Student Updates
June 2025 GSDM Faculty Appointments & Promotions
Congratulations to the following Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine faculty on their recent appointment or promotion.
Clinical Professor
Deeba Kashtwari, BDS, MS, Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology, is the inaugural chair of the department of oral & maxillofacial radiology. She also serves as the school’s radiation safety officer and as course director for all four predoctoral radiation courses. Her postdoctoral teaching includes conducting CBCT interpretation workshops for endodontics residents and radiation safety orientation lectures to residents annually. Dr. Kashtwari also has been actively involved in the research activities of pre- and postdoctoral students as well as a Fulbright scholar in the endodontics department. Dr. Kashtwari currently serves as secretary for the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Leadership Institute Alumni Association Board and as a site visitor for the Commission on Dental Accreditation. She a fellow of the International College of Dentists and will be inducted into the American College of Dentists this fall.
Clinical Associate Professor
Charles Henry, DDS, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, returns to GSDM from New Hampshire where he was in private practice for 34 years. He received his DDS from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Dr. Henry completed a general practice residency in dentistry at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo, followed by a residency in oral & maxillofacial surgery at the Medical Center of Delaware in Wilmington where he also served as chief resident, and a fellowship in oral & maxillofacial surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. Among his prior appointments, he was an assistant professor in oral & maxillofacial surgery at GSDM from September 1998-June 1999 before temporarily leaving academic dentistry to focus solely on private practice.
June 2025 SPH Faculty Appointments & Promotions
Congratulations to the following BU School of Public Health faculty on their June promotion.
Associate Professor
Matthew Motta, PhD, Health Law, Policy & Management, focuses on using a pluralistic set of observational and experimental methods to quantify the prevalence of Americans’ opposition to evidence-based health policy, explore the social, psychological and political determinants of those views, and assess the health policy consequences of opposition to scientific evidence. Dr. Motta has played a substantial role in both classroom instruction and mentoring while at BUSPH. He has taught 15 sections across four different courses. He regularly advises and mentors master’s and doctoral-level students and is currently serving on four PhD committees. Dr. Motta recently co-founded and co-directs the Politics and Health Lab with another department faculty member. He also serves on the governing council for the Association for Politics & the Life Sciences, as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, and the Journal of Health & Social Behavior.
Marcia Pescador Jiménez, PhD, Epidemiology, specializes in the social and environmental influences on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) risk. Her research focuses on identifying modifiable environmental determinants of CVD and ADRD, strengthening causal inference in environmental health research, and evaluating environmental impacts in understudied and minoritized populations. Dr. Pescador Jiménez serves as a PI for over $8M of extramural grants and is a co-investigator on additional grants totaling over $28M. She leads the school’s SPHERE lab, where she is mentoring several graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty. She also is part of the leadership group growing the Society for Epidemiologic Research in Mexico to provide a richer community of epidemiologic scientists based in Mexico and strengthen the network of international researchers evaluating the determinants of health in middle income countries.
Eric Rubenstein, PhD, Epidemiology, uses big data and inclusive research methods to understand and improve health in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. He has researched specific intellectual and developmental disability populations (e.g. Down syndrome, autism) and the community using a model of disability and health he developed that accounts for the phenotype of the specific condition and the societal barriers placed on disabled people. He serves as PI on two NIH grants totaling $7.25M and co-PI on a $1.6M CDC award. Dr Rubenstein received the 2024 BUSPH Research Innovation Award. He is currently a member of the Special Olympics Scientific Community Advisory Board and serves as a panelist on the Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Technical Expert Panel to Develop Operational Definition for Intellectual and Developmental Disability. Additionally, he serves as an ad-hoc grant reviewer for five NIH study sections.
May 2025 BUSPH, GSDM Faculty Promotions
Congratulations to the following BU School of Public Health and Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine faculty on their recent promotion.
