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A. Damien Walmsley, BDS, MSc, PhD, is a professor of restorative dentistry at the University of Birmingham School of Dentistry and a consultant in…

Abbigale D. White, RDH, BS, BSDH, is a recent graduate of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M College of Dentistry. She works for a…

Abdel Rahim Mohammad, DDS, MS, MPH, FAAOM, is professor
and director of Geriatric Dental Programs at The Ohio State University
(OSU) College of…

Abdullah Aishehri, BDS, is a teaching assistant in the Department of Restorative Dentistry at the College of Dentistry, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz…

Abdullah Al-Taiar, MD, DC, MSC, PhD, is a physician epidemiologist and a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians of the…

Abhiram Maddi, DDS, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics and Endodontics, an adjunct assistant professor in the Department…

Abrielle Lamphere, RDH, BSDH, is a graduate dental hygiene candidate in the class of 2022 at the University of Michigan (U-M) School of Dentistry in…

Adam E. Saltz, DMD, MS, MPH, is a periodontist practicing in the greater Portland, Maine area, and an assistant clinical professor at the University…

Adele Spencer, RDH, MS, has been a practicing hygienist for more than 16 years. Currently, she is assistant professor at Farmingdale State University…

Ahmad Majeed-Saidan, BDS, is a clinical instructor at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry in Baltimore.

Ahmed Almuntashiri, RDH, MSc, is a lecturer in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Qassim University in Buraydah, Saudi Arabia. He teaches in…

Ahmed Ghoneima, DDS, PhD, is a research assistant professor and director

of the three-dimensional orthodontic imaging laboratory at the Department…

Ahmed J. Abuzinadah, DDS, is a master’s candidate in postgraduate operative dentistry at Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine.

Aierress C. Hanna, MHS, is a fourth-year dental student at Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry.

Akshay Kumarswamy, BDS, MS, is a clinical assistant professor and predoctoral implant director in the Department of Surgical Sciences at East Carolina…

Alan W. Budenz, MS, DDS, MBA, is a general dentist, anatomist, and vice chair of diagnostic sciences and services at the University of the Pacific…

Aleksandra Pavolotskaya, LDH, MS, is an adjunct faculty member

at Indiana University School of Dentistry in Indianapolis, and a clinical dental…

Alex J. Delgado, DDS, MS, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Restorative Dental Sciences and director of the Division of Operative…

Alexandra Benson Moore, RDH, MS, is a clinical instructor and the interprofessional education student coordinator in the Department of Dental Medicine…

Alexandra Ochi, RDH, BSDH, MPH, is a clinical instructor and course director of community oral health in the Department of Dental Hygiene at the…

Alice C. Trail, RDH, BSDH(c), practices clinical dental hygiene full-time in a Princeton, WVa, general dental office, and is a student in the degree…

Alice D. Domar, PhD, is the director of the Mind/Body Center for Women's Health at Boston IVF and an assistant professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology,…

Alice E. Curran, RDH, DMD, is an associate professor in the Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, at the…

Alice M. Horowitz, RDH, MA, PhD, is a research associate professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health, School of Public Health at…

Alice M. Warner, PhD, is the director of policy at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Alison J. Longley, BA, PhD, is a writer and a neuroscientist at the Pacific Sciences Institute in Friday Harbor, Wash, and has published in the fields…

Allan G. Farman, BDS, LDSRCS, PhD(odont), DSc(odont), EdS, MBA, is a consultant in oral and maxillofacial radiology based in Chicago. He is also a…

Allen Wong, DDS, EdD, is a professor, director of the advanced education in general dentistry program, and director of the hospital dentistry program…

Allie R. Brown, RDH, BSDH, is a recent graduate of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M College of Dentistry in Dallas. She works for…

Allison Fody, RDH, MPH, has more than 10 years of clinical experience in general, periodontal, and prosthodontic practices and is an adjunct…

Alvyn Yeoh, DDS, is a 2010 graduate of the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. He is currently completing a General…

Amanda B. Verissimo, RDH, MS, is the senior clinic coordinator at San Joaquin Valley College in San Diego where she teaches didactic and clinic…

Amanda Maready is a second year student in the Gene W. Hirschfeld School of Dental Hygiene at ODU, where she is also enrolled in the Honors College.

Amanda R. Reddington, LDH, MHA, CDA, EFDA, is an assistant clinical professor of dental assisting and dental hygiene at the University of Southern…

Amber Garza, RDH, BSDH, is a dental hygienist practicing in Kyle, Texas. She can be reached at: ambergarza16@ yahoo.com.

Amber Metro-Sanchez, RDH, BA, has been a practicing dental hygienist for the past 17 years. Since 2017, she has also served as a professional educator…

Amber W. Hunt, BSDH, MS, RDH, is a clinical assistant professor at the Gene W. Hirschfeld School of Dental Hygiene at Old Dominion University (ODU) in…

Amir Azarpazhooh, DDS, MSc, FRCD(C), is a researcher in the Community Dental Health Services Research Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, University of…

Amjad M. Nazzal, DDS, MS, is a diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and practices periodontics and implant dentistry in Madison,…

Amr M. Moursi, DDS, PhD, is a

pediatric dentist, research scientist, and associate professor and

chairman of the Department of Pediatric…

Amy Coplen, RDH, EPDH, MS, is a professor and program director at Pacific University, School of Dental Hygiene Studies. She is also board director for…

Amy DeStaffany, RDH, BS, is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine in Aurora. She is currently pursuing a…

Amy Kim, DDS, is the principal
investigator for Early Childhood Oral Health Training Program (EChOTrain) and is
a clinical associate professor in…

Amy L. Teague, RDH, MS, is assistant clinical professor and senior clinic coordinator in the Dental Hygiene Program at Texas Woman's University in…

Analia Veitz-Keenan, DDS, is a clinical associate professor of oral and maxillofacial pathology, radiology, and medicine, and director of the…

Andrea Beall, RDH, MA, is a part-time clinical assistant professor at NYU College of Dentistry, Dental Hygiene Programs, and a doctoral candidate at…

Andrea Ferreira Zandona, DDS, MSD, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry at Indiana University School…

Andrea Herman, RDH, is an oral medicine dental hygienist and researcher for the Carolinas Healthcare System in Charlotte, NC. She began her career in…

Andrea M. Fonner, DDS, is an associate faculty member in general practice residency at the Swedish Medical Center

in Seattle and a clinical…

Andrea Ravidà, DDS, MS, is a post-doctoral student in the Periodontics and Oral Medicine Department at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry…

Andrew Brodsky, DMD, MSD, practices periodontics and implant dentistry in Milton, Massachusetts. He is a diplomate of the American Board of…

Angela Dudley, RDH, MA, CHES, is the patient care coordinator in Advanced Specialty Education at the University Maryland School of Dentistry in…

Angela Kim is an undergraduate research assistant at the University of Washington School of Dentistry. She is currently a student at the University…

Angela Stanfield-Hann, AAS, BS, LDH, is an adjunct faculty member at Ivy Tech Community College in Anderson, Indiana. She also works full time in…

Angela Wooton, PhD, RN, FNP-C, is an assistant professor in the Graduate Nursing Program at USI, where she teaches pharmacology and advanced…

Angelo Mariotti, DDS, PhD, is professor of Periodontology in the College of Dentistry, at The Ohio State University in Columbus.

Anh Nguyen, RDH, BSDH, is a recent graduate of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry. She works for a…

Aniruddh Narvekar, BDS, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Illinois, College of Dentistry in…

Anissa Salem Yafai, RDH, MSHCM, is a full-time assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon,…

Anitha Potluri, BDS, DMD, MDS, is assistant professor in the Department of Diagnostic Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental…

Ankur Gupta, BDS, MDS, is in private practice limited to orthodontics in New Delhi, India

Ann Battrell, MSDH, is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA). She is the first registered dental…

Ann Cote, RDH, MSHA, has been in the dental field for more than 17 years. She started out as a dental assistant and then graduated from the Dental…

Ann Eshenaur Spolarich, RDH, PhD, FSCDH, is a professor, course director of clinical medicine and pharmacology, and director of research at the…

Ann Lynch is director of advocacy for the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA). As leader of the division, her responsibilities include…

Ann M. Bruhn, RDH, BSDH, MS, is an associate professor and chair of the Gene W. Hirschfeld School of Dental Hygiene at Old Dominion University (ODU)…

Ann O'Kelley Wetmore, MSDH, RDH, is an assistant professor in the
Department of Dental Hygiene at Eastern Washington University (EWU)
in Cheney,…

Anna K. Caplis, BS, worked as a research assistant at the Michigan Center for Oral Health Research from 2011 to 2013, coordinating and assisting in…

Anna M. Pattison, RDH, MS, is editor in chief emerita of Dimensions of Dental Hygiene and an internationally known expert on instrumentation. She…

Anna Matthews, RDH, MS, is an associate professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at New York City College of Technology of the City University of…

Anna N. Vo, RDH, BS, is a practicing dental hygienist at Apple Tree Dental in Rochester, Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Sigma Phi Alpha…

Anna Teeters, RDH, BA, is a graduate student in

the Department of Dental Hygiene at Idaho State University

(ISU), in Pocatello. She also works…

Anne E. Gwozdek, RDH, BA, MA, is a retired clinical assistant professor and former director of the Dental Hygiene Graduate and Degree Completion…

Anne Uncapher, RDH, BS, MA, is an associate professor and the first-semester preclinic coordinator in the Department of Dental Hygiene at the State…

Annette Huynh, RDH, BS, is a full-time clinical instructor in the Department of Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting at New York University (NYU)…

Annette L. Saylor, RDH, BS, is the lead instructor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at FTCC and has been teaching since 2003. Her areas of interest…

Annie Chitlall, RDH, BS, MHS, is a lecturer at the Dental Hygiene Unit at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College in the Bronx and an adjunct…

Antonella A. Botto, DDS, is a resident in the periodontics and prosthodontics programs at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio…

Antonio J. Moretti, DDS, MS, is a clinical associate professor and director of the post-graduate program in periodontology at UNC at Chapel Hill…

Anty Lam, RDH, MPH, is a professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at City Tech, where she teaches public health, dental materials laboratory, and…

Apoorv Goel, BDS, MS, MSD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics at Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry in Nashville,…

Archontia Palaiologou, DDS, MS, is a professor and assistant graduate program director in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Texas…

Armita Hezarkhani, DMD, MPH, is a 2020 graduate of ASDOH. Her research about e-cigarettes and vaping stemmed from her clinical experiences at dental…

Art DiMarco, DMD, is director of the University of Washington School of DentistryÍs Regional Initiatives in Dental Education Program and an associate…

Arthur C. DiMarco, DMD, is director and an affiliate assistant professor in the Regional Initiatives in Dental Education Program at the University of…

Arvie Malik, RDH, BS, is a part time instructor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at West Los Angeles College, Culver City, Calif, and the course…

Ashanti D. Braxton, DDS, is a tenured associate professor in the Department of General Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center…

Ashley C. Grill, MPH, RDH, is a clinical assistant professor in the Dental Hygiene Programs at New York University College of Dentistry and a clinical…

Ashley Cooke, RDH, BS, is in private clinical practice in Northville, Mich.

