Stanley D. Tylman Research Awards

Sponsored by the Editorial Council of The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry

2008

First Place

Dr. Keith Guzaitis
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Effect of Repeated Screw Joint Closing and Opening Cycles on Implant Prosthetic
Screw Reverse Torque and Implant and Screw Thread Morphology"
Research Supervisor:  Dr. Kent Knoernschild
Progam Director:  Dr. Kent Knoernschild

Second Place

Dr. Zhaoliang Hu
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
"The effect of gingival displacement procedures on inducing
tumor necrosis factor-α and its receptors in rat gingival tissue"
Research Supervisor:  Dr. Saul Weiner
Program Director:  Dr. Robert Flinton

Pictured (l to r) Dr. Keith Guzaitis, Dr. Zhaoliang Hu

Previous First Place Award Winners

2007  Heather Conrad, University of Minnesota
2006  Kelly Copps Wood, Marquette University
2005  Phillip L.B. Tan, University of Iowa
2004  Vanessa Swain, University of Minnesota
2003  Luis G. Keys, University of Connecticut
2002  Periklis Proussaefs, Loma Linda University
2001  Salman A. Lakhani, University of Rochester
2000  Reza Heshmati, Marquette University

1999  Douglas E. Ford, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center
1998  David G. Gratton, The University of Iowa
1997  Kevin H. O'Boyle, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
1996  Paula K. Ylihekkila, University of North Carolina
1995  Fonda G. Robinson, Medical College of Georgia
1994  Syed Faheem Rasool, Harvard University
1993  Louis Menegotto, University of Rochester
1992  No Award Given
1991  No Award Given
1990  Shane N. White, University of Southern California Los Angeles

1989  No Award Given
1988  Susan E. Brackett, University of Iowa
1987  Izchak Bartzilay, University of Rochester
1986  Anthony J.G. Dickinson, Indiana University
1985  George W. Kay, Harvard University
1984  Jeffrey L. Hudgins, Medical College of Virginia
1983  David Alan Chance
1982  No Award Given
1981  Timothy O. Hart
1980  No Award Given

1979  James N. Ciesco, Loyola University

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