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Dr. John Wright, professor and director of pathology in Baylor College of Dentistry’s Department of Diagnostic Sciences, received the prestigious Regents Professor Service Award from The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Jan. 26.
The Regents Professor Service Award is bestowed annually by the Board of Regents in recognition of awardees’ contributions in distinguished service, extension, research, teaching/educational delivery and/or scholarship.
Since joining the faculty of Baylor College of Dentistry in 1980, Wright has been instrumental in redesigning the curriculum in pathology. He also directed a review of the college’s academic due process and academic standards policies. In the late 1990s, he developed BCD’s graduate program in oral and maxillofacial pathology, which he directs.
Wright has received five teaching commendations and was Teacher of the Year in 1990. He has presented more than 200 invited lectures nationally and internationally and has written 14 book chapters and three textbooks, one of which has been translated into Italian.
Wright has secured about $500,000 in externally funded grants and contracts and has served on 25 thesis committees. He served for 11 years on the executive council of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and was the academy’s president in 2000. He is a director of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and will become the board’s president in 2010. He is the North American representative to the Council of the International Association of Oral Pathologists.
Regents Professor Service Award recipients are designated as Regents Professors for the duration of their service or employment within the A&M System. They receive a $9,000 stipend payable in $3,000 increments over three consecutive years and a medallion bearing the seal of the A&M System as well as a framed certificate signed by the chancellor and the chairman of the Board of Regents.
Other BCD Regents Professors include: Dr. N. Sue Seale, professor and chairman, Department of Pediatric Dentistry and director of the Advanced Education Program; Dr. R. Gilbert Triplett is chairman, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; Dr. Toru Okabe, chairman of the Department of Biomaterials Science; Dr. William H. Binnie, chairman of Department of Diagnostic Sciences; Dr. David S. Carlson, vice president, Research and Graduate Studies at the Texas A&M Health Science Center; professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences; and holder of the Robert E. Gaylord Endowed Chair of Orthodontics; Dr. Larry Bellinger, associate dean of Research and Graduate Studies.
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