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.

Cataldo Leone – Boston, MA (Chair)

Keith Mays – Minneapolis, MN (Vice-Chair)

Indraneel Bhattacharyya - Gainesville, FL

Margaret Bowman-Pensel – Clearwater, FL

Richard Callan – Evans, GA

Russell Chin – Pawtucket, RI

Ngoc Quang Chu – Gaithersburg, MD

Jill Day – Papillion, NE

Theresa Gonzales – Savannah, GA

Catherine Hayes – Boston, MA

Shiraz Ibrahim – Nashville, TN

LaShun James – Matteson, IL

Jessica Lee – Chapel Hill, NC

Patrick Lloyd – Stony Brook, NY

Paul Luepke – Memphis, TN

Lisa Mayer – Livingston, NJ

Renee McCoy-Collins – Washington, DC

Monica Nenad – Tempe, AZ

Lisa Nowlin – Elk City, OK

Andres Pinto – Cleveland, OH

Cornelius Pitts – Philadelphia, PA

Jeffery Price – Baltimore, MD

Kanthasamy Ragunanthan – Canton, OH

Kenneth Sadler – Lewisville, NC

Glenn Sameshima – Los Angeles, CA

Jeffry Shaefer – Boston, MA

Fabricio Teixeira – Iowa City, IA

James Tom- Los Angeles, CA

Loana Tovar Suinaga- Baltimore, MD

Brent Ward- Ann Arbor, MI

Tramain Watkins- Rio Rancho, NM

Allen Wong – San Francisco, CA

Current Commissioner Trainees

Jennifer Barber

Niki Carter 

Marcia Ditmyer

Sukirth Ganesan

Ronnie Myers

Erin Roberts

Rashidah Wiley