PDA Recognition Award

Each year, the Annual Awards Committee selects for the PDA Recognition Award a dentist who has contributed original research, whose significant achievements and high standards have been of such character as to have materially aided and advanced the science and art of dentistry or whose public life and activities have been of such a nature as to reflect great credit upon the health profession.
 

Past Recipients of the PDA Recognition Award


1977 - Dr. George P. Boucek 2002 - Dr. Gregory D. Pence
  2022 - Dr. Stanley J. Heleniak
1978 - Mr. Henry Thornton 2003 - Dr. Susan E. Calderbank
  2023 - None
1983 - Dr. Gerald J. Cox 2004 - Dr. Leonard Abrams
  
1986 - Dr. Arthur C. McFeaters* 2006 - Dr. Dennis N. Ranalli
  
1987 - Dr. H. William Gross 2008 - Dean Marjorie K. Jeffcoat
  
1988 - Dr. Anthony L. Checchio 2009 - Dr. Elliot V. Hersh
  
1990 - Dr. Emanuel Ploumis 2012 - Dr. Thomas W. Braun
  
1991 - Dr. Betty J. McWilliams 2015 - Dr. Steven R. Jefferies  
1992 - Dr. Manuel M. Album 2016 - Dr. Susan M. Chialastri
  
1993 - Dr. C. Everett Koop 2017 - Dr. Paul A. Moore  
1994 - Dr. Benedict Kimmelman
 2018 - Dr. Thomas P. Sollecito  
1995 - Dr. Samuel B. Detweiler  2019 - Dr. Bernie P. Dishler  
1996 - Dr. David C. Hamilton
 2020 - Dr. Mark S. Wolff  
  2021 - Dr. R. Donald Hoffman  



*Posthumously