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2025-2026 Officers and Awards

Dr. Jaisri Thoppay, 2025-2026 AAOM President, addressing his inaugural speech

AAOM Officers

President: Jaisri Thoppay

President-Elect: Sunday Akintoye

Vice-President: Alessandro Villa

Secretary: Herve Sroussi

Assistant Secretary: Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch

Treasurer: Arwa Farag

Assistant Treasurer: Juan Bugueno

From left to right: Drs. Herve Sroussi, Sunday Akintoye, Robert Eskow, and Juan Bugueno

Auxiliary President: Sherry Miller

Immediate Past President 2024-2025: Kentaro Ikeda

Past President 2023-2024: Vidya Sankar

 

Lester Burket Memorial Award Winners

Nivethitha Nagarajan 

From left to right: Drs. Mahnaz Fatahzadeh, Jaisri Thoppay, and Andres Pinto who is receiving award by the Organization of Teachers of Oral Diagnosis (OTOD)

Oral Toxicities Secondary to Targeted Cancer Therapies: A Large Retrospective Study, University of California San Francisco

Jonathan Peyton

Predictors of Oral Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant (HCT) Patients, Atrium Health, Carolinas Medical Center

Robert and Kay Schattner Award Winner

John Macken

Deciphering the Cellular and Molecular Drivers of Erosive Lichen Planus, Queen Mary University of London, UK

OTOD Case Report Award Winners

Caique Mariano Pedroso

Oral Mucosal Neuromas as a Pediatric Presentation of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia, Type 2B (MEN 2B), UNICAMP, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Dr. Craig Miller, President of the American Board of Oral Medicine addressing new presentation of new diplomates

Hedyeh Samady

Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (MRONJ) in a Patient Treated with Tocilizumab - Case Report, University of Washington

Wasif Qayyum

A Case of Membranous Nephropathy Associated to Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid, University of California San Francisco 

Colton Cannon

Spontaneous Gingival Bleeding as the Initial Presentation of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, University of Pennsylvania

Laurel Henderson

Eosinophilic Sialodochitis: A Rare Salivary Gland Disorder with Atopic Associations – Diagnostic Challenges and Therapeutic Insight, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Congratulations new 2025 Academic Fellows!

Dr. Mireille Kaprilian

Dr. Joshua Seth Goldfaden

Dr. Sehrish Javaid

Dr. Joud YA Omari

Dr. Min Kyeong Kim

Dr. Erica Hartmann

Dr. Dana R. Weikel

Congratulations new 2025 Academic Affiliate Fellow!

Dr. Lisa LaSpina

2025-2026 ABOM Diplomates

Malak Alhadlaq
Morooj Aljishi
Thomas Fry
Jeffrey Goetz
Brittany Klein
Roopali Mahajan
Payam Mirfendereski