Appendix C

Workshop Planning Committee Biographical Sketches

Anita Glicken, M.S.W. (Cochair), is associate dean and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center and has over 35 years of administrative, research, and education experience. She was a founding member, and now serves as the executive director, of the National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health (NIIOH) and is an active member of the Santa Fe group. Glicken is immediate past chair of Health Resources and Services Administration’s Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry and past chair of the Primary Care Collaborative’s Advisory Committee for the Integration of Oral Health in Primary Care Compendium project. Glicken has personally received several national awards; under her leadership, the NIIOH has received the ADEA Gies Foundation’s Gies Award and the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s George T. Thibault Award. She has been a consultant to the National Academies of Medicine Oral Health Integration Workshop and currently serves on the Advisory Group for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention–funded National Association of Chronic Disease Directors’ Medical–Dental Integration Project and the Meharry University Oral Health Equity Project.

Glicken has served on several national expert panels to develop tools and resources supporting workforce research, practice, and policy, including HRSA’s National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (NCHWA) on Data and Methods for Tracking, Supply, Demand, Distribution, and Adequacy of the Primary Care Workforce; HRSA’s 2014 report, Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Practice; and the Qualis Health White Paper, Oral Health: An Essential Component of Primary Care. Past leadership

roles include president of the Physician Assistant Education Association and President/CEO of the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants Health Foundation, where she worked with HRSA’s National Center for Health Workforce Analysis to create a database on certified physician assistant practice to inform health policy and workforce planning.

A clinical social worker, Glicken’s career has focused on health care transformation, partnering to create innovative education and care delivery models grounded in interprofessional collaboration and health equity. She was project director of an American International Health Alliance PEPFAR contract to create new educational programs to build indigenous mid-level health workforce capacity in South Africa. Glicken is the author of more than 100 publications in health care education, workforce, and research.

Bruce Doll, D.D.S., Ph.D., M.B.A. (Cochair), is the assistant vice president for technological research and innovation, Office of Research at Uniformed Services University (USU) in Bethesda, Maryland. He leads the development and integration of database management within the research portfolio and the advancement of novel technologies focused upon military medical requirements. His formal education includes a D.D.S. from SUNY Buffalo, periodontics specialty certificate from Navy Postgraduate Dental School, Ph.D. from Penn State, and an M.B.A. from the Navy Postgraduate School. During 34 years of service with the U.S. Navy, he served with both the Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, INCONUS and OCONUS. Several times deployed, RADM Doll completed his service as both director, Research, Development and Acquisition Directorate for the Defense Health Agency in Falls Church, Virginia, and the Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, Maryland, overseeing execution of medical research funded by the Defense Health Program. He has had academic appointments with Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Oregon Health Sciences University, University of Maryland, Pennsylvania State University, and Rutgers University prior to coming to USU. He served as the chief operating officer for the Rutgers–Cleveland Clinic Consortium for the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine. He has served on several scientific boards. He has published on the topics of bone regeneration and is a former grantee of the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Richard Berman, M.B.A., M.P.H., is the associate vice president for strategic initiatives for innovation and research at the University of South Florida, visiting social entrepreneurship professor in the Muma College of Business, and a professor in the Institute for Advanced Discovery & Innovation. He is currently an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly known as the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academy of

Sciences in Washington, D.C., and is a board member for Emblem Health. He is a member of the Seeds of Peace Board of Directors, a board member for the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development in Abuja, Nigeria, and CATAYS, Inc. Additionally, he is the vice-chair of the board of directors for OIC of South Florida. Previous organizations in which he has served on the board of directors include the Lillian Vernon Corporation, the Westchester Jewish Chronicle (chairman of the advisory board), the American Jewish Committee (Westchester Chapter), and the March of Dimes. Previously, Berman has worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, the executive vice president of NYU Medical Center, and professor of health care management at the NYU School of Medicine. He served as the special advisor to the leader of the African Union-United Nations Peace Keeping Mission in Darfur. He has also held various roles at Korn Ferry International, Howe-Lewis International, served in two cabinet positions in New York State government, and the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In 1995, Berman was selected by Manhattanville College to serve as its 10th President. Berman received his B.B.A., M.B.A., and M.P.H. from the University of Michigan and holds honorary doctorates from Manhattanville College and New York Medical College.

