Dr. Neamant Hassan Abubakr is a professor in Residence of Biomedical Sciences at the School of Dental Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nevada. She received her Bachelor of Dental Medicine and Surgery from Mansoura University, Egypt, in 1988; her Diploma of Surgical Subspecialty, in Vienna, Austria, in 1993; her Master of Conservative Dentistry from Dundee, Scotland, in 1995; and her Ph.D. from Niigata University, Japan, in 2001. Dr. Hassan has been involved in full-time dental education since 1995. She began at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, where she quickly rose through the ranks to become a Chair and Professor of the Department. She also earned the distinction of being the first female full professor of dentistry in Sudan. In 2017, she joined the UNLV School of Dental Medicine as a visiting associate professor. Dr. Hassan’s research focuses on dental materials, oral health research, and clinical research. Her novel research was one of the first to highlight the influence of dietary components on the performance of dental materials in the oral cavity.