Ana
Karina Mascarenhas, Principal Investigator
Dr.
Ana Karina Mascarenhas is Director of the Division of Dental Public
Health, program director of the Graduate Program in Dental Public Health,
and an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Health
Services Research in the Goldman School of Dental Medicine at Boston
University.
Dr.
Mascarenhas received her BDS in 1985 from the Goa Dental College and
Hospital, Goa, India. She received her MPH in 1992 and her DrPH in 1995,
from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is a Diplomate
of the American Board of Dental Public Health. Dr. Mascarenhas is Committee
Member, Continuing Education Recognition Program, American Dental Association,
and Consultant, Commission on Dental Accreditation, American Dental
Association. Her primary areas of research interest are in oral epidemiology
and health services research.
Dr. Mascarenhas
is the project director of the New England Dental Access Project funded
by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The goals of the project are
to develop and enlarge community-based clinical education programs at
BUSDM that provide care to underserved populations throughout New England
and to develop, implement, and monitor programs to increase recruitment
and retention of underrepresented minority and low-income students.
Dr.
Mascarenhas is the PI of the Training and Career Development Core of
the Center for Research to Evaluate and Eliminate Dental Disparities
(CREEDD), and the PI of a grant to study the association between Viadent
use and oral leukoplakia funded by the American Cancer Society. Dr.
Mascarenhas is also the Program Director of the Dental Public Health
Residency Training Grant funded by HRSA.