Urshla (Oosh) Devalia, B.D.S., is a pediatric dental consultant working at the Eastman Dental Hospital, University College Hospital, London and in the Community Dental Services (CDS) in Bedfordshire. She is also the Managed Clinical Network chair for pediatric dentistry in the East of England. Devalia is also the national lead for Mini Mouth Care Matters (Mini MCM), an initiative created to empower medical and allied health care professionals to make every contact count by educating on the importance of integrating mouth care with general health. She is also lead for the pilot project scheme run by the Eastman Dental Education Centre & Health Education England titled Child Focused Dental Practices, which is a national scheme being delivered in primary care dental practices across three National Health Service regions (the South West, London, and the East of England). A trustee and board member of the Executive Committee for the British Society of Pediatric Dentistry, she contributes to a number of briefing papers to improve health and social care for children and young people across the UK with her primary focus on the management of vulnerable patient groups, including those with learning disabilities and/or autism, and those with complex medical needs. She worked for a number of years as clinical policy lead for the Office of the Chief Dental Officer for England, looking to ensure barriers and inequalities are removed for children and young people with additional needs who attend special education settings. A member of the Institute of Leadership and Management, she believes in

cross-sectional working, ensuring gaps in workforce are addressed across England.

Karen Hall, R.D.H., E.P.D.H., graduated in 1985 from Oregon Health Sciences University with a degree in dental hygiene. Currently serving as oral health integration manager for Capitol Dental Care, she creates opportunities for a fantastic team of oral health providers to provide dental services for underserved community members in nontraditional settings. Focusing on public and community health since 1999, she has implemented new models of dental delivery that increase quality dental access and engage new partnerships for integrative efforts. Hall spent several years working alongside medical and mental health providers in school-based health centers; created oral health education series for medical, dental, traditional health worker, childcare, and senior care providers; and has sat on numerous committees within the coordinated care organizations who manage Medicaid benefits for Oregonians. In 2018, Hall was the second dental hygienist in the state to be awarded the Oregon Dental Hygienists’ Association Access to Care Award, and she currently sits on the board of the Oregon Dental Hygienists’ Association as advocacy director.

Donna Hallas, Ph.D., PPCNP-BC, CPNP, PMHS, FAANP, FAAN, is a clinical professor and director of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program at New York University Meyers College of Nursing. She maintains a practice as a pediatric nurse practitioner in primary care with a focus on developmental and behavioral health. She has presented at national and international conferences on implementation of evidence-based practice in ambulatory pediatric health care centers. She has presented on all aspects of oral health assessment and care management for pediatric and adolescent patients. She has conducted research on educating mothers about oral health needs during the postpartum period to prevent cavities in young children. She works collaboratively with dental faculty to improve the oral health care of children from diverse populations. She is published in peer-reviewed journals on the oral health care needs of young children. Her most recent research has been on vaccine hesitancy in which she conducted and published a quasi-experimental intervention study to vaccinate pregnant people and infants within the first 6 months of life. She is the editor in chief for the Journal of Pediatric Health Care.

John D. Kemp, Esq., is president and CEO of Lakeshore Foundation, which is an internationally recognized organization providing opportunities for individuals with physical disability and chronic health conditions to lead healthy, active, independent lives. Located in Birmingham, Alabama, Lakeshore also serves as a U.S. Olympic and Paralympic

Training site, a center for research and with the disability community, a strong advocate for inclusion. Kemp launched his most recent and widely acclaimed book, Disability Friendly: How to Move from Clueless to Inclusive (Wiley, 2022). Widely respected for his many achievements in the corporate and nonprofit worlds and his leadership in the disability movement, Kemp, a person with a disability, cofounded the American Association of People with Disabilities and has held a variety of CEO and senior executive positions with national and international nonprofits. He was honored with the Henry B. Betts Award, widely regarded as America’s highest honor for disability leadership and service. He is also the recipient of the Dole Leadership Prize, joining a prestigious group of international recipients including Nelson Mandela and two former U.S. Presidents. In addition, Kemp serves on Delta Air Lines’ Advisory Board on Disability. A graduate of Georgetown University and Washburn University School of Law, Kemp and his wife, Sameta, enjoy spending time with their family, including five grandsons.

