The Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) bestowed Fellowship on Dr. Michael I. MacEntee, professor emeritus of Prosthodontics and Dental Geriatrics.
Dr. Michael MacEntee (R), professor emeritus of Prosthodontics and Dental Geriatrics, with Dr. John Cairns, CAHS president and former dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine, at the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellowship induction ceremony, September 17, 2015.
CAHS Fellows are those who have a history of outstanding performance in the academic health sciences in Canada. Attaining Fellowship is a substantial honour to the Faculty of Dentistry. The Academy provides timely, informed and unbiased assessments of urgent issues affecting the health of Canadians.
MacEntee, who recently retired focused his teaching and research on access of oral healthcare for vulnerable populations, and especially for people who are old and frail.
He has published numerous books, chapters, and peer-reviewed papers on this and related subjects, and currently he is the editor-in-chief of Gerodontology: The International Journal of Dental Geriatrics. He is a past president of both the Royal College of Dentists of Canada and the International College of Prosthodontists. In 2009, he received a Distinguished Scientist Award from the International Association for Dental Research and a Killam Teaching Prize. In his retirement he continues with his research and writing.
There are only six dentists who are CAHS Fellows: From UBC, MacEntee joins Dr. Chris Overall, professor and Canada Research Chair in Metalloproteinase Proteomics & Systems Biology. There are two other Fellows of the CAHS each from McGill University and the University of Toronto.
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