Honors, Awards & Appointments

Shannon Wallet, Ph.D., received a UF Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award from the UF Graduate School.

UFCD alumnus Brett Zak, D.M.D., is one of 28 University of Florida alumni who received this year’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award on Friday, April 7.

Jose Lemos, Ph.D., joins the Bacterial Pathogenesis Study Section of the National Institutes of Health in July 2017. The study section reviews grant applications submitted to the NIH and makes recommendations on these applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board, and surveys the status of research…

DMD Class of 2019 student Yandy Gonzalez Marrero was recently voted Councilor-elect in the AADR and NSRG 2018-19 officer election.

Congratulations to six University of Florida College of Dentistry faculty who received UF Term Professorship Awards from the UF Provost’s Office. Awardees have displayed a distinguished career that places them among the leaders in their discipline. Each of the UF Term Professorship Awards lasts three years. Recipients receive an annual…

Mary Ellen Davey, Ph.D., joins the Oral, Dental and Craniofacial Sciences Study Section of the National Institutes of Health as a full member in summer 2017. The section reviews applications on oral microbiology, oral immunology, periodontology, cariology, salivary gland biology, pathophysiology and clinical studies of oral structures and restorative…

Deborah Dilbone, D.M.D., was accepted as a Fellow of the 2017-2018 ADEA Leadership Institute and as the 2017 ADEA/ADEAGies Foundation Drs. Connie L. and Richard R. Drisko Scholar.

Four UFCD employees received 2016-17 University of Florida Superior Accomplishment Awards during a special banquet March 2.

Site visitors are appointed annually and exercise their education and practice expertise to help conduct the Commission's accreditation program.

Three of the 15 nationwide Pugh Achievement Award winners are from the University of Florida College of Dentistry.