Cynthia Lord, M.H.S., PA-C, earned her PA from Yale University, and has spent much of her 32-year career working in primary care and academia. Currently, she works as a PA at Lake County Free Clinic in Painesville, Ohio. A PA educator for 29 years, she has spent most of her time as a PA program director, most recently as founder of the Case Western Reserve University PA program and cofounder of the Quinnipiac University PA program. She has served on numerous oral health advisory boards including the National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health, the national PA Oral Health Advisory Group, the Connecticut Oral Health Initiative, and as a contributor to the 2014 HRSA Oral Health Competencies. She currently serves on the board of Oral Health Ohio and is the Ohio oral health champion for the Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health, helping Ohio health professions programs integrate oral health into their curriculum. A contributor on a Case Western Reserve School of Dental Medicine National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research grant, she was a member of an interprofessional team working to improve access to dental care for low-income children in Cleveland. Her scholarship includes numerous presentations, abstracts, and poster presentations around oral health and interprofessional education.

Cleopatra Matanhire-Zihanzu, B.D.S., M.B.A., M.Sc., is the director of the Oral Lung Axis Trust, and a faculty member in the Department of Oral Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe. She is an oral health advocate who applies translational research for dental education advancement and oral health policy development. Matanhire-Zihanzu is a cofounding member of the Oral Health for Mental Health

Patients Project Zimbabwe, currently in its third year of running. The project goal is transformation of oral health care of mental health patients in Zimbabwe to international best practice, through research, health education material development, and information dissemination. Matanhire-Zihanzu’s responsibilities included project planning and management, grant applications, report writing, and coordinating interdisciplinary collaboration of oral and mental health interest groups in and out of Zimbabwe.

The project has seen Matanhire-Zihanzu awarded the 2021 Zimbabwe Dental Association Protea Award for the most contribution to the dental profession, 2022 Zimbabwe Dental Association Research Award, and the Zimbabwe Dental Association Research Award 2023. The project team to date has been awarded the International Dental Federation (FDI) World Dental Development Fund Grant Award for Oral Health Care for Mental Health Patients Project, Zimbabwe 2020; Zimbabwe Dental Association Presidential Award for notable outstanding dentistry project 2022; and the Partnership for Education Training and Research Advancement Mentorship Research Scholars Award 2023 courtesy of the University of Zimbabwe in collaboration with Stanford University and University of Denver Colorado, among other academic institutions. Matanhire-Zihanzu holds a bachelor of dental surgery, a master’s in business administration, and a master of science in global health. She is also a 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow in Civic Leadership (Kansas State University) and a 2020–2021 Beit-Glasgow Scholar (University of Glasgow).

Teresa A. Marshall, Ph.D., is a registered dietitian and professor in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, the Michael W. Finkelstein Centennial Professor of Teaching, and the director of the Student Research Program at the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry. Her primary research interests focus on the relationships among diet, nutrition, oral health, and systemic health. Marshall has engaged with national and international groups to understand, educate, and advocate for caries prevention with emphasis on diet. Her efforts in oral health–nutrition education were recognized by the American Society of Nutrition, which awarded her the 2020 Roland L. Weinsier Award for Excellence in Medical/Dental Nutrition Education. She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (including the practice group Nutrition Educators of Health Professionals), American Dental Association, International Association for Dental Research, American Dental Education Association, American Society for Nutrition, and a board member of the American Academy of Cariology. She is a research editor for the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She completed a dietetic internship and a doctorate in human nutrition at the University of Iowa.

Daniel W. McNeil, Ph.D., is an endowed professor and chair of the Department of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science at the University of Florida College of Dentistry. He also serves as director of the Southeast Center for Research to Reduce Disparities in Oral Health. He has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Alabama, and a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical health psychology and behavioral dentistry at the University of Florida. McNeil is a researcher in health psychology, including behavioral dentistry, studying anxiety, pain, and their interaction, with a focus on dental anxiety, fear, and phobia. McNeil has had sabbaticals at the University of Sydney and was a Fulbright Senior Fellow in New Zealand. In 2021, he received the Distinguished Scientist Award for Behavioral, Epidemiologic, and Health Services Research from the International Association for Dental Research. As a lead organizer of the 2020 international conference “Behavioral and Social Oral Health Sciences Summit,” this initiative resulted in his being a first author on a “Consensus Statement” publication in the Journal of Dental Research. Additionally, he was a lead editor for a 2023 special issue of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology that provided a proceedings and extension from the Summit.

