Officers
2019-2020
President: Dr. Dharini van der Hoeven
President-Elect: Dr. Kurt Kasper
Executive committee members: Dr. Cameron Jeter, Dr. Marilia Sly, Dr. Margot Melchor
Ex-officio members: Dr. John Valenza, Dr. Lisa Cain
2018-2019
President: Dr. Ariadne Letra
President-Elect: Dr. Dharini van der Hoeven
Executive committee members: Dr. Kurt Kasper, Dr. Cameron Jeter, Dr. Gena Tribble
Ex-officio members: Dr. John Valenza, Dr. Lisa Cain
2017-2018
President: Dr. Juliana Barros
President-Elect: Dr. Ariadne Letra
Executive committee members: Dr. Kurt Kasper, Dr. Dharini van der Hoeven, Dr. Gargi Mukherji
Ex-officio members: Dr. John Valenza, Dr. Lisa Cain
2016-2017
President: Dr. Ransome van der Hoeven
President-Elect: Dr. Juliana Barros
Executive committee members: Dr. Dharini van der Hoeven, Dr. Gargi Mukherji, Dr. Ariadne Letra
Ex-officio members: Dr. John Valenza, Dr. Lisa Cain
2015-2016
President: Dr. Lincoln Edwards
President-Elect: Dr. Ransome van der Hoeven
Executive committee members: Dr. Dharini van der Hoeven, Dr. Gargi Mukherji, Dr. Cameron Jeter
Ex-officio members: Dr. John Valenza, Dr. Karen Novak
2014-2015
President: Dr. Rade Paravina
President-Elect: Dr. Lincoln Edwards
Executive committee members: Dr. Ransome van der Hoeven, Dr. Ana Neumann, Dr. Veronique Delattre
Ex-officio members: Dr. John Valenza, Dr. Karen Novak
Membership in the Dean's Academy of Distinguished Scholars may be achieved in three ways:
Inducted as charter members (2008)
Harold A. Henson, RDH, MEd, PhD
Darla K. McKitrick, RDH, MS
Jayne McWherter, RDH, MEd
Donna Warren Morris, RDH, MEd
June M. Sadowsky, DDS MPH
Rick Silverman, DDS
James Wilson, DDS
Inducted upon admission to The University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., Academy of Health Science Education
Shalizeh (Shelly) Patel, DDS, MEd (2020)
Donna P. Warren Morris, RDH, MEd (2019)
Ryan Quock, DDS (2018)
Jacqueline T. Hecht, PhD (2013)
Catherine M. Flaitz, DDS, MS (2010)
Paula N. O'Neill, MEd, EdD (2008)
John A. Valenza, DDS (2007)
John McMahon, PhD (2006)
Leslie Roeder, DDS, MS (2006)
Inducted as UTHealth President’s Scholar Award recipients
Mark Wong, DDS, FACS, FACS (2018)
Donna Warren-Morris, RDH, MEd (2017)
Jacqueline T. Hecht, PhD (2014)
Paula N. O'Neill, MEd, EdD (2011)
Catherine M. Flaitz, DDS, MS (2004)
Inducted as Dean’s Excellence Award recipients
FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP OF APPLICATION
Joe C. Ontiveros, DDS, MS (2019)
Margo Y. Melchor, RDH, EdD (2019)
Maryam Tabrizi, DMD, MPH (2018)
Rade D. Paravina, DDS, PhD (2017)
Cameron B. Jeter, PhD (2017)
Gene C. Stevenson, DDS, MS, MPH (2016)
Kurtis Kasper, PhD (2016)
June M. Sadowsky, DDS, MPH (2015)
Samuel Dorn, DDS (2014)
FOR ENGAGEMENT AND COLLABORATION
