Justine Kolker, DDS, MS, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Operative Dentistry at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, where she teaches freshman and junior students and provides care in the faculty practice. Kolker has mentored both dental students and graduate students in research on topics, including early caries clinical detection and root caries classification using the International Caries Detection and Assessment System, which she actively incorporates into the dental curriculum at the university.