Alejandra Valencia, 2009 Herschel S. Horowitz scholarship recipient, was named first place winner in the scientific competition for her poster at the annual Hispanic Dental Association meeting (Oct. 28-30, 2010). The poster’s title was: “Disparities in Access-Utilization of Dental Services Among Iowa Children: The Latino Experience”. Her co-authors were Karin Weber-Gasparoni, Fang Qian, John Warren and Peter Damiano.
The Herschel S. Horowitz Scholarship is designed to support dentists pursuing dental public health specialty education. Scholarship recipients are expected to pursue board certification in dental public health.
Herschel S. Horowitz
1932-2003
Herschel S. Horowitz, DDS, MPH, was an internationally known epidemiologist, educator and public health advocate whose work focused on the prevention of tooth decay, the most common disease of childhood. His studies provided the evidence for the efficacy and effectiveness of community and school-based fluoride and dental sealant programs now used in the United States and abroad to prevent this infectious disease. His research was aimed at identifying measures that were not only safe and effective, but that also were easy to apply, low in cost and acceptable to the public. His goal was to identify programs that benefit those most in need and that reach the largest number of individuals.