Core Faculty
Fritzie Arce-McShane, PhD, Assistant Professor
Systems and computational neuroscience, biomechanics, Cortical and biomechanical control of orofacial sensorimotor behavior in healthy vs pathological aging, Oral health and Alzheimer’s disease, Oral somatosensation, Functional connectivity
Jonathan An, DDS, PhD, Assistant Professor
Geroscience, aging biology, anti-aging interventions, oral biology, oral healthspan
Cheryl Cameron, MSEd, PhD, JD, Professor and Vice Provost for Academic Personnel
Donald Chi, DDS, PhD, Professor
Dentistry and public health, Medicaid dental program, dental care utilization for children with special health care needs, multi-level statistical modeling
Whasun Oh Chung, PhD, Research Professor
Oral Microbiology and Defensin Antimicrobial Peptides
Susan Coldwell, PhD, Professor
Development and physiological influences on taste preference and perception. Psychophysical measurement of pain, anxiety, and taste
Robert Cornell, PhD, Professor and Graduate Program Director
Genetic underpinnings of orofacial cleft, transcriptional regulatory networks governing cellular differentiation of superficial epithelia and melanocytes, cell fate determination.
Richard Darveau, MS, PhD, Professor
Bacteria/host interactions, LPS biochemistry, Host inflammatory response
Mark Drangsholt, DDS, MPH, PhD, Professor
Orofacial Pain
Philippe Hujoel, PhD, DDS, MSD, MS, Professor
Nutrition with a focus on low carbohydrate diets, harmful effects of diagnostic radiation and evidence-based methodology and applications
Douglass Jackson, PhD, DMD, MS, Clinical Professor
Brian Leroux, PhD, Professor
Statistical methods for correlated data with applications to dental research and other fields
C. Michele Lloid, RDH, BA, MS, Clinical Associate Professor
Oral Care of post bone marrow transplant patients
Lloyd Mancl, PhD, Research Associate Professor
Statistical methods for dental research with an emphasis on longitudinal and correlated data and applied research on caries, temporomandibular disorders, and periodontal disease
Jeffrey McLean, PhD, Associate Professor
Oral microbiome, next generation sequencing, in vitro biofilm models
Tracy Popowics, PhD, Associate Professor
Dental Morphology
Douglas Ramsay, DMD, PhD, MSD, Professor
Mechanisms of Drug Tolerance, Mechanisms and Psychophysics of Pain
Cameron Randall, PhD, Assistant Professor
Behavioral dentistry, pain, dental fear and anxiety, health behavior, provider’s implementation of evidence-based practice, workforce wellness
Marilynn Rothen, RDH, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor
Dental caries management and risk assessment; treatment of patients with dental fear
Alfred Sipols, PhD, and Dr. med., Acting Professor
Kerry Streiff, DDS, Clinical Instructor, Restorative Dentistry; Ethics Curriculum Director
Adjunct Faculty
Salwa Al-Noori, PhD, Adjunct Lecturer
Dwayne Arola, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor
Peter Byers, MD, Adjunct Professor
Collagen Expression
Maida Chen, MD, Adjunct Associate Professor
Michael Cunningham, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Pathogenesis of human malformation syndromes
Ajay Dhaka, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Albert Folch, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor
Development of miniature cell culture tools for quantitative cell biology studies
Cecilia Giachelli, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Adhesion molecules and vascular biology processes
David Hockenbery, MD, Adjunct Professor
Greg Huang, DMD, MSD, MPH, Adjunct Professor
Matthew Kaeberlein, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Molecular mechanisms of aging
Masaoki Kawasumi, MD, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Mammalian DNA repair and cancer
Zi-Jun Liu, DDS, MS, PhD, Adjunct Research Associate Professor
Biology of craniofacial skeletons and musculatures, TMJ functions and TMD, Mechanism of orthodontic tooth movements and material properties of periodontal ligaments
Ali Murat Maga, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Christy McKinney, PhD, MPH, Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor
Oral clefts, maternal nutrition, infant feeding, and global health
Paul Nghiem, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Skin cancer biology, Merkel cell carcinoma
Frank Roberts, DDS, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor
Periodontics
Jeffrey Rubenstein, DMD, MS, Adjunct Professor
Hannele Ruohola-Baker, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Stem cell development and differentiation in vertebrates and invertebrates
Eric Siebel, PhD, Adjunct Research Professor
Optical scanning devices for disease diagnosis
Patrick Stayton, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Engineering proteins for biotechnology, Biomaterials, and biomedical therapies/diagnostics
Paul Yager, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Research and development of biomedical diagnostic technology based on microbluidics
Emeritus Faculty
Beverly Dale-Crunk, Professor Emeritus
Timothy DeRouen, Professor Emeritus
Kenneth Izutsu, Professor Emeritus
Karl Kaiyala, Research Associate Professor Emeritus
Peter Milgrom, Professor Emeritus
Thomas Morton, Jr., Professor Emeritus
Richard Presland, PhD, Associate Professor Emeritus
Eileen Watson, Professor Emeritus
Philip Weinstein, Professor Emeritus
Norma Wells, Associate Professor Emeritus