ASHLEY GRONSKI is a dental hygiene student at Fortis Institute. She will graduate in May 2014 with an Associate of Arts in Specialized Technology…

Ashlyn R. Atwell, RDH, BSDH, is a recent graduate of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry in Dallas.…

Aubree M. Chismark, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at West Coast University in Anaheim, California. She is…

Aubri Kottek, MPH, is a research analyst with the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences and Healthforce Center at the UCSF School…

Audra E. Haynes, RDH, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at City Tech, where she serves as radiology course…

Autumn R. Henning, MS, CCC-SLP, COM, IBCLC, is a speech-language pathologist/ feeding therapist, certified orofacial myologist, and international…

Ava J. Wu, DDS, is a clinical professor in the Department of Orofacial Sciences and codirector of the Sjögren's Syndrome Clinic at the University of…

Avinash S. Bidra, BDS, MS, FACP, is a board-certified maxillofacial prosthodontist and director of the Prosthodontics Residency Program at the…

Barbara A. Long, SDT, RDH, CACE, BGS, is a lecturer and clinical instructor at the College of Dentistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,…

Barbara A. Tarwater, RDH, CDA, BASDH, is an associate professor in the
Dental Hygiene Program at Pensacola State College (PSC) in Pensacola, Fla,…

Barbara Bennett, CDA, RDH, MS, has been actively involved in dentistry for more than 30 years. She is the department chair for Texas State Technical…

Barbara Kunselman, RDH, MS, is an associate professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at University of Cincinnati (UC) Blue Ash College. She has…

Barbara Shearer, BDS, MDS, PhD, is director of scientific affairs for Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals in New York.

Beata A. Golebiewska, RDH, BSEd, has served as an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at New York University(NYU) College…

Beatriz Madrid Hicks, MA, RDH, is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Periodontics, Division of Dental Hygiene, at the University of…

Beau D. Meyer, DDS, MPH, is an assistant professor and predoctoral program director in pediatric dentistry at the
University of North Carolina at…

Becca D. Jorde, PT, DPT, GCS, CEEAA, CERT MDT, is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the USD School of Health Sciences.…

Becca Taylor, AS, is a senior in the Bachelor of Science Dental Hygiene Program at Idaho State University (ISU) in Pocatello. She can be reached at: …

Bernadette Alvear Fa, DDS, CPT, is an associate professor in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry and director of the local…

Bernardo A. Caldas, BS, is a third-year dental student at Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine.

Beth Monnin, RDH, MSEd, is the clinic coordinator and assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash…

Bethany Komasinski, RDH, EFDA, is a practicing dental hygienist and a recent graduate of USI's dental hygiene program.

Bethany Palesh, RDH, MS, practices clinical dental hygiene in general and periodontal practices both in Ontario, Canada, and Michigan where she is…

Bethany Valachi, MS, PT, CEAS, is president and instructor for Posturedontics®, which provides dental ergonomic and injury prevention education and…

Betsy Lindholm, RDH, has been practicing dental hygiene for three years. She graduated from Blinn College in Bryan, Texas, with her Associate Degree…

Betsy Reynolds, RDH, MS, presents scientifically based dental and dental hygiene continuing education programs nationally and globally She also has…

Beverly A. McClure, RDH, BS, is an associate professor of Clinical Dental Hygiene at the Ohio State University, College of Dentistry, Division of…

Bharathi Devi Myneni, BDS, practices with the Willamette Dental Group in Tigard, Oregon. A diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, she…

Bhoomika Ahuja, BDS, MS, is an assistant professor of orthodontics in the Department of Developmental Sciences at the Marquette University School of…

Bhushan Ahuja, BDS, MDS, RDH, maintains a private orthodontic practice in Ahmedabad, India.

Bina Surti, DDS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Reconstructive Clinical Sciences at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of…

Bonnie Branson, RDH, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Dental Public Health and Behavioral Science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City…

Bonnie Bruerd, RDH, MPH, DrPh, is a health policy consultant in Salem, Ore. She has more than 20 years of experience working with the Indian Health…

Brandonn K. Perry is the compliance officer for infection prevention and safety at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in Ann Arbor. He…

Brandy Zantello, RDH, BSDH, is a 2018 graduate of the University of Michigan (U-M) Dental Hygiene Degree Completion E-Learning Program in Ann Arbor.…

Brenda Tallon Bradshaw, BA, BSDH, RDH, is a graduate student at the Gene W. Hirschfeld School of Dental

Hygiene, Old Dominion University (ODU) in…

Brent Pen-Jen Lin, DMD, is an associate clinical professor in the Division of Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Orofacial Sciences, at the University…

Brian D. Rhoads, DDS, has been a solo private practitioner in West Memphis, Arkansas, for more than 20 years. For the past 7 years, he has been owner…

Brian J. Swann, DDS, MPH, is the chief of oral health for the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He conducts the Oral Physician…

Brian J. Wilkinson, PT, DPT, CHT, CLT, is an associate professor and associate director of clinical education at Pacific University School of Physical…

Brian L. Mealey, DDS, MS, is a professor and director of the graduate program in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Texas Health…

Brian Nový, DDS, is the chief dental officer at the Alliance Dental Center in Quincy, Massachusetts, and holds faculty appointments at three dental…

Brian Partido, BSDH, MSDH, is the executive
director of dental programs at Seattle Central College.

Dr. Brian Schmidt, DDS, MD, PhD, FACS, is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who specializes in the comprehensive surgical management of patients with…

Bridget Wright, RDH, MACPR, is an assistant professor in the Division of Dental Hygiene at OSU. She taught part-time and practiced as a dental…

Brigette R. Cooper, RDH, MS, is a professor and chair of the Department of Dental Education at Minnesota State University (MSU), Mankato. She teaches…

Brooke M.O. Fukuoka, DMD, is a guest lecturer on special care dentistry at the College of Southern Idaho Dental Hygiene in Twin Falls, A.T. Still…

Bruce Riggs, DMD, has been involved in pediatric dentistry for the past 25 years, and caries management by risk assessment (CAMBRA) is an important…

Bruno C. Azevedo, DDS, MS, is an independent consultant in oral and maxillofacial radiology based in Louisville, Kentucky.

Bruno G. Loos, DDS, MS, PhD, is a professor of periodontology and the course director for post-graduate periodontics in the Department of…

Bryan J. Frantz, DMD, MS, is president of the American Academy of Periodontology. He is also an associate professor in the Department of…

C. Austin Risbeck, RDH, is an author and speaker on the associations among periodontal diseases and heart disease and diabetes. He is president of…

C. Eve J. Kimball, MD, FAAP, a pediatrician, is the founder of All About Children Pediatric Partners, PC, in Reading, Pennsylvania. She is an oral…

Caitlyn Strubinger is a dental hygiene student

at Fortis Institute. She will graduate in May 2013 with an

Associate in Specialized Technology…

Camille Biorn, RDH, BS, is an associate clinical professor and radiology coordinator at Idaho State University (ISU) in Pocatello, where she has…

Candace M. Herman, recently graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene from Southern Illinois University. Herman plans to practice dental…

Cara J. Riley, DMD, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and a dentist anesthesiologist practicing at Children's Hospital…

Caren M. Barnes, RDH, MS, is a professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene and the coordinator of clinical research at the Cruzan Center for Dental…

Carl F. Driscoll, DMD, FACP, is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry. A diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics and…

Carla Nunez, DMD, is a part-time faculty member at Georgia School of Orthodontics.

Carleigh Fraley, BA, RDH, currently practices clinical dental hygiene at Veritas Dentistry in Yonkers, New York. She is passionate about empowering…

Carlene Paarmann, RDH, MEd, is a professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Idaho State University (ISU) in Pocatello, where she joined the…

Carlos Gonzalez-Cabezas, DDS, MSD, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics at the U-M…

Carol A. Jahn, RDH, MS, is director of professional relations and education for Water Pik. An author and speaker, she has been providing continuing…

Carol A. Lapp, MS, PhD, recently retired from her position as associate professor in the Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, at the…

Carol Jahn, RDH, MS, is the director of professional relations and education for Water Pik, Inc. She has been providing continuing education courses…

Carol Naylor, RDH, DMDM, is a professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Before becoming an educator,…

Carol Tobias, MMHS, is director of the Health and Disability Working Group in Boston, and an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy…

Carole Nelson, RDH

Carole T. Pantera, DDS, MS, is a clinical associate professor emeritus in endodontics at UB. She was a founding partner of Southtowns Endodontics…

Carolyn Brown, RDH, EFDA, BS, MPA, has practiced for 18 years at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, where she has been instrumental in initiating an…

Carolyn Patenaude, MSEd, BSRDH, CDA, has 32 years of clinical dental hygiene experience and is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Dental…

Carrie Hanson, RDH, MA, is an assistant clinical professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Dentistry, in the Division of Dental…

Carrie Peltier, MS, MPH, is the innovation senior project manager for the Academic Institute at Atrius Health, where she manages collaboration…

Casey Chen, PhD, DDS, is an associate professor of Primary Oral Health Care at University of Southern California (USC) School of Dentistry. He can be…

Casey Hein, BSDH, MBA, is an assistant professor in the Division of Periodontics, Dental Diagnostics, and Surgical Sciences in the College of…

Cassandra Nutter, BSDH, RDH, has been practicing dental hygiene for more than seven years. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Dental Hygiene from…

Cassandra Penning, RDH, BS, is a clinical dental hygienist practicing in Sheridan, Wyoming. She is also a graduate dental hygiene student at Idaho…

Catherin Wilson, RDH, BSDH, has been a practicing dental hygienist for more than 13 years. She is currently a student in the graduate dental hygiene…

Catherine D. Saylor-Boles, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC),…

Catherine K. Starnes, RDH, BS, has been a practicing dental hygienist for 38 years. She also served as a clinical assistant professor at the…

Catherine S. Seifert, RDH, BS, has served as an adjunct clinical faculty member at ODU’s School of Dental Hygiene for the past 10 years. Her private…

Catherine Salisbury, RDH, MHE, is a clinical assistant professor in the
Department of Dental Hygiene at ISU.

