Tulsi Patel, RDH, MHA, FADHA, is an associate professor and director of the Center for Health Promotion at UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry (UTSD), where she leads prevention and health promotion–focused education within the first integrated dental medicine clinical model in a United States dental school. She has directed and taught courses spanning periodontology, ethics, informatics, and clinical preparedness for dental hygiene and predoctoral dental students, with a particular passion for periodontology education and educational research presented at regional, national, and international venues. A two-time recipient of UTSD’s Lorna J. Bruning Teaching Excellence Award and the Texas Procter & Gamble Teaching Excellence Award, Patel leads the mastermind courses on periodontal classifications and treatment planning and teaching periodontal classifications on health and gingivitis for Educators Platform. She is also a Dimensions of Dental Hygiene Editorial Advisory Board member.