Member Directory
Avinash S. Bidra, BDS, MS, FACP, is a board certified maxillofacial prosthodontist and director of the Prosthodontics Residency Program at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine in Farmington. He lectures on dental implants at meetings nationally and abroad and publishes extensively in international scientific journals. Bidra has developed diagnostic and treatment protocols for full-arch fixed implant prostheses used by many clinicians and prosthodontic programs in the United States. He can be reached at bidra@uchc.edu.
Donald A. Curtis, DMD, FACP, is a professor in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences at the University of California San Francisco School of Dentistry. He is also a practicing prosthodontist in Berkeley, California. Curtis has published more than 50 articles in the scientific literature. He can be reached at don. curtis@ ucsf.edu.
Zheng Xu, DDS, MDS, PhD, is a clinical associate professor of pediatric dentistry at UW School of Dentistry. She is also a consultant for the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and a member of the editorial board of Pediatric Dentistry, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
Joel H. Berg, DDS, MS, is professor emeritus of pediatric dentistry at the University of Washington School of Dentistry in Seattle. President of the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry and a former president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, he is coeditor of the textbook Early Childhood Oral Health. Berg is also an industry consultant, as well as a Decisions in Dentistry editorial advisory board member. He can be reached at execudent@msn.com.
Sally M. Mauriello, RDH, EdD, is a professor in the Department of Dental Ecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry. She has received several awards for teaching excellence and has presented at professional meetings at the state, national and international levels. She is also a contributor to the textbook, Radiographic Imaging for the Dental Team. She can be reached at Sally_Mauriello@unc.edu.
Hom-Lay Wang, DDS, MSD, PhD, is a professor and director of graduate periodontics at UM. He has published more than 400 scientific articles and 25 book chapters/invited reviews. Wang can be reached at homlay@umich.edu.
Carlos Garaicoa-Pazmino, DDS, is a graduate resident in the Periodontics and Oral Medicine Department at the University of Michigan (UM) in Ann Arbor. A member of the American Academy of Periodontology, Garaicoa-Pazmino has coauthored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Teresa A. Marshall, PhD, RDN/LDN, is a professor in the Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry in Iowa City. A registered, licensed dietitian, she teaches nutrition curriculum to dental students and studies the dietary relationships between caries, erosion and systemic health. Marshall serves as a research editor for the Association of Nutrition and Dietetics, and is a member of the International Association of Dental Research and American Dental Education Association. She can be reached at teresa-marshall@uiowa.edu.
