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Luciana Shaddox, Faculty (she/her/hers)

Professor and Associate Dean for Research
University of Kentucky College of Dentistry
University of Kentucky

Dr. Luciana Shaddox joined the University of Kentucky Division of Periodontology as a professor with tenure as of July 2018 and became the Associate Dean of Research for the College of Dentistry in July 2019. She obtained her DDS, MS at University of Campinas, Brazil and her PhD in periodontology and oral microbiology at a combined program with University of Campinas and University of Florida in 2005 and a pos-doctoral fellowship in Oral Microbiology at UF in 2006. She worked at UF Periodontology department from 2006-2018. Currently at UK, she directs all research activities at the college of Dentistry, the Kentucky Oral health Innovation Initiative, actively participates in Periodontology and other courses at UK and several local and national/international committees and has a clinical translational research program supported by NIH since 2009, with a main focus in immunological, microbiological and genetic factors involved with localized aggressive periodontal disease (Grade C Molar incisor pattern) in children and adolescents. She has over 75 publications, has been a member of NIH study sections for several years, she is an editorial board member for the Journal of Clinical of Periodontology, associate editor for the Journal of Periodontology and is the recipient of several research student-mentored awards and personal awards, including the prestigious American Academy of Periodontology Teaching Award and the University of Florida and University of Kentucky Professorship Awards.

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