Thomas Evans Achievement Award
The Thomas Evans Achievement Award, Penn Dental Medicine Alumni Society’s highest award of recognition, honors alumni who have shown innovation, excellence and leadership in the profession of oral health care nationally and internationally.
2026 Recipient: Dr. Robert Collins D’71
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Cecile Feldman, C’80, D’84, GD’85, WG’85 |
| 2023 | Thomas R. Tempel, D’63 |
| 2022 | Anne Koch, D’77 GD’93 |
| 2021 | Myron Allukian, Jr., D’64 |
| 2020 | Daniel Fine, D’65 |
| 2019 | Peter D. Quinn, D’74, GD’78 |
| 2018 | David Garber, GD’78, D’81 |
| 2017 | Adam Stabholz, GD’78 |
| 2016 | Robert J. Genco, GD’67, GR’67 |
| 2015 | Robert Schattner, D’48 |
| 2014 | Thomas Sollecito, D’89, GD’91 |
| 2006 | Jay S. Seibert, D’53 |
| 2000 | James L. Ackerman, D’60 |
| 1998 | J. Daniel Subtelny, D’47 |
| 1997 | Harold E. Boyer, D’52 GD’58 |
| 1994 | D. Walter Cohen, C’47 D’50 |
| 1993 | Morton Amsterdam, C’45 D’45 |
Alumni Award of Merit
The Alumni Award of Merit recognizes love for and loyalty to the School of Dental Medicine, excellence in the profession of dentistry, and community involvement. The award is given annually by the Penn Dental Medicine Alumni Society to those graduates who have maintained their ties with the School through their support of alumni activities, demonstrated leadership in the dental profession, and fostered and maintained the ideals that the School of Dental Medicine has stood for since its founding.
2026 Recipients: Dr. Angela Austin (D’04) & Dr. Abigail Quinn Peterson (C’96, D’02, GM’23)
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Maria Perno Goldie DH’71 Nipul Tanna D’90, GD’91, GD’10, GD’11 |
| 2024 | Joy Abt, D’94 Betty Peebles, DH’59 |
| 2023 | Howard P. Fraiman, D’911, GD’93, GD’94 Gail Schupak, D’83 |
| 2022 | Charlene Jennings Fenster, DH’75 Frank Smithgall, C’79 D’83 |
| 2021 | Muralidhar Mupparapu, D’96 Scott DeRossi, D’95 GD’97 |
| 2020 | Tony Saito, D’95 Eric Stoopler, D’99, GD’02 |
| 2019 | Peter Greco, D’79, GD’84 Najeed Saleh, D’94 |
| 2018 | Lee Carrasco, GD’02 Heywood Kotch, D’77 Farideh Madani, GD’78, GD’80, D’84 Margrit Maggio, D’87 |
| 2017 | Harold Baumgarten, D’77, GD’82 Robert Summers, C’61, D’65, GD’67 |
| 2016 | Jeffrey S. Ingber, GD’71, GD’72 Ann Eshenaur Spolarich, DH’82 |
| 2015 | Olivia Sheridan, D’90, GD’92 Robert Vanarsdall, Jr., GD’72 |
| 2014 | David Shen, D’79, GD’81 David Tarica, D’83 |
| 2013 | Bernie Kurek, D’73 Tara Sexton, D’88 |
| 2012 | Lawrence M. Levin, D’87, GD’92 Louis I. Rossman, D’75, GD’77 |
| 2011 | William W.M. Cheung, D’81, GD’82 |
| 2010 | Joseph Foote, Jr. D’74, GD’80 Thomas Sollecito, D’89, GD’91 |
| 2009 | Gerald Barrack, D’59 Adi A. Garfunkel, GD’74 Marshall J. Goldin, C’60, D’64 Heber T. Graver, D’56, GR’72 Adam Stabholz, GD’78 |