Cathrine Steinborn, DDS, practices general dentistry in Santa Clara, California, and is a part-time clinical instructor in the Department of…

Cathy Russell, RDH, is clinical director and compliance trainer for infection control and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)…

Celine J. Cornelius Timothius, BDS, MSc, MS, MSD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics at the Dental College of Georgia at…

Chandni Batra, BDS, MDS, is a graduate student in the Department of Periodontology at Indiana University School of Dentistry.

Charlene A. Czuszak , DDS, MS, is assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene and in the Department of Oral Diagnosis, School of…

Charlene LaVoie, JD, MPA, RDH, began her education at a women’s college. Convinced she needed a productive skill more than further classical…

Charles D. Larsen, DMD, MS, is a clinical assistant
professor and director of the predoctoral program in the Department
of Pediatric Dentistry at…

Charles M. Cobb, DDS, MS, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of…

Chaya Morris, RDH, BS, practices as a dental hygienist in Indiana. She is a recent graduate of USI, earning a bachelor's degree in dental hygiene with…

Cherith Flowerday, is the program officer for Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation.

Cheryl A. Vamos, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor, director of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Program, and Fellow in the Chiles Center in the…

Cheryl Westphal, RDH, MS, is assistant dean for Allied Health Programs, director of Dental Hygiene Programs, and clinical associate professor at NYU…

CHI TRAN, DDS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Reconstructive Dental Sciences at the Dugoni School of Dentistry, University…

Chris H. Miller, PhD, is a professor emeritus of microbiology and an executive associate dean emeritus at Indiana University School of Dentistry in…

Christeen Amin Mikhail, RDH, BS, has 7 years of dental office experience, and recently earned a Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene degree from…

Christina A. Demopoulos, DDS, MPH, is a faculty member at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) School of Dental Medicine. As a Diplomate of the…

Christina Calleros, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor and junior clinic
coordinator in the Division of Dental Hygiene at the University of New…

Christina Giso, MBA, is assistant professor, in the Division of Graduate Studies, Department of Dental Hygiene, at ISU, where she has developed and…

Christina Peters, is the project director of the Native Dental Therapy Initiative for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board. She assists…

Christina Silverman, BA, is a student in the New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry's dental hygiene program in New York. She presented a…

Christine A. Hovliaras, RDH, BS, MBA, CDE, has been a dental hygienist for more than 25 years and has worked in clinical, educational, and industry…

Christine DeBaz, BA, is a student and research assistant at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Dental Medicine in Cleveland.

Christine Farrell, RDH, BSDH, MPA, is the oral health director for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' (MDHHS) Oral Health Program.…

Christine Macarelli, RDH, MS, is a dental hygiene educator whose primary focus has been on medically compromised patients, advanced instrumentation,…

Christine Nathe, RDH, MS, is a professor and program director at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Division of Dental Hygiene. She is vice chair of…

Christine Rogers, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor and senior clinical coordinator at MCPHS University, Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene in…

Christopher Dvorak, MS, LCGC, has a Master of Science degree in genetic counseling. He is a course director and student mentor for the master’s…

Christopher Shyue, BS, BA, is a research assistant in the UW School of Dentistry's Department of Oral Health Sciences.

Christopher W. Bowers, DMD, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at New York City College of Technology of
the City…

Christy Isbell, PhD, OTR/L, is department chair and program director of the Master of Science in Occupational Therapy program and a professor of…

Cindy Lyon, BSDH, DDS, EdD, is associate professor and chair of the Department of Dental Practice at the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni…

Cindy Schroeder-Drucks, MA, RDH, CDA, is an assistant professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–School of Health Related…

Claire M. Belling, BS, RDH, has been practicing dental hygiene and participating in dental reaserach for more than 20 years. She has published papers…

Claudia Turcotte, CDA, RDH, MSDH, MSOSH, is a professor of dental hygiene at Tunxis Community College in Farmington, Connecticut. She has also…

Claudine Paula Drew, RDH, MS, EdD, is an associate professor of Dental Hygiene at the Ministry of Health-College of Health Sciences, Kingdom of…

Colleen M. Brickle, EdD, RDH, is the dean of Health Sciences at Normandale Community College in Minneapolis. An advocate for furthering the profession…

Colleen M. Olson, RDH, is a private practice dental hygienist in San Antonio, Texas. She can be reached at: colleenmealeyolson@gmail.com.

Connie Drisko, RDH, DDS, is associate dean for academic planning and faculty personnel and director of Clinical Research, Department of Periodontics,…

Connie E. Beatty, RDH, BS, is an adjunct clinical instructor at Texas Woman's University in Denton and a candidate for a master of science in dental…

Connie Kracher, PhD, MSD, is an associate professor of dental education and director of the dental assisting program at Indiana University–Purdue…

Connie Mobley, PhD, RD, is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and associate dean of research at UNLV SDM. She is a registered…

Constance R. Sharuga, RDH, PhD, is an associate professor of Dental Hygiene, Department of Allied Health Sciences, College of Public and Allied Health…

Constanza E. Fernandez, DDS, PhD, is a research scholar at the University of Michigan (U-M) School of Dentistry in Ann Arbor, where she studies the…

Corey B. Chmil, DMD, is on the faculty of Fortis

Institute in Scranton, Pa, where he serves as

the clinic dentist and teaches dental hygiene…

Courtney O’Brien RDH, BS, is a private practitioner in Sunnyvale, Tex.

Courtney P. Rudick, RDH-EA, MS, CHES, is a doctoral student in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Creighton University School of…

Courtney Randolph, BS, is the research coordinator for the Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy in the IU Department of Family…

Courtney S. Babb, DMD, s an instructor in the Department of General Dentistry at The Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University. She was an…

Craig C. Spangler, DDS, previously served as the general practice residency program director and chief of dentistry and oral and maxillofacial surgery…

Cristina Casa-Levine, EdD, RDH, is an associate professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Farmingdale State College. She coordinates clinical…

Crystal Kanderis Lane, RDH, BS, MS, is a practicing oral health professional of 15 years and an assistant professor in the Department of Dental…

Crystal Kanderis Lane, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Idaho State University in Pocatello, and a clinical…

Cynthia C. Amyot, RDH, EdD, is the associate dean for instructional technology and faculty development at the University of Missouri-Kansas City…

Cynthia J. Howard, RDH, BS, MS, CCRC, is an adjunct assistant professor in the Dental Hygiene Unit of the Allied Health Department at Eugenio Maria de…

Cynthia L. Stull, BSDH, MDH, is a clinical associate professor and director of the Master of Science in Dental Hygiene Program in the Division of…

Cynthia Stegeman, EdD, RDH, RD, LD, CDE, FAND, is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator who works in a hospital-based diabetes…

Dallin N. Harris, DDS, is an orthodontic resident at the University of Colorado (CU) School of Dental Medicine in Aurora. His research interests…

Daniel J. Palazzolo, DDS, is assistant chief of Periodontics at Sheppard Air Force Base, where he teaches for the Advanced Education in General…

Daniel M. Laskin, DDS, MS, is a professor and chairman emeritus of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Virginia Commonwealth…

Daniel M. Russell, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training at ODU.

Daniel Malamud, PhD, is professor of Basic Sciences at NYU College of Dentistry. His research program deals with salivary diagnostics for infectious…

Daniel Shin, DDS, MSD, is a clinical assistant professor and director of predoctoral periodontics in the Department of Periodontology at Indiana…

Danielle Rulli, RDH, MS, DHSc, is a clinical assistant professor and director of the Graduate Dental Hygiene Program at Michigan School of Dentistry.…

Danielle Rulli, RDH, MS, DHSc, is a clinical associate professor and director of the Graduate Dental Hygiene Program in the Department of Periodontics…

Danna Cotner, DDS, is a clinical associate professor in the Dental Hygiene Program at Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale. She also…

Darice K. Pacak, RDH, MSEd, is a full professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at the University of Cincinnati. In addition, she serves as a…

Darlene J. Swigart, EPDH, MS, is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls,…

Darlene Jones, RDH, MPA, is a clinical lecturer in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry…

Darren Isfeld, DMD, is a 2010 graduate of the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine where he received the American Academy of…

David A. Reznik, DDS, is chief of dental services for the Grady Health System in Atlanta. He also serves as director of the Oral Health Center in…

David Cappelli, DMD, MPH, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the Research Division in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry at the…

David Charles Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP, is research director for the Center of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and chief medical informatics…

David Cluck, PharmD, AAHIVP, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at ETSU College of Pharmacy. He practices clinical…

David Gore, DMD, is an assistant professor in the Division of Restorative Dentistry and Prosthodontics at the University of Kentucky, College of…

David H. Yu, DDS, MS, maintains a private periodontal practice in Austin, Texas, where he specializes in implant therapy and esthetic surgical…

David M. Avenetti, DDS, MSD, MPH, is a full-time clinical assistant professor at the College of Dentistry, University of Illinois in Chicago. He works…

David M. Krol, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a pediatrician and medical director of the Connecticut Children’s Care Network, a clinically integrated network of…

David T.W. Wong, DMD, DMSc, is professor and associate dean of research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Dentistry. He…

David Thornton, DDS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Dental Practice at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry.

