Contact Us

Whom to contact depends on where your practice is. If you are in Florida or Georgia, please contact Deborah McEdward as below. If you are in the Permanente Dental Associates, please contact Lisa Waiwaiole. If you are in Minnesota, please contact Emily Durand. If you are in Scandinavia, please contact Pia Nörrisgaard. If you are in Alabama or Mississippi or not in one of the areas mentioned above, please contact Andrea Mathews.

Deborah McEdward, RDH, BS is regional coordinator for the Florida and Georgia enrollees. She is the Education and Training Coordinator for DPBRN. She can be reached in the Operative Dentistry Department at the University of Florida College of Dentistry at dmcedward@dental.ufl.edu or by telephone at (352) 273-5848.

Emily Durand, RDH is regional coordinator for the Minnesota dental PBRN. She is a Research Project Manager at HealthPartners Research Foundation in Bloomington, Minnesota. She can be reached at Emily.C.Durand@HealthPartners.com or at her office in the foundation by telephone at (952) 967-7404.

Pia Nørrisgaard is the Regional Coordinator for DPBRN at the Royal Dental College in Copenhagen, Denmark. She can be reached at pengd@sund.ku.dk or by telephone at +45 35 32 68 19.

Andrea H. Mathews, BS, RDH is Program Manager for DPBRN. She can be reached at ahmathews@uab.edu or at her office in the Department of General Dental Sciences in the School of Dentistry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham by telephone at (205) 934-2578.

Lisa Waiwaiole, MS is regional coordinator for the Kaiser Permanente Northwest/Permanente Dental Associates region of DPBRN. She is a Research Associate II at Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon. She can be reached at lisa.ann.waiwaiole@kpchr.org or by telephone at (503) 335-2454.

Gerald A. Anderson, DMD is a full-time private practitioner in Selma, AL. He serves on the DPBRN Executive Committee.

James Bader, DDS, MPH is Research Professor in the Department of Operative Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Cecil Sheps Center for Health Services Research. He is Principal Investigator of the Network Chair sub-contract with the UNC-CH.

Sarah Basile, RDH, MPH is Research Coordinator for HealthPartners Research Foundation. Her email address is sarah.m.basile@healthpartners.com.

Ola Johan Basmo, DDS, MPH is County Dental Officer in Hedmark, Norway. As Director of The Public Dental Service in Hedmark, he coordinates the participation of practitioner-investigators in the Norwegian region of DPBRN.

Paul Benjamin, DMD, MAGD is in the full-time private practice of general dentistry at 25 SE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33131. In addition to serving on the DPBRN Executive Committee, Dr. Benjamin also serves as adjunct instructor at the University of Florida College of Dentistry and the University of Miami College of Medicine's Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

Donald J. DeNucci, DDS, MS is a Health Scientist Administrator with the Division of Clinical Research and Health Promotion at the NIDCR. He serves as an NIDCR program representative on the DPBRN Executive Committee.

Lene Fabricius-Bekker is part-time Regional Coordinator for the Scandinavian region.

Jeffrey L. Fellows, PhD is a health economist and Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Northwest Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon. He is Principal Investigator of the Network Chair sub-contract with Kaiser Permanente Northwest Center for Health Research and a member of the DPBRN Steering Committee.

Patrick J. Foy, DDS has been in full-time private practice in Minneapolis, MN for 26 years. He was the President of the Minnesota Dental Association from 2004-2005 and is currently a delegate for the American Dental Association House of Delegates. Dr. Foy serves on the DPBRN Executive Committee for a three-year term of 2007-2010.

Ellen Funkhouser, DrPH is Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health, and Director of the Coordinating Center. She can be contacted via email (emfunk@uab.edu) or telephone (205-934-1120).

