Biography
I am a board certified Pediatric Dentist in Chicago I have an M.Sc. in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from Michigan State University (1982). i teach in the Pediatric Dentistry residency training program at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago and also serve as a dental consultant to the Lurie Sleep Medicine service. I am an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas mentoring PhD research, and also serve as a Visiting Consulting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archeology and Anthropology where I am collaboratively exploring a hypothetical relationship between changed dietary practices since the Industrial Revolution and diminished human dentofacial development. I lecture worldwide on the topics of Early Childhood Malocclusion (under age 72 months old), pediatric sleep-breathing hygiene and Evolutionary Oral Medicine/Darwinian Dentistry