consists of the following officers and councilors.
2020-2021 Executive Council and Committee Roster
Executive Council
President: Ellen Eisenberg
President-Elect: Donald M. Cohen
Vice President: Paul C. Edwards
Secretary/Treasurer: Kurt Summersgill (2021)
Editor: Faizan Alawi (2021)
Dir. of Education: Elizabeth Bilodeau (2021)
Past President: Mark Lingen
COUNCILORS:
Christel Haberland (2021)
Mitzi J. Palazzolo (2021)
Ashley Clark (2022)
Brenda Nelson (2022)
Hardeep K. Chehal (2023)
Denise A. Trochesset (2023)
ABOMP BOARD LIAISON
Susan Zunt (Oct. 2020)
AAOMP
Lisa J. Mikita, CAE, CMP Executive Director
Karen Benton, Administrative Director
CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS
Nora Odingo (2021)
Andres Flores (2022)
Dwight Weathers, Parliamentarian
Michael Kahn, Alternate Parliamentarian
EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Bilodeau, Chair (2021)
Leticia Ferreira (2021)
Brandon Veremis (2022)
Stephanie Wetzel (2023)
Molly Smith (2024)
Paras Patel (2025)
Eugene Ko, IT Committee Chair
IT SUBCOMMITTEE – Scientific Program
Eugene Ko, Chair (2020)
Anupama Grandhi (2021)
Aparna Naidu (2021)
Raj Gopalakrishnan (2022)
FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE
Kevin Torske, Chair (2020)
Yi-Shing Lisa Cheng (2021)
Kristin K. McNamara (2022)
Nadim Islam (2023)
Colin Eliot (2024)
LABORATORY SERVICE
Victoria Woo, Chair (2021)
Aparna Naidu (2022)
Sarah Glass (2023)
Robert Kelsch (2024)
Valerie Murrah, IPC Rep, ex-officio
NOMINATION
Robert Foss, Chair
Mark Lingen
Molly Housley Smith (2020)
Paras Patel (2021)
Riya Kuklani (2022)
PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
Stephanie Wetzel, Chair (2021)
Anne McLean-Holden (2022)
Scott Peters (2023)
Mark Lingen – ex-officio
RESEARCH & SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS
Catherine Poh, Chair (2021)
Jill Kramer, Secretary (2022)
John Basile (2023)
Marco Magalhaes (2024)
Patricia DeVilliers (2025)
Ad Hoc Committee on Social Media
Ashley Clark, Chair
Shruti Kashikar
Liya Davidova
Mark Mintline
Stephanie Wetzel – (also acts as liaison with Professional and Public Relations Committee)
CERP Representative
Maria Carolina Cuevas-Nunez
CODA
John Hellstein
OOO Additional Positions
Mark Lingen, DDS, PhD (EIC)
Sarah Fitzpatrick, DDS (CPC)
Editorial Board Members: Oral Pathology Section
Grace Bradley, DDS
Angela C. Chi, DMD
Maria Cuevas-Nunez, DMD, DMSc
Mark Darling, MSc
Rajaram Gopalakrishnan, BDS, PhD
Bruno Jham, DDS, MS, PhD
Richard Jordan, DDS, MSc, PhD
Michael A. Kahn, DDS
John Kalmar, DMD, PhD
Jill Kramer, DDS, PhD
Zoya Kurago, DDS, PhD
Yu Lei, DDS, PhD
Marco Magalhaes, DDS, MSc, PhD, FRCDC
Nikolaos G. Nikitakis, MD, DDS, PhD
Catherine Poh, DDS, PhD
Nasser Said-Al-Naief, DDS, MS
Nadarajah Vigneswaran, BDS, DMD
Victoria Woo, DDS
Non-AAOMP Members:
Irit Allon, DMD, Phd
Ricardo Santiago-Gomez
Keith Hunter
Manoela Domingues Martins
Rui Amaral-Mendes, DMD, PhD
Alan Roger Santos-Silva
Takashi Takata, DDS
Wanninayake Tilakaratne, DDS
Pablo A. Vargas, DDS
The following standing committees form the basic structure of the AAOMP. Click on a committee to learn more.