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Karen M. Yoder, M.S.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Community Dentistry Division
Director, SEAL INDIANA |
Karen Masbaum Yoder, MSD, PhD is Professor and Director of the Division of
Community Dentistry in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry and
Director of the SEAL INDIANA Program. Other roles include Adjunct faculty
appointments in the Department of Public Health, IU School of Medicine and at
Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne. Dr. Yoder is a member of the
Community Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Consultancy Network and is a
faculty member for CCPH’s annual summer service-learning institute. Previous
appointments include Research Associate, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
and Region V Head Start Oral Health Consultant.
Her responsibilities at IUSD include teaching dental public health, including
oral health policy skills, and promoting and coordinate service-learning and
community engaged scholarship. She is the founding director of SEAL INDIANA,
IUSD’s state-wide mobile dental sealant program. Since 2003, using a 40’ mobile
dental clinic and portable dental equipment SEAL INDIANA has provided services
for more than 17,000 children from low-income families throughout Indiana. In
2000 Dr. Yoder initiated an international service-learning program at IUSD. With
the help of other IUSD faculty members and students, the program has grown and
now participants have developed partnerships and annual programs with eight
communities located in six countries. In the 2008-2009 academic year 50 IUSD
students and faculty members will engage in broad preparation followed by travel
and work through IUSD’s international service-learning program.
In 2008 Dr. Yoder received the Indiana University Thomas Ehrlich Award for
Excellence in Service Learning and the Distinguished Hoosier Award from Governor
Mitch Daniels. Other honors include: Partner of the Year, Goodwill Industries of
Indianapolis; IUPUI Boyer Scholar; IUSN Fellow of the Institute for Action
Research in Health; Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honorary Society, IUSD
Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award; Indiana Dental Association
Charles W. Gish Award.
Dr. Yoder began her dental career as a dental hygienist. She was in clinical
dental hygiene practice for 10 years in Indiana following which she, her
husband, Dr. Keith Yoder, and their four children lived in Tanzania, East Africa
where they worked in dental public health for five years. After the Yoders
returned to Indiana she became a consultant for the Indiana State Department of
Health (ISDH) until 2002. During the 1980s and 1990s she completed the MSD in
dental public health and a PhD in dental science with a minor in health policy
and health of the community. Her dissertation research explored the causes of
severe dental and skeletal fluorosis among residents of an area of East Africa
where there was negligible fluoride in the water supply. She joined Indiana
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Selected Publications
Yoder KM, Maupome G, Ofner S, Swigonski N. Knowledge and Use of Fluoride Among Indiana Dental Professionals. Journal of Public Health Dentistry Vol.67(3)140-147 Summer 2007
Yoder KM, Mabelya L, Robison VA, Dunipace AJ, Brizendine EJ, Stookey GK. Severe dental fluorosis in a Tanzanian population consuming water with negligible fluoride concentration. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 1998; 26:382-93
Yoder KM. A Framework for Service-Learning in Dental Education. Journal of Dental Education. 2006;70(2)115-123
Yoder KM. Indiana’s Dental Workforce: Distribution and Related Issues. JIDA 2007; 86(2)10-15
Yoder KM. The Status of Kindergarten and Middle School Entry Dental Examinations in Indiana, JIDA 2005; 83(5)15-18
Garetto L, Yoder KM. Basic Oral Health Needs: A Professional Priority? Journal of Dental Education. 70(11)2006: 1174-1179.
Yoder KM. Community Oral Health, Chapter 31, in Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent. Editors, McDonald and Avery. Mosby, 7th edition. 2000
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Academic Background
PhD Major: Dental Science. Minor: Health Policy and Health of the Community
MSD Dental Public Health
BS Public Health Dental Hygiene
ASDH Dental Hygiene |
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Contact Information
Phone: 317.278.7872
Fax: 317.274.5425
Email: kmyoder@iupui.edu |
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Indiana University School of Dentistry
Oral Health Research Institute
415 Lansing St., Indianapolis, IN 46202 |
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