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

AAP Foundation Awards Tarrson Fellowship to Dr. Monish Bhola

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

CHICAGO—October 1, 2006—The American Academy of Periodontology Foundation recently named Monish Bhola, D.D.S., M.S.D., recipient of the Bud and Linda Tarrson Fellowship. The $30,000 fellowship is a career development award for outstanding academic periodontists. Dr. Bhola is Program Director of Graduate Periodontics at the University of Detroit Mercy, School of Dentistry, Department of Periodontology and Dental Hygiene.

Dr. Bhola was instrumental in the development of the periodontal program at University of Detroit Mercy, School of Dentistry, where he is also Co-Director of Implant Dentistry at the school and Chair of the Committee of Graduate Education as well. He also serves as clinical instructor for the undergraduate dental program. Dr. Bhola received his Master of Science in Dentistry and his Certification in Periodontics from Indiana University School of Dentistry. He served a post-doctoral fellowship in periodontics and implantology at Indiana University, and then obtained his D.D.S. from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry.

Dr. Bhola is a recipient of the Shofu Graduate Student Award, where his research presentation received first place. He also received the Henry M. Swenson Award for Excellence in Academic and Clinical Periodontics.

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 fewer. 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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