The 2009-10 Herschel S. Horowitz Scholarship was awarded to Dr. Alejandra Valencia at the National Oral Health Conference in Portland, Ore. in April 2009. Dr. Valencia received her dental degree in 1993 from the University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, and her MPH in 2007 from the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago. After six years in general practice, including four years as a health center manager, she is actively engaged in promoting health care in Latino and rural communities, as well as research in oral health, arthritis, evidence-based public health practice, training and decision-making, behavioral risk factor surveillance and population-based health and medicine.