The Foundation re-elected its current officer slate and named two new members to its board at its 2001 annual meeting...

AAP Foundation Elects Officers, Names New Board Members at Annual Meeting

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The Foundation re-elected its current officer slate and named two new members to its board at its 2001 annual meeting.

CHICAGO – November 5, 2001 – The American Academy of Periodontology Foundation re-elected its current officer slate and named two new members to its board of directors at its annual meeting October 5 in Philadelphia. L.K. Croft, D.D.S., was elected to a second one-year term as president, Donald S. Clem, III, D.D.S., was re-elected vice president and S. Jerome Zackin, D.M.D., was elected to a second term as secretary-treasurer. The Foundation elected as new board members Lawrence W. Farrell, vice president, corporate professional relations/oral technologies, for John O. Butler Company in Chicago and Paul Levi, Jr., D.M.D., chairman of the postdoctoral clinical program in periodontology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Croft, from Boerne, Texas, has been a member of the Academy since 1965, and served on the Foundation's advisory committee and board of directors, and as vice president. He is clinical associate professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) Graduate Periodontics Program.

Clem maintains a private practice in Fullerton, California, and is assistant professor at the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry. Zackin, from Swampscott, Massachusetts, has served as chairman of the Foundation's advisory board since 1993 and on its board of directors since 1999.

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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