The APHA Oral Health Section is pleased to announce the 2007 recipients of the Anthony Westwater Jong Memorial Community Dental Health Pre-Professional Awards sponsored by Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals
and
The Anthony Westwater Jong Memorial Community Dental Health Post-professional Award sponsored by OMNI Preventive Care, A 3M ESPE Company. The awards were established in 2006 in memory of the late Anthony Westwater Jong and in recognition of his commitment to community-based dental public health, his strong and highly acclaimed mentoring of students, and his emphasis on the importance of state, local and community-based public health action.
The Oral Health Section will present the 26th annual John W. Knutson Distinguished Service Award in Dental Public Health and the 2nd annual Anthony Westwater Jong Memorial Community Dental Health Student Awards at the APHA 135th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Washington, D.C., on Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, 6:30-8:00 p.m. The ceremony will be followed by a celebratory dinner at Marrakesh, 617 New York Ave N.W. Washington, D.C., 20001 Tel: (202)393-9393 http://www.marrakesh.us/
Please stay tuned for more dinner details, including the cost and how to purchase tickets.
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Philip K. Josephs, DDS/ MPH (Anticipated May 2008), a student at Columbia University’s College of Dental Medicine and the Mailman School of Public Health, is a leader of various student organizations at both the local and the national level. His leadership and scholarship has been recognized with awards by a variety of organizations including the National Hispanic Health Foundation’s Scholarship, the National Dental Association Foundation’s Scholarship, the American Dental Education Association’s Listerine Preventive Dentistry Scholarship, the Mailman School of Public Health’s Dannheiser Scholarship and others. During this past academic year Philip was president of the Student National Dental Association. He is also an elected member of the American Student Dental Education Association. Philip is the founder and director of Columbia University’s Symposium in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; a directed effort to recruit undergraduate minority students into the dental profession.
Shannitta Latrease Bridgers, DDS (Anticipated May 2008) began her dental education at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry in 2004. She is an active member of the Student National Dental Association, where she serves as vice president, American Student Dental Association, UNC-Student Research Group, American Dental Education Association, and the Hispanic Dental Association. She has also been active with the American Medical Students Association by organizing National Primary Care Week, which is an interdisciplinary program educating future health professionals on how to eliminate health disparities facing our nation. She is currently conducting public health research examining under-served populations, and she has chosen to specifically examine oral health and pregnancy and problems with access to dental care. Shannitta has also been involved with increasing minority representation within the dental profession by co-chairing the UNC Impressions Program for three years. She looks for every opportunity to make the most of her education and to help potential dental students understand the responsibilities and joys that go along with a dental school education. Upon completion of the DDS program, Shannitta plans to pursue graduate education in pediatric dentistry.
Nadine Braunstein, MS, RD, LDN, CDE, PhD Candidate (May 2008)is a registered dietitian and a PhD candidate in the Medical Nutrition Sciences Program at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is a past president of The Massachusetts Dietetic Association and recipient of their Distinguished Massachusetts Dietitian of the Year Award. Nadine is an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellow for the 2007-8 academic year. Her dissertation research is the first to examine the associations of food security and diet quality with caries prevalence and severity in children. Nadine will present a poster, “Household food security and diet quality are associated with early childhood caries prevalence” at the 2007 APHA Annual Meeting. Upon graduation, Nadine hopes to secure an academic position in a university where she can teach and continue her research on nutrition and oral health.
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For more information about the Anthony Westwater Jong Memorial Community Dental Public Health Student Awards, please contact one of the 2006 Committee Co-Chairs: Oscar Arevalo, DDS, ScD, MBA, MS, at (859) 323-6400 or oralchair05@yahoo.com or Kathy Lituri, RDH, MPH, at (617) 638-5202 or lituri@bu.edu.
I. The Pre-Professional Award, sponsored by Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Inc., will recognize an outstanding community-based research or service project of an oral health nature carried out by a pre-doctoral dental student, or a dentist who has graduated within the preceding 12 months from an ADA-accredited dental school, or a dental hygiene student, or a hygienist who has graduated from an accredited school of dental hygiene in the United States within the preceding 12 months. The application of community-based dental public health principles to the design of the project must be clear. Up to two Pre-Professional Awards will be granted each year.
II. The Post-professional Award, sponsored by OMNI Preventive Care, A 3M ESPE Company, will recognize an outstanding community-based research or service project of an oral health nature carried out by a dentist, physician, dental hygienist, nurse, nurse practitioner, social worker and/or other professional with an interest in oral health who is currently enrolled in: 1) an ASPH accredited School of Public Health, 2) a CEPH accredited School of Public Health or Graduate Public Health Program, 3) an ADA-accredited Dental Public Health Program, or, 4) a graduate level/university-based program with a significant course of study in public health related courses, or who has graduated from such a program in the preceding 12 months. Though applicants are not required to have a degree in dentistry, dental public health or dental hygiene, the application of community-based dental public health principles to the design of the project must be clear. One Post-professional Award will be granted per year. Please note: Pre-professional Award recipients may apply for the Post-Professional Award in a subsequent year, but must submit a different project for consideration. Individuals cannot apply for both the Pre-professional Award and the Post-Professional Award in the same year.
All of the recipients will receive: $200 cash award, a copy of Jong's Community Dental Health, 5th Edition, one-year membership in APHA Oral Health Section, Registration fee to the APHA Annual Meeting, a plaque to be presented at the Oral Health Section Awards Ceremony, Business Meeting, and two tickets to attend the Oral Health Section Reception Dinner following the Award ceremony. In addition, the recipient of The Anthony Westwater Jong Memorial Community Dental Health Post-professional Award sponsored by OMNI Preventive Care, A 3M ESPE Company, will also receive hotel lodging and transportation to the Annual Meeting.
Tax-deductible contributions can be made to the Anthony Westwater Jong Community Dental Health Student Awards Enrichment Fund at APHA. These funds will be used to supplement, enhance, and/or enrich The Anthony Westwater Jong Memorial Community Dental Health Pre-Professional Award sponsored by the Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals and/or The Anthony Westwater Jong Memorial Community Dental Health Post-professional Award sponsored by OMNI Preventive Care, A 3M ESPE Company in a manner that is consistent with donor intent, time period, and event activities and within the guidelines established by the Anthony Westwater Jong Memorial Community Dental Health Student Awards Committee. APHA is a 501 (c) (3) organization and as such contributions to the fund are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. The APHA Federal ID# is 13-1628688. Please note: The fund will not be used to cover the costs associated with the solicitation of nominees, the announcement of awardees, the expenses incurred by the Anthony Westwater Jong Memorial Community Dental Health Student Awards Committee, to fund an event, reception, or dinner for the presentation of the awards, or for the costs of items not included in the award packages unless otherwise specified by donor intent.
Checks should be made payable to:
APHA OH Section- Jong Account # 328060
and mailed to:
The Anthony Westwater Jong Community Dental Health
Student Awards Enrichment Fund at APHA
c/o Tanisha Battle,
American Public Health Association,
800 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20001