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The �������� dental community assembled on Wednesday, February 20, 2019 for the 37th Annual Dental Science Symposium. This yearly event showcases dental research in basic science, public health, clinical science, and education.

Organized by the San Antonio Chapter of the American Association of Dental Research, the symposium hosted 30 dental students’, postdoctoral fellows’, and faculty poster presentations, along with 7 oral presentations. Distinguished Keynote speaker Nisha J. D’Silva, B.D.S., M.S.D., Ph.D., Donald Kerr Collegiate Professor, Associate Chair, Division of Oral Medicine, Pathology and Radiology, Professor of Pathology from the University of Michigan Medical School and Diplomate of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology presented her research entitled: “Oral Cancer: Aggressive & Subversive”.

Before closing remarks were made, faculty judges submitted their evaluations to be tallied for poster awards. The winners are:

Dental Students - Poster

1st – Mohammad Yazdi, DS4

2nd – Shilpa Ganatra

3rd – Thong Nguyen, DS2

 

Special Travel award from Dentsply:

John Swartout, DS2

 

Residents/Ph.D.- Poster:

 

1st: Dr. Jacob Boyd

2nd: Nicholas Dybdal-Hargreaves, DS4

3rd: Michael Eskander, DS4

 

Post Doc- Poster

Dr. Rebecca Lane

 

Dental Student – Oral Presentations, Travel Award by SCADA

Robert Brock, DS2

 

Residents/Ph.D. students – Oral Presentations

1st: Dr. David Wong

2nd: Dr. Olivia Tran

3rd: Dr. Jeffrey Penner

The School of Dentistry would like to thank San Antonio Chapter of the American Association of Dental Research, Office of the Dental Dean, Omicron Kappa Upsilon, San Antonio Chapter of the Academy of General Dentistry, Texas Academy of General Dentistry, American Association for Dental Research, and Dentsply Sirona for sponsoring this year.