Lifetime Achievement Award in Orthodontic Research Award Past Winners
The Lifetime Achievement Award in Orthodontic Research (LAAOR) seeks to recognize those who have advanced the specialty of orthodontics through their efforts in research conducted over their career. This award was created by the AAO Board of Trustees at their November 2015 meeting.
Nominations for the award are sent to the Editor-in-Chief of the AJO-DO. The awardee will be determined at the AAO BOT Pre-Annual Session meeting. The winner of the award will be invited to make a presentation at the next AAO Annual Session. Announcement of the next winner of the award will be made at the AAO Annual Session at the conclusion of the lecture given by the current recipient.
The first award winner was announced at the 2016 AAO Annual Session and the award winner lecture was given at the 2017 AAO Annual Session.
Created: June 16, 2016
Updated: January 24, 2025
| YEAR AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED | AWARD RECIPIENT(S) | TITLE OF LECTURE Lecture given at the following year Annual Session |
| 2024 | Carla Evans | The future is digital |
| 2023 | Birte Melsen | New inventions with orthodontics! Fighting controversies in orthodontics |
| 2022 | W. Eugene Roberts | Finite element analysis: the holy grail of dentofacial orthopedics |
| 2021 | Katherine W.L. Vig | The role of mentors in our lifetime achievements |
| 2020 | James A. McNamara | Carriere 3 treatment in minimally-growing patients: how does it work? |
| 2019 | Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman | Reflections on 35 years of research: do we understand what we are doing? |
| 2018 | Peter Buschang | 30 years of achievements – our proudest moments |
| 2017 | Lysle Johnston | Envoi: a walk on the mild side |
| 2016 | William Proffit | Learning from experience…and sharing it credibly |