This bursary was developed to recognize the significant contributions that Dr. Leake made (and continues to make) to dental public health in Canada.
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About Dr. Leake
2011 Inaugural Recipients
Past Recipients
Dr. Alexandra Nicolae for: An analysis of the relationship between urinary mercury levels and the number of dental amalgam restoration surfaces in a representative group of the Canadian population.
A Nicolae*1, P Cooney2, H Ames2, 1Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, 2Office of the Chief Dental Officer, Health Canada
Dr Alexandre Nicolae ia a DDS from Romania. She is currently pursuing her MSc in Dental Public Health at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Dentistry. Her research interests include dental amalgam and mercury toxicity, access to care of disadvantaged groups, and oral health related issues from a life-course perspective. She enjoys building working relationships with the institutions that have supported these projects: the OCDO Health Canada, the Ontario Public Health Agency and the Hospital for Sick Children.
Dr. Vinay Pilly for: GIS analysis of spatial and non-spatial barriers to access dental care using public transit in the city of Saskatoon.
Pilly, V.*, B.D.S., M.P.H.1, Uswak, G., D.M.D., M.P.H.1 & Creighton, T., M.Sc.2
Dr. Pilly is currently a Dental Public Health resident at U of T, Faculty of Dentistry. His primary research interests include assessment of barriers to access dental care, dental manpower planning, best practice review, clinical research and assessment of oral health status of population. He has 11 publications till date. Dr. Pilly loves photography, hiking, travelling and enjoys the Canadian outdoors whenever he has a chance to do so.
James (Jim) Leake retired from Community Dentistry, Department of Biological and Diagnostic Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. For over 28 years he taught in both the undergraduate and graduate programs at the Faculty, and for almost all of those years he served as both head of the division and program director for the specialty training program in dental public health. From 2006 to 2008 he served as President of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada. He previously worked as executive director of dental services for the Province of Manitoba (1975-1980) where he and others set-up a dental therapist delivered provincial dental program for children, modeled closely on that of the Saskatchewan Dental Program.
Dr. Leake authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications and has continue to investigate issues around the oral health of First Nations people, fluoridation, oral health policy and access to care. During the much of the period that the National School of Dental Therapy was operated by the University of Toronto, he worked closely with the school's director on various development and evaluation projects for the national school. He and Dr. Keith Davey, the school's director, held a 6-year development grant to train therapists and upgrade the service delivery program for Dominica (BWI). He has served as President of the Ontario Public Health Association and as a consultant to the Federal Government's First Nations and Inuit dental health program, and internationally for the Pan American Health Organization and therapy programs in the West Indies. He was awarded the Canadian Association of Public Health Dentistry's Distinguished Service Award in 2004, an Honourary Life Membership by the Ontario Public Health Association in 2006, an Honourary Life Membership by both the CAPHD and the OSPHD in 2008 and a Distinguished Service Award by the Canadian Dental Association in 2010. He now serves as an examiner in dental public health for the Royal College of Dentists of Canada.
Jim and his wife Beth now live in Kingston, Ontario, where they are closer to their two daughters and their families.