AAP Foundation Awards Funding for Finley Visiting Scholar to UAB

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The $1,500 award will help support a program on the relationship between periodontics and restorative dentistry.

CHICAGO—April 7, 2008—The American Academy of Periodontology Foundation recently announced that it has awarded funding for a Charles W. Finley Visiting Scholar program to the Department of Periodontics, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry. The award will help support a program by Daniel Melker, DDS. Dr. Melker will address in detail the relationship between periodontics and restorative dentistry.

“Dr. Melker has a particular gift for relating periodontics to the work of general dentists and to the other specialties. He shows how what we do as periodontists acts in conjunction with other aspects of the patient’s total oral health care,” says Nico Geurs, DDS, postdoctoral periodontal director. “In addition to our graduate students, we are inviting our community periodontists, prosthodontists, and restorative dentists to the program. This is an opportunity to really showcase what periodontics can do.”

AAP Foundation Finley grants of $1,500 are awarded to accredited U.S. periodontal programs to offset honoraria, travel, promotion, and seminars by speakers in periodontology. The grants must be matched by funds from each department or institution.

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.

AAP Foundation Awards Funding for Finley Visiting Scholar to UAB

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