Eight faculty members have been named recipients of the UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry Dean’s Excellence Award for 2021.

Walid Fakhouri，MSC，博士；卡梅隆·杰特（Cameron Jeter）博士；Margo Melchor，RDH，EDD；Ezinne Ogbureke，BDS，DMD；Karo Parsegian，DMD，博士，MDSC；Maryam Tabrizi，DMD，MPH；Bing-Yan Wang，DDS，MS，PhD；和塞缪尔·温克尔曼（Samuel Winkelmann），DDS，MS；因应用，发现，集成，教学，指导和志愿服务的杰出工作而受到荣誉。

Dean and Distinguished Teaching Professor John Valenza, DDS, recognized the award recipients Tuesday, Sept. 7, during a virtual, evening event held via Cisco Webex. Faculty department chairs were also invited to attend.

获奖者在7月的联合教师 +员工撤退期间首次宣布。

Here are details about each category and winner(s), including comments from nominators:

申请奖学金的院长卓越奖

“用于协助社会和解决问题的专业”

• Walid Fakhouri, MSc, PhD, assistant professor

诊断和生物医学科学系

Nominators’ Comments:自从他加入我们机构以来，Fakhouri博士的深度和成就的深度和广度得到了证明。例如（2）：

• 他获得了美国解剖学家协会（AAA）的全国奖，该奖项是2019年发表动力学的最佳出版物，最近与其他著名的研究人员合作发表了“科学”。
• He has utilized his knowledge of molecular biology and applied it to the clinical problem of oral mucositis in a collaborative project between clinicians and basic scientists.

As director of the Evaluation and Presentation of Scientific Research elective course, Dr. Fakhouri’s dental students have significantly benefited from his expertise in human genetics and published multiple peer-reviewed articles with him.

院长卓越奖奖学金奖学金

“通过研究建立新知识”beplay苹果手机能用吗

• Bing-Yan Wang，DDS，MS，博士，教授
  牙周和牙科卫生部

Nominators’ Comments:Wang博士是Uthealth牙科学院内外的其他研究人员的积极合作，她的出版物，演示和赠款记beplay苹果手机能用吗录证明了这一点。

她建立了新的策略，以评估再生材料和潜在抗菌剂的抗菌特性，开发模拟口腔的模型系统。

Wang博士发表了59篇研究文章，并在多次国家和国际beplay苹果手机能用吗会议上发表。

她已从主要资金机构（包括R03，U01，U30，R15和U54）获得了多年赠款资金。

DEAN’S EXCELLENCE AWARD IN THE SCHOLARSHIP OF INTEGRATION

“For interpreting the use of knowledge across disciplines”

• 卡梅隆·杰特, PhD, associate professor
  诊断和生物医学科学系

Nominators’ Comments:Dr. Jeter has developed innovative strategies and methods of integration of teaching in dental education and for interdisciplinary teaching and research, especially IPE. She is a newly appointed co-course director for three courses:

• Clinical Applications I here at UTHealth School of Dentistry;
• GSBS毕业生神经解剖学，带来博士学位的学生来教牙科学生；
• GSBS Neurobiology of Disease, attended by medical, dental, and graduate students.

Dr. Jeter is also a mentor on Dean's Small Grants, and a PI on funded interprofessional research in oral health, dementia, and access to health care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

她发表了许多文章，并进行了几次全国性演讲。

DEAN’S EXCELLENCE AWARD IN THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING

“For studying teaching models and practices to achieve optimal learning”

• 卡罗·帕尔斯基安（Karo Parsegian），DMD，博士，MDSC，本科牙周课程总监，助理教授
  牙周和牙科卫生部

Nominators’ Comments:Parsegian博士是一个人，他不断提出创新的想法，以增强学生的教育经验。例如：

• He introduced a new session into the Periodontics I course that enhanced interactions between dental and dental hygiene students;
• 他通过开发了两种软件应用程序，即Perioplanner和Pocketperio来发起并领导了几种创新方法，以改善临床工作流程和牙周诊断的准确性；
• 他在2020年夏季大流行期间开发并引入了模拟的牙周仪器，以维持和增强学生仪器技能。

Parsegian博士的教学努力已在全国范围内得到认可，因为他是美国牙科教育协会的高露洁初级教师奖，并获得了美国牙周病学学院的杰出教学和指导奖。

• Maryam Tabrizi，DMD，MPH，助理教授
  普通实践和牙科公共卫生部

Nominators’ Comments:Tabrizi博士已经证明一个获奖的控制ribution in teaching and advancement in geriatric oral health to all learning levels at UTHealth School of Dentistry. Examples of her achievements include:

• 教牙科和牙科卫生的学生，她一直将学生带到疗养院，使他们患有痴呆症老年人的口腔健康状况；
• Teaching Advanced Education in General Dentistry residents, where our AEGD program is the only one in the U.S. with a formal geriatric component;
• 教会同事，Tabrizi博士与她的同龄人合作，将Innovate Telementering项目Echo带到Uthealth School of Dentistry。

Tabrizi博士通过她的努力改善了老年人群的整体健康状况，并从教室和床边进行了老年教育。

DEAN’S EXCELLENCE AWARD IN MENTORING

“For Demonstrating commitment to, and effectiveness in, faculty mentoring”

• 玛戈·梅尔乔（Margo Melchor）, RDH, MEd, EdD, director of community outreach, associate professor
  牙周和牙科卫生部

Nominators’ Comments:梅尔乔（Melchor）博士的指导确实使我成为她今天的同事之一，当我熟悉教学艺术时，她继续在美好而艰难的时期指导我。

She provides advice on leadership opportunities through suggesting conference attendance and committee work, including holding leadership positions within the committees and how to support the school endeavors through these leadership positions.

她不懈地模拟专业素养，并提供有关如何写作，说话和行为专业人士的指导。鼓励我与新的教师联系，以支持和指导关系，以准备将来成为一名强有力的导师。

• Ezinne Ogbureke, BDS, DMD
  普通实践和牙科公共卫生部

Nominators’ Comments:Dr. Ogbureke not only leads by example by continuing to pursue scholarly activity, but also by encouraging me to do the same. Regularly, she encourages me to submit abstracts, invites me to assist with editing, and provides valuable scholarly content for workshops and presentations.

Examples of Dr. Ogbureke’s contemplative advice include mentoring on a survey questionnaire for my first research project. This effort led to a presentation at an IADR Annual Session. Later, she mentored me in redesigning this project that was also accepted for an ADEA Annual Session as a workshop.

Through her mentorship, I was able to edit an article that was published in the GHDS Journal and invited to provide scholarly content for a presentation in 2020 for the Gulf State Dental Association.

DEAN’S EXCELLENCE AWARD IN VOLUNTEERISM

“对于一位始终自愿参加支持和维持牙科学院使命的教职员工”

• Samuel Winkelmann，DDS，MS
  正畸部门

Nominators’ Comments:温克尔曼博士（Winkelmann）博士是一位敬业的教育者，并表现出了对卓越和服务对正畸和牙科牙科学校的非凡承诺。

He is a teacher who understands how to engage students, sharpen their minds, and cultivate within them curiosity for learning the material.

Dr. Winkelmann is the ultimate teacher, mentor, and role model, who has brought the highest level of professional standards to his teaching responsibilities for the past 13 years.