Dr. Sejal Thacker, assistant professor in-residence and graduate program director of Periodontics on the UConn College of Dental Drugs, acquired the distinguished Bud and Linda Tarrson Fellowship Award from the American Academy of Periodontology—one of many highest honors within the area of periodontics. “It’s like a dream come true for me,” mentioned Thacker. “This award […]
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Dr. Sejal Thacker, assistant professor in-residence and graduate program director of Periodontics on the UConn College of Dental Drugs, acquired the distinguished Bud and Linda Tarrson Fellowship Award from the American Academy of Periodontology—one of many highest honors within the area of periodontics.
“It’s like a dream come true for me,” mentioned Thacker. “This award incentivizes educators like me and boosts my confidence and validates the efforts of my total staff, which incorporates my household, my mentors, my residents, and my college students. It makes me really feel like I’ve arrived as an educator, and permits me to give attention to what I like to do probably the most—which is being a periodontist, a trainer, a pacesetter, and a scientist.”
Thacker will obtain $30,000, which she is going to use for skilled improvement and to provide again to the specialty.
This isn’t the primary time the award has been given to UConn college. Drs. Anna Dongari- Bagtzoglou, Effie Ioannidou, and Patricia Diaz have all acquired this prestigious award in 1999, 2008, and 2012 respectively.
Thacker is a board licensed Periodontist and a Grasp of Dental Science. She directs the post-graduate Periodontology program at UConn Well being and maintains a non-public medical follow in Shelton, Glastonbury and Manchester. She was named a Prime Dentist in Connecticut by Connecticut Journal in 2018 and acquired an award for Excellent Educating and Mentoring in Periodontics by the American Academy of Periodontology. Thacker has participated in a number of medical trials and was not too long ago acknowledged and inducted by the Academy because the rising key opinion chief within the area of periodontics.
