AADR Strides in Science

Ana Karina Mascarenhas, B.D.S., M.P.H., Dr.P.H. is the Associate Dean of research at Nova Southeastern University’s College of Dental Medicine.

Mascarenhas has a B.D.S. degree from Goa College and Hospital in India and also holds a M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with an emphasis on oral epidemiology. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public Health and Fellow in Dental Surgery of the College Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. She has held positions at The Ohio State University, Columbus and Boston University’s Goldman School of Dental Medicine where she was the Graduate Program Director for Dental Public Health, and the project director for Boston University’s Robert Wood Johnson Community-Based Dental Education Program. She also held an appointment at Forsyth Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.

Mascarenhas serves on the editorial boards of journals, is a statistical consultant for Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Endodontics, she has chaired Health and Human Resource Administration Independent Review Panels and has served on review panels for NIH and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.