David Tindle, DDS, MS, is a clinical assistant professor and the academic discipline coordinator for oral medicine and oral pathology at the…

David Urbanawiz, DDS, is an instructor in the Department of Restorative Sciences at The Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University. His teaching…

David W. Paquette, DMD, MPH, DMSc,is professor and associate dean for education at Stony Brook UniversitySchool of Dental Medicine in Stony Brook, NY.…

David W. Tybor, OD, is the cofounder of LaserView Vision Center in Austin, Tex, where he practices optometry.

Debi Gerger, RDH, MPH, is department chair of Dental Hygiene at West Coast University in Southern California. An educator for more than 15 years,…

Deborah A. Finnegan, RDH, MS, is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Middlesex Community College in Lowell,…

Deborah Dotson, RDH, PhD, is an associate professor in the Dental Hygiene Program at East Tennessee State University’s College of Clinical and…

Deborah E. Fleming, RDH, MS, is the scientific affairs manager for the United States for Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals. She has developed and presented…

Deborah Johnson Horlak, RDH, BS, MA, is assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics and director of the Dental Hygiene Program at the…

Deborah L. Cartee, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor and junior clinical coordinator in the Department of Endodontics, Prosthodontics and…

Deborah Studen-Pavlovich, DMD, serves as chair and professor of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Pittsburgh, School of…

Deborah Vayon, RDH, MEd, is an assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston School of Dentistry. She has
been a…

Debra Ferraiolo, DMD, FAGD, is a clinical assistant professor of oral and maxillofacial pathology, radiology, and medicine at NYU, College of…

Debra Friesen, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at LLU School of Dentistry. She has private practice experience…

Debra J. Sidd, RDH, RF, MEd, is a dental hygiene instructor at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota, and the chair and online course…

Debra November-Rider, RDH, MS, is the Institutional Review Board administrator at the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Mass, and course director for…

Debra Zawistowski, RDH, BS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry and the…

Dena M. Sapanaro, DDS, MS, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at New York University (NYU) College of…

Denise Guadiana, RDH, MSDH, is an adjunct clinical lecturer in the U-M Dental Hygiene Degree Completion E-Learning Program. She currently practices…

Denise Kissell, BSDH, EFDA, MPH, is an assistant clinical professor at The Ohio State University College of Dentistry in Columbus where she teaches…

DENISE M. BOWEN, RDH, MS, is a professor emeritus and graduate faculty member in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Idaho State University in…

Denise M. Claiborne, RDH, PhD, is an assistant professor and graduate program director at the Gene W. Hirschfeld School of Dental Hygiene at ODU. Her…

Denise Muesch Helm, RDH, EdD, is a professor of dental hygiene and affiliated faculty in the Center for Health Equity Research at Northern Arizona…

Dennis J. Fasbinder, DDS, ABGD, is a clinical professor in the Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics at the University of…

Dennis J. McTigue, DDS, MS, is professor of pediatric dentistry at The Ohio State UniversityCollege of Dentistry in Columbus. He is vice president of…

Dennis N. Ranalli, DDS, MDS, is a professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Senior Associate Dean at the University of Pittsburgh, School…

Dennis P. Tarnow, DDS, is professor and chairman of the Ashman Department of Implant Dentistry at NYU. A Diplomate of the American Board of…

Dhiraj Mallela, BDS, practiced general dentistry in India before completing a fellowship in oral and maxillofacial medicine at Case Western Reserve…

Diana B. Aboytes, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor and senior clinic coordinator in the Department of Dental Medicine at the University of New…

Diana Bronstein, DDS, MS, MS, is an associate professor in the Department of Periodontology at Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine…

Diana Cartagena, PhD, RN, CPNP, is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner and director of the pediatric nurse practitioner program at ODU. Her…

Diana Esshaki, DMD, MS, is an assistant clinical professor in the Division of Medicine at TUSDM, where she supervises the training of dental students…

Diana M. Catt, PhD, is an instructor and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry at Indiana University School of…

Diana Macri, RDH, BSDH, MSEd, is an assistant professor in the Dental Hygiene Unit of the Allied Health Department at Eugenio Maria de Hostos…

Diane M. Daubert, RDH, MS, is a faculty member in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Washington

(UW) School of Dentistry in…

Diane Melrose, RDH, BS, is clinical professor and acting chair of the Department of Dental Hygiene at the University of Southern California School of…

Diane P. Kandray, RDH, MEd, has taught in the Dr. Madeleine Haggerty
Dental Hygiene Program at Youngstown State University in Ohio since 2002. She…

Diane Rhee, PharmD, MHA, is a corporate clinical manager of acute care pharmacy services for Universal Hospital Services. Based in Las Vegas, she…

Dianne L. Sefo, MEd, RDH, , is a clinical associate professor and chair of the Department of Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting at NYU College of…

Dianne Lancaster, RDH, BS, works in private practice in Dedham, Mass, and has 27 years of clinical experience in periodontology.

Dmitriy Kravchenko, MPH, is a student in Nova Southeastern UniversityÍs dual medical and dental degree program. In 2017, he will graduate with both a…

Dolores Cannella, PhD,is an assistant professor and director of behavioral sciences at StonyBrook University, School of Dental Medicine. She is a…

Domenick T. Zero, DDS, MS, is an expert in the field of cariology and the use of in situ caries models. As the primary investigator, he has received…

Dominick P. DePaola, DDS, PhD, ScD (Hon), is currently president and CEO of the Forsyth Institute and professor of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology…

Dona R. Roberts, RDH, practices with Lewis Wharf Dental Associates in Boston. She has extensive experience consulting, volunteering, conducting…

Donald A. Curtis, DMD, FACP, is a professor in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences at the University of California San…

Donald L. Chi, DDS, PhD, is an associate professor of oral health sciences at the University of Washington (UW) School of Dentistry in Seattle. He…

Donald S. Clem, DDS, is the outgoing president of the American Academy of Periodontology. He maintains a private periodontal practice in Fullerton,…

Donna Catapano-Martinez, DHSc, CDA, RDH, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting at New York…

Donna L. Murray-Schoenecker, PHDHP, MSDH, is a dental navigator, facilitating medical and dental integration into a variety of medical practice…

Donna Smith, BSDH, MSEd, RDHAP, is retired faculty from the Division of Periodontology and Dental Hygiene at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry,…

Donna Stach, RDH, MEd, is a professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Dental Medicine where she has taught for more than 20 years. She…

Donna Warren Morris, RDH, MEd, is an associate professor in the Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene at the University of Texas (UT) Dental…

Dora-Ann Oddo, RDH, MA, has been an educator in the Dental Hygiene Department at New York City College of Technology since 2017, first as an adjunct…

Dorothy A. Perry, RDH, PhD, is associate professor and assistant dean for Curricular Affairs at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF),…

Dorothy J. Rowe, RDH, MS, PhD, is an associate professor emeritus in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences at the University of…

Dorothy Vannah, Med, RDH, CDA, is director of the Simulation Learning Center and an associate professor in the Department of Diagnosis and Health…

Douglas A. Young, DDS, EdD, MBA, MS, is a professor in the Department of Dental Practice at the University of the Pacific, Dugoni School of Dentistry.

Douglas L. Risk, DDS, Col, USAF, DC, is director of the United States Air Force Dental Evaluation and Consultation Service (DECS), a 59th Dental Group…

Drew Christianson, MDT,
ADT, is a clinical assistant
professor in the
Department of Primary
Dental Care, Division of
Dental Therapy at the…

Durinda is an adjunct associate professor in the Division of Practice Essentials and Interprofessional Education at the University of Detroit Mercy…

Dushyanthan Nithiyananthasothy will receive a Bachelor of Science degree from the NYU College of Dentistry in September. He is valedictorian of his…

E. Todd Scheyer, DDS, MS, is a clinical assisting instructor at University of Texas Dental Branch (UTDB), Houston, and a guest lecturer at University…

Edward H. Moody, Jr, DDS, is president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. He also maintains a private pediatric dental practice in…

Edward J. Swift, Jr, DMD, MS, practiced general dentistry for several years and has taught at the University of Mississippi and the University of…

Elena Francisco, RDH, RDHAP, MS, is an adjunct instructor at Carrington College in Sacramento, California, and also maintains a private dental hygiene…

Elham Mahdavi, DDS,

is an assistant professor in the

Department of Radiology at

the Dugoni School of Dentistry,

University of the Pacific.…

Elise Sarvas, DDS, MSD, MPH, is a board-certified pediatric dentist and clinical assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Dentistry at the UMN…

Elizabeth C. Kornegay, MS, RDH, is an assistant professor in the Dental Hygiene Programs at the UNC at Chapel Hill Adams School of Dentistry, Division…

Elizabeth I. Pitts, RDH, MS, is an adjunct clinical lecturer in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine in the Dental Hygiene Program at the…

Elizabeth Mertz, PhD, MA, is a professor at UCSF with a joint appointment in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, School of…

Elizabeth Southern Puette, RDH, BSDH, MS,

is a part-time clinical and didactic

instructor at FTCC. She also works

part-time in private…

Elizabeth Velan, DMD, MSD, is the graduate program
director for pediatric dentistry and clinical assistant professor in the

Department of…

Ellen B. Grimes, RDH, MA, MPA, EdD, is director of the Dental Hygiene Program at Vermont Technical College in Williston.

