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

Research Grants and College Scholarship Winners will be announced by Press Release.