SUSAN M. SANZI-SCHAEDEL, RDH, MPH, RECEIVES AWARD

Myron Allukian, Suzan Sanzi-Schaedel, Robert Isman, Alyssa Franzen (l to r)

Susan M. Sanzi-Schaedel, RDH, MPH, received the 2009 Myron Allukian Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for Community Dental Programs (AACDP) for outstanding contributions in community dental programs. The award was presented on April 19, 2009, at the AACDP’s National Meeting prior to the National Oral Health Conference in Portland, Ore.

Ms. Sanzi-Schaedel was director of School and Community Dental Health Programs from 1978 to 2006 with the Multnomah County Health Department in Portland, Ore. In addition she served as a Head Start consultant to the Indian Health Service from 1991-1993, as well as on various committees on the national, state and local levels. She was the 1986-1987 president of the Oregon Dental Hygienists Association and a member of the American Dental Hygienists Association Council on Public Health in 1999-2001. She has also been active in both the Oregon Public Health Association and Oregon Oral Health Coalition. In 1997-98 she was chair of the Oral Health Section APHA and served on APHA's Action Board and Governing Council. She retired from the Multnomah County Health Department in 2006.

The award was presented by Dr. Myron Allukian Jr. with comments by Dr. Robert Isman, a former dental director at Multnomah County and current dental program consultant for the California Dept of Healthcare Services Medi-Cal Dental Services Branch, and by Dr. Alyssa Franzen, current Multnomah County Public Health Dental Director.  The award reads “For her many lifetime contributions to community and school-based prevention and treatment programs in Multnomah County, Oregon, and the mentoring, collaboration and leadership she offered to many others in community dental programs.”

Ms. Sanzi-Schaedel is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a BS in dental hygiene and an MPH in dental public health and health education. She also attended Western Michigan University. She began her career in Boston at the Children’s Hospital and the Martha May Eliot Health Center. From 1973-1975 she was faculty in the Boston University Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry and is presently an adjunct assistant professor with the Oregon Health Sciences University School of Dentistry. She has received previous honors from the Multnomah Dental Society, the Oregon Public Health Association, ADHA, and the Community Health Partnerships.

The AACDP represents organizations and individuals engaged in providing oral health services at the local and community level.  For more information, go to www.AACDP.com.

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