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Resident
University of California, San Francsico
University of California, San Francisco
Mimansa Cholera, BDS, DDS, MPH is a third-year pediatric dental resident at UCSF. Mimansa Cholera grew up in India. She moved to San Francisco Bay area after completing her dental training (BDS) in India. She earned her Master’s in Public Health from UC Davis in 2017. She worked as an Epidemiologist at San Francisco Department of Public Health focusing on Children’s oral health in San Francisco for 1.5 years before going to the University of Washington where she earned her DDS in 2021. She feels privileged to be able to care for children through her pediatric dental residency at UCSF. She has always been passionate about impacting children’s lives by doing meaningful work that lies at the intersection of clinical and public health. She is thrilled to present findings from her research. Her research was on “Saliva Insulin as an innovative method of risk assessment for caries, diabetes and obesity that can be reduced by drinking water intervention.” This randomized controlled trial was conducted over two years that focused on identifying non-invasive saliva biomarkers of preventable common chronic diseases in children at a larger scale in San Francisco for elementary age school children.