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The William J. Gies Foundation for the Advancement of Dentistry of the American Dental Education Association, Inc. (ADEAGies Foundation)

Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2006

The mission of the ADEAGies Foundation is to enhance the oral health of the public through programs which support dental education, research, leadership, and recognition.

The ADEAGies Annual Fund, under the chairmanship of Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General and current Director of the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine, has now raised more than $375,000 since its inception. Plans are under way for next year’s Annual Fund drive, which we hope will benefit from ADEA’s greatly expanded membership base.

In an important initiative, ADEA and the Gies Foundation forged a landmark agreement with Oral Health America, the nation’s premier independent advocacy organization dedicated to improving oral health and the public’s awareness of oral health’s importance to total health. The three organizations are collaborating in a new effort to promote leadership in dental, allied dental, and advanced dental education. The ADEAGies Foundation received over $200,000 from the George H. Whiteley Memorial Foundation, DENTSPLY, Inc., and the Beauchamp Estate to support ADEA’s Leadership Institute for select educators and administrators who show promise for leadership growth.

The Board of Trustees of the ADEAGies Foundation refined and published our grant proposal guidelines and awarded grants totaling $29,000 for the 2006 cycle, including:

• ADEA/William J. Gies Educational Fellowship. Funded at $10,000, this fellowship provides funding for a senior dental educator to work with ADEA staff in the Center for Educational Policy and Research on a major policy issue facing dental education. The residency is for up to three months. Project areas have included: survey and recommendations regarding dental school faculty shortages; the scholarship of teaching; international dental education; clinical licensure reform; ADEA Leadership Institute outcomes study; and the development of competencies for dental faculty.
  
• Editorial Awards Program. Approval of funding to the American Association of Dental Editors (AADE) for $4,500: $1,500 for support of the presentation ceremony and overhead for AADE and $3,000 in awards.
  
• Periodontal and Oral Surgery Awards. $500 for an outstanding periodontal educator in conjunction with the American Association of Periodontology; $500 for an outstanding oral surgery educator in conjunction with the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
  
• Gies Lecture Series. The William J. Gies Lecture Series includes two lectures, one that occurs at the Greater New York Dental Meeting and the second that takes place at the Chicago Dental Society meeting or other major meeting.
  
• Advanced Dental Education Summit II. A grant of $10,000 was approved to help support ADEA’s Advanced Dental Education Summit II, which will be held December 7–9, 2006, in Baltimore, Maryland. This summit will convene the nation’s educational leadership in both general dentistry and the dental specialties to discuss the challenges and opportunities confronting contemporary advanced dental education.
  
• Support of Dental Student Research. The foundation continues to fund two multiyear grants, each totaling $35,000, to encourage and support dental student research at the predoctoral level. The programs currently receiving support are the dental schools at the University of California, San Francisco and University of Alabama.
  

The major goals for the ADEAGies Foundation for fiscal 2007 are to further increase the visibility of the foundation and its grants programs, to continue to enlarge our Board of Trustees, and to expand our annual fund and special gifts development efforts in concert with the American Dental Association’s national campaign for dental education.

As Chair of the Board of the William J. Gies Foundation, I am most grateful to the members of the Board for their continuing commitment to the growth, development, and work of the foundation.

Respectfully submitted,

Pamela Zarkowski, J.D.

Chair

	ADEAGies Foundation Board of Trustees

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Prof. Pamela Zarkowski, Chair

University of Detroit Mercy

Dr. Richard Valachovic, President

American Dental Education Association

Dr. Brendan Boylan

New York, NY

Dr. Frank Catalanotto

University of Florida

Dr. Lonnie Norris

Tufts University

Dr. Ted Pate

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Mr. Norman Strate

Hernando, FL

Mr. Randall Yates

New York, NY

Dr. Allan J. Formicola, Honorary

Columbia University

Dr. Gordon Rovelstad, Honorary

Columbia, MD

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