UNC Grad Student Wins International Research Award
Jennifer Harmon, RDH, BS, a 2015 candidate in the Master of Science in Dental Hygiene Education program at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry, received the prestigious International Association of Dental Research (IADR) Behavioral Epidemiologic and Health Services Research Group Outstanding Student Abstract Award.
Jennifer Harmon, RDH, BS, a 2015 candidate in the Master of Science in Dental Hygiene Education program at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry, received the prestigious International Association of Dental Research (IADR) Behavioral Epidemiologic and Health Services Research Group Outstanding Student Abstract Award. Harmon was selected for her abstract “Protective Effect of Circulating Omentin-1 Against Chronic Temporo – mandibular Disorder Pain.”
This award is presented annually by IADR to the student whose research abstract is judged exceptional by a panel of experts in behavioral sciences, epidemiology, and health services research. In March, Harmon was recognized at the IADR meeting in Boston, where she was presented with a cash award and certificate by IADR Group President Lisa Jamieson, PhD.
Harmon, who plans to work in dental hygiene education after graduation, thanked her thesis adviser Anne Sanders, MS, PhD— an associate professor in the Department of Dental Ecology at UNC School of Dentistry— for Sanders’ ongoing support of her research training. Sanders publicly congratulated Harmon and shed light on the competitive nature of the honor: “Jennifer’s abstract was selected from a multidisciplinary and competitive international field,” Sanders revealed, adding that Harmon’s research greatly contributed to the understanding of inflammatory mechanisms in temporomandibular disorder pain.
From Dimensions of Dental Hygiene. May 2015;13(5):14–15.
