About the AAP Foundation
Committees
Goverance Committees
Members of the Foundation’s general governance and advisory committees. Award-specific selection committees are listed on each award’s own page.
Executive Committee
- Christopher R. Richardson, DMD, MS, chair
- Lisa B. Masters, DDS, MS
- James Wilson, DDS
- David H. Yu, DDS, MS, FICD
Finance Committee
- James Wilson, secretary-treasurer, chair
- Christopher R. Richardson, DMD, MS, president
- David H. Yu, DDS, MS, FICD, vice president
- Lisa B. Masters, DDS, MS, immediate past presdient
- Kyle Gorden, executive director
- Mary Beth Neill, DDS, MS
- Walter E. Colon, DMD, MS
- Colin Richman, DMD
Industry Advisory Council
- Edward Shellard, Carestream Dental, chair
- Jaclyn Schiller, A. Titan Instruments, Inc.
- Dan Perkins, AEGIS Dental Network
- Steve Boggan, BioHorizons
- Tom Raish, SUNSTAR Americas, Inc.
Levi-Richman Integration Initiative Advisory Committee
- Dr. Mia Geisinger, DDS, MS, chair
- Lucianna Shaddox, DDS, MS, PhD
- Frank A. Roberts DDS, PhD
- Rick H. Heard III, DDS, MS
- Colin Richman, DMD
- Michael Levi
Program Selection Committees
Annual Meeting Scholarships
- Ali Sajadi
- Cassandra McKenzie
- Hima Bindu Dukka
- Jacob Zellner
- Lea El Hachem
Bud and Linda Tarrson Fellowship
- David Jolkovsky
- Flavia Q. Pirih
- Vivek Thumbigere-Math
- Yi-Chu Wu
Charles W. Finley Visiting Scholar Education Grants
- Luciano Andrada
- Vanchit John
- Vrushali Abhyankar
- Yvonne Kapila
Dr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Kramer Scholar Award for Excellence
- Adam Saltz
- Aly Kennedy
- Amanda B. Morris
- Martinna Bertolini
- Yousuf Al-Aboosi
Dr. D. Walter Cohen Teaching Award
- Andrew Rossi Jr
- Anuja Doshi
- Monica Prasad Gibson
- Sangeetha Chandrasekaran
- Yu-Cheng Chang
Dr. James T. Mellonig Regeneration Research Grant
- James Fine
- Mark Reynolds
- Paul Luepke
- Teri Brooks Lovelace
Dr. Mark K. Setter Leadership in Periodontology and Dental Implantology Award
- Darron Alvord
- Gregory A. Toback
- Jill Bresler
Educator Scholarships
- Ahmed Refaat El-Awady
- Amanda Finger Stadler
- David T. Wu
- Satish Kumar
- Srinivas Myneni
Institute for Teaching and Learning Fellowships
- Ann Decker
- Beatriz Bezerra
- Guo-Hao Lin
- Yusuke Hamada
International Resident Award
- Erin Breen
- Georgios Kotsakis
- Irina Dragan
- Rafael Siqueira
- Sejal Thacker
Levi-Richman Multidisciplinary Oral-Systemic Research Grants
Lynch Translational Science Scholarship
McGuire Program for Clinician Scientists
Nevins and Nevins-BioHorizons Teaching and Clinical Research Fellowships
- Dr. Hanae Saito
- Joseph Gian-Grasso
- Marc L Nevins
- Purnima Kumar
- Yusuke Hamada
Patty and Paul Levi Research Award
- Carlos Parra
- Joan Otomo-Corgel
- Juhi Uttamani
- Orlando J. Abreu
- William R Trahan
Richman Family Foundation Perio-Ortho Interface Grants
- Colin Richman
- Drew McDonald
- George Mandelaris
- Jacob Kobi Stern
- Zheng Zhou
Schoor Research Award
- D Ryan Clagett
- Pilar Valderrama
- Shayan Barotchi
- Yong-Hee Patricia Chun
Teaching Fellowships
- Adam Leitzan
- Jennifer L. Bain
- Praveen Gajendrareddy
- Sivaraman Prakasam
- Sukirth Ganesan