is a Professor in the Division of Pediatric and Public Health the Adam School of Dentistry and the Department of Epidemiology, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a board-certified pediatric dentist. He is also an oral and genetic epidemiologist, with a research focus on the intersection of clinical, biological, and public health research for precision pediatric oral health applications. His NIH-funded research program includes genomics studies of early childhood caries, the oral microbiome, and integrative clinical and omics investigations. Currently, he studies the interplay between biological (i.e., multi-omics), behavioral, environmental, and social determinants of early childhood caries in the context of a large, multi-ethnic, community-based cohort of preschool-age children in North Carolina.