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Rankin collaborates on NCI grant
Editor's Note: Grants are published once official notification is received by Baylor College of Dentistry's Office of Research and Advanced Education.
Dr. K. Vendrell Rankin
(BCD '77), associate professor of public health sciences, will collaborate on a grant titled "Behavior Modification, Dentists and Oral Cancer Control" funded by the National Cancer Institute for $1,145,424 over five years.
The educational grant was awarded to the American Dental Association to develop a continuing education program for dentists across the United States. The program will hone practitioners' skills
in early oral cancer detection and patient risk assessment as well as intervention through tobacco cessation.
As collaborator, Rankin will receive $13,100 per year for five years ($65,500 total) for her part of the research titled "Tobacco Cessation." She will develop the tobacco cessation portion of
the standardized curriculum for dental continuing education.
For more information about the grant, go to http://www.ada.org/prof/pubs/daily/0209/0916can.html.
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