ADEA Leadership Institute Class of 2020 Biographies Sercan Akyalcin, Ph.D. Dr. Akyalcin received his training from the Orthodontic Program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Currently, he serves as the Director of the Orthodontics program at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. In his career as a dental educator and orthodontist, he has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers, seven book chapters, co-authored an orthodontic textbook, and has received many prestigious awards, including the American Association of Orthodontists Full-time Faculty Award and American Association of Orthodontists Foundation Fellowship and Biomedical Research Award. He serves actively on the editorial review board of American Journal of Orthodontics, Angle Orthodontist, and other prominent dental journals. Dr. Akyalcin has been honored as an invited speaker at many national and international meetings. Maryam Amin, D.M.D., Ph.D., M.S. Dr. Amin is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Dentistry and cross-appointed in the Division of Community Engagement at the University of Alberta. She received her D.M.D. from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Iran and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Oral Health Sciences from the University of British Columbia (UBC). She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Health Education and received a certificate in Teaching in Higher Education from the UBC Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth. She is the recipient of a graduate teaching award in 2006, Gibb Award for Scholarly Teaching in 2013, and Tier II Clinical Mentoring Award in 2015. Dr. Amin served as the Division Head of Pediatric Dentistry from 2009-2019. Currently she is Director of Clinical and Population Oral Health graduate program and the principal investigator of the International Children’s Oral Health Research (iCOHR) group with a number of ongoing projects. Her program’s mission is to improve the oral health of children through collaborations directed at prevention, education and advocacy. It’s vision is that, through collaborations and partnerships, all high-risk children of marginalized communities will receive similar oral health care as the general population. Her research team explores psychosocial determinants of oral health, barriers to access to dental care, and feasibility of implementing community-based oral health promotion programs responsive to the unique needs of different societal subgroups. She has been engaged in over 30 funded research projects, which have resulted in more than 60 peer- American Dental Education Association Page 1 of 18 ADEA Leadership Institute Class of 2020 Biographies reviewed publications and a number of presentations, mainly in the field of children’s oral health. Fernando Astorga, D.D.S., M.S. Dr. Astorga is the Director of Lifelong Learning and Continuing Dental Education at the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine (CU SDM). He received his dental degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1995, where he attended an AEGD program at the Universidad Santa María, Caracas, Venezuela in 1996. Later he attended a Dental Implant Preceptorship program at the University of Texas-Houston. After completion in 1998, he moved back to his native Venezuela and ran a private practice for nine years while serving as a part-time faculty member. He moved to North Carolina and, in 2013, obtained a certificate and M.S. in Operative Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry. Dr. Astorga joined the faculty of CU SDM in June 2013. He is the Director of Occlusion 1, Treatment Planning, Critical Thinking and Treatment Planning and Case Presentation. He is in charge of the Clinical Photography department, which has 20 digital SLR cameras for students and facult, and is resonsible for training for the students. Dr. Astorga has created three courses and is Co-chair of the iPad for Dental Education Committee, which helps introduce new technologies in teaching during lectures and clinical and preclinical courses. As the Director of Lifelong Learning and Continuing Dental Education, he designs predental activities and courses for high school and college students, focusing on underserved and minority communities to help motivate them to become dental professionals. He also plans and designs continuing education courses for dentists in Colorado and surrounding areas. He has lectured extensively locally, nationally, and internationally at CE events. In 2018 he was elected Secretary of the ADEA ection on Continuing Educationn. Jennifer Bain, D.M.D., M.S.P.H., Ph.D. Dr. Bain is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Periodontics and Preventive Sciences at the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Dentistry (UMMC SOD). She received her dental degree in 2009 from UMMC SOD. She then completed her M.S.P.H. in Clinical Research (2010), Certificate of Residency Training in Periodontology (2012) and Ph.D. in Pathobiology and Molecular Medicine (2014) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Bain joined the faculty at UMMC SOD in 2014. Her primary educational role is to direct the predoctoral