BU School of Public Health
Professor
Yvette Cozier, DSc, Epidemiology, serves as a PI of the ground-breaking Black Women’s Health Study, the largest health research cohort of Black women in the U.S. Her research focuses on immune mediated diseases, especially sarcoidosis, and racially patterned social determinants of health. In the United States, disease patterns differ by sex and race with Black women bearing the greatest burden in terms of incidence, severity and mortality. While at BUSPH, she has taught several courses, principally Introduction to Epidemiology, Social Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods in Public Health. She has received four teaching awards, including the Norman A. Scotch Award for teaching excellence, which is the highest award for teaching at BUSPH. Over the past 20 years Dr. Cozier has been the primary advisor to more than 300 master’s students and a mentor to 16 pre-doctoral trainees.
Madeleine Scammel, ScD, Environmental Health, uses qualitative and quantitative methods to characterize determinants of environmental and occupational exposure and disease in urban and rural settings. In particular, she conducts community-engaged research in response to community concerns, typically in resource poor settings with low access to scientific expertise. Most of her recent work focuses on environmental causes of chronic kidney disease in Central America and heat stress in urban areas. She has served as a primary mentor to eight doctoral students and a committee member or reader for nine additional doctoral students, while also mentoring three post-graduate fellows and numerous MPH students. Most of her classroom teaching has focused on Introduction to Environmental Health and Environmental Health Science, Law and Policy, as well as Community-Engaged Research: Theory, Methods and Applications. She has won several teaching awards, including “Rookie of the Year” in her first year of teaching.
Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Clinical Professor
Hesham Nouh, BDS, DSc, MSD, General Dentistry, joined the faculty in 2015 as a clinical assistant professor of general dentistry followed by promotion to clinical associate professor in 2018. From 2016 to 2022, Dr. Nouh served as Director of Pre-doctoral Prosthodontics & Restorative Dentistry in the department. In 2020, he was appointed as Associate Chair of Gneral Dentistry. In 2022, he was appointed Chair ad interim of General Dentistry, a position he held until he was formally appointed as permanent Chair of General Dentistry in 2024. An engaging teacher, he is the recipient of many teaching awards. In 2018, he was the recipient of the dental school's most prestigious faculty award, the Spencer N. Frankl Award for Excellence in Teaching. Additionally, the American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics selected him as the 2019 recipient of its Claude R. Baker Faculty Award which recognizes young outstanding predoctoral faculty for excellence in teaching fixed prosthodontics.
Renowned Virologist Robert A. Davey to Lead NEIDL, BU’s Infectious Diseases Research Hub
Internationally renowned virologist Robert A. Davey has been named interim director of Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL). An expert on virus-host interactions and antiviral drug discovery, he replaces Nancy J. Sullivan, an Ebola treatment and vaccine pioneer, who is stepping down to focus on her research; Sullivan will remain a member of BU’s biology and medical faculty.
Davey is a BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine professor of virology, immunology, and microbiology; his work has been published in a range of influential journals, including Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He also serves as vice chair of the BU Biosafety Committee. As NEIDL’s interim director, he’ll be leading a national hub for the safe study of infectious diseases and pathogens, including HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Marburg, Zika, and yellow fever. In recent years, the academic research center has also helped propel advances in our understanding of COVID-19, with BU experts—including Davey, a NEIDL faculty member since 2018—opening up new pathways for vaccines and treatments.
Read more on the Brink.
BUMC Faculty Appointments and Promotions – March 2025
Congratulations to the following School of Public Health and Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty on their recent appointment or promotion.
BU School of Public Health
Associate Professor
Brooke Nichols, PhD, Global Health, is an infectious disease mathematical modeler and health economist focused on optimizing diagnosis, prevention and treatment strategies for infectious diseases including HIV, tuberculosis, SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens of pandemic potential. Her teaching centers on quantitative methods for public health including epidemiology, modelling, healthcare finance and health economics to inform evidence-based policy at national and global levels. At the global level, her service has been extensive: from 2020-23, she co-led WHO’s ACT-A Rapid Antigen Diagnostics Modelling Consortium and participated in multiple advisory and working groups, such as the South African COVID-19 testing advisory group and WHO’s SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance Working Group. Recently, her work has been instrumental in guiding the development of the WHO’s diagnostic Target Product Profiles for multiple pathogens. Dr. Nichols is deputy editor of the Journal of the International AIDS Society and academic editor at PLOS Global Public Health.