Gregg Gilbert, DDS, MBA is Network Chair of DPBRN and Principal Investigator of the DPBRN Network Chair grant (U01-DE-16747). He is Chair of the DPBRN Executive Committee and a member of the DPBRN Steering Committee. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of General Dental Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Valeria Gordan, DDS, MS is Professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry at the University of Florida College of Dentistry. She is Principal Investigator of the Network Chair sub-contract with the University of Florida and a member of the DPBRN Steering Committee and the Publications & Presentations Committee.

Pearl Harris, BASDH, RDH is Regional Coordinator for the Florida and Georgia region. She can be reached via email at pharris@dental.ufl.edu

Thomas Houston, MD, MPH is Professor in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Health Informatics and Implementation Science. He is also director of the eHealth QUERI at the Bedford Massachusetts VAMC. He serves as PI of multiple VA and NIH funded eHealth projects and is director of the biomedical informatics component of the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences.

Mark Litaker, PhD is Director of Biostatistics for the School of Dentistry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of General Dental Sciences.

Sonia Makhija, DDS, MPH is Director of Communications for DPBRN. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of General Dental Sciences in the School of Dentistry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Gail Morgan is Program Manager for the Kaiser Permanente Northwest/Permanente Dental Associates region of DPBRN.

Liselotte Persson, DDS practices full-time in a Swedish public dental health service-based practice. She is a member of the DPBRN Executive Committee.

Daniel J. Pihlstrom, DDS is an Associate Director and Chair of Clinical Effectiveness and Oral Health Research for Permanente Dental Associates in Portland Oregon. Dr. Pihlstrom also maintains a clinical practice in general dentistry and has served as an Executive Committee member for the DPBRN since 2005.

Vibeke Qvist, DDS, PhD, DrOdont is Associate Professor, Department of Cariology and Endodontics, Royal Dental College, Copenhagen, Denmark. She is Principal Investigator of the Network Chair sub-contract with the University of Copenhagen and a member of the DPBRN Steering Committee.

Brad Rindal, DDS is Investigator at the HealthPartners Research Foundation. He also maintains a clinical practice in TMD/Orofacial Pain and is an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry. Dr. Rindal is Principal Investigator of the Network Chair sub-contract with the HealthPartners Research Foundation, is a member of the DPBRN Steering Committee, and Chair of the DPBRN Publications and Presentations Committee. From 2005-2007, he was the practitioner-investigator representative for the HP/MN region on the DPBRN Executive Committee.

Michelle A. Robinson, DMD, MA is Director of DPBRN Dental Informatics and Assistant Dean of Informatics in the School of Dentistry at the University of Alabama School at Birmingham.

John Snyder, DMD is the Dental Director for Permanente Dental Associates in Portland Oregon and is a practitioner-investigator with DPBRN.

Sherry M Sutphin, BS is a Regional Coordinator for the Alabama/Mississippi region of DPBRN. She is a Research Assistant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She can be reached at ssutphin@uab.edu or by telephone at (205) 996-5412.

Brenda E. Thacker, RDH is Coordinator for research programs and services at the University of Florida College of Dentistry, Departments of Orthodontics and Endodontics. In addition, she works part-time as the Program Assistant and Grant Manager of the Florida/Georgia region of the DPBRN, in the Department for Restorative Dental Sciences.

Martha C. Wallace, DMD, MPH, MS is in full-time private practice at 2229 Morris Avenue, Birmingham, Alabama 35203. Dr. Wallace serves on the DPBRN Executive Committee.

Heather Weidner, BS, RDH is Research Coordinator for HealthPartners Research Foundation. Her email address is Heather.A.Weidner@HealthPartners.com.

Dale Williams, PhD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Florida International University. From 2005-2011, he was in the Division of Preventive Medicine in the UAB School of Medicine and Director of the DPBRN Coordinating Center and Principal Investigator of the DPBRN Coordinating Center grant (U01-DE-16746). He remains a member of the DPBRN Publications & Presentations Committee and Liaison For Coordinating Center/Network Chair activities.