Each year, the PFA foundation presents a $1000 scholarship to a student from each of the 10 Canadian faculties of dentistry. This Canadian Annual Scholarship Award is given for “outstanding scholarship and clinical research at the undergraduate level”.
2024 Recipients
Dean’s Appreciation Event 2023 – University of Toronto
2023 recipients:
The Canadian section of the Pierre Fauchard Academy was pleased to participate in the Canadian Dental Association and Dentsply Sirona Student Clinician Research Program. PFA Canada and the Oral Health
Foundation provided $1000 scholarships to the participants from the ten Canadian Dental Facilities, recognizing these students as future leaders of our profession.
2022 recipients:
PFA Canada participated again this year in the SCADA Awards ceremony, providing $1000 scholarships to the participants from the ten Canadian Dental Faculties. The students were ecstatic to receive their awards and thanked PFA and the Oral Health Foundation for recognizing them as Future Leaders in our Profession.
STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS:
1) Universite de Montreal, Miss Serine Boughari research tiltled,
“Etude des interactions cellulaires sur des surfaces de titane nanoporeuses”
2)University of Saskatoon, Mr. Rob Kolbe, research titled,
“Correlation between Canadian Dentists cortisol and stress levels during COVID-19”
3) Universite Laval, Mr. George Khalil, research titles,
“ Composition du microbiote intestinate comme faceur contributif au bruxism”
4) University of Alberta, Mr. Sumit Kocchar, research tilted,
“Molar and premolar gingival changes in patients having maxillary expansion”
5) University of Manitoba, Miss Natalie Pesun, research tilted,
“Assessment of interface resin-cement/dental-ceramics for a reseating procedure”
6) Dalhousie University, Miss Ashley Fletcher, research titled,
“Oral Health Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Paediatric Hospital Nurses
7) University of Western Ontario, Mr. Kevin Xiang Zhou, research titled,
“A craniofacial statistical shape model for reconstruction of bilateral maxillary defects”
8) University of British Columbia, Miss Julia Burgess, research titled,
“Physiochemical properties of methyl acrylate-based dental resins containing photosensitive compounds”
9) University of Toronto, Miss Nicole Ng, research titled,
“Correlative imaging of Collagen Damage using Fluorescent Collagen Hybridizing Peptide (CHP)”
10) McGill University, Mr. Yifei Wang, research titled,
“Saliva as a diagnostic specimen for SARS-CoV-2 detection, Scoping Review”
April 3, 2020 recipients:
On Friday April 3, 2020, the Pierre Fauchard Academy was scheduled to host the Canadian Awards and Installation Luncheon at the Winnipeg Delta Hotel.
Unfortunately, due to the COVID19 Pandemic, the event had to be cancelled. Nevertheless here are the ten 3rd year students from the Canadian Dental Facilities received $1000 student scholarships.
| Simran Kaur Sarao | University of Alberta |
| Paige Conrad | Dalhousie University |
| Marie-Pierre Morin | Université Laval |
| Noah Corso | University of Manitoba |
| Erika Nakashoji | Université de Montréal |
| Abdul El-Rabbany | University of Saskatchewan |
| Peter Sabiri | Western University |
| Thien Vuong | McGill University |
| Benny Tang | University of British Columbia |
| Ajay Plaha | University of Toronto |
September 13, 2019 recipients:
During our 2019 PFA Canada Awards and Induction Ceremony in Saskatchewan, ten 3rd year students from the Canadian Dental Facilities received $1000 student scholarships
Front Row: Amr Alsabbagh , Dr. Jerry Dushkin, Dr. Barry Dolman, Dr. Lisa Bentley, Dr. Terry Brewick, Da in Kim, Vicky Arrata, Dr. Nancy Auyeung.
August 24, 2018 recipients:
| Francesca Julia Abdul Nour | Université de Montréal |
| Ling-Yi Chen | University of British Columbia |
| Erin Goertzen | University of Toronto |
| Aparna Narvekar | McGill University |
| Félix Potvin | Université Laval |
| Natalie Rosenthal | University of Manitoba |
| Arleen Schmidt | University of Alberta |
| Christopher ven der Buhs | University of Saskatchewan |
| Andrei Zaharia | Western University |
| Kellie Zelmer | Dalhousie University |
May 5, 2017 recipients:
| Austin Andrews | University of Saskatchewan |
| Jennifer Archibald | Western University |
| Adam Bishop | Dalhousie University |
| Mandeep Gill | University of Alberta |
| Anne Sophie Grenon-Girard | Université de Montréal |
| Tony PY He | University of Toronto |
| Nathan Lee | University of British Columbia |
| Jesse A. Marques | University of Manitoba |
| Laurie St-Pierre | Université Laval |
| Jacqueline Yip | McGill University |
March 18, 2016 recipients:
| Steven A. Arcand | University of Saskatchewan |
| Edward Sutton | Université de Montréal |
| Kiavash Hossini | University of British Columbia |
| Michael Tiedemann | Western University |
| Thomas W. Steeves | Dalhousie University |
| Vincent Mireault | Université Laval |
| Julie Delcorde | University of Toronto |
| Mitchell R. Naito | University of Alberta |
| Bryan Wong | University of Manitoba |
| Erica Abbey | McGill University |
August 28, 2015 recipients:
| Dania Alkhani | University of Saskatchewan |
| Michelle Chan | McGill University |
| Matthieu Laramée | Université de Montréal |
| Janson Lee | University of British Columbia |
| Greg Luvison | University of Western Ontario |
| Laura Rose MacDonald | Dalhousie University |
| Masoud Mansouri | Université Laval |
| Kester Frederick Ng | University of Toronto |
| Cheyenne Olson | University of Alberta |
| Justin Silverstein | University of Manitoba |
| Jessie (Xin) Zhang | McGill University |
