Member Directory

Brooke M.O. Fukuoka, DMD, practices in South Central Idaho, where she owns Your Special Smiles, a special care/geriatrics practice. She also is an employee dentist at Family Health Services, a federally qualified health center in Twin Falls. Fukuoka has presented continuing education courses on silver diamine fluoride and special care throughout Idaho, and at A.T. Still University in Phoenix, the Special Care Dental Association Annual Session 2017, and the American Dental Association Annual Session 2017. She can be reached at yourspecialsmiles@gmail.com.

is president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD). He also chairs the Minnesota Dental Association political action committee board and sits on the AAPD political action committee board. A fellow of the American College of Dentists, International College of Dentists and the Pierre Fauchard Academy, Nickman maintains a pediatric practice in St. Paul, Minnesota, and teaches part-time at the University of Minnesota.

Eric Y.K. Fung, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Oral Biology at UNMC College of Dentistry. His research interests include determining the role of mercury in neurodegenerative disorders, the neurochemical effects of nicotine on the brain, and the pharmacokinetics of bisphenol A released from dental sealants.

Peter J. Giannini, DDS, MS, is an associate professor in the department of oral biology and director of clinical and translational research at UNMC College of Dentistry. He also directs the tobacco cessation clinic. A diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. Giannini participates in the UNMC oral and maxillofacial pathology biopsy service, and sees patients in the University Dental Associates Faculty Practice.

Kimberly K. McFarland, DDS, MHSA, chairs the Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry at Creighton University School of Dentistry in Omaha, Nebraska. McFarland also serves as a Health Resources and Services Administration consultant to the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) Pediatric Dental Residency Program at Children’s Hospital. She can be reached at KimMcFarland@creighton.edu.

Jason R. Flores, DDS, RN, DADBA, DNDBA, FADSA, a board-certified dentist anesthesiologist and the clinical director of dental anesthesiology for the University of New Mexico Medical Group’s Ambulatory Surgical Center. He is also an associate professor for the Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency. Flores was awarded diplomate status with the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology and National Dental Board of Anesthesiology, and is a fellow with the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology.

is an assistant professor and senior clinic coordinator in the Department of Dental Medicine at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She Diana Aboytes, RDH, MS, is a practicing clinician of 14 years and an educator. She teaches a variety of courses, including periodontology, senior clinic seminar and clinical local anesthesia. Aboytes has authored chapters in the textbooks Local Anesthesia for the Dental Hygienist and Primary Preventive Dentistry. She can be reached at daboytes@salud.unm.edu.

Kristen Stephens, RDH, MS, is a dental hygiene educator at West Coast University in Anaheim, California, and also a doctoral degree student at Concordia University in Irvine, California. She can be reached at kstephens@westcoastuniversity.edu.

Kyle S. Choe, MD, FACS, specializes in cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery of the face in Virginia Beach, Virginia. A fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and board certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic Reconstructive Surgery and American Board of Otolaryngology, Choe has lectured and authored on topics such as endoscopic facial surgery, revision rhinoplasty, and anthropometric analysis of the face. The authors have no commercial conflicts of interest to disclose.