Margaret M. Grisius, D.D.S.

Dr. Margaret Grisius is the Director of the NIDCR Oral and Systemic Health Integration Program and the Salivary Glands and Rheumatic Disease Program within the Division of Extramural Research.

She received her dental degree from Georgetown University School of Dentistry, followed by a General Practice Residency at the Washington, DC Veterans Affairs Hospital, and then a geriatric fellowship through the University of Pennsylvania Department of Geriatric Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Grisius served as an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service stationed at the NIH Clinical Center, where she completed an oral medicine fellowship.

Prior to joining the Center for Clinical Research, Dr. Grisius was a faculty member in the Department of Oral Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and then returned to NIH as an Associate Investigator in the Salivary Gland Dysfunction/Sjögren’s Syndrome Clinic at the NIH Clinical Center.