The $15,000 Education Fellowship Funded by OMNI Preventive Care is intended to encourage academic periodontology as a career choice...

AAP Foundation Awards First Education Fellowship to Dr. Yong Hur

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The $15,000 Education Fellowship Funded by OMNI Preventive Care is intended to encourage academic periodontology as a career choice.

CHICAGO—July 12, 2006—The American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) Foundation recently awarded the first AAP Foundation Education Fellowship Funded by OMNI Preventive Care to Yong Hur, DDS, of Tufts University Department of Periodontology.

Dr. Hur’s research seeks to develop evidence-based information to better predict therapeutic outcomes by studying various risk factors involved in periodontal disease. His project title is “Comparison of a clinical risk assessment using a risk calculator based on genetic and microbiologic analysis: Evaluation of treatment outcomes in a periodontal treatment population.” He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Oral Health and certificate in Periodontology.

Dr. Hur plans to pursue a career path in periodontal education and research. “Professors do more than lecture,” observes Dr. Hur. “They give students role models, goals and inspiration.”

“We are thrilled with the Foundation’s selection of the first Fellow and we look forward to the future of this new program,” says Jennifer J. Spresser, National Sales Manager of OMNII Preventive Care, a New 3M Company.

The $15,000 Education Fellowship Funded by OMNI Preventive Care is intended to encourage academic periodontology as a career choice as well as to support research generating new knowledge about the prevention of periodontitis. Applicants for the award must be students in their first or second year of a U.S. periodontal postdoctoral program and their application packet must include a proposal for their research project.

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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