Ellen Birchander, BA, MSW, MS, is the graduate program director for the Management of Aging Services Program in the Gerontology Department at the John…

Elvir Dincer, DDS, is a professor in the Dental Hygiene Unit of the Allied Health Department at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, and also an…

Emily A. Ludwig, RDH, BSDH, MSDH, is an assistant professor at the Gene W. Hirschfeld School of Dental Hygiene at ODU, where she teaches oral…

Emily Norrix, MPH, has been a perinatal oral health consultant for the MDHHS Oral Health Program since 2014. She is the subject matter expert on…

Emily R. Holt, RDH, MHA, CDA, EFDA, is a clinical associate professor
of dental hygiene at the University of Southern Indiana (USI) in Evansville.…

Emily Von Tress, RDH, is a 2020 graduate of the Dental Hygiene
Program at Collin College. She has worked as a dental assistant in orthodontics and…

Eraldo L. Batista Jr, DDS, MSC, DSC, is an associate professor in the Division of Periodontics, Dental Diagnostics, and Surgical Sciences and the…

Eric D. Bothwell, DDS, MPH, MA, PhD, is a public health advisor for the Men's Health Network, an educational organization that recognizes men's health…

Eric Fox, RDH, MS, is a clinical assistant professor at the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry. He has…

Eric Linden, DMD, MSD, is a periodontist with more than 30 years of clinical experience and a laser periodontal surgeon with a private practice in New…

Eric Salmon, DDS, is an assistant professor in the Department of

Dental Practice at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of

the…

Eric Y.K. Fung, PhD, is a professor of pharmacology in the Department of Oral Biology at theUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center, College of…

Erica Logsdon, RDH, BSDH, is a surgical assistant for Tri-State Oral Surgery LLC in Evansville, Indiana. She is a recent graduate of the University of…

Erin A. Kierce, RDH, BA, MS, MPH, is director of quality assurance for New England Family Dentistry and Co and Family Orthodontics and Co in…

Erin Boyleston, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor and director of the Dental Hygiene Program at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia. She serves as…

Erin C. Knoerl, MPH, is a public health specialist at the New York State Department of Health Bureau of Dental Health. Knoerl manages the department's…

Erin Kate Simmons, BSDH, is an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Dental Hygiene at ODU. 

Erin Relich, RDH, BSDH, MSA, is the contributing author of the fluorides chapter in the 12th edition and 13th edition of Wilkins’ Clinical Practice of…

Eswar Kandaswamy, BDS, is a periodontal resident
at The Ohio State University
(OSU) College of Dentistry in
Columbus.

Eugene A. Pantera, JR, DDS, MS, is a clinical associate professor emeritus in endodontics, retired director of the Division of Endodontics, and former…

Eugene Ko, DDS, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine at the University of Michigan School of…

Eugenia P. Roberts, DDS, is an associate clinical professor and course director for oral pathology at Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine…

Eva M. Lupovici, RDH, MS, is a clinical professor in the Department of Allied Health at New York University College of Dentistry. A dental hygiene…

Evangelos Papathanasiou DMD, MS, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Periodontology at Tuft University School of Dental Medicine.

Evanthia Lalla, DDS, MS, is a professor of dental medicine in the Division of Periodontics, Section of Oral and Diagnostic Sciences at Columbia…

Eve J. Cuny, BA, MS, is an associate professor in the Department of Diagnostic Sciences and director of Environmental Health and Safety at the…

Evelyn M. Thomson, BSDH, MS, is an adjunct assistant professor
at the Gene W. Hirschfeld School of Dental Hygiene, Old Dominion University in…

Ewa Posorski, RDH, BS, MS, is an adjunct clinical lecturer in the Dental Hygiene Degree Completion E-Learning Program at U-M, and an adjunct faculty…

Faith Y. Miller, RDH, MSEd, is an associate professor of dental hygiene in the School of Allied Health, College of Applied Sciences and Arts at…

Faizan Kabani, PhD, MBA, MHA, RDH, FAADH, is an assistant professor and research course director in the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas…

Fernando Suárez López del Amo, DDS, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Oklahoma, College of…

Fiona M. Collins, BDS, MBA, MA, lectures on a variety of topics, including infection control and the prevention and management of oral disease. A…

Firoozeh Samim, DMD, MSc, is a fourth-year oral medicine, oral pathology resident at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Foti S. Panagakos, DMD, PhD, is director of clinical research relations and strategy at the Colgate-Palmolive Company in New York and clinical…

Frances Doherty Genco, RDH, BS, is a clinical administrator in the Department of Oral Biology at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine…

Frances McConaughy, RDH, MS, is a professor of dental hygiene in the Dumke College of Health Professions at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Her…

Francesco D’Aiuto, DMD, PhD, MClinDent, is a clinical senior lecturer in periodontology at UCL Eastman Dental Institute. His research
has…

Francis T. Williams, RPh, MSc, is the chief readiness information  officer, Pharmaceutical Division of the Defense Medical Standardization Board at…

Frank A. Scannapieco, DMD, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Department of Oral Biology in the School of Dental Medicine at the University at…

Frank Catalanotto, DMD, is a professor in the Department of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Florida College of…

Frank J.M. Verstraete, DrMedVet, BVSc(Hons), MMedVet, Dipl AVDC, Dipl ECVS, Dipl EVDC, is board-certified in veterinary dentistry and surgery. He is…

Fred J. Bonacci, DMD, has a private practice in Dunmore, Pa, specializing in the treatment of periodontal disease, dental implants, and oral medicine.…

Fred J. Fendler, DDS, has been an assistant professor in the Department of Dental Practice at the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of…

Fred S. Margolis, DDS, is a clinical instructor at Loyola University Oral Health Center, Chicago, and an adjunct clinical assistant professor at the…

Fred Summerfelt, RDH, MEd, AP, is an associate professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Northern Arizona university in Flagstaff. He also…

Frederick Curro, DMD, PhD, is director of the PEARL Practice-Based Translational Network in New York. He is also director of regulatory affairs at the…

Frederika Raizberg, BS, is working on her bachelor's degree in dental hygiene at NYU College of Dentistry. She also presented a poster with Christina…

Frieda Atherton Pickett, RDH, MS, is an adjunct associate professor in the graduate division of the Department of Dental Hygiene, Idaho State…

Gabriela Herrera, DMD, MS, is the online fellowship program coordinator at Georgia School of Orthodontics.

Gail Aamodt, RDH, EPDH, MS, is a professor and director of clinical education at the School of Dental Hygiene Studies at Pacific University.

Gail B. Stoops, RDH, BSDH, is the senior manager of professional relations in the United States and Canada for Philips. She is responsible for key…

Gail Heacox, BS, RDH, is a clinical dental hygienist and research assistant at the Dental Fears Research Clinic at the UW in Seattle.

Gary Armitage, DDS, MS, is the author of the summary paper on the 1999 classifications that appeared in the Annals of Periodontology. He is the R.…

Gary Chiodo, DMD, FACD, is the interim dean of the School of Dentistry at OHSU. He is also a professor of community dentistry and senior scholar in…

Gary R. Nelson, DDS, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at Oregon Health & Science University, School of…

Gayathri M. Shenoy, DMD, maintains a private practice limited to periodontology and implantology in Philadelphia. Her interests include promoting…

Gayle B. McCombs, RDH, MS, is a professor in the Hirschfeld School of Dental Hygiene at Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia. Her…

Gaylene Baker, RDH, MBA, is the Monarch National Sales Manager for Air Techniques. Licensed to practice in Illinois, she also has a DISPIC…

Gen Benoit, RDH, MEd, is an associate professor and supervisor of the dental hygiene program at Louisiana State University School of Dentistry in…

George K. Stookey, MSD, PhD, is distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Preventive Dentistry, Indiana University School of Dentistry,…

Georgia Dounis, DDS, MS, is an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at theUniversity of Nevada Las Vegas School of Dental…

Georgia Marinakos, RDH, BS, works in private practice. She has been working in the dental field for the past 8 years. In 2018, she completed a…

Gerald L. Vale, DDS, MDS, MPH, JD, is a senior forensic dental consultant with the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner. Over the past 37 years,…

Gerald Minick, DDS, MS, MSD, is an associate professor and program director in the Department of Graduate Orthodontics at the University of Colorado…

Giang Nguyen, BSDH, RDH, is an instructor in the Dental Hygiene Program at Houston Community College where she teaches courses on preclinical and…

Giavonni Gonzales, RDH, BSDH, is a recent graduate of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry. She works…

Gordon L. Douglass, DDS, is president of the American Academy of Periodontology. He has a private periodontal practice in Sacramento and Folsom,…

Gordon L. Pattison, DDS, served as assistant professor at both USC School of Dentistry and University of California, Los Angeles, School of Dentistry.…

Grace Choi, BA, RDH, is an affiliate faculty member at the University of
Washington (UW) School of Dentistry where she teaches in the predoctoral…

Graham L. Hearn, DDS, MSD, practices pediatric dentistry in Roseville, California, and is an affiliate faculty member at the University of the Pacific…

Gregory Griffin, DMD, is an assistant professor in the Department of General Dentistry at the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University in…

Gülsün Gül, DDS, MBA, MPH, MS, is an assistant professor in the Division of Medicine, Department of Diagnosis and Health Promotion and director of…

Gustavo Avila-Ortiz, DDS, MS, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry in Iowa…

Gustavo M. Santaella, DDS, MS, PhD, is an assistant professor of radiology and imaging sciences in the Department of Diagnosis and Oral Health at the…

Gwen Cohen Brown, DDS, FAAOMP, is a professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at City Tech and a fellow in the Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial…

Gwen Essex, RDH, MS, EdD, is an associate professor of diagnostic sciences at the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in…

Gwen Grosso, RDH, MS, is assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at the University of New Haven (UNH) in West Haven, Conn. She is the…

H. Barry Waldman, DDS, MPH, PhD, is a distinguished teaching professor in the Department of General Dentistry at Stony Brook University in Stony…

Hadeel Mohammed Ayoub, BSDH, MSDH, is a doctoral student in the dental science program at Indiana University School of Dentistry in Indianapolis. She…

Haley Bobadilla, is a second year student in the Hirschfeld School of Dental Hygiene at ODU. She is a member of the university's Honors College and a…

