Najjar Endowed Professor of Dentistry and Chair, Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Dr. Purnima Kumar is the William and Mary K. Najjar Endowed professor of Dentistry and chair of the department of periodontology and oral medicine at the University of Michigan. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a Fellow of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program and the International College of Dentists. Dr. Kumar is the principal investigator of Oral Microbial Ecology Laboratory. She has authored over 100 papers and book chapters, is co-editor of Clinical Advances in Periodontics, and associate editor of the Journal of Periodontology, Periodontology 2000, Nature Scientific Reports and Microbiome. She received her dental degree from Annamalai University in India, and her masters in periodontology and PhD in molecular microbiology from The Ohio State University.
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