Healthy People 2030 Oral Health Objective Promotion Webinar Series: Reducing the proportion of children and adolescents with untreated tooth decay

Rear Admiral (Ret.) Timothy L. Ricks, DMD, MPH, FICD, FACD, FPFA, retired USPHS chief dental officer served as the 20th Chief Dental Officer of the U.S. Public Health Service as well as Assistant Surgeon General from 2018 to 2022. Dr. Ricks served in the U.S. Public Health Service for over 23 years as a clinician and an administrator, and over 35 years of total federal service including military service.

Margherita Fontana, DDS, PhD, is the Clifford Nelson Endowed Professor of Dentistry in the Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences and Endodontics, and Director of the Global Initiatives Program in Oral and Craniofacial Health at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry (U-M). She currently is Co-chair of the Alliance for a Cavity Free Future (ACFF) Canada-US Chapter, and Vice-President of the European Organization for Caries Research (ORCA).

Robert Weyant, is professor dental public health, epidemiology, and translational sciences and chair of the Department of Dental Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Weyant is the current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Dentistry. Dr. Weyant’s research involves general and social epidemiological research related to oral health disparities and oral disease etiology.

Dr. McKee is a graduate of the University of Louisville School of Dentistry and practiced as a general dentist in the foothills of Appalachia for a decade. She has a background in public health from directing a regional health department for a dozen years and has been Kentucky’s state dental director for over 15 years.

Dr. Adam Barefoot serves as the chief dental officer of the Health Resources and Services Administration, a position he’s held since June 2022. Prior to that, Dr. Barefoot served as the state dental director for the Georgia Department of Public Health and as a dental director for a federally qualified health center in rural Georgia