Jack E. Lemons, Ph.D., professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry has been recognized for outstanding contributions by the ASTM International Committee F04 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices with the Patrick G. Laing Award.
The Laing Award is Committee F04’s highest-level award. A decorated ASTM member since 1974, Lemons has received several ASTM awards for his work, including the Award of Merit and title of fellow, the Robert J. Painter Memorial Award and the William T. Cavanaugh Award — some of ASTM’s highest organizational honors.
Lemons works on multiple F04 subcommittees and chairs F04.93, the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 150 – Implants for Surgery. He has also served as chairman of the main F04 committee, a group of 300 technical experts who oversee more than 900 international standards.
Lemons joined the faculty at UAB in 1973 and became a full professor and chair of the Department of Biomaterials in the School of Dentistry in 1978. He was department chair until 1990, and now is a professor in the UAB School of Dentistry in the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, and an adjunct professor of prosthodontics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He also directs the UAB Division of Orthopaedic Laboratory Research and is a senior scientist at the Center for Metabolic Bone Disease, the BioMatrix Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Center, and the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center.
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