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Domenick
T. Zero, D.D.S., M.S.
Professor and Department Chair
Director, Oral Health Research Institute
Associate Dean for Research
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Domenick T. Zero, DDS, MS, holds the position of Associate
Dean for Research, Director of the
Oral Health Research Institute and Professor and Chair of the
Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry at
Indiana University School of Dentistry. Dr. Zero previously held
the position of Associate Director for Research and Associate Professor of
Oral Sciences at Eastman Dental Center, Rochester, New York and Professor of
Dentistry at the University of Rochester. After receiving his dental degree
from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1975, Dr. Zero completed a
general dentistry residency at the Eastman Dental Center and then a
three-year research fellowship leading to a master's degree from the
University of Rochester in 1979. As a principal investigator, he has
received research grants from the National Institutes of Health and private
industry totaling over ten million dollars. Dr. Zero has lectured
extensively as an invited speaker throughout the country and abroad and is
well recognized for his expertise in the field of Cariology and the use of
in situ caries models. In 1996 he assumed the presidency of the Cariology
Research Group of the International Association for Dental Research. From
1999 to 2001 he served as an elected member European Organization for Caries
Research (ORCA) Advisory Board. He was recently elected to a one-year term
as chair of the American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs,
an organization he has served as a member of for the past three years and as
vice-chair during 2003-2004. He was also recently appointed as a member of
the Dental Products Panel of the Food and Drug Administration's Medical
Devices Advisory Committee, and as a member of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's Expert Panel on School-based Dental Sealant
Programs.
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