Dr. Jane A. Weintraub is former dean at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Adams School of Dentistry, is the UNC Rozier Douglass Distinguished Professor, and a leader in research to understand and prevent oral health disparities. Dr. Weintraub earned her D.D.S. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine in 1979. She received her graduate training in public health and dental care administration from Harvard University. She is a board-certified specialist in dental public health.  She served on the faculty at the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1988. In 1988, Dr. Weintraub began her first appointment at UNC.  From 1995 to 2011, she was on the faculty at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She was the principal investigator and director of the NIH-funded Center to Address Disparities in Children’s Oral Health, also known as CAN DO. Dr. Weintraub returned to UNC in 2011 to serve as dean. In 2009, Weintraub received the International Association of Dental Research’s H. Trendley Dean Distinguished Scientist Award for her work in oral epidemiology and dental public health, and in 2010, she received the American Dental Association’s Norton M. Ross Award for Excellence in Clinical Research. She has served as President, American Association for Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR), and as President, American Association of Public Health Dentistry.