Outstanding dental students receive awards

Delta Dental recently acknowledged 65 dental students for their exceptional leadership skills, academic achievements and community service. Nominated by deans at 20 dental schools in our enterprise states, the students received monetary awards totaling more than $200,000, along with our congratulations and encouragement for continued success in the field of dentistry.

Delta Dental congratulates the following outstanding dental students:

Baylor University

Wade Barker

Kenny Brown

Preston Greer

Chris Larrow

Columbia University

Joon Seok Cho

Kristina Tree

Safiya Smith

Evan Tran

Georgia Regents University

Raymond Dickey

Tyler Rathburn

Kamyar Simian

Brittany Waters

Howard University

Maria L. Hodas

Aliya B. Kassam

Damion A. Myers

Nkemakonam R. Egolum

Loma Linda University

Matthew McDonald

Louisiana State University

Katie Elise Evans

Spencer Preston Gordy

Nickolas Stanley Maskas

Erica Hender Simon

State University of New York, Buffalo

Timothy Calnon

Caitlin Deitz

Amy Klockowski

Luke Hieu Nguyen

State University of New York, Stony Brook

Lauren Jain

Nicholas Lavoie

Danny King

Miriam Gayle

University of Alabama

James A. Aultman

Lauren E. Oeser

Dipesh D. Patel

Paige D. Whitt

University of California, Los Angeles

Brittany Hazard

University of California, San Francisco

Joseph Lee Eliason

University of Florida

Christopher Jean-Bart Shannon

Shaun Ryan Young

Joshua A. Weening

Jorge J. del Valle

University of Maryland

Erin Mahoney

Arpi Patel

Eric Wu

Suzanne Grey

University of Mississippi

Leslie Ann Frese

Lacey Michelle Harris

John Bradley Harrison

Mary Oyeleye

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Megan Tufteland

Gayla Raz

Dustin Altmann

Maxwell Johnson

University of the Pacific

Benjamin Shimel

University of Pennsylvania

Deena Alani

Alexandra Hillyard Monroe

Matthew Spencer Ryskalczyk

Vani Takiar

University of Pittsburgh

Daniel Rolotti

Michael De Coro

Breanna Weiland

Kyle Dumpert

University of Southern California

Cecilia Liu

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Jason M. Peck

Whitney G. McBrayer

Noora A. Ayyash

Elise Y. Woody