Honorary Fellows

Honorary Fellowship is a means to bestow Fellowship on deserving non-dentists. This status is awarded to individuals who would otherwise be candidates for Fellowship by virtue of demonstrated leadership and achievements in dentistry or the community except that they are not dentists. Honorary Fellows have all the rights and privileges of Fellowship except they cannot vote or hold elected office.

Subrata Saha

Dr. Subrata Saha has shown great energy and initiation throughout his career in the biomedical engineering field and in his interest in medical and dental ethics, professional and social responsibility, and humanism. Dr. Saha has served on numerous journal editorial boards and is Editor-in-Chief of Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine and the Journal of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants. Dr. Saha received the C. William Hall Research Award in Biomedical Engineering and was recognized as the Distinguished Alumnus of the Bengal Engineering and Science University and this award was presented by the President of India.

Sonya Guyjean Smith

Dr. Smith served on the American Dental Education Association’s Diversity and Inclusive Advisory Group, now a fully-fledged committee. She implemented recruitment and retention for under-represented students and developed outreach programs to improve academic readiness at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Her research is in the areas of public health law and the linkages among social policies, educational inequities, poverty, residential segregation, and law and policies impacting health disparities. Dr. Smith co-authored the ADEA Faculty Diversity Toolkit. She has been recognized for her contributions and has received the ADEA Supervisor Change Agent Award and the National Diversity Council Influencer Award in 2021.

Henri M. Treadwell

Dr. Henri Treadwell co-authored Oral Health in America Removing the Stain of Disparity. She was the Program Director of Health at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for 17 years.

Dr. Treadwell is the Founder of the Freedom’s Voice Symposium and the Soledad O’Brien Freedom Voice Award, given to recognize mid-career individuals doing significant work to improve global society. She is the National Director for the childhood obesity prevention program for the Links, Inc., an organization of over 12,000 African American women across America.

Dr. Treadwell is the Principal Investigator for “Save Our Sons,” a weight management, obesity reduction, and diabetes control program of the National Urban League.

Dr. Treadwell received the “Order of the Palmetto,” South Carolina’s highest civilian award, from Governor Nikki Haley for her work in social and health justice.

Carol Yakiwchuk

Ms. Yakiwchuk has devoted much of her career to promoting oral health wellness for vulnerable populations. She served as Manager of Oral Health for the First Nations Peoples of British Columbia. CarolAnn’s leadership experience includes President of the Canadian Dental Hygienist Association and Governor of the National Dental Hygiene Certification Board.

Carol contributed her energy and enthusiasm to help pass The Dental Hygienist Act in Manitoba, Canada. Most recently, Carol was Canada’s first ever winner of the Golisano Health Leadership Award, recognizing her dedicated volunteer work with the Special Olympics.