Professor Alan Roger dos Santos Silva, from the Oral Diagnosis Department of the Piracicaba School of Dentistry (FOP) at Unicamp, was awarded the Dr. Donald A. Kerr award, organized by American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (AAOMP). The award ceremony took place last April during the Academy's annual ceremony, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Founded in 1946, the AAOMP is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and its mission is to promote the advancement of oral and maxillofacial pathology through education, research, and clinical practice. The award is given annually to professionals with exceptional performance in the field, especially in the context of their work as members of the editorial board of scientific journals. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology.
According to Silva, the award is a recognition of academic and scientific excellence and is named after one of the founders of AAOMP and one of the main architects of the specialty in North America. The professor highlighted the special significance of the honor for his work. “This achievement has great symbolic value because it was awarded to a Brazilian professional in a field historically led by centers in the northern hemisphere,” he celebrated.
Silva says he shares this honor with everyone who has been part of his academic and family journey. “I would especially like to thank the teams in the areas of stomatology and pathology who share the daily work of teaching, research, university extension, clinical care and academic administration,” he says.
