ACOMS
REVIEW
Volume VIII, ISSUE XI, 2016
Shelly Abramowicz Named Stuebner Scholar
Shelly Abramowicz, DMD, MPH, named first recipient of Elaine A. Stuebner Scholars Award by ACOMS.
The ACOMS Stuebner Scholarship is an essay-based competition that
awards one board certified female oral and maxillofacial surgeon annually
the opportunity to attend a post-educational meeting to advance their
knowledge and skills. The award provides the recipient an opportunity to
meet with mentors in the specialty and to become involved in a lifelong
learning process to stay well-informed and focused as a surgeon.
The program aims to enable award recipients to become and remain
engaged with other women in the specialty throughout their careers to
learn, to mentor in-turn, and to perpetuate the cycle. The prize is a
scholarship award up to $5,000 in value that includes meeting registration,
travel, and lodging at a scientific meeting organized by ACOMS. The
award fund was made possible by founding sponsors KLS Martin Group,
Straumann, and Instradent, and is supported as well by the generous donations of several members of
ACOMS.
Dr. Abramowicz holds the positions of Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine; Director, Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery Outpatient Clinic, Grady Memorial Hospital; and Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department
of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Atlanta.
Dr. Abramowicz obtained her dental degree and her MPH in 2002 from the University of Pittsburgh
and completed her oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at the University of Florida in 2008. She
was board certified in 2012. After completing her training, Dr. Abramowicz joined Boston Children's
Hospital as a full time attending surgeon and became a faculty member of the Harvard School of
Dental Medicine.
As an Emory faculty surgeon, Dr. Abramowicz provides care to children with oral and maxillofacial
surgery concerns. Her clinical and research specialties include pediatric oral and maxillofacial surgery,
TMJ dysfunction in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, orthognathic surgery, maxillofacial
trauma, benign maxillofacial pathology, and impacted teeth.
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