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The Canadian Dental Association (CDA) is seeking nominations for its 2011 award recognition program
CDA annually recognizes exceptional individuals from among the following award categories.
The Medal of Honour is the pinnacle award of the Association. Its purpose is to recognize an individual who has given extraordinary service to the profession and to the Canadian Dental Association, resulting in significant change. This award is intended to recognize outstanding service, leadership and humanitarianism at the local, provincial, national and international level.
Honorary Membership is awarded to recognize the individual deemed to have made outstanding contributions to the art and science of dentistry, or to the dental profession, over a sustained period of time.
The Distinguished Service Award may be given to a dentist or other person to recognize either an outstanding contribution in a given year, or outstanding service over a number of years. It may also recognize outstanding contributions to the dental profession at the academic level, corporate level, specialty society, council, commission or committee level.
The Award of Merit will be conferred upon an individual who has served in an outstanding capacity in the governing of the Canadian Dental Association or who has made similar outstanding contributions to Canadian dentistry.
Special Friend of Canadian Dentistry Award
The Special Friend of Canadian Dentistry Award is bestowed in appreciation for exemplary contribution to Canadian dentistry.
Special Friend of Canadian Dentistry Award
The Oral Health Promotion Award recognizes individuals or organizations who have improved the oral health of Canadians through oral health promotion. Oral health promotion aims to increase the control of individuals and communities over their oral health. It involves members of those communities and adopts a number of complementary approaches. These include building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and increasing the prevention of oral diseases and disorders.
Student Leadership Award
The CDA Student Leadership Award is presented to the dental school graduate who, over the 4 or 5 years of his/her program has shown the most outstanding qualities of leadership and character, and who may be expected to become a leader in the dental profession, the dental community and society at large.
Student Leadership Award (formerly the President's Award)