Dr. Chun-Hsi Chung Recognized with MASO 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Chun-Hsi Chung

Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine’s Dr. Chun-Hsi Chung, Professor of Orthodontics and Chauncey M. F. Egel Endowed Chair of the Department of Orthodontics, has been recognized for his leadership in the specialty with the Middle Atlantic Society of Orthodontics (MASO) 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a MASO member who, in the opinion of the MASO Board of Directors, has made significant contributions to his or her community of patients, has served with distinction as a member of the American Association of Orthodontists at the national, constituent and/or component level, has personally contributed to the betterment of the specialty of orthodontics, has taught in a graduate or undergraduate orthodontic program during his or her professional career and/or has been associated with orthodontic research or has been an orthodontic staff member or consultant on a hospital staff.

Dr. Chung, who is also Director of the School’s postdoctoral program in orthodontics, has been a member of the Penn Dental Medicine faculty since 1987. He has been a member of The Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists since 2003. Active in The American Board of Orthodontics throughout his career, he served as President in 2017-2018, as Director from 2010-2018, and continues to serve as a consultant to the Board. Dr. Chung is also active in The American Association of Orthodontists; he served as the Co-chair of the Scientific Program of the Annual Session of the American Association of Orthodontists in 2018 and 2022. In addition, Dr. Chung was Associate Editor of The American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics from 2010-2021, and since 2020, he has been on the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Oral Sciences. Since 2014, he has also served as a consultant to the Commission on Dental Accreditation.

Since Dr. Chung was unable to attend the MASO 2024 Annual Session in October due to a scheduling conflict, he will be presented the Lifetime Achievement Award at the MASO Spring CE meeting in Bethesda, MD on March 7, 2025.