The scholarship is intended to encourage periodontal research in regeneration and to encourage talented periodontists to pursue a career as periodontal educators...

AAP Foundation Awards Tarrson Regeneration Scholarship to Dr. Jill Bashutski

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The scholarship is intended to encourage periodontal research in regeneration and to encourage talented periodontists to pursue a career as periodontal educators.

CHICAGO, October 10, 2005—The American Academy of Periodontology Foundation recently awarded a $37,000 Tarrson Regeneration Scholarship to Jill Bashutski, DDS, a first year resident in the University of Michigan Graduate Periodontics Program.

The Tarrson Regeneration Scholarship is intended to encourage periodontal research in regeneration of hard and soft tissues and to encourage talented periodontists to pursue a career as periodontal educators. As part of the application process, candidates for the award must submit a proposal abstract for a clinical research project relevant to regeneration studies.

Dr. Bashutski has received numerous awards, including the Quintessence Award for Clinical Periodontics (2005), the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario Scholarship for highest academic ranking (2002/2003) and the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology Award (2002/2003). She received her DDS from the University of Western Ontario (Canada).

Two Tarrson Regeneration Scholarships are awarded every three years. The next award will be made in 2008. The two recipients of the Tarrson Regeneration Scholarship each receive $37,000 per year for each year of their three-year periodontal training program. In return, Tarrson Regeneration Scholars must commit to spending one year of full-time teaching in a U.S. periodontal training program for each year they received scholarship funds. The award is funded by the Bud Tarrson Foundation for Dental Research.

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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