| In This Issue: AAOM President's Message 2022-2023 AAOM/ABOM Awards
 2022 AAOM Abstract Award Winners  Member Highlights Poem to Dr. Rees News from Schools OraRad Study Investigators Publish Several Important Findings 
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 | AAOM's Spring 2022 Newsletter The Spring 2022 Newsletter contains messages from your AAOM President, a list of the 2022-2023 AAOM Officers, a Members Highlights, and more. 
 Message from the President Nathaniel S. Treister It is an incredible honor to assume the Presidency of the American Academy of Oral Medicine. As I noted in Memphis, the AAOM has been a central and critical element of my professional life since attending my first conference in Montreal as a resident.                                               Read more 
 2022–2023 AAOM/ABOM Officers, Diplomates and Fellows AAOM Officers
 President: Nathaniel Treister  President-Elect: Vidya Sankar Vice-President: Kentaro Ikeda Secretary: Jaisri Thoppay Treasurer: Sunday Akintoye Assistant Treasurer: Arwa Farag Assistant Secretary: Alessandro Villa Past President 2020-2021: Eric Stoopler/Lauren Patton Immediate Past President 2021-2022: Andres Pinto Executive Director: Felicia D Kenan 
 
 Congratulations to the New ABOM Diplomates Wesley Sherrell Alaa Bukhari Mohammed Bindakhil Dalal Alomar Kamal Al-Eryani 
 2022-2023 AAOM/ABOM Awards Congratulations to the many winners of our 2022-2023 AAOM/ABOM Awards. Read More 
 Congratulations to the following AAOM Abstract Award Winners 2022   Lester Burkett Awards “I am very grateful to the AAOM and members of the abstract committee for selecting myself and my co-investigators' project for the Lester Burket Memorial Award. Having been granted this award encourages me to pursue my research endeavors with goals of better understanding the diseases we diagnose and treat as well as optimizing patient care.” More about the Winners 
 "The Maestro of Oral Medicine", written by Celeste M. Abraham in 2001 to Dr. Terry Rees 
 In 2001,Celeste M. Abraham wrote a poem to Dr. Terry Rees. Dr. Rees passed away in November of 2021 and was the former chair of the Department of Periodontics and Professor and Director of the Stomatology Center at the Texas A&M College of Dentistry in Dallas.                                               Read Poem 
  AAOM Membership and Member Highlights Anwar Almuzaini Anwar Almuzaini received the Dr. Jawad Behbehani award for best research article published in 2021. This award conferred by the Kuwait Division of the International Association for Dental Research was for her research titled “Hypoxia enhances basal autophagy of epithelial-derived ameloblastoma cells.”  Read More Member Highlights  
 News from the Schools  
   UW Oral Medicine just celebrated 50 years as a department and was featured as the cover story/featured article in the UWSOD Alumni Association News.   Read More 
 OraRad Study Investigators Publish Several Important Findings A number of clinically relevant findings of the landmark OraRad study have been published recently. OraRad is a large multicenter prospective cohort study examining oral complications after radiation therapy (RT) for head and neck cancer. Read More About OraRad 
 
 Photos from the 2022 AAOM Annual Meeting The 2022 AAOM Annual Conference was a success and we would like to thank each and every one of you for attending.  View Conference Photos 
 
  Save the Date for the 2022 AAOM Fall Meeting and the 2023 Annual Conference 
 
 
 
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