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Rock, Leigha Phone: 902-494-8864

Email: leigha.rock@dal.ca
Director, School of Dental Hygiene
Academic Credentials:
•Postdoctoral Fellowship (BC Cancer)

•Ph.D. (Craniofacial Science) (UBC)

•B.D.Sc. (UBC)

•DDH (CNC)
Professional Appointments:
•Director and Assistant Professor, School of Dental Hygiene, Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University
•Cross-appointed, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine
•Scientist, Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute
•Scientific Affiliate, Department of Anatomical Pathology, QEII, Nova Scotia Health



Awards:
Awards for Teaching

Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Prize 04/2017
Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic, The University of British Columbia

Graduate Teaching Assistant Award - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Faculty of Dentistry, The University of British Columbia


Awards for Scholarship

CIHR Doctoral Research Award - $105,000 04/2017
Doctoral Award – Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship
Canadian Institute of Health Research Institute

CIHR Travel Award - $1000 04/2017
Institute of Cancer Research

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Nominee01/2017
The University of British Columbia

AADR Student Research Day Award - $1350 01/2017
Faculty of Dentistry, The University of British Columbia

UBC Faculty of Dentistry Research Day Poster Competition - $50 01/2017
PhD Student Award

CDHA/Hu-Friedy Nevi 2.0 Scholarship - $2000 12/2016
Master’s/Doctorate Level

Four Year Doctoral Fellowship - $92,800 11/2015
The University of British Columbia

CDHA National Conference Student Travel Award - $500 04/2015

UBC GSS Travel Award - $500 03/2015

UBC Faculty of Dentistry Travel Award - $500 03/2015

UBC Faculty of Dentistry Research Day Poster Competition - $50 01/2015
Senior Undergraduate Clinical Student Award

Chancellor R.E. McKechnie Graduate Scholarship - $1000 09/2014
Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, The University of British Columbia

Dr. S. Wah Leung Scholarship - $1000 09/2014
Faculty of Dentistry, The University of British Columbia

BC OCPP Graduate Clinical Research Award - $5,000 09/2014
British Columbia Cancer Foundation

Joan Voris Award of Achievement - $1200 05/2014
Faculty of Dentistry, The University of British Columbia

Bessie Diamond Memorial Scholarship - $750 08/2013
The University of British Columbia
National Council of Jewish Women of Canada Vancouver Section
Dean’s List Academic Achievement – 2012, 2013, 2014
Faculty of Dentistry, The University of British Columbia