Stuart Gansky, MS, DrPH, Professor of Oral Epidemiology and Dental Public Health, is the recipient of the UCSF Academic Senate’s 2015 Distinction In Mentoring Award for faculty at the rank of Full Professor.
Dr. Gansky earned his Doctor of Public Health degree in biostatistics at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill before joining the UCSF faculty. His work focuses on health promotion and primary disease prevention, and he is the author of more than 100 publications. He has served as research mentor for many students and residents who have become faculty or practitioners in primary care dentistry, and mentors UCSF faculty members who teach primary care dentistry.
Dr. Gansky is Director of the UCSF Center to Address Disparities in Children's Oral Health (CAN DO), Director of the Data Coordinating Center for CAN DO and similar disparity research centers at Boston University and the University of Colorado, Denver, and Assistant Director of the UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute's Mentor Development Program. The disparity centers are researching ways to achieve primary prevention of early childhood caries.
Recipients of the 2015 UCSF Academic Senate Distinction In Teaching and the Distinction In Mentoring Awards will be honored at the Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 13 at 3:30 p.m. in the Lange Room of the UCSF Library.
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Dr. Stuart Gansky
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2015 UCSF Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards | Distinction in Mentoring
April 28, 2015