| 2008 | Marc Ackerman, D’98 Leonard Cole, GD’57 Rowland Hutchinson, GD’58 |
| 2007 | Stephen Brown, GD’69 Cecile A. Feldman, C’80 D’84 GD’85 WG’85 John C. Kois, D’77 Arnold B. Porges, D’59 Burton Rosan, D’57 GD’62 Harvey M. Rosen, D’71 M’73 FEL’79 Jonathan A. Ship, C’80 D’84 |
| 2006 | Alan M. Atlas, D’86 H. Leslie Levine, GD’57 Karl A. Rose, GD’80 Neil L. Starr, GD’79 |
| 2005 | Lawrence B. Caplin, D’90 Daniel B. Green, D’60 Louis F. Rose, GD’70 Edward F. Rossomando, D’64 Carl L. Tinkelman, D’65 Robert J. Tisot, GD’70 |
| 2004 | Martin S. Greenberg, GD’68 Edward P. Henefer, D’54 Anna Kornbrot, D’79 GD’82 |
| 2003 | J. Henry O’Hern, Jr., D’53 GD’55 Lewis E. Proffitt, D’73 WG’80 Robert I. Schattner, D’48 |
| 2002 | Joseph R. Greenberg, D’72 GD’76 Louis H. Guernsey, D’47 GD’56 Robert J. Seltzer, D’72 GD’76 James S. Skinner, D’47 GD’48 |
| 2001 | Peter Berthold, D’83 Laurence G. Chacker, D’85 Michael David Yasner, C’79 D’83 GD’84 GD’86 |
| 2000 | Martin D. Levin, D’72 GD’74 Lawrence W. Loveland, D’55 |
| 1999 | Kenneth C. Fieldston, D’74 Robert E. Weiner, C’72 D’79 |
| 1998 | H. Martin Deranian, D’47 Jacob Harris, C’55 D’58 GD’60 Tom M. Limoli, C’46 D’48 |
| 1997 | Edwin C. Horne, D’52 William J. McDonnel, C’53 D’57 Barry D. Wagenberg, D’72 |
| 1996 | Vincent A. Callery, D’56 GD’59 Kenneth Allen Fetter, C’72 D’76 Jerome A. Urken, C’45 D’46 |
| 1995 | Philip S. Caplan, D’60 Stephen F. Goodman, D’60 Lawrence Kessler, C’66 D’70 Reuben E. V. Miller, Jr., D’52 |
| 1994 | Noah Chivian, D’59 Bal K. Goyal, D’81 GD’81 Max A. Listgarten, Professor Emeritus of Periodontics |
| 1993 | Leonard Abrams, GD’59 Peter D. Quinn, D’74 GD’78 Mark B. Snyder, D’74 GD’77 Thomas O. Sweet, D’53 Thomas R. Tempel, D’63 |
| 1992 | Robert J. Collins, D’71 Gershon A. Stern, C’52 D’54 J. David Stine, D’63 |
| 1991 | Brendan J. Boylan, D’55 GD’57 George Feldman, D’49 Sig L. Seigel, D’55 |
| 1990 | I. B. Bender, D’30 Joseph E. Gian-Grasso, C’67 D’71 Arthur B. Hattler, D’55 GD’57 John T. Ziegler, D’55 |
| 1989 | Michael E. Fritz, D’63 GD’65 GR’67 Robert J. Genco, GR’67 Edwin R. McDevitt, Jr., C’50 D’53 |
| 1988 | Robert W. Baker, Sr., D’52 H. Russell Bernd, Jr., D’53 Edwin H. Smith, Jr., C’38 D’40 George G. Stewart, D’44 |
| 1987 | Myron Allukian Jr., D’64 James E. Kennedy, D’62 Samuel Seltzer, C’35 D’37 George A. Zurkow, C’37 D’39 |
| 1986 | George Georgieff, GD’62 Saul Kamen, D’40 Jay S. Seibert, D’53 Poul H. J. Simonsen, D’19 |
| 1985 | Stanley E. Goodman, D’58 Charles H. Kremer, D’24 Seymour Oliet, D’53 Arnold S. Weisgold, GD’65 |
| 1984 | Laurence B. Brody, C’52 D’56 Frances B. Glenn, D’56 Charles R. Jerge, D’58 GR’61 Stanford E. Kane, C’53 D’56 Irving M. Rothstein, C’38 D’41 Arthur J. Sachsel, D’50 Anthony A. Vito, D’53 GD’66 |