Lemmietta McNeilly, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, CAE, FASAE, FNAP, serves as the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA’s) chief staff officer, speech-language pathology, and is responsible for the following units: Government Affairs and Public Policy, Speech-Language Pathology Practices (Clinical Issues, Health Care, and School Services), Special Interest Group Program, and International Programs. McNeilly is a distinguished scholar and fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) as well as a member of the NAP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force. She serves on the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders Board of Directors. She is an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association fellow, a fellow of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), a Certified Association Executive, and a Diversity Executive Leadership Scholar. She currently serves on the ASAE Board of Directors and ASAE Foundation Board. She consults with the World Health Organization and serves on the World Rehabilitation Alliance as a member of the Workforce Workstream. Previous appointments include serving as founding chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Florida International University, faculty at the University of Florida and Howard University, chair of the ASAE International Section Council and Healthcare Committee, National Coalition of Health Care Professionals Executive Board Secretary/Treasurer, and Executive Committee member. McNeilly has research experience and clinical expertise in developmental language disorders and dysphagia for medically fragile pediatrics. She is known internationally and has published and conducted

seminars for leaders in health care associations and academic arenas on several topics including genomics for health care professionals, educating health professionals regarding social determinants of health, the International Classification of Health Functioning and Disability, practicing at the top of the license, interprofessional education and collaborative practice, speech-language pathology assistants, competency-based education, and assessing and managing the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse children with chronic health conditions.

Kudzai Murembwe-Machingauta, M.B.Ch.B., M.S., M.P.H., is a distinguished medical professional, currently serving as the technical lead for the integration of Covid-19 and mental health into HIV care and treatment for the Organization of Public Health Interventions and Development. She was previously curative services manager and acting director health services for Mutare City Council from 2018 to 2021. Machingauta’s expertise lies in public health, backed by a master of public health degree from Africa University, a master of science in respiratory medicine from the University of South Wales, and bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery degrees from the University of Zimbabwe. She also holds certificates in project management and leadership and management in global health from the University of Washington and is an Implementation Science Fellow with PETRA (Basic Oral Health Package of Care for Mental Health Patients).

Her passion for public health has led her to implement numerous public health programs and actively participate in capacity building among health care workers in Zimbabwe. She is also a visionary of the Oral Lung Axis Trust, an association aimed at improving oral and lung health care worldwide. Machingauta’s exceptional contributions have been recognized with the Cimas Prize and Dr. Dodge book prize for being the best M.P.H. student in the class of 2022. She is also an alumnus of the Merck Foundation Scholarship and the Joshua Nkomo Scholarship funds.

Jeffery Stewart, D.D.S., M.S., is currently a consultant at the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) where he formerly served as senior vice president for interprofessional and global collaboration. Prior to joining ADEA, he had been a faculty member at three dental schools where he was active in interprofessional education initiatives. He currently represents ADEA as a member of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative Planning Committee/Advisory Group and the Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative. He attended college at the University of Delaware and received his dental degree from the University of North Carolina. Following a hospital general practice residency, he attended the University of Michigan, earning a master’s degree in oral pathology and diagnosis.

Rita Villena, D.D.S., Ph.D., graduated from the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, with her master’s and Ph.D. studies in pediatric dentistry at the Sao Paulo University–Brazil. She has been chair of the Pediatric Dentistry Department at San Martin de Porres University in Lima, Peru, since 2010. She is a member of the technical group of the Peruvian Ministry of Health and a member of the Vision 2030 Implementation and Monitoring working group of the FDI. She was the winner of the research Hatton Award for the Brazilian Division–International Association for Dental Research (IADR) (1997) and has held several positions at IADR including past president of the Peruvian Division–IADR (2003–2005) and past president and board member of the Latin American Region of the IADR (2011–2014), past president of the Peruvian Association of Dentistry for Infants (2012–2016) and chair of the Regional Development Program–IADR (2012–2014).

