Board of Commissioners

Members of the Commission on Dental Accreditation are selected in accordance with the Rules of the Commission on Dental Accreditation, and the Constitution and Bylaws, and Governance and Organizational Manual, of the American Dental Association. The current members and trainees are listed below. Detailed Commissioner member biographical information (PDF) is available to download.

Frank Licari – South Jordan, UT (Chair)

Evanthia Anadioti – Philadelphia, PA

Indraneel Bhattacharyya - Gainesville, FL

Margaret Bowman-Pensel – Clearwater, FL

Carolyn Brown – Columbia, SC

Ngoc Quang Chu – Gaithersburg, MD

Joseph Cohen – Scottsdale, AZ

Jill Day – Papillion, NE

Scott DeRossi – High Point, NC

Cherae Farmer-Dixon – Nashville, TN

Joseph, Giovannitti – Pittsburgh, PA

Catherine Hayes – Boston, MA

LaShun James – Matteson, IL

George Kushner – Louisville, KY

Jessica Lee – Chapel Hill, NC

Cataldo Leone – Boston, MA (Vice-Chair)

Paul Luepke – Memphis, TN

Lisa Mayer – Livingston, NJ

Keith Mays – Minneapolis, MN

Renee McCoy-Collins – Washington, DC

Monica Nenad – Tempe, AZ

Lisa Nowlin – Elk City, OK

Cornelius Pitts – Philadelphia, PA

Jeffery Price – Baltimore, MD

Kanthasamy Ragunanthan – Canton, OH

Miriam Robbins – Philadelphia, PA

Nancy Rosenthal – Jenkintown, PA

Kenneth Sadler – Lewisville, NC

Glenn Sameshima – Los Angeles, CA

Fabricio Teixeira – Iowa City, IA

Lonnie Thompson – Dublin, OH

Deborah Weisfuse – New York, NY

Noah Williams – Washington, DC

Current Commissioner Trainees

Dr. Richard Callan

Dr. Russell Chin

Ms. Shiraz Ibrahim

Dr. Patrick Lloyd

Dr. Andres Pinto

Dr. Jeff Shaefer

Ms. Laura Sheppard

Dr. James Tom

Dr. Loana Tovar Suinaga

Dr. Brent Ward

Dr. Allen Wong