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Associate Professor
Gene Kwan, MD, MPH, Medicine/Cardiovascular Medicine, is a global health clinical scientist who studies health services to identify and treat cardiovascular disease in rural low-income countries. He uses implementation science to test strategies for heart failure and hypertension care particularly in Haiti, Rwanda and other countries in Africa. He studies how to improve access to echocardiography by training nurses and mid-level providers to diagnose and treat cardiac disease. Dr. Kwan is a health policy advisor to the governments of Haiti and Rwanda and an advisor to the Lancet Commission on Reframing Non-Communicable Diseases and Injuries for the Poorest Billion. He was invited to the NHLBI-sponsored workshop on Sustaining Global Capacity on Implementing Research for Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, and Fogarty International Center’s Non-Communicable Disease networking meetings. Dr. Kwan is a sought-after research mentor for local and international trainees and has been repeatedly recognized for his clinical acumen, teaching and mentoring accomplishments.
Ivan Luptak, MD, PhD, Medicine/Cardiovascular Medicine, is a physician-scientist specializing in cardiac metabolism. His research focuses on the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in cardiovascular disease, utilizing advanced multinuclear magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy techniques. By measuring the contribution of fuel sources–such as glucose and fatty acids–to mitochondrial energy production and assessing the turnover of energy-carrying molecules like ATP in beating hearts, Dr. Luptak has made significant contributions to the field. His work has advanced the understanding of cardiovascular pathophysiology and yielded important translational insights with potential therapeutic impact.
Sarah Valentine, PhD, Psychiatry, is a clinical psychologist and implementation scientist who focuses on the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in low resource settings. Her work centrally aims to address access and quality of care gaps for PTSD among minoritized groups, including racial, ethnic and sexual, and gender minoritized populations. She directs clinical and research programs to build capacity for culturally responsive PTSD treatment in routine care. Dr. Valentine has received funding from the NIMH to conduct hybrid implementation-effectiveness trials of PTSD treatments in primary care and obstetrics. She is developing adaptive (stepped) interventions for PTSD that prioritize access, reach and engagement to promote health equity. She serves as director of the PRISMM lab (Program of Research in Implementation Science, Minority Stress and Mental Health) and the RESTORE Center (Recovery from Stress and Trauma through Outpatient care, Research and Education).
Clinical Associate Professor
Shivda Pandey, MBBS, Medicine/Cardiovascular Medicine, is an imaging specialist with advanced training in nuclear cardiology. A staff cardiologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), she provides clinical services in the outpatient and inpatient settings, and in the echocardiography and nuclear medicine laboratories. Her advanced training in nuclear cardiology has been critical to the development and growth of this sub-section, which she has directed since 2016. She has played a central role in the advancement of Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Cardiac Amyloidosis Radionuclide Imaging at BMC and is the primary cardiologist performing and interpreting nuclear stress tests.
Rachel Sagor, MD, Pediatrics, is a clinician-educator with a focus on innovations that promote health and financial equity. Dr. Sagor is the medical director of BMC’s StreetCred, a medical-financial partnership that integrates evidence-based, underutilized economic resources and services into routine prenatal and infant health care. She has presented this work nationally, including to the FDIC, the Aspen Institute and at the Health to Hunger Collaboratory, where she received the 2024 Prize in Innovation. She is the physician lead for BMC’s Primary Care Asthma Team where she has conceptualized, developed and operationalized new initiatives, including the development of an evidence-based acute asthma pathway to standardize the clinical management of patients with asthma exacerbations. Dr. Sagor has been BMC Pediatric Primary Care Clerkship site director, a Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP) resident preceptor, and a field specific advisor for nine years and the recipient of many teaching awards. Dr. Sagor was inducted into the BUMG Clinical Excellence Society in 2018.
New Prayer and Meditation Room
Need a quiet place to pray, reflect, or simply take a break from the busyness of campus life? The new Prayer and Meditation Room is now open! For students, staff and faculty, this space offers a welcoming environment for personal meditation, prayer or quiet contemplation.
