The Dental Pipeline program has numerous oral health experts available for media interviews on oral health issues, and how they relate to the Dental Pipeline program.
For general Dental Pipeline questions, please contact one of our communications personnel.
For topic-specific questions, please choose from the following:
Public Health/Oral Health Disparities Issues
Recruitment of URM/LI Students into the Profession
Community-based Dental Education
Children/Dental Health Access Issues
State Oral Health Policy Issues
Public Health/Oral Health Disparities Issues
Caswell A. Evans, Jr., D.D.S., M.P.H.
Associate Dean for Prevention & Public Health Sciences, and
Director, Center for Prevention & Oral Public Health Sciences
University of Illinios at Chicago, College of Dentistry
801 S. Paulina Street, MC 621
Chicago, IL 60612
Tel (312) 413-7365
Fax (312) 413-2918
Kimberly McFarland, D.D.S., M.H.S.A.
Director, Dental Health
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
Box 94986
Lincoln, NE 68509
Tel (402) 471-0166
Fax (402) 471-0383
Jeanne C. Sinkford, D.D.S.
Associate Executive Director
American Dental Education Association
1400 K Street NW, Suite 1100
Washington, D.C. 20005
Tel (202) 289-7201
Fax (202) 289-7204
Richard W. Valachovic, D.M.D., M.P.H.
Executive Director
American Dental Education Association
1400 K Street NW, Suite 1100
Washington, D.C. 20005
Tel (202) 289-7201
Fax (202) 289-7204
Recruitment of URM/LI Students into the Profession
Charles J. Alexander, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Students, University of California at San Francisco
School of Dentistry
513 Parnassus Ave. #S 630
San Francisco, CA 94143
Tel (415) 476-1323
Iván Lugo, D.M.D., M.B.A.
President, Hispanic Dental Association
Associate Dean, Temple University School of Dentistry
3223 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19140
Tel (215) 707-4238
Fax (215) 707-3472
Jerry A. Tahsequah, Associate Director
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Native American Center of Excellence (NACOE)
P.O. Box 26901
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73190
Tel (405) 271-3601
Fax (405) 271-3122
Toll Free (888) 684-7473
Community-based Dental Education
Allan J. Formicola, D.D.S.
Co-Director, Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education
Vice Dean for Center for Community Health Partnerships
Former Dean, Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
Center for Community Health Partnerships
Columbia University Medical Center
630 West 168th Street, P&S Box 100
New York, NY 10032
Tel (212) 304-5214
Ronald P. Strauss, D.M.D., Ph.D.
Project Director
Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education
University of North Carolina, School of Dentistry
C.B. #7450
Chapel Hill, NC 27500-7450
Tel (919) 966-2788
Fax (919) 966-6761
* Dr. Strauss is also available to discuss craniofacial disorders and facial deformities
Howard Bailit, D.M.D., Ph.D.
Co-Director, Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education
Professor Emeritus and Director
Health Policy and Primary Care Research Center
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue, MC 6325
Farmington, CT 06030-6325
Tel (860) 679-5487
Fax (860) 679-5463
Eugene Sekiguchi, D.D.S.
Associate Dean for International, Professional
and International Affairs
University of Southern California
School of Dentistry
925 West 34th Street, Room 207
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0641
Tel (213) 821-5526
Fax (213) 740-1509
or sekiguch@usc.edu
Children/Dental Health Access Issues
Burton L. Edelstein, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Associate Professor and Chair
Section on Social and Behavioral Sciences
Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
154 Haven Avenue, 1st Floor Policy Center
New York, NY 10032
Tel (212) 304-5656
Fax (413) 677-4286
or bedelstein@cdhp.org
Founding Director, Children's Dental Health Project
1900 M Street NW, Suite 200,
Washington DC 20036
Tel (202) 905-4498
Fax (413) 677-4286
State Oral Health Policy Issues
Shelly Gehshan
Senior Program Director
National Academy for State Health Policy
50 Monument Square, Suite 502
Portland, Maine 04101
Tel (207) 874-6524
Fax (207) 874-6527
Nicolette Highsmith, M.P.A.
Vice President for Program
The Center for Health Care Strategies
P.O. Box 3469
Princeton, NJ 08543-3469
Tel (609) 895-8101
Fax (609) 895-9648
Julia Graham Lear, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
2121 K Street NW,#250
Washington, DC 20037
Tel (202) 466-3396
Fax (202) 466-3467
Dennis A. Mitchell, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Assistant Dean for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
School of Dental and Oral Surgery
Columbia University Medical Center
630 West 168th Street, P&S 3-452D
New York, NY 10032
Tel (212) 342-3716
Fax (212) 305-1034