Hana Gadalla, BDS, MSc, is an assistant clinical professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry in Detroit and a periodontist in…

Hanna Horowitz, DDS, is a professor in the Deparment of Dental Hygiene at Farmingdale State College in New York, where she teaches anatomy, pain…

Hannah Maxey, PhD, MPH, RDH, is an assistant professor and director of the Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy at Indiana University…

Harald O. Heymann, DDS, MEd, has given more than 750 lectures on various aspects of esthetic dentistry worldwide and received the Gordon J.…

Hardy Limeback, PhD, DDS, is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry, and he served as chair of the university's…

Harish Koratkar, BDS, FAGD, is a resident in graduate endodontics
at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Harlan J. Shiau, DDS, DMSc, is a faculty member in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry in Baltimore. He…

Harold is a professor and dean emeritus at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California in Los Angeles. As former director…

Harold Jennings, RDH, MA, is a clinical instructor and course director for periodontology at NYU College of Dentistry, Dental Hygiene Programs, where…

Harriet H. Kushins, CDA, RDH, MA, is a clinical instructor in the Department of Health Professions, Dental Hygiene, at Bergen Community College,…

Hayden C. Smith, DDS, is a 2018 graduate of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry in Memphis. He currently owns and…

Haylee McElroy, RDH, BSDH, MEd, is the clinic director and assistant clinic professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at NAU. Her areas of…

Heather B. Allen, RDH, BSDH, MSHCM, is an assistant professor of clinical
comprehensive dentistry in the Dental Hygiene Program at Louisiana State…

Heather L. Jared, RDH, MS, is an associate research professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Dentistry, Chapel Hill. She has been…

Heather L. Taylor, MPH, LDH, is a doctoral student at the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University in Indianapolis. Her…

Heather Luebben, ADT, LDH, is an advanced dental therapist and dental hygienist at Apple Tree Dental in Minnesota. She enjoys using her preventive and…

Heather R. Behnert, RDH, DMD, MS, is the director of Dental Services at the Belle-Terrace Health and Wellness Center in Augusta, Ga. She is also an…

Heather R. Thomas, RDH, BS, MEd, is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene and senior clinical instructor at Northern…

Heather R. Watkins, RDH, DMD, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics, School of Dentistry, at the Medical College of Georgia…

Hector F. Rios, DDS, PhD, is a tenure-track assistant professor in the
Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine at the University of Michigan…

Heidi Emmerling Muñoz, RDH, PhD, FAADH, is a professor

and former interim director of dental hygiene at

Sacramento City College in Sacramento,…

Helen Rozenfeld, DDS, s a postgraduate periodontology resident at the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine in Stony Brook, NY. She is a member of…

Helene Bednarsh, BS, RDH, MPH, is director of the HIV Dental Ombudsperson Program at the Boston Public Health Commission and dental director for the…

Hemali G. Patel-Bhatka, RDH, MS, currently works in private clinical practice. She completed a master of science degree in Dental Hygiene Education in…

Hessam Nowzari, DDS, PhD, is chairman of the University of Southern California’s Advanced Periodontics Department and a Diplomate of the American…

Holli Seabury, PhD, is the CEO of the nonprofit McMillen Center for Health Education in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She is the lead curriculum designer for…

Holly Erenfeld, RDH, EPDH, MDH, is an assistant professor at Pacific University, School of Dental Hygiene Studies. An instructor at the university for…

Holly Gaff, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at ODU. Her research interests include the study of the ecology of…

Hope Ricciotti, MD, is an assistant professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Howard Needleman, DMD, is a clinical professor of oral and developmental biology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is a founding partner of…

Howard Pollick, BDS, MPH, is a full time clinical professor in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences of the School of Dentistry…

Howell Lewis, DMD, taught the American Board of Orthodontics Board Exam Review class at Georgia School of Orthodontics during the spring 2020…

Howell Tapley, PT, MSPT, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the Physical Therapy Program at Indiana State University (ISU) in Terre Haute.…

Hyun A. Sohn, RDH, MS, is an adjunct instructor in the dental hygiene program at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. She teaches both…

Iain Chapple, PhD, BDS, FDSRCPS, FDSRCS, CCST, is a professor and head of periodontology at the School of Dentistry, Institute of Clinical Sciences,…

Ignacio Sanz Martin, DDS, is a third year resident in the Department of Periodontology at Tufts University.

Inessa A. Levitt, BA, is a predental student at the Indiana University School of Dentistry (IUSD) in Indianapolis. Her research interests include the…

Inma LaCross, RDH, BSDH, MS, is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Dental Hygiene at Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Va, and a…

Ira Lamster, DDS, MMSc, is professor and dean and Evanthia Lalla, DDS, MS, is associate professor in the Section of Oral and Diagnostic Sciences,…

Ira T. Bloom, DDS, is the assistant director of the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry.…

Irene Iancu, BSc, RDH, CTDP, OM, is a practicing dental hygienist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with experience in orthodontics, restorative dental…

Irina Smilyanski, RDH, MSc, MSDH, is an assistant professor at MCPHS University Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene in Boston, where she is also earning…

Iris Quintanilla, RDH, works in private clinical practice. She has been involved in the dental field for the past 9 years and enjoys participating in…

Isabella Trinh, RDH, BSDH, is a recent graduate of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry. She works for…

Isis Marsh, RDH, BSDH, is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at New York City College of Technology. She is a member of the…

Iwonka Eagle, RDH, MS, is a clinical assistant professor and junior clinical coordinator in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine,…

J. Max Goodson, DDS, PhD, is the director of Clinical Research at the Forsyth Institute in Boston. Results of his work and those of his colleagues…

J. Sean Hubar, DMD, MS, is a professor of oral and maxillofacial radiology in the Department of Diagnostic Sciences at the Louisiana State University…

J. Tim Wright, DDS, MS, is the Distinguished Bawden Professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel…

J. W. Costerton, PhD, MS, is the director of the Center for Biofilms, University of Southern California School of Dentistry, Los Angeles. He is an…

Jackie Foskett, RDH, BA, CH, is a general practice dental

hygienist, certified hypnotherapist, and owner of Healing Hypnotherapy

in Seattle. She…

Jacob DeLaRosa, MD, is a cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon and chief of cardiothoracic surgical services at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello,…

Jacob Shiloah, DMD, is a professor in the Department of Periodontology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. An author and…

Jacqueline J. Freudenthal, RDH, MHE, is a professor emerita and past chair of the Department of Dental Hygiene at ISU. She has almost 40 years of…

Jacqueline James Samuels, BA, DDS, is a general dentist and an assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Eugenio Maria de Hostos…

Jacquelyn L. Fried, RDH, MS, is an associate professor, Dean’s Faculty, in the Department of Dental Hygiene and the former director of…

Jade Miller, DDS, is president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD). In addition to his service to multiple dental organizations, he…

Jafar Alabdullah, BS, MS, is a teaching assistant and a PhD candidate in the Health Services Research Program at Old Dominion University in Norfolk,…

James Burke Fine, DMD, is assistant dean for Postdoctoral Programs, professor of Clinical Dentistry, and director of Post Graduate Periodontics at…

James D. Nickman, DDS, MS, is president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD). He also chairs the Minnesota Dental Association…

James P. Arnold, DMD, MAJ(P), USA, DC, is the residency training director and staff oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Fort Sam Houston DENTAC.

James S. Wefel, PhD, has been with the University of Iowa College of Dentistry in Iowa City for more than 30 years. He is the director of the Dows…

James Schroeder, DDS, MS, is an adjunct faculty member at VCU School of Dentistry and a former private practice

owner in Richmond, Va. Currently,…

James W. Little, DMD, is professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota College of Dentistry in Minneapolis, and a diplomate of the American Board…

Jan Resler, RDH, BSDH, practiced in a private general dentistry office for 19 years before accepting a position teaching clinical dental hygiene in…

Jana Kay Mannen, RDH, MSDH, works for the McGuire Institute, a clinical research firm, and practices clinical dental hygiene in Houston. Prior to…

Jana M. Pierce, RDH, BS, has been a practicing dental hygienist for 20 years and an oral surgery assistant for the past 4 years. She is a member of…

Jane C. Cotter, RDH, MS, CTTS, is an assistant professor in the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M College of Dentistry. In 2017, she…

Jane Fox, MPH, is a project director at the Health and Disability Working Group.

Jane Halaris, RDH, BS, is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Periodontology and Dental Hygiene at the University of Detroit Mercy School of…

Jane Koppelman, MPA, is the research director for the dental campaign at The Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, DC. Learn more at:…

Jane L. Forrest, RDH, EdD, is section chair, Behavioral Science and Practice Management, at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry…

Janet Kinney, RDH, MS, is a clinical professor and director of dental hygiene at U-M. Her clinical experience is in both general dentistry and…

Janet Tuthill, RDH, MA, is a clinical assistant professor in the Dental Hygiene Program at New York University College of Dentistry, New York, where…

Janice M. Williams, BSDH, MS, is a professor in the Dental Hygiene Department at Tennessee State University. She teaches several dental hygiene…

Janice Schmitz, CDA, RDH, DHSc, is an associate professor of dental health at the Community College of Rhode Island in Lincoln where she teaches in…

Jannette Whisenhunt, CDA, RDH, BS, MEd, PhD, is chair of the Department of Dental Education at Forsyth Technical Community College (FTCC) in…

Jaroslaw Cegielski, DDS, maintains a private dental practice in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. He is a member of the Florida Dental Association and the…

Jasmin Haley, RDH, BSDH, CDA, is an adjunct faculty member at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland, and a consultant/educator with the…

Jasmine Ramakrishna, RDH,

MS,3 works in private practice

in Elburn, Ill. She is also an

instructor in the dental assisting

program at MK…

Jason H. Goodchild, DMD, is the vice president of clinical affairs at Premier Dental Products Co in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. He is also an…

Jason Philip Hirsch, DMD, MPH, is a pediatric dentist in private practice in Royal Palm Beach, Florida. He focuses on childhood caries management. He…