| 1983 | Clement C. Alpert, C’32 D’34 Reuben Feltman, D’30 Emanuel H. Malamed, C’41 D’43 James A. Tatoian, Jr., D’64 GD’65 |
| 1982 | James A. English, D’36 G’48 Robert L. Heinze, D’23 Max Oppenheim, D’37 Robert D. Schweitzer, D’55 Jonathan A. Tenzer, D’66 GD’69 |
| 1981 | Kenneth C. Fordham, D’53 |
| 1980 | Harry B. Binder, D’34 Robert E. DeRevere, D’45 Morton E. Melman, C’43 D’44 Allan S. Shaw, C’56 D’59 GD’61 |
| 1979 | Morton Crossman, D’29 Jacob Lewin-Epstein, D’44 Paul E. Farrell, D’51 George Kuttas, D’51 |
| 1978 | D. Walter Cohen, C’47 D’50 Wilbur D. Johnston, C’31 D’33 Claude S. LaDow, Jr., D’42 GD’48 Milton Leof, C’27 D’28 |
| 1977 | Irving E. Gruber, D’41 Paul H. Keyes, C’39 D’41 H. Milton Rode, D’33 |
| 1976 | I. Lawrence Kerr, C’37 D’39 Barnet M. Levy, C’38 D’42 |
| 1975 | Harrison M. Berry, Jr., D’43 GD’52 Ned B. Williams, D’38 |
| 1974 | Louis J. Calisti, D’49 John P. Hellwege, C’56 D’59 Seymour J. Kreshover, D’38 H’67 |
| 1973 | Donald S. Mayes, D’58 |
| 1972 | Charles P. Egoville, D’35 Joseph V. Masino, C’31 D’33 |
| 1971 | Norman R. Haig, D’19 Adrian R. Kristeller, D’24 Joseph P. Marnell, D’43 |
| 1970 | H. Vernon Lapp, D’27 Francis F. E. Morse, D’45 |
| 1969 | Morton Amsterdam, C’45 D’45 William C. Hudson, D’17 William C. Hudson, Jr., D’45 |
| 1968 | Marvin M. Alderman, D’42 Pincus Coleman, D’23 Ford W. Stevens, D’32 |
| 1967 | Abram Cohen, D’23 Geneva E. Groth, D’19 |
| 1966 | Robert H. Ivy, D’01 M’07 Hebert Kabnick, D’26 James W. Lee, D’42 |
| 1965 | H. Jay Ginns, C’29 D’33 Jacob A. Salzmann, D’23 |
| 1964 | Louis I. Grossman, D’23 H’78 John H. Stine, D’34 |
| 1963 | Victor H. Frank, D’21 Albert Goho, D’22 Reuben E. V. Miller, D’18 |
| 1962 | Ellis Finkelman, C’32 D’34 William B. Smith, Jr., D’38 |
| 1961 | Ralph S. Voorhees, Jr., D’24 GD’51 |
| 1960 | Theodor Blum, D’09 Mary W. Kolb, Executive Secretary, Dental Alumni Society Leon Levy, D’15 H’73 |
| 1959 | Lester W. Burket, C’29 D’32 H’78 Hamilton B. G. Robinson, C’32 D’34 |
| 1958 | Thomas M. Meloy, Jr., D’32 |
| 1957 | Charles H. Patton, D’19 |
| 1956 | Malcolm W. Carr, D’22 |
| 1955 | Bernhard W. Weinberger, D’08 |
| 1954 | Paul E. Bomberger, D’15 James R. Cameron, D’14 Arthur E. Corby, D’17 Harry A. Mesjian, D’21 |
| 1953 | James E. Aiguer, D’17 Leroy M. Ennis, D’16 Thomas P. Fox, D’26 Zachary T. Jackaway, D’98 Isidor S. Ravdin, Vice President of Medical Affairs, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1952 | Herbert K. Cooper, D’19 |
| 1951 | Morton J. Loeb, D’09 |
| 1950 | Emerson R. Sausser, D’03 |
| 1949 | Wilson Zerfing, D’94 |
| 1948 | George A. Coleman, D’13 |
| 1947 | William A. Allwood, D’97 |
| 1946 | Clarence C. Bastian, D’17 |
| 1945 | Edward C. Stillwell, D’10 |
| 1944 | Henry Rainey, Secretary of the Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute and Recorder of the School |
