Sollecito, DMD

Lester Burket Award

  • Jackson Threet, DMD

Case Report Award

  • Luiz Claudio Viegas Coasta, BDS, MSc in Oral Pathology, MSc in Biomedical Sciences
  • Waleed Alamoudi, BDs, MSc
  • Rossella Intini, DDS
  • Asya Inerman Mosognik, DMD
  • Shaiba Sandhu, DDS