2022 Awards
The 69th Annual Iowa Section of the American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial was held on Tuesday, February 15. Judges evaluated each submission for each category and determined the award winners based on the quality of the research and the presentation. These awards represent the exciting research that students, staff, and visitors are conducting and presenting.
Vi Phan
Undergraduate Student Award
1st Place
Teagan Byrnes
AADOCR Student Research Award
Jinmei Zhang
Staff Research
1st Place
Zachary Graham
Max Smith Pre-Doctoral Competition
1st Place
Bethany Doolittle
Max Smith Pre-Doctoral Competition
2nd Place
Cyrus Mansouri
Max Smith Pre-Doctoral Competition
3rd Place
Emma Thayer
P&G Competition
1st Place
Teagan Byrnes
P&G Competition
2nd Place
Abigail Wiese
P&G Competition
3rd Place
Mary Young
ADA Table Clinics Competition (Predoctoral)
1st Place
Luke Hovey
ADA Table Clinics Competition (Predoctoral)
2nd Place
Katherine Moore
ADA Table Clinics Competition (Predoctoral)
3rd Place
Fan Shao
ADA Table Clinics Competition (Postdoctoral)
1st Place
Jacob Miszuk
ADA Table Clinics Competition (Postdoctoral)
2nd Place
Jue Hu
ADA Table Clinics Competition (Postdoctoral)
3rd Place
Sydney Woods
Dental Specialty Award
Iowa Society for Periodontology Predoctoral Award
1st Place
Emma Miller
James S. Wefel Pediatric Dentistry Predoctoral Competition Award
1st Place
Jason Semprini
Bernstein Award for Health Policy
1st Place
Gam Krongbaramee
Dental Specialty Award
Endodontic Michel Fuller Postdoctoral Award
1st Place
Emilio Couso-Queiruga
Dental Specialty Award
Iowa Society for Periodontology Postdoctoral Award
1st Place
Catherine Hopkins
Department Specialty Awards
Operative Dentistry
1st Place
Wattawan Wongpattaraworakul
Department Specialty Awards
Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
1st Place
Nile Eckerman
Department Specialty Awards
Orthodontics
1st Place
Anna Stell
Department Specialty Awards
Pediatric Dentistry
1st Place
Abimbola M. Oladayo
Department Specialty Awards
Preventive and Community Dentistry
1st Place
Maria Martinez
Department Specialty Awards
Prosthodontics
1st Place
Samantha D. Wuebker
Basic Laboratory Science (Master/PhD Candidate)
1st Place (tied)
Timothy T. Nguyen
Basic Laboratory Science (Master/PhD Candidate)
1st Place (Tied)
Qiong Ding
Basic Laboratory Science (Postdoctoral Scholar)
1st Place
Matthew Remy
Tissue Engineering and Regeneration (Master/PhD Candidate)
1st Place
Zhuozhi Wang
Tissue Engineering and Regeneration (Postdoctoral Scholar)
1st Place
Chuanhang Xu
Basic Research
International Presenter
Student
1st Place
Umar Hayat Salman
Basic Research
International Presenter
Faculty/Postdoctoral Scholar/Visiting Scholar
1st Place
Guangyu Jian
Clinical Research
International Presenter
Student
1st Place
Karim Ghishan
Clinical Research
International Presenter
Faculty/Postdoctoral Scholar/Visiting Scholar
1st Place
Pamela Nwachukwu
Health Equity Award (Dental Student, Master/PhD Candidate)
1st Place
Kelsey Wenger
Iowa OKU Mu Chapter Award
1st Place
Carissa Comnick
Outstanding Biostatistics Support for Dental Research
1st Place