Welcome, Dr. Woosung Sohn

GSDM is pleased to announce the appointment of Woosung Sohn, DDS, PhD, DrPH, as the Director of the Division of Dental Public Health and as Program Director of the Advanced Education Program in Dental Public Health.  Dr. Sohn joined the faculty as Associate Professor of Health Policy and Health Services Research on August 1. During the past academic year Chair of General Dentistry Dr. Judith Jones ably served as ad interim Program Director.

Dr. Sohn is a graduate of Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, and of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where he received his DrPH degree. He came to GSDM from the University of Michigan where he held a joint faculty appointment as Associate Professor at the School of Dentistry and Director of the Dental Public Health Program in the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health.

Dr. Sohn has attained national and international recognition as a leading scholar in oral epidemiology and health services research, with particular interests in oral health disparities research. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public Health and was a Fellow of the ADEA Leadership Institute in 2009-2010. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Public Health Dentistry and a member of the Advisory Board of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. In 2009, he was honored by the International Association for Dental Research with its Aubrey Sheiham Award for Distinguished Research in Dental Public Health Sciences.