Sheila H. Koh, DDS (2012)
Yunzhi “Peter” Yang, MS, PhD (2011)
Rade D. Paravina, DDS, MS, PhD (2010)
Chung H. Kau, BDS, MScD, PhD (2009)
FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP OF DISCOVERY
Walid D. Fakhouri, PhD (2019)
Junichi Iwata, DDS, PhD (2017)
Ariadne Letra, DDS, MS, PhD (2016)
Kalu U.E. Ogbureke, BDS, DMSc, JD, MSc (2015)
Renato Silva, DDS, MS, PhD (2014)
Nadarajah Vigneswaran, BDS, DrMedDent, DMD (2013)
Gena D. Tribble, PhD (2013)
Pauline “Jackie” Duke, PhD (2012)
FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP OF INNOVATION
The Clinical Simulation Team (2018), shared by:
Deborah Franklin, DDS, MA; Gargi Mukherji, DDS; Donna Warren Morris, RDH, MEd; Harold Henson, RDH, PhD; Darla McKitrick, RDH, MS; Joanna Allaire, RDH, MDH; Alan E. Levine, PhD
Ana Neumann, DDS, MPH, PhD (2012)
Sergio Ortegon, DDS, MS (2011)
Donna Warren Morris, RDH, Med (2010)
George D. Suchko, DDS (2009)
FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP OF INTEGRATION
Dharini van der Hoeven, MSc, PhD (2018)
Ransome van der Hoeven, PhD (2018)
Ana Neumann, DDS, MPH, PhD (2018)
Kurt Kasper, PhD (2017)
FOR MENTORING
Shalizeh (Shelly) Patel, DDS, MEd (2019)
Hank I. Bussa, Jr., DDS, MS (2017)
Harold A. Henson, RDH, MEd, PhD (2016)
C.D. Johnson, DDS, MS (2015)
John R. Klein, PhD (2015)
Robin Weltman, DDS, MS (2014)
Sheila H. Koh, DDS (2011)
FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING
Ashley Clark, DDS (2019)
Maria Gonzalez, DDS, MS (2019)
Marilia Sly, DDS, MSD (2018)
The Tobacco Dependence Education Team (2018), shared by:
Ngozi Nwizu, BDS, MMSc, PhD; Victoria Patrounova, RDH, MHA; Richard Halpin, EdD; Charles Streckfus, DDS, MA
The Anatomy Team (2017), shared by:
Carla Rogers, PhD; Robert Spears, PhD; Raymond L. Warner, PhD, MA
Ezinne Ogbureke, DMD (2017)
Victoria V. Patrounova, RDH, MHA (2017)
Juliana A. Barros, DDS, MS (2016)
Harold A. Henson, RDH, MEd, PhD (2015)
Karen Novak, DDS, PhD (2015)
Rade D. Paravina, DDS, PhD (2015)
Shalizeh (Shelly) Patel, DDS (2015)
Ryan Quock, DDS (2015)
Clinical Applications Team 1 (2014), shared by:
Ted Pate, PhD; Gena Tribble, PhD; Art Jeske, PhD, DMD; Lincoln Edwards, PhD, DDS; Cameron Jeter, PhD; Charles Streckfus, DDS, MA; Dharini van der Hoeven, PhD, MSc; Deborah Franklin, DDS, MA; Ransome van der Hoeven, PhD
Gene C. Stevenson, DDS, MS, MPH (2013)
Shawn S. Adibi, DDS, Med (2012)
Veronique F. Delattre, DDS (2012)
J.G. “Jay” Welch, DDS (2011)
Raymond G. Koeppen, DDS, MS, MBA (2010)
Janet C. Grobe-Hood, DDS, Med (2009)
FOR VOLUNTEERISM
Don Le, DDS (2012, 2019)
Nina Leifeste, DDS (2015)
Giancarlo Romero, DDS, MSD (2015)
Jerry Long, DDS (2013)
Ryan Quock, DDS (2013)
Charles Hoopingarner, DDS (2011)
Jay Elliott, DDS (2010)
Lawrence A. Friedman, DDS (2009)