AADR Vice President
Members of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) have elected Raul I. Garcia as the AADR vice president for 2015-2016. He will take office at the conclusion of the 44th AADR Annual Meeting, held in Boston, Mass., USA, March 11-14, 2015.
Garcia is professor and chair, Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. He earned his A.B. from Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., USA; his D.M.D. from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, certificate in periodontology and M.Med.Sc. in oral biology from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Cambridge, Mass., USA.
He joined IADR/AADR in 1977 and has remained an active member. Garcia has served on the JDR Editorial Board, the IADR/AADR Publications Committee and has served as an AADR Councilor. Currently he is the North American Regional Councilor for IADR.
AADR Publications Committee Member-at-Large
Anne C.R. Tanner has been elected as the AADR Publications Committee Member. Tanner is a senior member of staff in the Microbiology Department at the Forsyth Institute, Boston, Mass., USA. She has been an IADR/AADR member since 1974 and has served as the AADR Boston Section president and served on the JDR Editorial Board.
IADR Vice President
Members of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) have elected Angus Walls as the IADR vice president for 2015-2016. He will take office at the conclusion of the 93rd IADR General Session, held in Boston, Mass., USA, March 11-14, 2015.
Walls is the director of the Edinburgh Dental Institute, a postgraduate research and training institute of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine of the University of Edinburgh, UK. Prior to taking up this position in January of 2013, Walls worked for 30 years at the University of Newcastle.
He joined IADR in 1983. He has served on several IADR Committees including the IADR Hatton Awards Committee, Constitution Committee and the JDR Editorial Board. He served as the IADR treasurer from 2005-2009. Additionally, he was involved in the establishment of the IADR Pan European Federation (which is now the IADR Pan European Region). In 2003 he was awarded the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award for Geriatric Oral Research.