Dr. Carrie York receives awards

Recently, Dr. Carrie K. York was named as one of "Seattle's Top Dentists" by Seattle Magazine, January, 2006.

Previously, Dr. York, of Mercer Island, was honored with two dental awards, during the Pacific Northwest Dental Conference in Seattle in July 2002.

She received the "Outstanding Young Dentist Award" from the American College of Dentists-Washington Section. This award recognizes exceptional efforts "in promoting excellence, ethics and professionalism in dentistry".

She was also selected for Fellowship into the Pierre Fauchard Academy, an international honor dental organization. The organization is limited by invitation to "ethical dentists who have made a contribution to their profession and/or community with potential for leadership."

Dr. York was president of the Mercer Island Community Fund, has served six years in the House of Delegates of the Washington State Dental Association and taught part time in the department of prosthodontics at the University of Washington Dental School. She practices on Mercer Island.

She was chairman of the 20th year reunion committee of Mercer Island High School Class of 1982, and was a member of the choir at Emmanuel Church, Mercer Island. She is a 1991 honors graduate of the UW School of Dentistry.

She and her husband, Mark Williams, have twins, Elisabeth and Braden, 10, who attend Mercer Island Schools.