title: New dentist shows commitment to community and profession.
abstract: In 2005, Dr. Jose Peralez won the ADA's Golden Apple Award for New Dentist Leadership. He is a second-career native of the Rio Grande Valley who returned after his 1995 graduation from dental school to serve the community he grew up in. Dr. Peralez helped to purchase, manage, and staff a mobile clinic, create a voucher program administered through school nurses, and engage legislators in issues of oral health care for the underserved. He believes that "habits of involvement" are cross generational and contagious.
authors.affiliation: ADA Committee on the New Dentist, USA. burgessk@ada.org
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Burgess
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D003813:Dentistry; D006665:History of Dentistry; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D007857:Leadership; D014481:United States