The ADA is accepting applications for the new John W. Stanford New Investigator Award, designed to highlight the important role dental standards play in ensuring patient health and safety and the efficacy of dental products.
The award is also meant to encourage dentists and dental students to conduct standards-based research and standards development, according to the ADA. It was named for John W. Stanford, who was involved in dental standards development for more than 40 years and was responsible for the establishment of the ADA's current standards program.
Dental students and dentists who earned their dental degree no earlier than 2007 are eligible to apply for the award. Applicants are required to submit an original research report that could be published and must submit an explanation of how the research incorporates current dental standards and/or contributes to the development of dental standards.
Applications, which can be downloaded from the ADA website, are due by August 31, 2012.
The awards committee is composed of an ADA board member and leaders from the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs and the ADA Standards Committee on Dental Products. The awards committee, along with the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs, will select the winner, who will be announced in December 2012.
The winner will receive airfare and a two-night hotel stay to present his or her award-winning paper March 2013 at the ADA Standards Committee on Dental Products and the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 106 on Dentistry Meeting in Seattle. The winner will also be announced in the ADA News, and the winning paper will be eligible for publication in a dental journal.