didactic and clinical periodontal curriculum. Additionally, she leads an initiative to map and reform the entire predoctoral curriculum. Dr. Bain serves on several institutional committees including Curriculum Committee, Research Advisory Committees, Scholarship Committee, Clinical Advisory American Dental Education Association Page 2 of 18 ADEA Leadership Institute Class of 2020 Biographies Committee, Faculty Senate, and Radiation and Safety Committee. Extramurally, Dr. Bain is one of UMMC’s ADEA CCI liaisons, a 2017 graduate of the ADEA Emerging Academic Leaders Program, serves a Chair of the American Academy of Periodontology Foundation (AAPF) Educator Scholarship Selection Committee, and is a member of the Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Honors Society. Dr. Bain is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a Fellow of the American College of Dentists. Dr. Bain’s accomplishments over the past 10 years include the American Association of Women Dentist Research Scholar Award, AAPF Educator Scholarship, Volpe Prize Winner, Balint Orban Memorial Competition Winner, AAPF Teaching Fellowship, and recipient of student voted teaching awards at UMMC (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018). She was inducted into the Nelson Order for Teaching Excellence at UMMC (2015 and 2016), a recipient of institutional-wide Regions TEACH Prize, American Academy of Periodontology award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring in Periodontics, and the Mississippi Chapter of the American College of Dentists Outstanding Teacher Award. LaToya Barham, D.D.S. Dr. Barham is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at Howard University College of Dentistry (HUCD). She received her D.D.S. from HUCD in 2004 and went on to complete a two-year residency in Pediatric Dentistry at HCUD in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry in 2006. In 2008, she obtained Diplomate status by the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry. Dr. Barham is also a Fellow of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry. Dr. Barham is a member of ADEA and of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and its local chapters in the District of Columbia and Virginia. She is also a member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon, National Dental Society, where she was inducted in 2003 as a dental student. Currently, she balances a career as a private- practice clinician in Northern Virginia and an Assistant Professor, where she also serves as the clinical coordinator for predoctoral education. During her tenure as Assistant Professor, Dr. Barham has served as course director and guest lecturer for several predoctoral courses and as a research advisor to numerous postdoctoral pediatric dental residents. She has chartered and currently is an advisor to the student chapter of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, and serves as co-advisor for the College of Dentistry’s service sorority, Delta Phi Sigma Sorority, Inc. Dr. Barham has also been published along with her colleagues in various dental journals. Dr. Barham is most proud of having the privilege to develop a pipeline program called H.O.P.E.Yes! for underrepresented minority elementary, middle and high school students that has exposed over 100 African-American and Latino children to careers in dentistry, dental hygiene and allied health sciences since its inception in 2013. In 2018, she presented her research on dental pipelines for underrepresented minority students during the Greater New York Dental Meeting and was a CE lecturer on the topic of “Oral Conditions and the Pediatric Patient” during the North Georgia Dental Society’s Annual Fall Meeting. American Dental Education Association Page 3 of 18 ADEA Leadership Institute Class of 2020 Biographies Juliana Barros, D.D.S., M.S. Dr. Barros is an Associate Professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Prosthodontics at the University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston (UTSD). She serves as the Director for the Laser Dentistry Clinic, Operative Dentistry I and II. Dr. Barros earned her D.D.S. from the University of Uberaba, Brazil in 1995. She has postgraduate training in Restorative Dentistry from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. In addition, she earned a master’s degree in Laser Dentistry from the Nuclear and Energy Research Institute and University of São Paulo, Brazil. She completed the Health Educators Fellowship Program, a certificate program designed to expand the teaching skills and enhance the educational mission at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Barros lectures and conducts research in restorative dentistry, biomaterials, and hard/soft tissue laser applications. Recognizing great opportunities to advance knowledge and treatment in laser dentistry, she developed the laser dentistry curriculum at UTSD and is the acting director of the laser clinic. She is a member of several organizations, such as the Academy of Laser Dentistry, Academy of Operative Dentistry, International Association for Dental Research, American Dental Education Association, and the Consortium of Operative Dentistry Educators.