Two $15,000 Fellowships are awarded annually to individuals who are in their third year of post-doctoral training and intend to pursue full-time periodontal teaching and research...

AAP Foundation Awards Chasens Fellowship to Drs. Santos and Sahl

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Two $15,000 Fellowships are awarded annually to individuals who are in their third year of post-doctoral training and intend to pursue full-time periodontal teaching and research.

CHICAGO—June 8, 2010–The AAP Foundation recently awarded Abram and Sylvia Chasens Teaching and Research Fellowships to Dr. Thiago Morelli Santos and Dr. Erik F. Sahl. Two Chasens Fellowships of $15,000 each are awarded annually to uniquely talented individuals who are in their third year of an accredited post-doctoral training program in the U.S. and intend to pursue full-time periodontal teaching and research.

Dr. Santos is in the University of Michigan Department of Periodontics training program and has been accepted for a full-time faculty position at the University of Detroit Mercy. Dr. Sahl is in the periodontics training program at Loma Linda University where he will remain as a full-time faculty member.

The Chasens Fellowship was created by Dr. and Mrs. Chasens out of concern about the shortage of dental educators. Dr. Chasens taught for more than 30 years, which included a full-time post from 1957 to 1971 at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he started the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine.

About AAP Foundation: The mission of the American Academy of Periodontology Foundation is to improve the periodontal and general health of the public through increasing public and professional knowledge of periodontal diseases and their therapies, stimulating basic and clinical research to generate new knowledge, and enhancing educational programs at all levels to create opportunities in periodontal education and practice. Periodontics is one of nine dental specialties recognized by the American Dental Association.

To get more information about any AAP Foundation activities, please contact Robert A. Vitas, PhD, CAE, CFRE, Executive Director, at 312/573-3256 or bob@perio.org.


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