2016 Golden Medallion awarded

The Golden Medallion Award is issued periodically to individuals whose contributions to prosthodontics have been exceptional. Preiskel will be acknowledged at the 88^th Annual Meeting of the American Prosthodontic Society in Chicago on February 25, 2016.

Harold Preiskel is emeritus professor of prosthodontics at King’s College Dental Institute, where he founded the dental implant program. Preiskel graduated at Guy’s Hospital Dental School and won a scholarship to study prosthodontics under the legendry Carl Boucher, obtaining his Master’s Degree at Ohio State University in 1963.

Preiskel was the first president of The International College of Prosthodontists, the first non-American president of the American Prosthodontic Society, founding co-editor of the International Journal of Prosthodontics, chairman of its board, past president of the American Dental Society of London, the British Dental Association (Metropolitan Branch), the London Dental Study Club, and chaired the International Prosthodontic Symposium 1982 - the first of its kind ever to be held in the UK.