Penn Dental Medicine’s Chun-Hsi Chung, a professor of orthodontics and the Chauncey M. F. Egel Endowed Chair of the department of orthodontics, has been recognized for his leadership in orthodontics with the Middle Atlantic Society of Orthodontics (MASO) 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a MASO member who, in the opinion of the MASO board of directors, has made significant contributions to his or her community of patients; has served with distinction as a member of the American Association of Orthodontists at the national, constituent, and/or component level; has personally contributed to the betterment of the specialty of orthodontics; has taught in a graduate or undergraduate orthodontic program during their professional career; and/or has been associated with orthodontic research or has been an orthodontic staff member or consultant on a hospital staff.

Dr. Chung, who is also the director of Penn Dental Medicine’s postdoctoral program in orthodontics, has been a member of the school’s faculty since 1987. He has been a member of the Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists since 2003. Throughout his career, Dr. Chung has been active in the American Board of Orthodontics, serving as president and as director. He also served in the American Association of Orthodontists. In addition, Dr. Chung was associate editor of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics from 2010-2021, and since 2020, he has served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Oral Sciences. Since 2014, he has also served as a consultant to the Commission on Dental Accreditation.

Dr. Chung will receive the award at the MASO Spring CE meeting in Bethesda, Maryland on March 7, 2025.