Located in the Housman Bldg, 10th floor, Room R1018A (last door on the right when walking from the elevators), the room is open 24/7. The room’s features currently include adjustable lighting, prayer rugs and a meditation cushion. No matter your faith or background, this space is here for you. Please direct questions, comments and suggestions for improvements to Kate Flewelling.
Other prayer and meditation spaces available on the Medical Campus:
- Talbot Building, 715 Albany St., Room 119A West
- Crosstown Building, 801 Mass. Ave., 4th Floor, Suite 431, Room 447
- Evans Biomedical Research Center, 650 Albany St., Room 714
- Housman Building, enter through 72 E. Concord St., Room R107 – available Fridays only from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
- Goldman School of Dental Medicine 635 Albany St., 2nd Floor, Room 226 and 7th floor, Room 726 – to access these spaces, enter the building at 100 E. Newton St. (the GSDM faculty/staff/student) entrance. Take ramp to the elevators (#4 or #5) at the bottom of ramp. Take the elevator to the 2nd floor or 7th floor. When you get off the elevator, take a left and then a right down the hallway.
BUMC Faculty Appointments and Promotions – January and February 2025
Congratulations to the following Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine and Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty on their recent appointment or promotion.
Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor
Virginia Karapanou, DMD, MS, Endodontics, was awarded a Doctor of Dental Science degree from Aristotelian University Dental School (Greece). She later earned a CAGS in Endodontics, followed by a DMD and an MS in Dental Research from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM). In 1994, Dr. Karapanou was recruited to the faculty of TUSDM as a Clinical Instructor of Endodontics. She was subsequently promoted to Assistant Professor of Endodontics (1998), and to Associate Professor of Endodontics in 2006, a position she held through 2014 before leaving to practice full-time. Dr. Karapanou is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics, and a member of the Massachusetts and New England Dental Societies, American Dental Association, and American Association of Endodontics.
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Professor
Huiping Zhang, PhD, Psychiatry, focuses on the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying substance use disorders (SUDs) and related psychiatric conditions. Dr. Zhang is a pioneer in studying DNA and RNA methylation changes, as well as noncoding RNA dysregulation, in individuals with SUDs. His primary research goal is to identify genetic and epigenetic biomarkers to enhance the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of SUDs. He has served as PI on multiple NIH grants, including a K99/R00, a R21, and two R01 grants, and as site-PI for two additional R01 grants. His research has also received support from several non-federal sources, such as the ABMRF, CTSI, Wang Tat Lee and March of Dimes. Dr. Zhang is a standing member of an NIH study section and frequently serves as an ad hoc grant reviewer for research proposals from both domestic and international institutions. He also is a board member for several peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Zhang mentors junior faculty members, postdoctoral researchers and students at all levels, including medical, graduate and undergraduate students.
Associate Professor
Eric Burks, MD, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, studies screening-detected non-small cell lung cancer. Dr. Burks’ studies established the diagnostic criteria for an entity now known as pulmonary adenocarcinoma of low malignant potential (LMP) which has been internationally validated and shown to account for overdiagnosis in the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST). His work has further established angioinvasive lung adenocarcinoma as the most aggressive form of early-stage NSCLC. Patients with small (<2 cm) angioinvasive tumors benefit from surgical resection of the entire involved lung lobe whereas the remaining patients are adequately treated with parenchymal sparing approaches such as wedge resection. Dr. Burks is a provisional patent holder (BU-2023-026) for biomarkers associated with angioinvasive lung adenocarcinoma, a co-investigator on a U01, The Lung Pre-Cancer Atlas project, a site PI on two R01s and a co-PI on an American Society of Hematology grant. In addition, he directs hematopathology, the hematology laboratory, the immunohistochemistry and special procedures laboratory, including amyloid pathology, and the hemoglobin diagnostic reference laboratory at Boston Medical Center.
Clinical Associate Professor
Annemieke Atema, MD, Emergency Medicine, is a clinician-educator with expertise in medical student education and mentoring. She served as emergency medicine clerkship director for eight years, during which time she increased the number of students by almost 70% and initiated the establishment of an emergency medicine selective. She was also among the first clerkship directors to integrate simulation-based learning into the curriculum. Dr. Atema has served as a mentor for more than 200 students during her tenure. She also plays a vital role in the emergency medicine residency program, where she developed and implemented an innovative teaching elective to enhance senior residents’ skills in medical student education.
