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Appendix B
Speaker Biosketches
RADM William Bailey was selected by Surgeon General Regina Benjamin
as the chief professional officer for the dental category effective May 24,
2010. As chief dental officer, RADM Bailey leads the Commissioned Corps
of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) dental professional affairs, and
advises the Office of the Surgeon General and the Department of Health
and Human Services on the recruitment, assignment, deployment, reten-
tion, and career development of Corps dentists. In addition, he currently
serves as the acting director of the Division of Oral Health at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
RADM Bailey has enjoyed assignments with the National Health Ser-
vice Corps, Bureau of Prisons, Indian Health Service, and Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention. He has received numerous awards including
the USPHS Meritorious Service Medal and the Dental Category’s Jack D.
Robertson Award, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Dental
Public Health.
Marsha Butler, D.D.S., is currently vice president, global professional
relations, Colgate-Palmolive Company, responsible for global strategies,
programs, and policies that support Colgate’s professional and oral health
initiatives around the world. Dr. Butler interfaces with numerous interna-
tional government, dental, and health organizations to promote programs
aimed at the prevention of oral disease and the improvement of general
and oral health.
In 1990, Dr. Butler conceptualized, designed, and implemented a
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comprehensive oral health education program called Bright Smiles, Bright
Futures. This initiative is directed toward high-risk youth populations
and utilizes public-private partnerships, community-based outreach,
and parent involvement to improve the oral health of low-income inner-
city children in the United States. Under Dr. Butler’s leadership, Bright
Smiles, Bright Futures has been implemented in 80 countries around the
world, reaching more than 650 million children in 30 languages. Dr. Butler
authored and presented results from several publications that study the
oral health habits, knowledge, and clinical status of young children in the
United States and other regions around the world.
Dr. Butler has worked diligently with the National Dental Associa-
tion (NDA) Foundation to help increase the pool of African American
dentists in the United States through a multifaceted program which pro-
vides scholarship awards to dental, dental hygiene, dental assistant, and
postgraduate dental students pursuing dental careers. More than 2,500
scholarships have been awarded since 1990. Dr. Butler partners with the
NDA Foundation to support funding for research grants at the histori-
cal African American schools: Howard University and Meharry Medical
College.
Dr. Butler is a graduate of the Howard University College of Den-
tistry. A member of the American Dental Association (ADA), the NDA, the
Academy of General Dentistry, the American Association of Public Health
Dentists, the International Association of Dental Researchers, and the
American College of Dentists. Dr. Butler has received numerous awards
for her oral health improvement activities, including the Howard Uni-
versity College of Dentistry Distinguished Alumni of the Year award, an
advocacy award from the World Organization for Early Childhood Educa-
tion, a 2012 UPTOWN Professional magazine’s Top 100 Executives in Cor-
porate America, a 2005 Silver Screen Award from the U.S. International
Film Festival, a 2006 Telly Award, a 2007 Ebony Outstanding Women in
Marketing and Communications Award, a Council Choice award from the
ADA, and other awards.
Mary Lee Conicella, D.M.D., is Aetna’s chief dental officer. In this role
she is responsible for building Aetna’s market position by providing
high-quality and affordable dental care. With 13.6 million members, Aetna
Dental offers one of the broadest product portfolios in the insurance
industry to help meet customers’ varied needs. In her role, Dr. Conicella
leverages her broad clinical background to support the development of
best-in-class clinical programs that provide solutions to engage members,
deliver superior dental health, and improve costs through clinical integra-
tion. She also supports the overall service experience for Aetna Dental’s
customers, providers, and members.
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Dr. Conicella received her B.S. in medical technology from the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh and her D.M.D. from Temple University School of
Dentistry in 1987. She received a fellowship in the Academy of General
Dentistry in 2000. Prior to joining Aetna, Dr. Conicella was in private
practice. She is a faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh School
of Dental Medicine, where she has taught since 1992. She began her career
with Aetna in 1997 as a dental consultant in dental utilization manage-
ment, assuming the role of chief dental officer in 2005. She was instru-
mental in developing Aetna’s Dental-Medical Integration initiative and
has coauthored several abstracts and articles published in collaboration
with Columbia University College of Dental Medicine related to research
on dental care’s impact on overall health. She is also a member of Aetna’s
Health Literacy Work Group and represents the dental business in Aetna’s
Clinical Innovation initiative.
Dr. Conicella has a number of affiliations, including the American
Dental Association, the National Dental Association Corporate Round
Table, the Academy of General Dentistry, the Omicron Kappa Upsilon
scholastic fraternity, the Temple University School of Dentistry Board of
Visitors, and the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine
Advisory Board. She serves as chairman of America’s Health Insurance
Plans’ dental code work group, and is a member of the National Associa-
tion of Dental Plans’ Professional Relations Committee.
Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. Representative for Maryland’s 7th congressio-
nal district, was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where he still
resides today. Congressman Cummings obtained his bachelor’s degree in
political science from Howard University, serving as student government
president and graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and then graduated from the
University of Maryland School of Law. Congressman Cummings has also
received seven honorary doctoral degrees from universities throughout
the nation.
Congressman Cummings has dedicated his life of service to uplifting
and empowering the people he is sworn to represent. He began his career
of public service in the Maryland House of Delegates, where he served
for 16 years and became the first African American in Maryland history
to be named Speaker pro tempore. Since 1996, Congressman Cummings
has proudly represented Maryland’s 7th congressional district in the U.S.
House of Representatives.
Congressman Cummings often says that our children are the living
messages that we send to a future we will never see. In that vein, he is
committed to ensuring that our next generation has access to high-quality
health care and education, clean air and water, and a strong economy
defined by fiscal responsibility.
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Congressman Cummings currently serves as the ranking member
of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. As the main
investigative committee in the House of Representatives, Oversight and
Government Reform has jurisdiction to investigate any federal program
and any matter with federal policy implications. As the committee’s rank-
ing member, Congressman Cummings fights to hold the presidential
administration to a high standard of excellence and to ensure efficiency
and effectiveness in the actions of the government of the United States.
He also seeks to identify appropriate reforms that prevent waste, fraud,
and abuse and to ensure government programs meet the needs of the
American people.
Congressman Cummings is also a senior member of the House Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, serving on both the Subcom-
mittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transport and the Subcommittee on
Highways and Transit. He has consistently been an advocate for the rights
of those facing foreclosure and holds regular foreclosure prevention semi-
nars for people who are at risk of being foreclosed upon. The homeowners
are matched with lenders to work out loan modifications on site to pre-
vent foreclosure. He began the 112th Congress by requesting that the first
hearing in the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
investigate the causes of, and potential solutions to, the foreclosure crisis.
Congressman Cummings serves on numerous boards and commis-
sions. He is spearheading an effort to strengthen the maritime curriculum
at the Maritime Academy in Baltimore. He is the chairman of the Maritime
for Primary and Secondary Education Coalition (MPSEC). He also serves
on the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors, the Morgan State Univer-
sity Board of Regents, the Baltimore Aquarium Board of Trustees, and the
Baltimore Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America Board of Directors.
He is an honorary board member of the SEED School of Maryland, KIPP
Baltimore Schools, and the Baltimore School for the Arts. Congressman
Cummings is an active member of New Psalmist Baptist Church and is
married to Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings.
Kimon Divaris, D.D.S., Ph.D., received his D.D.S. from Athens Univer-
sity School of Dentistry, Greece, in 2005. Prior to joining the University of
North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill in 2007, he completed 1 year of ser-
vice as a Hellenic Army dental officer. At UNC at Chapel Hill, he pursued
advanced studies jointly at the School of Dentistry and the Gillings School
of Global Public Health. In 2011 he received a certificate of specialization
in pediatric dentistry, a graduate certificate in global health, and a Ph.D.
degree in epidemiology from UNC at Chapel Hill. His research interests
are diverse and include both proximal and distal oral health determinants
with emphasis on caries, periodontitis, and oral cancer, and span from
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genetics to dental education and oral health literacy. Kimon served as
president (2003-2004) of the European Dental Students’ Association and
was recipient of the 2011 International Association for Dental Research’s
Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research Group post-
doctoral award and the 2012 American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
Graduate Student Research Award. He is currently research assistant
professor of pediatric dentistry and dental research postdoctoral fellow
at UNC at Chapel Hill.
Ralph Fuccillo has served as president of the DentaQuest Foundation
(formally Oral Health Foundation) since 2006. Mr. Fuccillo is a seasoned
leader in the nonprofit sector with a lifelong career that has included
professional and volunteer experiences in education, health and human
services, and organizational development. As an advocate for disease pre-
vention and health promotion, his work has focused on the social deter-
minants of health, policy development, and behavior change to reduce
injury and violence, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, other preventable ill-
nesses, and now oral health.
Through his board service to nonprofit organizations, he carries his
collaborative leadership approach to national and local organizations
such as the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Program (chair), Elderhostel,
the Massachusetts Dental Society Foundation, and Neighborhood Health
Plan. He has served as the immediate past president of the Massachu-
setts Health Council and of the AIDS Action Committee Board of Direc-
tors, Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research Center of the
National Community Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Research Center Program, and has been a visiting lecturer at
the Harvard Divinity School.
