Olav Alvares Awards for Outstanding Articles Published in the Journal of Dental Education Presented at 2013 ADEA Annual Session Exhibition

Olav Alvares Awards for Outstanding Articles Published in the Journal of Dental Education Presented at 2013 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition

SEATTLE, March 19, 2013 — During the 2013 ADEA Annual

Session & Exhibition being held March 16-19 in Seattle, Washington,

four individuals were awarded Olav Alvares Awards for Outstanding

Articles Published in the Journal of Dental Education. The 2013 Olav

Alvares Award recipients are:

Mario A. Brondani, D.D.S., M.Sc., M.P.H., Ph.D., Assistant Professor,

Department of Oral Health Sciences, University of British Columbia

Faculty of Dentistry, author of “Teaching Social Responsibility Through

Community Service-Learning in Predoctoral Dental Education,” May 2012.

Shiva Khatami, D.D.S., Cert. Ortho., Ph.D., Assistant Professor,

Department of Orthodontics, Nova Southeastern University College of

Dental Medicine, author of “Clinical Reasoning in Dentistry: A

Conceptual Framework for Dental Education,” September 2012.

Emily Springfield, B.A., M.S.Ed., Instructional Designer, Dental

Informatics, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, lead author of

“Using Multiple Methods to Assess Learning and Outcomes in an Online

Degree-Granting Dental Hygiene Program,” April 2012.

Cara L. Tax, Dip.D.H., B.A., M.Ed., Assistant Professor, School of

Dental Hygiene, Dalhousie University Faculty of Dentistry, lead author

of “A Model for Cultivating Dental Hygiene Faculty Development Within a

Community of Practice,” March 2012.

“ADEA congratulates these scholars for their outstanding research and

contributions to the Journal of Dental Education,” says ADEA President

Gerald N. Glickman, D.D.S., M.S., M.B.A., J.D. “The JDE is widely

recognized as the premier publication for academic dentistry because of

such contributions.”

The Olav Alvares Award was named in honor of Dr. Olav Alvares, Journal

of Dental Education editor from 2000 to 2009, to encourage junior

scholars (assistant professors, instructors, residents, students, and

staff) to conduct and publish outstanding research.

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