Core Faculty
Fritzie Arce-McShane, PhD, Associate 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
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 Defense in 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.
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
Priyanka Kumari, PhD, Acting Instructor
Functional tests of non-coding DNA variants associated with risk for orofacial clefting
Brian Leroux, PhD, Professor
Statistical methods for correlated data with applications to dental research and other fields
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, Professor
Oral microbiome, next generation sequencing, in vitro biofilm models
Tracy Popowics, PhD, Professor
Craniofacial structure and function
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 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 Assistant Professor, Restorative Dentistry; Ethics Curriculum Director
Adjunct Faculty
Salwa Al-Noori, PhD, Adjunct Lecturer
Causes and consequences of plant diversity across multiple levels of diversity
Dwayne Arola, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Mechanical behavior of materials and factors (either environmental or manufacturing) that influence their performance and durability.
Peter Byers, MD, Adjunct Professor
Collagen Expression
Maida Chen, MD, Adjunct Associate Professor
Respiratory control disorders and sleep-disordered breathing in special-needs populations,
Kwok-Hung (Albert) Chung, DDS, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Nano restorative materials used in clinical dentistry and the biomechanics of dental implants
Bruce Clurman, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Bruce Clurman studies the cell cycle, the molecular pathways that drive cells to multiply. This work includes understanding how protein destruction by the ubiquitin–proteasome system controls the cell cycle in normal and cancer cells.
Michael Cunningham, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Pathogenesis of human malformation syndromes
Ajay Dhaka, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Molecular Basis of Somatosensory Perception
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
Greg Huang, DMD, MSD, MPH, Adjunct Professor
Practice-based research, orthodontic outcomes and stability, evidence-based orthodontics.
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
Investigating the role of environmental (epigenetic) programming in the presentation of alcohol-related malformations, specifically in the development of face and head.
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
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
Greg Valentine, MD, MEd, Adjunct Associate Professor
Evaluating and understanding the pathophysiologic basis of maternal infection & inflammation (especially maternal periodontal disease) and its effects on pregnancy and neonatal outcomes
Paul Yager, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Development of new high-sensitivity paper-based protein-binding assays for pathogens like the influenza and Ebola viruses
Alvin Wee, DDS, BDS, MS, MPH, PHD, Adjunct Professor
Clinical translational aspects of color science regarding teeth/skin and their respective restorative materials
Emeritus Faculty
Trilby Coolidge, Instructor Emeritus
Beverly Dale-Crunk, Professor Emeritus
Richard Darveau, 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