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McCauley, Giannobile Honored for Periodontal Excellence

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Laurie McCauleyWill Giannobile

Ann Arbor, MI — November 22, 2010 — Two University of Michigan School of Dentistry professors have received major awards from the American Academy of Periodontology for their academic and research excellence.

Dr. Laurie McCauley, chair of the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine and the William K. and Mary Anne Najjar Professor of Periodontics, received the William J. Gies Award.  Presented annually by the William J. Gies Foundation for the Advancement of Dentistry for outstanding contributions to literature and education, McCauley was recognized for publishing more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and serving on the editorial boards of professional journals including the Journal of Dental Research, Calcified Tissue International, and Oral Diseases.  Currently, she is associate editor at the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

Dr. William Giannobile, director of clinical research for the School’s Michigan Center for Oral Health Research, received the Distinguished Scientist Award.  The AAP cited Giannobile’s “tireless and innovative research that has had a lasting impact on periodontology.”  Giannobile, the William K. and Mary Anne Najjar Professor of Dentistry, is also a professor of biomedical engineering at the U-M College of Engineering.  In April, he became editor-in-chief of the Journal of Dental Research and was an associate editor of the Journal of Periodontology for 10 years.  Giannobile is also a consultant to the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The awards were presented during the recent AAP convention in Honolulu, Hawaii.
 

Contact: Sharon Grayden, Communications Director (734) 615-2600, or Jerry Mastey, Editor (734) 615-1971   dentistry.communications@umich.edu

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