AAPF Scholarship Recipients Accepted to the 2009 ADEA/AAL Institute for Teaching and Learning
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The Foundation provided a grant that funded four periodontal Fellows selected by ADEA/AAL. |
CHAPEL HILL, NC—July 27, 2009—The American Academy of Periodontology Foundation (AAPF) made a grant to the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and the Academy for Academic Leadership (AAL) intensive faculty-development program, the Institute for Teaching and Learning (ITL). The grant was used to provide scholarships to four periodontists selected by ADEA/AAL. The ADEA/AAL ITL is an intensive faculty-development program conducted in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) School of Dentistry. The program’s goal is to help recruit and retain dental faculty by preparing participants to become more effective teachers and develop skills that will facilitate confidence, job satisfaction, and professional growth in the academic environment.
“ADEA welcomes the participants of the 2009 ADEA/AAL ITL,” said ADEA President Ronald J. Hunt, D.D.S. “This program is important to the Association’s efforts to develop future dental school faculty, and we commend these individuals and their institutions for their commitment to dental education.”
The two-phase program at UNC will enable 38 ADEA/AAL ITL Scholars to attain a higher level of excellence in evidence-based clinical and didactic modalities of dental education. The Scholars will receive hands-on experience with key teacher tasks such as evaluating student competence, presenting lectures, planning courses, constructing tests, facilitating small-group learning, working with difficult students, guiding students with questions, and providing feedback. Scholars also will explore cognitive theories, learn strategies to work with challenging students, review research on educational best practices and critical thinking, study learning styles, analyze the characteristics of today’s Millennials and complete teaching self-assessments. The program will conclude with extensive lessons on leading effective meetings and chairing academic committees and offer a focused examination of Scholars’ career development plans.
“A total of 135 faculty and those transitioning from private practice to academic careers have participated in the ADEA/AAL ITL,” said N. Karl Haden, Ph.D., AAL President. “We’re especially proud of the achievements demonstrated by the scholarship recipients during the course of the program and look forward to the contributions of the 2009 AAPF scholars. Surveys show that the program will prepare them with teaching skills necessary to understand and communicate with today’s students, and 99% of graduates report a positive or highly positive experience with the program.”
All four 2009 fellowship recipients are launching on promising academic careers:
- Dr. Gustavo Avila, D.D.S., Ph.D., M.S., received his dental degree from the University of Granada (Spain) in 2003, and earned his
Ph.D. degree from the same institution in 2006. Then he moved to the United States to pursue a certificate and masters degree in periodontics at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. His professional goal is to develop a career in academia, focused on graduate teaching and clinical research. He is currently in the transitional period between being a graduate student and starting his appointment as a clinical assistant adjunct professor and research fellow in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. - Dr. Alison Glascoe, D.D.S., M.S., received her Doctorate of Dental Surgery from the University of Maryland at Baltimore, College of Dental Surgery in 1994. In pursuit of clinical excellence, she furthered her education by completing a general practice residency at the Commission of Mental Health,
St. Elizabeth’s Campus inWashington, D.C. Following her residency, Dr. Glascoe associated with practices in Columbia and Silver Spring, Maryland. At the University of Pennsylvania, she completed her advanced periodontal residency and also earned a Masters of Science degree in Oral Biology and completed a comprehensive year-long Implant Dentistry Fellowship.Dr. Glascoe is a Diplomate of the Board of Periodontology. She is afull-time faculty member at Howard University College of Dentistry in the Department of Periodontics and Preventive Services inWashington, D.C. In addition,Dr. Glascoe maintains a private practice, limited to periodontics, in Bowie, Maryland. - Dr. Paul G. Luepke, D.D.S., M.S., is an Assistant Professor of Surgical Services Periodontics Division and current Interim Department Chair of Surgical Sciences at Marquette University College of Dentistry.
Dr. Luepke’s responsibilities include clinical coverage in surgery and the clinic floor, didactic lectures, research, and administrative duties for Oral Surgery, Endodonitics, Oral Pathology, and Periodonics.Dr. Luepke graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago School of Dentistry in 1987 and received his master degree in periodontics in 1996 from the University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center. He is board certified and recently retired from the Navy after21 years. Dr. Luepke accepted his current position at Marquette inAugust 2008. - Dr. Patricia Miguez, D.D.S., M.S., is a graduate of the
UFSC School of Dentistry, Florianopolis, Brazil. After graduation in 1997, she started a specialty program in periodontology, which was completed in 1999. During that time, she practiced general dentistry in her hometown in Brazil. In 2000, she moved to ChapelHill, NC, where she has completed a Masters Degree in Operative Dentistry at the University of North Carolina and is currently in the combined Oral BiologyPhD/ Periodontolog y certificate program at the same university. Her teaching responsibilities include weekly interactions with dental students in the pre-doctoral periodontology clinics and directorship of a periodontology elective course for junior and senior students. After graduation, her goal is to succeed as a teacher, clinician and researcher in a leading US dental school and periodontology department.
The six and a half days of on-site classes will be conducted in phases approximately two months apart, supplemented by complementary coursework and two individual “teach-back” assignments during the intervening period. Nationally recognized experts in curriculum development, higher education administration, leadership, and pedagogy created the program and will present content, including
In 2010, the ADEA/AAL ITL program will be held at UNC, with phase I occurring
More information and an application are available online for the
About ADEA: The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is the voice of dental education. Its members include all U.S. and Canadian dental schools and many allied and postdoctoral dental education programs, corporations, faculty, and students. ADEA’s mission is to lead individuals and institutions of the dental education community to address contemporary issues influencing education, research, and the delivery of oral health care for the health of the public. ADEA’s activities encompass a wide range of research, advocacy, faculty development, meetings, and communications like the esteemed Journal of Dental Education, as well as the dental school admissions services AADSAS and PASS.
About AAL: Established in 2005 by Dr. N. Karl Haden, AAL provides customized professional development and consulting services for academic healthcare executives, educators, practitioners, institutions, and associations.
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.
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