Role of Antimicrobial Peptides in the Fight Against Infection

Annette Huynh, RDH, BS, is a full-time clinical instructor in the Department of Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting at New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry in New York. She teaches preclinical and clinical care and is the pain management course director. She currently serves as secretary of the New York State Dental Hygiene Educators’ Association and Sigma Phi Alpha Dental Hygiene Honor Society–Psi Chapter. Huynh is passionate about global outreach and has participated with NYU Dentistry’s Henry Schein Cares Global Outreach programs abroad. She can be reached at: anh259@nyu.edu.

Olga Gnatovych, RDH, MEd, is a preclinical and clinical instructor in the Department of Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting at NYUCD. She mainly works with first-year dental hygiene students on the development of professional and practical skills in the treatment of patients.

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 Dentistry where she participates in didactic and clinical dental hygiene education. She has also held positions at various private practices in New York State and Southern California. An inducted member of NYU College of Dentistry Academy of Distinguished Educators and Kappa Delta Pi, an International Honor Society in Education, Sefo is also a member and past president of Sigma Phi Alpha–Psi Chapter, the National Dental Hygiene Honor Society. Her research concentrations have been in oral-systemic health and clinical dental education. Sefo is a co-inventor of a haptic-based learning tool for pre-clinical dental and dental hygiene education. In addition to her teaching, research, and clinical activities, she is a reviewer and a published author of peer-reviewed journals, continuing education courses, book chapters, and other publications pertaining to dental and dental hygiene education and the advancement of the standard of care in evidence-based dental hygiene therapy.