Villena has been conducting research in the field of prevention and pediatric dentistry for the past 20 years, with special interest in infancy. She is a clinician working together with pediatricians in private practice since 2000 and is the general co-coordinator of the Dental Caries Research Observatory for Children and Adolescents of the Latin American Region–IADR. She is an international speaker and has authored 14 book chapters in the Latin American region and publications in indexed journals. She is also part of the editorial boards of several international journals.

Marko Vujicic, Ph.D., currently serves as chief economist and vice president of the Health Policy Institute at the American Dental Association. He is a recognized thought leader in health care policy as it relates to dental care. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals such as Health Affairs and the New England Journal of Medicine, and his team’s work is regularly cited by CNN, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and other media outlets. Previously, he was senior economist with the World Bank in Washington, D.C., where he focused on health systems reform in developing countries.

Vujicic holds several academic appointments. He is adjunct senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, and affiliate faculty at the Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, as well as the Center for Health Services and Policy Research at the University of British Columbia. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto and a visiting assistant professor at Tufts University.

Vujicic obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of British Columbia and a bachelor’s degree in business from McGill University in Montreal.

Robert Weyant, M.S., D.M.D., Dr.P.H., is professor and chair of the Department of Dental Public Health, professor of epidemiology, and on the faculty of the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. Weyant’s research involves epidemiological research related to oral health disparities, the social determinants of health, and oral disease etiology. His research includes studies of gene-by-environment interactions, the linkages between oral and general health, and strategies for improving medical and dental integration.

Weyant has participated on three prior National Academies’ committees: Temporomandibular Disorders: Priorities for Research and Care, Committee on Implementing High-Quality Primary Care, and Advancing Oral Health in America, and participated in the National Academies’ workshop Sharing and Exchanging Ideas and Experiences on Community-Engaged Approaches to Oral Health. Weyant is a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Global Oral Health where he is working on policy development for improving oral health care delivery. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public Health and is the editor in chief of the Journal of Public Health Dentistry. He was the recipient of the American Association for Dental Research/American Dental Association Evidence-Based Dentistry Faculty Award. He is recognized with this award for his lifelong contributions to evidence-based dentistry. He received his M.P.H. and dental degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a doctorate in epidemiology from the University of Michigan.

Mark S. Wolff, D.D.S., Ph.D., is the Morton Amsterdam Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and a professor in the Department of Preventative and Restorative Dentistry. He has designed, developed, and implemented an extensive curriculum in caries risk assessment and has designed dental information systems to assist dental schools in monitoring the risk of the entire dental patient population.

Wolff started his dental career as a private practitioner, creating a family practice that focused on medically compromised and disabled patients of all ages. He has been a lifelong advocate and educator for individuals with physical, intellectual, and developmental disabilities through the lifespan. Wolff received his D.D.S. degree and Ph.D. in oral biology and pathology from Stony Brook University. He has served as the principal or coprincipal investigator on multiple benchtop and clinical research projects investigating dental caries, novel remineralizing agents, dental erosion, periodontal disease, dental materials, and dentinal hypersensitivity. He has coauthored more than 100 scientific papers and text chapters, and edited multiple textbooks. Wolff lectures worldwide and is a frequent consultant to industry. He served as associate dean at Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine, where he helped develop and implement the first

completely computerized dental record. Under his leadership, Penn Dental Medicine implemented extensive clinical programs of caries and health risk assessments, minimal intervention dentistry, tobacco cessation, evidence-based dental education, community-based dentistry, and dental care for all patients through the life course.

PLANNING COMMITTEE CONSULTANTS

Julian Fisher, B.D.S., M.Sc., M.I.H., is a policy advisor and analyst specializing in health workforce education, social and environmental determinants of health, and global oral health. He is currently based in Germany with regular monthly trips to UN agencies in Switzerland. He is also director, Advocacy and Networks, in a part-time capacity for the nongovernmental organization THEnet Training for Health Equity (New York). As chair of two World Health Organization (WHO) technical advisory groups, he is engaged in supporting WHO’s technical and normative work.

