ADHA Announces Participant of 2009 DENTSPLY/ADHA
Graduate Student Clinicians Program

July 24, 2009 - The American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) has recognized Katherine Berry, RDH, MS, of Dulce, New Mexico, as a participant of the DENTSPLY/ADHA Graduate Student Clinicians Program. She was honored during the DENTSPLY/ADHA Student Clinician Program Awards Banquet at ADHA’s 86th Annual Session in Washington, D.C., on June 19.

The purpose of the DENTSPLY/ADHA Graduate Dental Hygiene Research Program is to promote dental hygiene research by supporting one graduate dental hygiene student from each accredited graduate dental hygiene program offering a Master of Science degree in dental hygiene and related disciplines (as identified by the ADHA) to present his/her research at the 2009 ADHA CLL at Annual Session. This program allows the student clinician an opportunity to compete for awards and recognition. The DENTSPLY/ADHA Graduate Dental Hygiene Research Program consists of a poster presentation where the research or clinical findings are presented in a format that includes a hypothesis, methods and materials, results, discussion and a conclusion.

Berry is a 2009 graduate of the University of New Mexico, Master of Science in dental hygiene program. Currently she is an adjunct instructor in the dental hygiene program at San Juan College and a clinical dental hygienist with the Indian Health Service at the Jicarilla Service Unit in Dulce, New Mexico. Berry received her Associate of Science in dental hygiene from Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, Mass., and her Bachelor of Science in education from the University of Connecticut.  She is a member of Sigma Phi Alpha, the National Dental Hygiene Honor Society, the American Dental Hygienists’ Association, the New Mexico Dental Hygienists’ Association, and was president of the Wyoming Dental Hygienists’ Association in 2004-05.

ADHA is the largest national organization representing the professional interests of more than 150,000 dental hygienists across the country. Dental hygienists are preventive oral health professionals, licensed in dental hygiene, who provide educational, clinical and therapeutic services that support total health through the promotion of optimal oral health. For more information about ADHA, dental hygiene or the link between oral health and general health, visit ADHA at http://www.adha.org.

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