Member Directory
Mary R. Truhlar, DDS, MS, is a professor and dean of the School of Dental Medicine at Stony Brook University in New York. She is a past chair of the Department of General Dentistry and director of the Division of Geriatric Dentistry at Stony Brook. Truhlar is the 2012 American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Alpha Omega Foundation Scholar and a fellow in the ADEA Leadership Institute. In addition, she oversees an Indian Health Services Grant and participates in a student service learning experience at Pine Ridge Hospital in South Dakota.
Marcia M. Ditmyer, PhD, MCHES, is vice president for the Academy for Academic Leadership in Atlanta, and an associate professor emerita at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) School of Dental Medicine. She can be reached at: UNLV School of Dental Medicine, 1001 Shadow Lane, MS 7452, Las Vegas, NV 89106.
John D.B. Featherstone, PhD, is dean of the School of Dentistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a distinguished professor of preventive and restorative dental sciences. His research includes cariology and laser effects on dental hard tissues, with emphasis on caries prevention and early caries removal. He is active in promoting the Caries Management by Risk Assessment (CAMBRA) model on an international scale. Featherstone has received numerous national and international awards, including the Norton Ross Award for excellence in clinical research from the American Dental Association (ADA). He is an honorary fellow of the American College of Dentists and the Pierre Fouchard Society, and an honorary lifetime member of the ADA and Academy of Laser Dentistry. He has published more than 290 papers and book chapters.
Jeremy A. Horst, DDS, MS, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry and biophysics, and orofacial sciences at UCSF. He applies genome-wide analyses to the bacteria that cause dental caries to help facilitate the discovery of agents to prevent and stop disease. He has published more than 25 papers and book chapters on the genetics of orofacial diseases. He is also a practicing pediatric dentist, and inventor of OraViz dental imaging.
Jacob Shiloah, DMD, is a retired professor who served in the Department of Periodontology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry in Memphis.
Hana K. Sadi, BDS, DMD, MSc, is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Service at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston.
DOMENICA G. SWEIER, DDS, PhD, is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics at the University of Michigan (U-M) School of Dentistry in Ann Arbor. Sweier’s research interests include interprofessional education and oral-systemic health interactions. She also is active in the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Geriatric Oral Research Group.