Brian Carmine, MD, Surgery, specializes in minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery as well as bariatric surgery. With a long-standing interest in resident education and as an advocate of the use of simulation for advanced skill development, Dr. Carmine was involved in the design of the original Solomont Simulation Center at Boston Medical Center as well as the creation of the “surgical arcade,” where minimally invasive fiber optic laparoscopic towers are used to help hone trainees’ surgical skills. Dr. Carmine also is an attending surgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he has served as the director of adolescent bariatric surgery since 2014.
Elaine Lee, PhD, Medical Sciences & Education, is a grant strategist who assists and develops early career faculty to prepare effective grant proposals. From 2017 to date, Dr. Lee has assisted in securing more than $75M in total awards. She played a pivotal role in applying for university-wide grant proposals including the BIRCWH grant and MSTP training grant. Additionally, Dr. Lee has been actively involved in service to the School and the University. She has been an active leader for high school programs such as BAHEC and BEAMS and assisted with the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and NSF proposals for summer programs for high school students. She has co-led the annual BUMC McCahan Education Conference since 2020 and has led the Educators’ Collaborative Lunch since 2018.
Daniel Oates, MD, MSc, Medicine/Geriatrics, returned to BU and Boston Medical Center (BMC) in October 2023 to become medical director of senior services and partnership for the Boston Medical Center Health System. He provides clinical care on the inpatient geriatrics consult service as well as home visits within the Enhanced Care Program, providing addition services and medical support to dual eligible seniors who have both Medicare and Medicaid. In these capacities he precepts medical students during their required fourth-year geriatrics clerkship. The major focus of his scholarly work has been on health literacy and educational interventions related to health literacy that ultimately impact quality and safety. While away from BU and BMC, Dr. Oates maintained an active clinical practice, working as a medical director and treating patients in long-term care, as well as geriatric patients in clinic and at home.
Alumni Medical Library’s Little Free Library Provides Access to Leisure Reading
The Alumni Medical Library is a modern medical library. Library holdings include extensive electronic collections comprising 3,600+ current journals, 20,000+ e-books, hundreds of databases and 50+ quality-filtered subject guides. Additionally, library users have access to the University Libraries’ collections of more than 2.4 million physical volumes, over 45,000 current unique serials titles, and 77,000 media titles.
“As a health sciences library, most of our books and journals are electronic,” said Director of Library Services Kate Flewelling MLIS, AHIP. “They’re not something you would necessarily read for pleasure, and so we’ve wanted at the library to promote access to leisure reading.”
Flewelling sees how hard Medical Campus students work, and she wants her library to provide the services they need like study space, access to technology, books and journals.
“But you can see in public libraries, they’re offering so much more,” she said.
Unfortunately, flooding shuttered the South End branch of the Boston Public Library (BPL), and it’s closed indefinitely. The Alumni Medical Library partnered with the Boston Public Library to do signups for digital library cards, and collaborated with BPL, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and Massachusetts Library System, to place stickers at nearby transit stops so that students and other commuters could scan and gain access to digital audiobooks, eBooks, newspapers and magazines through a BPL program called “Browse, Borrow, Board.”
Still, Flewelling thought students needed more immediate access to leisure reading. She applied for and received a $1,000 Inclusion Catalyst Grant from Boston University Diversity & Inclusion to open a Little Free Library. The grants support “collaborative and creative programs and initiatives that generate learning and stimulate efforts that foster inclusive and equitable communities at Boston University.”
Based in St. Paul, Minn., the Little Free Library is a non-profit with nearly 200,000 library boxes distributed across the country—their response to a literacy crisis in the U.S.
Most days, the bright red glass-fronted cabinet stuffed with books is located at the Alumni Medical Library, but it also travels the campus on a cart that has a beverage station. Anyone can borrow a book, leave (or not leave) a book behind in exchange, and return it when they’re finished reading, or they can hold onto it, said Flewelling.
