The $30,000 fellowship is a career development award for outstanding academic periodontists...

AAP Foundation Awards Tarrson Fellowship to Dr. Vanchit John

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The $30,000 fellowship is a career development award for outstanding academic periodontists.

CHICAGO, July 26, 2004 – The American Academy of Periodontology Foundation recently named Dr. Vanchit John as 2004 recipient of the Bud and Linda Tarrson Fellowship. The $30,000 fellowship is a career development award for outstanding academic periodontists.

Dr. John is on the faculty of the Indiana University School of Dentistry, where since 1999 he has served as Assistant Professor and Director of the Pre-Doctoral Program in the Department of Periodontics and Allied Dental Programs. He received the Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching from the Indiana University School of Dentistry (IUSD) Alumni Association in 2003. In 2002, Dr. John was named Outstanding Periodontics Faculty Member by the IUSD Class of 2002. In addition to his teaching accolades, Dr. John has published widely and has contributed chapters to several periodontal textbooks.

Dr. John holds two dental degrees and two degrees in periodontics. After completing both degrees at the Madras Dental College in Madras, India, followed by a period of private practice, he returned to school at the Indiana University School of Dentistry for additional degrees in dentistry and periodontics. In 1998 he received his Doctor of Dental Surgery from IUSD.

The Bud and Linda Tarrson Fellowship was created to encourage gifted periodontal clinicians who have a demonstrated facility for teaching, to pursue an academic career. Candidates must be either full-time or part-time faculty members at the instructor or assistant level and affiliated with a degree-granting institution for 10 years or less. They must have a stated career goal in periodontal education and research. Nominations for the fellowship are made by periodontal program directors. Evaluation is made on both academic and clinical strengths as well as the candidate's potential for a leadership role in teaching.

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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