Member Directory
Leira Jimenez is a student in the dental hygiene program at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry. Her anticipated graduation date is May 2019.
Linda Blackburn, BS, is a student in the dental hygiene program at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry in Richmond. Her anticipated graduation date is May 2019
Cristina Casa-Levine, EdD, RDH, is an associate professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Farmingdale State College, and also works clinically in general practice. She can be reached at casacm1@farmingdale.edu.
Martha H. Wells, DMD, MS, is an
associate professor and program director of pediatric dentistry at
the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.
She serves as a board examiner for the American Board of Pediatric
Dentistry, and is one of the editors of the 6th edition of Pediatric
Dentistry, Infancy Through Adolescence. She can be reached at mwells@uthsc.edu.
Jennifer A. Fernandez, DMD, MS, MDS, is an
assistant professor of pediatric dentistry at the University of Tennessee
Health Science Center in Memphis. A diplomate of the American Board
of Pediatric Dentistry, she also maintains a private practice in Memphis.
Purnima S. Kumar, DDS, PhD is is a Najjar Endowed Professor and chair of the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. A Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a Fellow of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program, she is an active clinician, teacher, researcher, administrator, and mentor. Kumar has authored more than 100 papers and book chapters. She serves as the co-editor of Clinical Advances in Periodontics and associate editor for the Journal of Periodontology, Nature Scientific Reports, and Microbiome. Kumar also serves as the chair of the Continuing Education Oversight Committee for the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) and is a member of the AAP’s Taskforce for Women in Periodontics and the Taskforce for Future Science. She can be reached at kpurnima@umich.edu.
Eswar Kandaswamy, BDS, is a periodontal resident at The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Dentistry in Columbus.
Jeanette MacLean, DDS, DABPD, FAAPD, owns and practices at Affiliated Children’s Dental Specialists in Glendale, Arizona. She lectures on minimally invasive dentistry, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. She can be reached at info@kidsteethandbraces.com.
Thomas A. Coleman, DDS, practiced clinical dentistry for nearly 40 years in Vermont, and has published papers on cervical dentin hypersensitivity (CDH), noncarious cervical lesions, the abfractive process, and occlusal diagnosis and therapy. In the late 1970s, he developed a technique known as the air indexing method to detect and quantify CDH. Coleman continues to work with colleagues, including John O. Grippo, DDS, to advance scientific understanding of etiologic factors relating to masticatory system effects on teeth, muscles of mastication, and temporomandibular joint sequelae for occlusal disease.
