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Andréa G. Ferreira Zandoná, DDS, MSD, PhD is a tenured Associate Professor of the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry at Indiana University School of Dentistry. Dr. Zandoná is originally from Curitiba, Brazil where she received her dental degree from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná. After receiving her dental degree in 1990 she was a visiting scholar at College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Operative Dentistry. Dr. Zandoná affiliation with Indiana University School of Dentistry began in 1991 when she was accepted in the Graduate Operative Dentistry program which led to her MSD in 1994. She later (1997) completed a PhD program in Dental Sciences at Indiana University with a dissertation on "Detection of Demineralization on Occlusal Pit and Fissures". She then joined the university as Visiting Assistant Scientist and in 1998, accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor at IUSD. She took a leave of absence then and returned to Brazil where she joined the faculty of Braz Cubas University School of Dentistry in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo (1998-1999), and then Tuiuti University School of Dentistry in Curitiba, Paraná (1999-2001) while she also worked in private practice. In January 2001 she returned to Indiana and resumed her activities at IUSD. Dr. Zandoná has lectured as an invited speaker throughout the country and abroad, and is involved in teaching both at the graduate and undergraduate level and is the coordinator for the Caries Risk Management Competency. She has been an active participant in the Problem Based Learning aspects of the Curriculum. She is the Director of the Early Caries Detection and Management Research Program. She has been involved in many aspects of clinical research focusing on early caries diagnosis and has received research grants as principal investigator from the National Institutes of Health, the Delta Dental Fund and private industry. She is a member of the International Caries Detection and Assessment System Committee. She has been a member for many years of the International Association for Dental Research, and the European Organization for Caries Research (ORCA), and the Academy of Operative Dentistry. She is the current president (2007-2008) of the Indiana Section of the American Association of Dental Research.
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