Member Directory
Heather Doucette, Dip DH, BSc, MEd, is an associate professor in the School of Dental Hygiene, Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She has served as a content knowledge expert for national clinical competencies, published research findings in peer-reviewed journals, authored textbook chapters, and presented at local, national, and international conferences. Doucette is passionate about improving access to oral care for underserved populations. In 2012, she began an initiative to help meet the oral health needs of new immigrants and refugees to Nova Scotia and, in 2018, she forged a collaboration with the Phoenix Organization to provide preventive oral care to at-risk youth. Doucette is currently completing an interdisciplinary doctoral degree at Dalhousie University. She can be reached at heather.doucette@dal.ca.
John Frances, DDS, MS, is an associate clinical professor and periodontist at Midwestern University, College of Dental Medicine.
Olysia Takla, DMD, is an associate clinical professor, member of the clinical care faculty, and lectures in oral pathology at Midwestern University, College of Dental Medicine.
Claire Simpson, BS, is a 2024 candidate in the Doctor of Dental Medicine Program at Midwestern University, College of Dental Medicine in Glendale, Arizona.
Rachel M. Healy, BS, is a student at the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. She began her career in dentistry as a dental assistant before applying to dental school. Healy is particularly interested in endodontic and indirect restorative cases, and plans on applying to an endodontic residency program in the future.
Francis Keeling, DDS, is a periodontic and prosthodontic resident at the University of Texas Health San Antonio. He completed dental school at Ireland’s Dublin University and moved to the United States in 2019 to complete his specialty training.
W. Benton Swanson, BS, is a seventh-year doctor of dental surgery-doctor of philosophy candidate at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and will be pursuing his periodontology residency at Harvard University beginning July 2024. His research interests include innovative biomaterial and drug delivery strategies and accessing novel therapeutic targets in regeneration and disease. Swanson has more than 15 publications and five patients filed.
David T. Wu, DMD, DMSc, is a periodontist and faculty member in the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in Boston. As a clinician-scientist, he connects dental medicine to bioengineering in his research, and focuses on developing biomaterials and medical devices to solve unmet clinical needs in dental, oral, and craniofacial regenerative medicine.