Young Alumni Award of Merit
The Young Alumni Award of Merit recognizes Penn Dental Medicine alumni one to 15 years from graduation who have maintained their ties with the School through their support of alumni activities, demonstrated leadership in the dental profession, and fostered and maintained the ideals that the School of Dental Medicine has stood for since its founding.
2026 Recipients: Dr. Yu-Cheng Chang (GD’15, GD’16, D’18) & Dr. Andrew Fraiser (D’16)
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Katherine France, D’16, GR’16, GD’18 Roopali Kulkarni D’19, GR’19, GD’21 |
| 2024 | Evan Eisler, C’11, D’15 |
| 2023 | Kari Hexem, D’15 |
| 2022 | Brian Ford, D’09 M’12 GD’15 Steven Wang, D’09 M’12 GD’15 |
| 2021 | Stefani Cheung, C’08 D’11 |
| 2020 | Maria Velasco, D’10 GED’10 |
| 2019 | Mark Koup, D’04 Mana Mozaffarian, D’06 |
Penn Alumni Award of Merit
The Penn Alumni Award of Merit, the highest award presented by Penn Alumni, is given in recognition of outstanding service to the University of Pennsylvania and selected by the Awards and Resolutions Committee of the Penn Alumni Board of Directors. Listed below are recipients who graduated from Penn Dental Medicine.
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2019 | William W.M. Cheung, D’81 GD’82 |
| 1997 | Morton Amsterdam, C’43 D’45 |
| 1994 | Joseph E. Gian-Grasso, C’67 D’71 |
| 1993 | Abram Cohen, D’23 D. Walter Cohen, C’47 D’50 |
| 1980 | William K. Conrad, D’30 Thomas H. Newmann, C’53 D’55 |
| 1976 | Allan S. Shaw, C’56 D’59 GD’61 |
| 1975 | John P. Hellwege, C’56 D’59 |
| 1971 | Victor H. Frank, D’21 Leon Levy, D’15 H’73 |
| 1968 | James W. Lee, D’42 |
| 1963 | Louis I. Grossman, D’23 H’78 |
| 1960 | Albert Goho, D’22 |
| 1959 | Charles H. Patton, D’19 |
| 1958 | Edward C. Stillwell, D’10 |
| 1957 | LeRoy M. Ennis, D’16 |
| 1954 | Thomas P. Fox, D’26 |
| 1953 | Joseph T. Appleton, D’14 |
| 1951 | Alan G. Brodie, D’19 |
| 1950 | George A. Coleman, D’13 |
| 1949 | William M. Hollenback, D’08 |
| 1948 | Arthur E. Corby, D’17 Robert H. Ivy, D’01 M’07 |
| 1946 | Clay A. Boland, D’26 |
| 1945 | Zachary T. Jackaway, D’98 |
| 1943 | Mark D. Littig, D’94 |
| 1941 | Oborn G. L. Lewis, D’04 |
Charlotte Sullivan Lifetime Achievement Award
The Charlotte J. Sullivan Lifetime Achievement Award, established by the Alumni Society Executive Board in 2024 and previously given by the Penn Dental Hygiene Alumni Association, recognizes Penn Dental Medicine dental hygiene graduates for extraordinarily meritorious contributions advancing the dental hygiene discipline. The award is named in honor of the inaugural director of Penn Dental Medicine’s Oral Hygiene program, founded in 1921. The award is conferred only when the Board feels there is a dental hygienist who should be so honored.
