Meet our Keynote Speaker
Tamanna Tiwari, MPH, MDS, BDS, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Dentistry and Population Health and Associate Director of the Center for Oral Disease Prevention and Population Health Research at the School of Dental Medicine University of Colorado. She obtained her dental degree from Bharati Vidya Peeth, Pune, India, and a master public health in global health leadership from New York University.
Funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, the Colorado Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the CareQuest Institute, Colgate, the Dental Dental Institute, and the Colorado State Health Department, Dr. Tiwari researches reducing oral health inequities. Her research delves into social determinants of health and how it impacts communities' oral health, and her projects use participatory community approaches. She disseminates her research to the scientific community and communities that participate in her research.
Dr. Tiwari was awarded the Centennial Emerging Research Leaders Award for the North American region by the International Association for Dental Research in 2020.
Besides her research, Dr. Tiwari is passionate about gender equity and invests her time in promoting gender equity in the dental workforce. She has presented and published extensively about her research.
Meet our Presenters
Estephan J. Moana-Filho, DDS, MS, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry. Moana-Filho works to identify brain mechanisms involved in the transition from acute to chronic Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) and pain. His work supports the development of improved prognostic markers and individual treatment strategies, reducing healthcare costs and improving the quality of life for patients who experience orofacial pain. Moana-Filho uses psychophysics and neuroimaging methods to measure somatosensory function, or the interpretation of bodily sensations, and other brain mechanisms in patients who experience oral and facial pain, especially patients with TMD.
Michelle Arnett, RDH, MS, graduated from the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) School of Dentistry in 2004 with her certification in Dental Hygiene and a Bachelor of Science. She began working in private clinical practice and had a fulfilling clinical career for ten years before pursuing a graduate degree. Arnett's interest in education and research led her to the University of Michigan (U-M) School of Dentistry, where she obtained a Master of Science in Dental Hygiene (MSDH) in 2016. As an MSDH student, she was invited to join the U-M Dental Hygiene (DH) faculty. In addition to teaching in the entry-level and degree-completion DH programs, Arnett was a clinical research coordinator and practicing dental hygienist in the U-M Department of Graduate Periodontics. Arnett joined the University of Minnesota in 2018 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Primary Dental Care. She teaches periodontology, communications, clinical applications III and IV in the BSDH program, and instructional strategies in the MSDH program. Her research focus is motivational interviewing and periodontology. Arnett's professional memberships include Sigma Phi Alpha-Nu Chapter, American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA), and the American Dental Education Association (ADEA). She has served as the secretary, chair-elect, and chair for the ADEA Section of Dental Hygiene Education and the ADEA Competencies for Entry into the Allied Dental Professions Work Group.
Hooi Pin Chew, BDS, FDSRCS, PhD graduated from the University of Malaya with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery and obtained her Fellowship in Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeon (FDSRCS) England in 1998 and PhD from Manchester, England, in 2013. Before joining the University of Minnesota, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry at the University of Malaya. She served as the Head of the Department of Conservative Dentistry. In 2013, along with restructuring the departments, the undergraduate curriculum underwent a significant revision, changing from a discipline-based curriculum to an integrated one. Under the new integrated curriculum, the Coordinator of the Integrated Operative Dentistry and Cariology Module coordinates its curriculum, teaching, and assessment. She was involved in the review of this new integrated curriculum, which involved innovations in non-clinical and clinical assessments. In 2014, she was appointed by the Malaysian Dental Dean Council to lead the Malaysian National ICDAS task force to oversee the national implementation of ICDAS in all dental schools in Malaysia. Her main research interest is in developing and validating in vivo diagnostic methodology for dental caries, early erosion, and advanced erosive wear. She was also involved in assessing the efficacy of various dental and biomaterials in treating caries and erosion. She was the Principal Investigator of a High Impact Research Fund awarded by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education. She led a team of researchers on various research projects on the detection of dental caries and dental erosion.