Fisher was previously associate director, professional and scientific affairs, with the World Dental Federation, Geneva, Switzerland. His experience covers a diverse range of professional domains including international public health policy and advocacy (consultancies for WHO, UNESCO, and United National Environment Programme), health profession (federation) management, and health workforce undergraduate and postgraduate education. His work has been based in Europe, Tanzania, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Falkland Islands, and Antarctica within various sectors and organizations. Julian Fisher earned his B.D.S. (dentistry) from Birmingham University in 1985, his M.Sc. (HIV/AIDS) from Stellenbosch University in 2002, and his M.I.H. (international health) from Charité University in 2006.

Isabel Garcia, D.D.S., M.P.H., joined the University of Florida College of Dentistry as dean on February 16, 2015, after retiring from the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) in 2014 as a rear admiral lower half. Garcia’s career spans over 40 years in public health, clinical practice, research, teaching, and administration at the local, state, and national levels. Garcia joined the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) at the NIH in 1995 and held multiple leadership roles during her time there. She led NIDCR’s science transfer efforts, directed the Institute’s Office of Science Policy and Analysis, and served as acting NIDCR director from 2010 to 2011. Garcia also served as the institute’s coordinator for global health and directed NIDCR’s Residency in Dental Public Health program from 2005 to 2014. While with the USPHS, Garcia was deployed to help prepare a major health diplomacy mission to Central and South America, which provided care to over 85,000 people in 12 countries.

As deputy director of NIDCR from 2007 to 2014, she shared responsibility for the oversight and management of programs and functions within the institute, which included over 400 scientists and administrators dedicated to research, training, science policy, health education, communications, and financial management. Garcia received a doctorate in dental surgery from Virginia Commonwealth University and a master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan. She subsequently completed a residency in dental public health at the University of Michigan and a fellowship in primary care policy from the U.S. Public Health Service. A fellow of the American College of Dentists and the Pierre Fauchard Academy, Garcia is a diplomate and Past President of the American Board of Dental Public Health and an active member of the American Dental Education Association, the International Association for Dental Research, and the American Dental Association.

Michael Glick, D.M.D., is executive director of the Center for Integrative Global Oral Health and Fields-Rayant Professor at Penn Dental Medicine. From 2009 to 2015, Glick served as dean of the University at Buffalo, SUNY, School of Dental Medicine, where he remained as professor of oral diagnostic sciences before coming to Penn Dental Medicine in 2021. Prior to Buffalo, he was professor of oral medicine at Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health, A.T. Still University, also holding the post of associate dean of oral-medical sciences at the University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine. While at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey from 2001 to 2007, Glick served as chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Sciences and as director of both the Division of Oral Medicine and the Postgraduate Training Program in Oral Medicine. This position with Penn Dental Medicine is Glick’s second faculty appointment, previously serving from 1994 to 2001 on the oral medicine faculty. During that time, he also directed the school’s programs for medically complex patients and infectious diseases.

A widely published and respected lecturer, Glick served as editor in chief of Journal of the American Dental Association from 2005 to 2020. Globally, Glick has been active with the FDI World Dental Federation since 2007, serving on multiple committees including cochairing the Task Team Vision 2030. He also had a leading role in establishing FDI’s Vision 2020 and most recently was the primary author of its Vision 2030, giving guidance for a global interdisciplinary and integrative role for oral health.

Zohray M. Talib, M.D. (Forum Cochair), is Executive Vice Dean, senior associate dean of academic affairs, chair of the Department of Medical Education and professor of medical education and medicine at the California University of Science and Medicine. Her experience spans the field of

medical education and global health, with a focus on social accountability in health professions education. She has worked with undergraduate and graduate medical education programs in the United States and across sub-Saharan Africa to bring best practices into medical education, especially in low-resource settings. Talib’s interests include community-based education, decentralized training, and building a robust and diverse faculty workforce for underserved communities. Talib led a study across 10 countries in Africa that shed light on the value of bringing learners into community-based health care settings. She also partnered with faculty in Africa to examine the burden of mental health and strategies to integrate mental health into primary care. Talib holds visiting faculty appointments at the Aga Khan University in East Africa as well as Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda.

Talib brings to the field of academic medicine and global health the unique perspective of being a primary care physician, educator, and researcher. She teaches clinical medicine, health policy, and health systems to undergraduate medical students. Talib holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the George Washington University where she was previously associate program director for the internal medicine program and a researcher with the Health Workforce Institute.

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