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ADA Recognizes Four Dental Leaders

SourceInside DentistryTier 2Clinical & Visual

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Why it matters for dental

ADA awards recognize leaders whose work shapes governance, research, and clinical guidelines that affect daily dental practice and payer expectations.

Key points

  • Elizabeth Shapiro received the ADA Distinguished Service Award for her governance work and interim executive-director role promoting transparency and financial stewardship.
  • Daniel Fine received the Norton M. Ross Award for research on localized aggressive periodontitis that informed revisions to the classification system.
  • Deborah Polk received the Evidence-Based Dentistry Award for helping develop pharmacologic acute dental pain guidelines for children and for adolescents, adults, and older adults.
  • Julie Frantsve-Hawley received the Evidence-Based Dentistry Award for helping establish the ADA Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry and later developing its clinical practice guideline program.

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