Mr. Fuccillo is a lecturer on health and philanthropy, an advocate for
the underserved and the work of community health centers, and a fre-
quent speaker and panel moderator at professional conferences.
Alice M. Horowitz, Ph.D., R.D.H., is a research associate professor at
the School of Public Health, University of Maryland. Formerly, she was a
senior scientist in the Division of Population and Health Promotion Sci-
ences at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She
was a primary architect of the Maryland State Oral Cancer Prevention and
Early Detection coalition. She initiated both state and national research on
what health care providers and the public know and do about oral cancer
prevention and early detection. She has initiated statewide research on
what the public knows and does about preventing dental caries and their
perceptions of communication skills of dental providers and on health
care providers’ (physicians, nurse practitioners, dentists, and dental
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hygienists) reported use of recommended communication practices. She
served as the National Institutes of Health lead for the Healthy People 2010
oral health chapter and worked on Healthy People and Healthy People 2000.
She organized the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research’s
workshop on oral health literacy and coauthored the resultant findings.
She has published more than 125 scientific papers and book chapters and
is the recipient of numerous awards. Dr. Horowitz holds a Ph.D. in health
education from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Amid Ismail, Dr.P.H., has been dean and Laura H. Carnell Professor
at Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry since October 2008.
Before joining Temple University, Dr. Ismail was professor and director of
the Detroit Center for Research on Oral Health Disparities and director of
the Detroit Oral Cancer Prevention Project at the School of Dentistry, Uni-
versity of Michigan. Dr. Ismail was also director of the Program of Dental
Public Health at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.
For 25 years, Dr. Ismail has been an actively funded researcher in
population-based studies and interventions to reduce disparities. His
expertise is in the field of measurement, outcomes assessment, design and
planning for complex statistical analyses, survey methods, and organiza-
tional management. Having played a significant role in developing the
field of evidence-based dentistry, he is a key consultant to the American
Dental Association (ADA) in this area. He is known internationally as
an expert in the field of cardiology and evidence-based dentistry, and he
played a leadership role in developing the Community Dental Health
Coordinator Project for the ADA.
Dr. Ismail has established new innovative programs, such as the
Advanced Dental Education Residency and Public Health Program and
the Executive Health and Management Policy Program with a certificate
degree in dental public health.
Awards he has received include the H. Trendley Dean Award from
the International Association for Dental Research, the Award for Com-
munity Service from the Regents of the University of Michigan, as well as
awards from the ADA and community organizations. For 5 years, he had
the highest grades at the College of Dentistry, Baghdad University, where
he received his dental training. He completed a master and doctorate of
public health at the University of Michigan, and an M.B.A. from the Ross
School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is also a diplomate
of the American Board of Dental Public Health.
Matt Jacob is project manager for communications at the Pew Center on
the States. For more than 25 years, Mr. Jacob has used his skills to assist
nonprofit and advocacy organizations raise the profile of their issues and
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translate their research into clear, compelling messages. In 1993, he wrote
the slogan that the Clinton administration used to promote its national
health care plan. Mr. Jacob’s op-ed columns have appeared in USA Today,
cnn.com, the Los Angeles Times, and many other media outlets. He has
provided training on communication challenges at numerous conferences,
including those sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion and the American Public Health Association. He earned his bach-
elor’s degree in journalism from the University of Arkansas.
Dushanka Kleinman, D.D.S., M.Sc.D., RADM (Ret.), serves as associate
dean for research and professor, department of epidemiology and biosta-
tistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland (UMD), College
Park. In this role she works closely with the school’s senior leadership,
faculty, and students and has devoted much of the past few years to the
initial accreditation of this new School of Public Health. She earned her
D.D.S. from the College of Dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chi-
cago, followed by a dental internship at the University of Chicago Hospi-
tals and Clinics. She also received an M.Sc.D. in dental public health from
the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine at Boston University.
Prior to joining UMD in 2007, Dr. Kleinman completed 28 years of
government service, where she most recently served as deputy director,
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National
Institutes of Health (NIH), and assistant surgeon general, U.S. Public
Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps. In 2006, she also com-
pleted a 5-year term as the 15th Chief Dental Officer, USPHS. At NIH,
Dr. Kleinman assumed the role of NIDCR acting director twice during
transitions between directors. She coordinated the federal involvement in
the development of the first-ever Surgeon General’s Report on oral health
(2000) and served as the first assistant director of the NIH Roadmap for
Medical Research.