2026 Recipient: Dr. Susan Kass (DH’75)
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Lisa Solden Schildhorn (DH’75) |
Honorary Alumni
The honorary alumni awards are presented to individuals who are not graduates of Penn Dental Medicine but have demonstrated a strong commitment to Penn Dental Medicine through their service to and involvement with the School.
2026 Recipient: Dr. Faizan Alawi, Vice Dean of Academics
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Susan Schwartz |
| 2024 | Nathan Kobrin (posthumously) David Swiecinski |
| 2023 | Syngcuk Kim |
| 2022 | Joseph Fiorellini |
| 2021 | Kenneth Kent |
| 2020 | Marianne Contino |
| 2019 | Markus Blatz |
| 2018 | Joan Gluch Dennis F. Kinane Irving M. Shapiro |
| 2017 | Beverly Crawford Gary H. Cohen Benjamin Hammond |
| 2015 | Elliot Hersh |
| 2014 | Arthur Kurperstein |
| 2013 | Corky Cacas |
| 2011 | Uri Hangorsky |
| 2010 | Arthur Steinberg |
Dental Hygiene Alumni Special Achievement Award
The Dental Hygiene Alumni Special Achievement Award, given annually up until 2020 by the Penn Dental Medicine Dental Hygiene Alumni Association, recognizes the outstanding contributions of Dental Hygiene alumni to the growth and development of the profession of dental hygiene.
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Ann Robyn Watson, DH’69 |
| 2019 | Karen Combs Flickinger, DH’58 Elisabeth McClellan Peebles, DH’59 |
| 2018 | Ann Sproule Hunnicutt, DH’53 |
| 2017 | JoAnn Rigolizzo Gurenlian, GRD’ 91 |
| 2016 | Kathleen S. McAdoo, DH ’84 |
| 2015 | Charlene Jennings Fenster, DH’75 |
| 2014 | Rosalie C. Di Ferdinand, DH’85 |
| 2013 | Judith Nist, DH’69 |
| 2012 | Cynthia Staman Kleiman, DH’77 |
| 2011 | Judith Zack Bendit, DH’81 Samuel L. Yankell DH’81 |
| 2010 | Beverly Bizup Hawkins, DH’75 |
| 2009 | Joan I. Gluch, GR’92 Linda B. Moore, DH’63 |
| 2008 | Betty Brussel Shamas, DH’63 |
| 2007 | Sandra L. Mellinger, DH’82 |
| 2005 | Lisa Solden Schildhorn, DH’75 |
| 2004 | Jaclyn M. Gleber, DH’74 |
| 2003 | Suzanne Linn Dietz, DH’59, ED’59 |
| 2002 | Ann Eshenaur Spolarich, DH’82, GED’99 |
| 2001 | Patricia Anne Cohen, DH’71 |
| 2000 | R. Roberta Throne, DH’39, GED’67 |
| 1999 | Maria Perno Goldie, DH’71 |
| 1998 | Allene G. Donoho, DH’58 |
| 1997 | Kathleen E. Morr, DH’60 |
| 1996 | Robin S. Holmes, DH’75 |
| 1995 | Eleanor H. Mily, DH’45 |
| 1994 | Nancy “Chris” Roy Lange Miller, DH’54, ED’54 |
| 1993 | Anne S. Follweiler, DH’58, G’65 |
