Call for Nominations
In 2025, the ADEAGies Foundation® celebrates 75 years!
The 2025 Gies Awards Celebration will take place on Monday evening, March 10, during the 2025 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition at National Harbor, MD. Faculty awards will be presented during the Monday plenary.
The ADEAGies Foundation is accepting nominations for the 2025 Gies Awards in the following categories:
- William J. Gies Award for Eminence in Achievement
- William J. Gies Award for Eminence in Innovation
- William J. Gies Award for Eminence in Vision and Leadership
- William J. Gies Award for Junior Faculty Achievement in Oral Health Education
- William J. Gies Award for Junior Faculty Achievement in Allied Oral Health Education
The ADEAGies Foundation Gies Awards honor individuals, institutions or public/private partners whose work represents the highest order of Innovation, Achievement, or Vision and Leadership. The Awardees’ accomplishments will be widely recognized as contributing to major changes and advancement in dental education.
The first three awards will be presented during a celebration event at the ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition. The junior faculty awards will be announced during the Monday plenary session, when other ADEA faculty awards are announced.
Learn about the individuals and organizations who have been honored over the years in the Hall of Awardees.
All nomination submissions must include:
- The completed entry form submitted online.
- The award and category for which an individual or organization is being nominated (choose only one category per nomination).
- The nominee’s full name, including designations and classifications.
- The nominee’s contact information and submitting body’s contact information (please include business addresses, telephone numbers and emails).
- An executive summary, up to two pages, outlining the nominee’s contributions to and support of oral health and health education addressing each criteria enumerated in each award category.
- A letter of nomination, up to one page, explaining why you are nominating the person or organization and what distinguishes that nominee as a potential Gies Award winner. Only one nomination letter may be provided; no other recommendation letters should be included.
- Any supplemental materials documenting the nominee’s program or service, including samples, planning documents, videos (or links to published videos), marketing or promotional materials. All supplemental materials must be submitted in a digital format.
- An individual or organization may submit one nomination per award cycle.
A subcommittee from the ADEAGies Foundation Board of Trustees (BOT) will be charged with managing the review of submissions and presenting nominees to the full BOT for selection.
If no nominee meets the eligibility requirements or standards for an award, the award may not be given. Each finalist selected may be asked to provide additional information and must be willing to accept the award in person or virtually, if necessary.
INNOVATION
Individual educators, programs/institutions or public or private partners facilitating the creation, exchange, evolution and application of ideas that bring new value to our profession or industry and enhance oral health through oral health education.
ACHIEVEMENT
Individual educators, programs/institutions or public or private partners reaching exemplary transformative achievement in oral health education providing evidence of outcomes for improvement in collaborative practice, reduced health disparities or inequities.
VISION AND LEADERSHIP
Programs, institutions and educators articulating the pursuit of contemporary ideas or a set of ideals, perspectives or solutions to create broader meaning for the dental profession and effectively bridge the present to the future of oral health.
ADEAGies Foundation William J. Gies Award for Eminence in Innovation
Eligibility
Individual educators, programs/institutions or public or private partners facilitating the creation, exchange, evolution and application of ideas that bring new value to our profession or industry and enhance oral health through oral health education.
Criteria
- Advances collaborative integration of health education and care, which results in improvement in general health and oral health.
- Creativity that meaningfully transforms oral health education, research or service.
- Work demonstrates insight beyond the ordinary.
- Sets a new standard in their area for new ways of improving oral health, oral health education or community service that is a departure from and beyond usual accomplishment.
- Execution is beyond program extension.
- Provides evidence of impact through outcomes.
ADEAGies Foundation William J. Gies Award for Eminence in Achievement
Eligibility
Individual educators, programs/institutions or public or private partners reaching exemplary transformative achievement in oral health education providing evidence of outcomes for improvement in collaborative practice, reduced health disparities or inequities.
Criteria
- Transformative accomplishment in an area of oral health education, community care or research that has broad impact on overall health.
- Visible impact on people, places or communities related to oral health education.
- Work sets a new standard.
- Creates new opportunities for individuals, programs or institutions to be successful in reaching the goals of oral health education for individuals, programs or communities.
- Achieving success in education while addressing health disparities.
- Provides evidence of impact through outcomes.
ADEAGies Foundation William J. Gies Award for Eminence in Vision and Leadership
Eligibility
Individual educators, programs/institutions or public or private partners articulating the pursuit of contemporary ideas or a set of ideals, perspectives or solutions to create broader meaning for the dental profession and effectively bridge the present to the future of oral health care.
Criteria
- Insight into the future needs of oral health education, resulting in transformative change.
- Widely recognized for leadership accomplishment.
- Accomplishment is ahead of its time and shapes the future of oral health education, research or clinical/community service.
- Systemic health care education change that promotes health equity.
- Provides evidence of impact through outcomes.
ADEAGies Foundation William J. Gies Award for Junior Faculty Achievement in Oral Health Education
Eligibility
Early- to mid-career full-time educators in a dental school. Faculty should have completed at least five years in an academic setting and are pre-tenure, if on a tenure track, and hold Instructor, Assistant or Associate Professor ranks.
Criteria
- Achieved sustainable innovation in teaching, learning, patient care or research.
- Collaborative approaches to improving pedagogy, curriculum or comprehensive patient-centered care.
- Advances workforce innovation, collaborative care and integration of team approaches to improve oral and systemic health care.
- Provides evidence of accomplishment or impact through outcomes.
ADEAGies Foundation William J. Gies Award for Junior Faculty Achievement in Allied Oral Health Education
Eligibility
Early- to mid-career full-time educators in an allied oral health education program. Faculty should have completed at least five years in an academic setting and are pre-tenure, if on a tenure track, and hold Instructor, Assistant or Associate Professor ranks.
Criteria
- Achieved sustainable innovation in teaching, learning, patient care or research.
- Collaborative approaches to improving pedagogy, curriculum, comprehensive patient-centered care.
- Advances workforce innovation, collaborative care and integration of team approaches to improve oral and systemic health care.
- Provides evidence of accomplishment or impact through outcomes.