Dr. Kleinman is a diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public
Health (ABDPH) and has served as president of several organizations,
including the ABDPH, the American Association of Women Dentists,
and the American Association of Dental Public Health. Her work on the
epidemiology of oral mucosal tissue diseases and disorders and related
activities has been recognized by multiple organizations. In addition to
her UMD School of Public Health responsibilities, she currently serves on
the editorial board of the Journal of the American Dental Association and is
a board member of several organizations and foundations, including the
USPHS Commissioned Officers Foundation.
Gregory McClure, D.D.S., is the state dental director for the Delaware
Division of Public Health. His responsibilities include management of
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dental public health activities, the statewide dental clinic system, and
providing consultative services for the dental Medicaid program for other
state programs that provide dental services. The integration of direct
clinic services, Medicaid program development, and dental public health
services creates a unique opportunity to link the programs synergistically
for advancing oral health.
After graduating from Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry at
Temple University, Dr. McClure was in private practice in Binghamton,
New York. While practicing there, he obtained his M.P.H. from the State
University of New York at Albany, and his M.H.A. from Cornell Univer-
sity. He completed his dental public health residency with the New York
State Department of Health, where he worked with county public health
programs, focusing on the development of dental health delivery systems.
Dr. McClure is a member of several dental associations, including
the American Dental Association, the Academy of General Dentistry, the
American Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors, and the
American Association of Public Health Dentistry. He serves as the clinical
director for Delaware Special Olympics, and is a director for the Delaware
Institute of Dental Education and Research.
Kathleen O’Loughlin, D.D.S., is executive director and chief operating
officer of the American Dental Association (ADA). Prior to joining the
ADA, Kathy served as the chief dental officer for United Health Group,
and president and chief executive officer of Delta Dental of Massachusetts.
Dr. O’Loughlin practiced dentistry for more than 20 years in Medford
and Winchester, Massachusetts, while serving as an assistant clinical pro-
fessor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in the department of
general dentistry as a course director. She received her bachelor’s degree
cum laude from Boston University in 1974 and her doctorate from Tufts
University summa cum laude in 1981. In 1998, Dr. O’Loughlin received a
master’s degree in public health and health care management from Har-
vard University. She currently serves as a trustee of Tufts University and
is a member of the executive committee and board of overseers for Tufts
Dental School. Dr. O’Loughlin is a member of several dental organizations
and has received numerous awards.
Gary Podschun is manager for Community Outreach and Cultural Com-
petence with the American Dental Association (ADA). He provides lead-
ership, management, and direction of the ADA’s program and policy plan-
ning, development, implementation, and evaluation related to oral health
disparities, social determinants of oral health, domestic volunteerism,
and health promotion/disease prevention. These activities include the
American Indian/Alaska Native Dental Placement Program, cultural/
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linguistic competence in oral health care, health literacy in dentistry, and
other issues of national significance impacting oral health care services.
Mr. Podschun is a member of the American Public Health Association,
American Rural Health Association and the Society for Public Health
Education.
Lindsey Robinson, D.D.S., has maintained a full-time pediatric dental
practice in Grass Valley for the past 16 years since receiving her certifi-
cate in pediatric dentistry from the University of Florida in 1995 and her
D.D.S. from the University of Southern California in 1990. Dr. Robinson
was a member of the American Dental Association (ADA) Council on
Access, Prevention, and Interprofessional Relations (CAPIR) for 6 years,
and during her tenure served as chair for 2 years. As CAPIR chair, she
hosted two national access summits convened by the ADA, the Ameri-
can Indian/Alaska Native Oral Health Access Summit in 2007, and the
Access to Care Summit in March 2009. She is a founding board member
of the U.S. National Oral Health Alliance. Dr. Robinson currently serves
as president-elect of the California Dental Association and is past chair of
the California Dental Association Foundation.
Scott Wolpin, D.M.D., is the vice president/chief dental officer for
Choptank Community Health System. Dr. Wolpin serves as a board of
directors member for the National Network for Oral Health Access and
the Eastern Shore Area Health Education Center. Additionally, Dr. Wolpin
is past president of the Eastern Shore Dental Society and past president
of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved. He completed a hos-
pital dentistry residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, Mary-
land, in 1990 after commencement from Tufts University School of Dental
Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. He holds academic appointments
with the University of Maryland School of Dentistry and the Arizona
School of Dentistry and Oral Health mentoring fourth-year dental stu-
dents in community-based oral health. Dr. Wolpin serves as the assistant
director for Lutheran Medical Center’s advanced education in general
dentistry residency program and provides hospital-based dental services
for young children at Dorchester General Hospital. Dr. Wolpin provides
public service to the community he lives in as a volunteer firefighter/
emergency medical services provider. In 2003, Dr. Wolpin was nominated
as Maryland Outstanding Rural Health Practitioner and Maryland Oral
Health Hero in 2010.
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