“We want to have really good current and classic books,” said Flewelling. Young adult books, graphic novels, romance literature, best sellers, and books by indigenous authors, people of color and LGBTQ authors as well. Flewelling noted two trends in student requests – nostalgic books from their youth, like “The Hunger Games,” and requests for nonfiction narrative public health books like Tracy Kidder’s “Rough Sleepers.”
“It’s a way to increase outreach for the library and give students an opportunity to focus on something other than work while also increasing access to diverse voices,” Flewelling said. “Medical Campus students study for hours and hours,” Flewelling said. “Maybe they can take five minutes and just have a cup of tea and read a novel.”
Library staff have donated some books and students can suggest titles to be purchased. The library has committed to buying books for the Little Free Library from More Than Words and two Black-owned bookstores. More Than Words employs youth ages 16-24 who are in foster-care, homeless, out-of-school or in the court system. They are taught to run an online and retail bookstore while receiving both personal and career support.
Overnight Network Outages Feb. 23-26
During the early morning hours of Sunday, Feb. 23, Tuesday, Feb. 25, and Wednesday, Feb. 26, the following locations will experience a 5-minute network outage to perform updates. These updates will be done in a rolling manner, with multiple floors starting every 5-10 minutes. For some buildings, not every floor will be affected. To report an issue or if you have any questions, email bumchelp@bu.edu.
Feb. 23: 12:01-8 a.m.
- 610 Albany St. - Parking garage
- 650 Albany St. - EBRC (X): Basement
- 700 Albany St. - CABR (W): All floors
- 710 Albany St. - First floor
- 715 Albany St. - Talbot (T): All floors
- 750 Albany St. - First floor
- 815 Albany St. - Medical Student Residence: Basement
- 71 East Concord St. - Conte (K): All floors
Feb. 25: 2-6:30 a.m.
- 80 East Concord St. - (A): Floors 2, 3, 5
- 72 East Concord St. - Instructional Building (L): Basement, Floors 1-9,13-14
Feb. 26: 2-6:30 a.m.
- 75 E. Newton St. - Evans Building (E): Basement, Floors 1-8
- 85 E. Newton St. - Fuller (M): Fourth floor
- 635 Albany St. - Goldman School of Dental Medicine: Basement, Floors 2-5
- 750 Harrison Ave. - Robinson (B): Floors 2-7
- 780 Harrison Ave. - Housman (R): Floors 1-2
- 801 Massachusetts Ave. - Crosstown: Second and fourth floors
GSDM Faculty Appointments and Promotions
Congratulations to the following Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine faculty on their recent appointment or promotion.
Associate Professor
Alexandros Tsouknidas, PhD, Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials, joined the GSDM faculty in July 2024 as director of the Applied Biomechanics Lab. He comes to BU from the University of Western Macedonia where he served in several roles, most recently as associate professor of biomedical engineering, director of the MSc Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Laboratory of Biomaterials and Computational Mechanics. In 2022 Dr. Tsouknidas was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and subsequently was invited to GSDM as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials from September 2022-February 2023. During this time, Dr. Tsouknidas collaborated on, “Mechanobiology in tissue engineering: The untold dialogue between cells and scaffolds.” In November 2023 he was recognized as a Fulbright Outreach Ambassador for Greece. He is a supervisor on a fellowship from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, “Investigating Osteoblastic Cell Mechanotransduction in 3D-Printed Scaffolds for Dental and Craniofacial Applications.” He serves on three editorial boards, including the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Clinical Associate Professor
Myron Allukian, DDS, MPH, Health Policy & Health Services Research, is a leader in dental public health (DPH) and has been an important contributor to the DPH residency and post-graduate education program as a teacher and mentor. He has been honored multiple times for public advocacy efforts and his many contributions to improving the public’s health through the programs that he has led. Most notable was his leadership in implementing community water fluoridation in Boston in 1978. Dr. Allukian is only the second dentist to be elected president (1989-90) of the American Public Health Association (APHA) since its founding in 1872. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the APHA’s Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health (2001), and the Paul Revere Award for Lifetime Achievement (2022) presented by Massachusetts Public Health Association, for which he remains the only dentist to have received either of these prestigious awards.