National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Research Council Roster

Chairperson

D'Souza, Rena, DDS, MS, PhD
Director
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892

Members

Collier, Joel H., PhD
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering Department
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708

Ebetino, Frank H., PhD
President, CSO
Biovinc, LLC
Pasadena, CA 91107

Garcia, Raul I., DMD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Health Policy and Heath Services
Henry M. Goldman School Of Dental Medicine
Boston University
Boston, MA 02118

Niswander, Lee A., PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Dev. Biology
University of Colorado - Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309

Nor, Jacques Eduardo, DDS, PhD
Donald A. Kerr Collegiate Professor of Dentistry
and Chair
Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences and Endodontics
School of Dentistry
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Shi, Wenyuan, PhD
CEO and Chief Scientific Officer
The Forsyth Institute
Boston, MA  02142

Slep, Amy M. Smith, PhD
Professor
Department of Cariology and Comprehensive Care
College of Dentistry
New York University
New York, NY 10010

Visel, Axel, PhD
Deputy Director of Science
LBNL-DOE Joint Genome Institute
University of California-Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Joint Genome Institute
Berkeley, CA 94720

Executive Secretary

King, Lynn, PhD
Director
Division of Extramural Activities
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892

Ex Officio
Arola, Patricia E., DDS
Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Dentistry
Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington, DC 20420

Becerra, Xavier
Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC 20201

Tabak, Lawrence A., PhD, DDS
Acting Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892

Last Reviewed
August 2022