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Martha H. Wells, DMD

Chief of Dentistry, Department of Surgery
St. Jude
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Martha Wells, DMD, MS is the Chief of Dentistry at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Affiliate Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry. She is the first dentist to be appointed on faculty track at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with the rank equivalent to a Full Professor in a traditional medical school. She attended the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University and received her Master of Science Degree and specialty Certificate of Pediatric Dentistry from The Ohio State University. Prior to joining St. Jude, she was Director of the Pediatric Dentistry Residency at UTHSC and was the first Distinguished Professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry as the recipient of the Heber Simmons Jr. Distinguished Professor of Pediatric Dentistry. She served as research advisor for multiple residents which resulted in numerous publications in journals such as Pediatric Dentistry, the Journal of the American Dental Association, the International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, Dental Traumatology, and the Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry. She has authored five textbook chapters and serves as one of the editors for the sixth edition of Pediatric Dentistry: Infancy through Adolescence. She has served on the Board of Editors for the Journal of Dentistry for Children and on the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry’s Behavior Guidance Workgroup which recently published evidence-based guidelines on behavior guidance. She currently serves on the Board of Editors for Pediatric Dentistry, the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry’s Qualifying Examination Committee, and the AAPD’s Scientific Programming Committee. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, the wife of Dr. Kevin Wells, and the mom of three grade schoolers: a musician, a soccer player, and a ballerina.

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