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Dr. Claman earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from The Ohio State University College of Dentistry and a Certificate in Pediatric Dentistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2012, he joined the college as an assistant professor-clinical and Nationwide Children’s Hospital as part of the pediatric dentistry team. In 2019, he assumed the role of associate program director for the Advanced Education Program in Pediatric Dentistry as well as director for the Pediatric Dentistry Service Fellowship at the college and Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

As a clinical faculty member and associate program director, Dr. Claman provides instruction for pre-doctoral students and pediatric dentistry residents while also caring directly for pediatric dental patients. He is the immediate past president of the Ohio Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, and he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry.

Dr. Hammersmith earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of North Carolina. She then completed her pediatric dentistry residency at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and was awarded a Master of Science degree from The Ohio State University College of Dentistry. In May 2016, she began serving as the outreach coordinator at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and as an adjunct assistant professor in the Ohio State College of Dentistry’s Division of Pediatric Dentistry. In July 2019, she assumed the role of director of the Advanced Education Program in Pediatric Dentistry.

As a clinical faculty member and program director in the college, Dr. Hammersmith provides instruction for pre-doctoral students and pediatric dentistry residents while also caring directly for pediatric dental patients. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry.

Dr. Harrington earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery and Master of Science degrees as well as a Certificate in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at The Ohio State University. She also earned a General Practice Residency Certificate from St. Luke’s Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Her professional career has included more than 20 years in private practice. In 2013, she assumed the position of assistant professor-clinical in the college’s Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. She previously served for several years as the director of the college’s Sterilization Monitoring Service.

In 1986, Dr. Harrington received the American Association of Women Dentists (AWD) Award from the Ohio State College of Dentistry’s AWD chapter. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.

Ms. Henderson earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Dental Hygiene from The Ohio State University College of Dentistry. She then completed a Master of Science degree from Ohio State’s Allied Health Medicine program. She has served as an assistant professor in the college’s Division of Dental Hygiene since 2006, and she served for many years as a dental hygienist in private practices.

Ms. Henderson has received numerous awards over the course of her career, including the Student Government Association’s Didactic Teaching Award in 2018 and 2022, the Postle Teaching Award in 2018, and the Division of Dental Hygiene’s Outstanding Instructor Award in 2015.

In 2020, Ms. Henderson was selected as a recipient of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) / Colgate-Palmolive Co. Allied Dental Educators Fellowship.

Ms. Kissell earned her Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene and her Master of Public Health degrees from The Ohio State University. She is a certified tobacco treatment specialist and a certified instructor for Basic Life Support. She has also served for many years as a dental hygienist in various private practices.

An assistant professor-clinical in the college’s Division of Dental Hygiene since 2006, Ms. Kissell teaches courses to dental hygiene students, as well as Expanded Functions Dental Assistant (EFDA) Continuing Education (CE) and Dental Hygiene EFDA programs.

She has been honored with numerous awards, receiving the Student Government Association’s Didactic Teaching Award five times between 2008 and 2021.

Dr. McNamara earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Michigan. She completed her residency training in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at The Ohio State University. She joined the college as an assistant professor-clinical in the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology in 2009 and was promoted to associate professor-clinical in 2018. She has served as the principal investigator or co-investigator on several funded grants and has mentored many dental student researchers.

Dr. McNamara is a Fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.

Dr. Mikhail earned her Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree from the Alexandria University College of Dentistry in Alexandria, Egypt. She completed her General Practice Residency at The Ohio State University College of Dentistry and went on to earn her Master’s Degree in Dental Materials Science at Ohio State.

In 2012, Dr. Mikhail became a full-time assistant professor-clinical in the Division of Restorative and Prosthetic Dentistry. As a member of faculty, she supports didactic and clinical courses in the predoctoral restorative dentistry curricula.

Dr. Stefanik earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery and Master of Arts in Bioethics degrees at The Ohio State University.

She joined the college as a full-time faculty member in 2009, serving as an assistant professor in the Division of Restorative and Prosthetic Dentistry. She also launched the college’s Ethics and Professionalism Work Group, and she is the faculty advisor for the Professionalism and Ethics in Dentistry Association student organization.

Dr. Stefanik was recognized with the Larry Peterson Young Educator’s Award in 2010, the Postle Teaching Award in 2016, and Student Government Teaching Awards in 2013 and 2017. She is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists.

Dr. Townsend earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the Marquette University School of Dentistry. She then completed her Master of Science degree in pediatric dentistry from The Ohio State University and a certificate in pediatric dentistry from Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Townsend previously served as an associate professor and chair of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the Louisiana State Health Sciences Center School of Dentistry, where she was also the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana Professor in Pediatric Dentistry.

In July 2018, she became the Chief of Pediatric Dentistry at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the college’s chair of the Division of Pediatric Dentistry. She has been committed to improving preventative dental care for at-risk populations, enhancing the efficiency of dental services provided to children, and developing a population-based approach to oral health care.

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