Jason a board-certified dentist anesthesiologist, is the clinical director of dental anesthesiology for the University of New Mexico Medical Group's…

Jaymi‑Lyn Adams, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor and senior clinic coordinator in the Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene at MCPHS University in…

Jean C. Wu, DDS, is a faculty member at the Newport Coast Oral Facial Institute, a nonprofit international teaching and research center in Newport…

Jean Conover, BSDH, MS, is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Chattanooga State Community College in Chattanooga,…

Jean Hall, DHEd, CHES®, RDH, is an assistant professor in the Dental Hygiene Program at FSC. She is a clinical coordinator for junior students in the…

Jean Moore, DrPH, FAAN, is the director of the New York Center for Health Workforce Studies at the School of Public Health, State University of New…

Jeanette MacLean, DDS, DABPD, FAAPD, owns and practices at Affiliated Children’s Dental Specialists in Glendale, Arizona. She lectures on minimally…

Jeffrey A. Dean, DDS, MSD, is the Ralph E. McDonald professor of

pediatric dentistry and professor of orthodontics at IUSD and Riley Hospital…

Jeffrey A. Rossmann, DDS, MS, is a professor and chair of the Department of Periodontics at Texas A&M University, Baylor College of Dentistry. He…

JEFFREY D. POPE, DDS, MS, is a board-certified periodontist in private practice in Dallas. He is also a clinical assistant professor at Texas A&M…

Jeffrey S. Rouse, DDS, maintains a private practice in San Antonio, Texas, and is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Prosthodontics…

Jenn-Yih Lin, DDS, MS, is assistant clinical professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Washington (UW) School of…

Jennifer Chang, DDS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene at the University of Texas Health Science Center…

Jennifer Cullen, RDH, BSDH, MPH, is a clinical lecturer and director of the Dental Hygiene Degree Completion E-Learning Program in the Department of…

Jennifer D. Britt, DMD, MS, MAJ, USA, DC, is a staff oral and maxillofacial pathologist and the officer in charge of the Hospital Dental Clinic, Fort…

Jennifer E. Fehrenbacher, LDH, MEd, CDA, is the clinic coordinator and an instructor of dental hygiene at the University of Southern Indiana in…

Jennifer Gertenbach, RDH, is a 2020 graduate of the Dental Hygiene Program at Collin College in McKinney, Texas, where she was secretary of the…

Jennifer Harmon, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor in the Dental Hygiene Program, Division of Comprehensive Care at the UNC at Chapel Hill Adams…

Jennifer Knox-Rodriguez, BS, RDH, practices clinical dental hygiene in a general practice in New York City. She is a lifelong learner committed to…

Jennifer L. Brame, RDH, MS, is an associate professor in the Department of Dental Ecology at University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Dentistry.…

Jennifer S. Sherry, RDH, MSEd, is an associate professor in the Dental Hygiene Program at Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale. Her research…

Jennifer Tran, BA, is a graduate student in oral biology at New York University (NYU), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York. She works in…

Jennifer Vasquez, RDH, is a dental hygienist at Jonathan B. Levine & Associates in New York. She is a member of the American Dental Hygienists'…

Jeril R. Cooper, III, DMD, is a professor in the Department of General Dentistry at the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University. He maintained…

Jessica August, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor and junior clinic coordinator in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Idaho State University (ISU)…

Jessica De Bord, DDS, MSD, MA, is the associate program director of the New York University Lutheran Pediatric Dental Residency in Yakima, Washington.…

Jessica Fagan, RDH, BS, MA, is a full-time faculty member at Carrington College in Sacramento, California. She worked as a practicing dental hygienist…

Jessica Owens, DMD, is an assistant professor and predoctoral director in the Department of Periodontics at Louisiana State University Health Sciences…

Jessica R. Kiser, EdD, MS, RDH, is the dental hygiene program director at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, North Carolina. Her teaching…

Jessica Suedbeck, RDH, MSDH, is an assistant professor and director of clinical affairs at the Hirschfeld School of Dental Hygiene at Old Dominion…

Jessica Y. Lee, DDS, MPH, PhD, is the Demeritt Distinguished Professor and graduate program director of the pediatric dentistry residency program at…

Jessie Vallee, DDS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Reconstructive Dental Sciences at the Dugoni School of Dentistry. She is…

Jewel Goodman Shepherd, MPA, CHES, PhD, is a visiting assistant professor in the School of Community and Environmental Health with the College of…

Jill L. McNitt-Gray, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Biological Sciences and the director of the…

Jill has been involved in dental hygiene for more than 30 years, from clinical practice to speaking to publishing. Jill currently serves as the editor…

Joan Beleno Sanchez, RDH, BSDH, MS, is a senior clinical instructor and research coordinator in the Dental Hygiene Program at the University of…

Joan I. Gluch, RDH, PhD, is director of Community Health and adjunct associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine,…

Joan O'Connell-Spalla, MSEd, MT(ASCP), is an American Society of Clinical Pathologists-certified medical laboratory scientist. She holds an Ohio…

Joan Otomo-Corgel, DDS, MPH, FACD, is an adjunct assistant professor in the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Dentistry, Department of…

Joan Pellegrini, PhD, RDH, is an associate professor
in the Department of General Practice, Dental Hygiene Program at
the Virginia Commonwealth…

JoAnn Campoli Scofield, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Dentistry, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Dallas. She serves as…

A woman of many talents and interests, JoAnn Galliano, MEd, RDH, is a legislative consultant for the California Dental Hygienists' Association's…

JoAnn Gurenlian, RDH, MS, PhD, AFAAOM, is the director of education and research at the American Dental Hygienists’ Association. A former professor in…

JoAnn Rover, RDH, MPA, is an associate professor and radiology coordinator in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Hostos Community College in Bronx,…

Joanna Aalboe, RDH, MPH, is an assistant professor and a public

health dental hygienist at the UK College of Dentistry. She currently works in…

Joanna Mullins, BSDH, RDH, is the manager of clinical strategy and support for Willamette Dental Group. She began working with the company in 1999 as…

Joanna Trigilidas, RDH, MA, has been a practicing dental hygienist for more than 6 years. Currently, she is assistant professor and coordinator of…

Joanne Brewer Timmons, MPH, is the manager of the Domestic Violence Program at Boston Medical Center, where she is responsible for building a…

Jodi L. Olmsted, RDH, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the Health Sciences Program at the School of Health Care Professions, College of…

Joe Asercion, DDS, MS, is an assistant professor and a member of the Georgia School of Orthodontics Board of Trustees.

Joe C. Ontiveros, DDS, MS, is the director of Clinical Esthetic Dentistry and director of Oral Biomaterials for the University of Texas Dental Branch…

Joel B. Epstein, DMD, MSD, FRCD(C), FDS RCS(E), is a professor in the Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a collaborative member…

Joel H. Berg, DDS, MS, is a professor and dean of the University of Washington School of Dentistry in Seattle. A pediatric dentist with more than 20…

Joel H. Berg, DDS, MS, is professor and Lloyd and KayChapman chair for Oral Health also at UW. He is president of the American Academy of Pediatric…

Joel Hamilton, RD, LDN, is a student in the Food Technoloy Doctoral Progam at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.

Joellen Carr, RDH, BSDH, is a recent graduate of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at the Texas A&M College of Dentistry. She is currently…

Johan Aps, DDS, MSc, MSc, PhD, is a clinical associate professor and director of the Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Clinic at the University of…

John A. Levon, DDS, MS, is the director of the advanced education programs in prosthodontics at the IU School of Dentistry.

John A. Molinari, PhD, is a professor emeritus at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he served for 32 years in the School of Dentistry as…

is professor and chairman of the Division of Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Dentistry…

John B. Ludlow, DDS, MS, FDS RCSEd, is a professor

in the radiology section of the Department of Diagnostic

Sciences and General Dentistry at…

John Carl McManama, DDS, is professor in the Department of General Dentistry and course director for all courses in Operative Dentistry at Boston…

John D.B. Featherstone, MSc, PhD, is professor and dean of the School of Dentistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is also…

John J. Warren, DDS, MS, is a professor in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry in Iowa…

John O. Burgess, DDS, MS, is assistant dean

for clinical research and director of biomaterials

at the University of Alabama at Birmingham…

John S. Sottosanti, DDS, has had a private practice limited to periodontics and implantology for more than 30 years in La Jolla, California. A former…

John W. Stockstill, DDS, MS, is director of dental research at Georgia School of Orthodontics.

Jon B. Suzuki, DDS, PhD, MBA, has a presidential appointment as professor of microbiology and immunology in the School of Medicine and professor of…

Jonathan B. Levine, DMD, is an associate professor and director of the advanced aesthetics program in dentistry at the New York University College of…

Jonathan is an assistant clinical professor of periodontics at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Dentistry. He also maintains a…

JoNell Bly, RDH, BS, is an instructor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at the University of South Dakota (USD) School of Health Sciences in…

Joseph A. Giovannitti Jr., DMD, is a professor and chair of the Department of Dental Anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental…

Joseph C. Griffin, DDS, FAGD, has maintained a solo, private practice in Ripley, Mississippi, for 22 years. For the past 12 years, he has served as…

Joseph Castellano, DDS, is president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. He received his dental degree from the University of Texas Dental…

Joseph E. Pechter, DMD, is completing a postdoctoral periodontology residency at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston.

Joseph W. Evans, DDS, is an associate professor of dental hygiene at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. He has worked in private practice…

Joshua B. Even, DMD, is the director of clinical strategy and support and a practicing general dentist for Willamette Dental Group. Having started…

Joshua E. Lubek, DDS, MD, FACS, is an associate professor and the fellowship director of the Oral-Head & Neck Oncology/Microvascular Surgery…

Jotham Siozon, RDH, BS, is a clinical dental hygienist in private practice in Baltimore.

