Chapel Hill, NC, April 28, 2016 –The Cleft Palate Foundation recognized the following award winners at ACPA’s 73rd Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
- CPF Leadership Award
Cleft India Parents Association, accepted by Karoon Agrawal, MS, MCh - The David P. Kuehn Speech Scholarship
Kazlin N. Mason, MS - The Mary J. Hauk, DDS, MPH Memorial Scholarship
John P. Kiang, DMD, MA - The James F. Mulick, DDS, MS Orthodontic Scholarship
Anika Arora - The Karlind T. Moller Cleft-Craniofacial Scholarship
Hedieh Hashemi Hosseinabad, MS - The Donna Pruzansky Memorial Fund for Maternal and Child Health Nursing Grant
Adebola Olarewaju, MSN, RNC-NIC, CPNP - Junior Investigator Awards
The Junior Investigator Awards are sponsored by Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.- Rescue of Cleft Lip Ex Utero Using Microsurgical Reactivation of Craniofacial Developmental Programs
Wilmina Landford - Connective Tissue Growth Factor (CTGF/CCN2) Is Essential for Secondary Palatogenesis
Joseph Tarr - Combining Dynamic Imaging and Computational Modeling to Estimate Muscle Activity during Speech
Catherine Pelland
- Rescue of Cleft Lip Ex Utero Using Microsurgical Reactivation of Craniofacial Developmental Programs
Research Grants and College Scholarship Winners will be announced by Press Release.