Katherine Lemoine Pelullo, RDH, MEd, is a dental hygienist for Tufts Statewide Community Dental Program in the Department of Public Health and Community Service at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston. She coordinates community-based preventive dental programs that serve patients with special needs. Pelullo has been integrally involved in Massachusetts' legislative initiatives to expand the scope of practice for dental hygienists, and helped establish the state's public health dental hygienist designation.