Member Directory

H. Barry Waldman, DDS, MPH, PhD, is a distinguished teaching professor in the Department of General Dentistry at Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine in Stony Brook, New York. He can be reached at h.waldman@stonybrook.edu.

Evangelos Papathanasiou, DMD, MS, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Periodontology at Tuft University School of Dental Medicine.

Timothy Hempton, DDS, is an adjunct associate clinical professor in the Department of Periodontology at Tuft University School of Dental Medicine in Boston. He also maintains a private periodontal practice in Dedham, Massachusetts. Hempton can be reached at timothyhempton@gmail.com.

Tara Johnson, RDH, PhD, is an associate professor of dental hygiene at Idaho State University in Pocatello, where her research focuses on pharmacology and chemoprevention of oral cancer. Johnson has presented papers at national and international professional meetings, and serves on the Idaho State University Institutional Review Board. She can be reached at: johntara@isu.edu.

Rachel A. Schallhorn, DDS, MS, maintains a private practice in periodontics in Aurora, Colorado. A diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, she is involved in practice-based clinical research and has published manuscripts on regenerative therapy, soft tissue augmentation and periodontal-systemic interrelationships. Schallhorn has lectured at local and national dental meetings, and served on committees for the American Academy of Periodontology and as president of the Rocky Mountain Society of Periodontists. She can be reached at rachel_1028@yahoo.com.

Foroud Hakim, DDS, MBA, is vice chair of the Department of Reconstructive Dental Sciences at the Dugoni School of Dentistry.

Jessie Vallée, DDS, is director of preclinical education in the Department of Reconstructive Dental Sciences at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific in San Francisco. She can be reached at jvallee@pacific.edu.

Lyndon F. Cooper, DDS, PhD, is the associate dean for research and head of the Department of Oral Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry. A diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics, he served as the 2010 president of the American College of Prosthodontists (ACP). Cooper received the ACP’s 2004 Clinician/Researcher Award and the 2009 International Association for Dental Research Distinguished Scientist Award for prosthodontics and implantology. He can be reached at cooperlf@uic.edu.

Harold C. Slavkin, DDS, is a professor and dean emeritus at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California in Los Angeles. As former director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), one of the major accomplishments of his tenure at NIDCR was completion of the first U.S. Surgeon General’s Report, Oral Health in America, to focus exclusively on craniofacial and oral health. Slavkin is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A cofounder of the Santa Fe Group, an oral health think tank, he was recognized with the 2016 William J. Gies Award for Vision as a Dental Educator and the 2016 American Association for Dental Research Jack Hein Pubic Service Award for promoting oral health research activities to a wide constituency. He can be reached at slavkin@usc.edu.