Jafar Alabdullah, BS, MS, is a teaching assistant and a PhD candidate in the Health Services Research Program at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His doctoral dissertation focused on the barriers to teledentistry applications, and his work earned him a position as finalist in the 2019 Three Minute Thesis Competition. Alabdullah’s research interests include telehealth in dental practice and systemic diseases and oral health. He can be reached at: jalab001@odu.edu.