NSU CDM Lasting Impressions Spring 2019

42 | COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE CDM IMPRESSIONS Irene Marron-Tarrazzi, D.M.D., M.S., right, a 2003 alumna, was honored as the College of Dental Medicine’s 2018 NSU Distinguished Alumni Award winner. Nova Southeastern University annually salutes outstanding graduates at the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Awards ceremony, the highest and most prestigious honor the university bestows upon its graduates. The program recognizes alumni who have realized their potential around the world by demonstrating a record of distinguished service and extra- ordinary achievement in a profession, discipline, organization, or community cause. “There are many ways to determine the value of a university,” said George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., NSU president and CEO. “I believe that one of the most important ways is by what our graduates bring to their communities across the country and around the world after graduation. These honorees make NSU proud!” Marron-Tarrazzi is an adjunct faculty member at the CDM and the University of Florida Hialeah Dental Clinic and owns a private practice in Miami. She was featured in a profile that ran in the spring 2015 issue of Impressions and was named 2018 Dentist of the Year by the Florida Dental Association, based on her commitment and leadership to the dental profession. In 2017, Marron-Tarrazzi received the Women to Watch Award from the Lucy Hobbs Project. u Marron-Tarrazzi Named Distinguished Alumni Sharon Crane Siegel, D.D.S., M.S., M.B.A., professor and chair in the Department of Prosthodontics, was named the CDM’s Professor of the Year during NSU’s 17th Annual Faculty Reception. She holds a D.D.S. and a Master of Science in Oral Biology from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneur- ship. Siegel, a member of the American College of Prostho- dontists, has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and 6 book chapters. She also is a 2006 Fellow of the Ameri- can Dental Education Association Leadership Institute. Siegel has lectured internationally on osteoporosis and women’s health issues and has conducted research and published extensively in the field of dental cutting. She is conducting research in the area of CAD/CAM dentistry. Additionally, she is the 2015 winner of the Lucy Hobbs Taylor Award from the American Association of Women Dentists. u Siegel Named Professor of the Year CDM Impressions George L. Hanbury II, NSU president and CEO, left, and Ralph V. Rogers, NSU provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, present Sharon Crane Siegel with her Professor of the Year award.