Joy B. Osborn, RDH, MA, is an associate professor in the Division of Dental Hygiene at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Her primary…

Joyce A. Moore, RDH, BSDH, CRCST, is a clinical instructor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Bristol Community College in Fall River,…

Joyce Dais, MPH, MSEd, RDH, is an associate professor at Hostos Community College in Bronx, NY. Her experience includes community outreach, public…

Joyce Turcotte, RDH, MEd, FAADH

Joyce Y. Sumi, RDH, MS, is an associate professor of clinical dentistry in the Department of Dental Hygiene at the University of Southern California…

Joyce Z. Downs, RDH, MS, is a full-time instructor at the School of Dental Hygiene at Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, Va. She is also a…

Judith Briles, PhD, is an award-winning author of more than 20 books and a keynote speaker. Her latest books are Zapping Conflict in the Health Care…

Judith Kreismann, RDH, BS, MA, is a clinical associate professor and the coordinator of preclinic and faculty services at New York University College…

Judy Bendit, RDH, BS, has more than 45 years of experience in dentistry. She holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Pennsylvania…

Judy Yamamoto, RDH, MS, is associate clinical professor and the interim director of the Dental Hygiene Program at the University of California, San…

Julia A. Dilliard, RN, MS, ANP-BC, FNP-C, CDE, is an adult and family nurse practitioner in an endocrinology private practice in Dallas. Dilliard is…

Julia is an associate professor and lead junior student clinic coordinator in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Cypress College in Cypress,…

Juliana A. Barros, DDS, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistryand Biomaterials at the University of Texas School of…

Julianna Garza, RDH, BSDH, is a dental hygienist practicing in Dallas.

Julie Bencosme, RDH, MA, CHES, is an associate professor in the Dental Hygiene Program at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College in Bronx, New…

Julie D. Sutton, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor in the Division of Dental Hygiene at the UMKC School of Dentistry. She is the Missouri…

Julie Holly, BA, RDH, is a clinical dental hygienist at Magnolia Park Dental in Coppell, Texas.

Julio Sotillo, DDS, PhD, is a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry…

June M. Sadowsky, DDS, MPH, FASGD, DABSCD, is an associate professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials at the UT Dental…

Justin J. Villanueva, DMD, MSD, DHL, is in private practice limited to periodontics and dental implants in Lafayette, Indiana. He also holds an…

Justine Kolker, DDS, MS, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Operative Dentistry at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, where…

Ka Hei Karen Lau, MS, RD, LDN, CDE, is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. She provides…

Kaitlin Karalunas, RDH, PhDHP, BS, is an instructor of dental hygiene at the Fortis Institute. She is also a graduate student at St. Francis…

Kaitlin Stier, RDH, MPH, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting at NYUCD. She serves as the…

Kalid Aziz, DDS, MS, is an assistant professor and group practice administrator in the

Department of Dental Practice at the University of the…

Kameila S. Nedd, BS, is a fourth-year dental student at Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry.

Kamolphob Phasuk, DDS, MS, is a clinical assistant professor of prostho - dontics at the IU School of Dentistry.

Kanchan Ganda, MD, is a professor and head of the Division of Medicine, Department of Diagnosis and Health Promotion at TUSDM. She is the director of…

Kandice Swarthout, MS, RDH, LPC, is a full-time professor of dental hygiene at Collin College in McKinney, Texas. She has 22 years of clinical…

Kandis V. Garland, RDH, MS, is an educator, author, and speaker. Her career spans 22 years as a dental hygienist and educator where she has served as…

Kaprea F. Johnson, NCC, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Depart ment of Counseling and Human Services, College of Education at ODU. She is an…

Kara Franklin, RDH, has 5 years of experience as a dental assistant and is a 2020 graduate of the Dental Hygiene Program at Collin College.

Karen A. Schulze, DDS, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Reconstructive Dental Sciences at the Dugoni School of…

With a long-standing love of dental hygiene dating back to the 8th grade, Karen Davis, RDH, BSDH, maintains a career that spans a variety of…

Karen Edwards, DDS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. 

Karen Kott, PT, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training at Old Dominion University in Norfolk,…

Karen M. Portillo, RDH, MSDH, taught
several years in graduate and undergraduate dental
hygiene education. She is now a public health dental…

Karen Sue Williams, RDH, MS, is an associate professor in the Fones School of Dental Hygiene, University of Bridgeport, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.…

Kari Kuntzelman, DHAT, is a dental health aide therapist at NARA Dental, Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest Inc in Portland,…

Karina Villagrana, RDH, is a practicing dental hygienist in the Inner City Health Center in Denver.

Karla Lugo, RDH, BSDH, is a recent graduate of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry in Dallas. She…

Katherine Krattenmaker, RDH, BS, is a recent graduate of the Dental Hygiene Program at New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry. She is…

Katherine Kula, MS, DMD, MS, is chairperson and graduate program director

of the Department of Orthodontics and Oral Facial Genetics at

Indiana…

Katherine Lemoine Pelullo, RDH, MEd, is a dental hygienist for Tufts Statewide Community Dental Program in the Department of Public Health and…

Katherine Schrubbe, BSDH, MEd, PhD, is the director of quality assurance at Dental Associates of Wisconsin and an adjunct associate professor in the…

Kathie Wang, DDS, is a pediatric dentistry resident at the University of Washington School of Dentistry in Seattle. She can be reached at: …

Kathleen B. Muzzin, RDH, MS, is a clinical professor emerita from the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M College of Dentistry.

Kathleen O. Hodges, RDH, MS, is a professor emerita in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Idaho State University in Pocatello who teaches in the…

Kathryn Bell, RDH, EPDH, MS, is an associate professor in the Pacific University School of Dental Hygiene Studies. She also serves as associate dean…

Kathryn R. Search, RDH, BSDH, MS, is in clinical dental hygiene practice in Charlottesville, Virginia. A recent graduate of the masterês degree…

Kathy Bassett, RDH, MEd, is a professor of dental hygiene at Pierce College in Lakewood, Washington, and an affiliate professor in the Department of…

Kathy Conlin, RDH, RN, CCRN, MS, CRA, is a clinical research associate in Pediatric Oncology and Hematology at Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital in…

KATHY J. EKLUND, RDH, MHP, is the director of occupational health and safety at the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is also an…

Kathy Leonard, RDH, MEd, RF, is director of the Dental Hygiene Program at Lake Superior College in Duluth, Minn.

Kathy Phipps, RDH, MPH, DrPH, is associate professor of Integrated Biosciences at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), School of Dentistry,…

Kayla Reed-Fitzke, PhD, LMFT, is an assistant professor of couple and family therapy in the Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations…

Kayla Reed, RDH, MS-EDHP, is a clinical assistant professor and clinic coordinator at the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene at Texas A&M College of…

Keavin McIntosh, DDS, is an instructor in the Department of Continuing Education at Pierce College. He is in private practice in Edgewood, Wash, and…

Keerthana Satheesh, DDS, MS, is a full-time faculty member at the University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Dentistry, where she chairs the…

Kelli D. Whittington, PhD, RN, CNE, is an assistant professor and director of the nursing programs at SIU Carbondale. She has nearly 30 years of…

Kelli Swanson Jaecks, MA, RDH, is the 2014-2015 president of the American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA), and she has served the ADHA in a…

Kelly Hill, DDS, is in private practice in Elkhart, Indiana.

Kelly Shutoff, RDH, BSDH, MEd, is a practicing dental hygienist and an adjunct faculty member at Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene, MCPHS University,…

Kelly N. Koerber, RDH, BS, BSDH, began her dental career as a patient care coordinator and dental assistant at a general dental practice in Eden…

Kelly Schroeder, RDH, MS recently completed a Master of Science in Dental Hygiene degree at Idaho State University (ISU) in Pocatello. She is a…

Kelly Tanner Williams, RDH, MSDH, CDA, has been active in dental hygiene as a clinician, educator, and consultant. She currently directs a course in…

Kenneth A. Krebs, DMD, is immediate past president of the AAP. He maintains a private periodontal practice in Chicago.

Kenneth L. Reed, DMD, is assistant director and attending dentist in anesthesia at the Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn,

NY; clinical associate…

Kevin D. Plummer, DDS, is a professor and section director of removable prosthodontics in the Department of Oral

Rehabilitation at the Georgia…

Kevin J. Donly, DDS, MS, is president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. A diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, he is…

Kevin Luan, BDS, MS, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Illinois College of Dentistry in…

Khanh Trinh, DMD, is a postgraduate student in oral and maxillofacial pathology at Columbia University, New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York.

Khrystyna Vyprynyuk, RDH, BS, MHS, is an adjunct professor in the Dental Hygiene Department at New York City College of Technology (City Tech) in…

Kiet A. Ly, MD, MPH, is a physician trained in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. His research focus is pediatric oral and medical health and…

Kim Attanasi, RDH, MS, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at the New York University College of Dentistry in New…

Kim E. Diefenderfer, DMD, MS, MS, is a captain in the US Navy Dental Corps, special assistant for Operational Research at the Naval Institute for…

Kim L. Capehart, DDS, PhD, MBA, is the interim chair and an assistant professor in the Department of General Dentistry at the Dental College of…

Kim Roth, BA, MA, CRCST, is the director of central sterilization at Marquette University School of Dentistry, where she has worked

in central…

Kimberli A. Harward is a senior in the Dental Hygiene Program at Eastern Washington University in Spokane. She is president of the school’s Student…

Kimberly A. Erdman, RDH, PHDHP, MSDH, is the program director at Montgomery
County Community College in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Since 2010, she has…

Kimberly K. McFarland, DDS, MHSA, chairs the Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry at Creighton University School of Dentistry in Omaha,…

Kimberly Krust Bray, RDH, MS, is associate professor and director of Graduate and Degree Completion studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City,…

Kimberly Lintag-Nguyen, RDH, BSDH, MS, is an adjunct assistant professor at the Gene W. Hirschfeld School of Dental Hygiene at ODU. A member of…

Kimberly Lovell, RDH, MEd, worked in private clinical dental hygiene practice for 20 years and has been teaching in dental education for the past 11…

Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco, PhD, is a founding partner and human trafficking expert witness for Mahn, Mehlman and Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. She…