named Chief Dental Officer of the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation: America’s Toothfairy^® (NCOHF).  As Chief Dental Officer, she will continue to

Chair the NCOHF Scientific Advisory Board while assuming responsibility for oral

Slayton is Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the

University of Iowa.  She is a board

certified Pediatric Dentist and a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric

Dentistry.  Prior to coming to Iowa in

2008, she served on the faculty at the University of Washington School of

Dentistry as the graduate program director and the Chair of the Pediatric

Dentistry Department at Oregon Health & Science University.  She serves on the Council for Scientific

Affairs and the Scientific Program Committee of the American Academy of

Pediatric Dentistry and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Section

on Oral Health for the American Academy of Pediatrics.  In addition to serving as an examiner for the

American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and a site visitor for the Commission on

Dental Accreditation, Dr. Slayton is a member of the American Academy of

Pediatric Dentistry, the American College of Dentists, the American Association

of Dental Research, the American Dental Association and the American Dental

Education Association. She is the co-editor of a textbook entitled “Early

Childhood Oral Health” and the special Issue on Children’s Oral Health,

published recently by Academic Pediatrics. 

She has authored two textbook chapters and published numerous peer-reviewed

are honored to have Dr. Slayton serve as the NCOHF Chief Dental Officer.  Her wealth of experience, talent and

expertise combined with her enormous passion and commitment to children’s oral

health, will be invaluable to our organization,” remarked Fern Ingber, NCOHF

Children’s Oral Health Foundation: America’s

Toothfairyâ (NCOHF) is a

501(c)(3) nonprofit, dedicated to raising awareness of the #1 chronic childhood

illness: pediatric dental disease, facilitating delivery of comprehensive

generations. NCOHF draws on vast national resources to secure and distribute

product and financial donations along with innovative preventive programs to a

growing network of not-for-profit university and community based dental

clinics, health centers, and mobile programs throughout America. For more