Matthew D. Greaves, DDS, of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, received Westminster’s prestigious Young Alumni Achievement Award.

The Young Alumni Achievement Award recognizes alumni who demonstrate the Westminster mission through outstanding achievement early (within five to 15 years) in their chosen career and/or dedicated leadership and service to their community.

Greaves is a member of Westminster’s Class of 2010. He was named the 2023 Air National Guard’s Dentist of the Year and was the Delta Tau Delta fraternity’s “40 Under 40” award recipient. He currently serves as the sole dental provider for the 131st Bomb Wing of the Missouri Air National Guard.

Greaves majored in biology at Westminster and is a graduate of the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Dentistry. He completed his residency at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, where he earned a master’s degree while providing dental care to patients with special needs beyond the scope of routine outpatient services.

After his residency, Greaves oversaw the training of dental students and residents, securing grant funding to deliver free dental care to financially impoverished patients struggling with head and neck cancer. He also helped establish a program that provides hospital-based, special-needs dentistry.

Greaves proudly served his country through a deployment to the Middle East and served his fellow Missourians by co-leading a medical mission that provided more than $1.8 million of no-cost care to the citizens of southeast Missouri.