S3 E30 Dr. Martha Forero

Dr. Martha L. Forero is an Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM) in the Department of Public Health and Community Service and Department of Pediatric Dentistry. She is the Director of the Josiah Quincy school-based dental clinic and a Co-Director of the Pediatric Community Service-Learning rotation.

She was born in Bogota, Colombia, obtained her DDS at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, her M.S. in Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Michigan, her RDH degree at Middlesex Community College, and is currently enrolled in a Master of Public Health program with an emphasis on dental public health at A.T. Still University.

Dr. Forero is a Fellow of the International College of Dentists

She participated at ADA Institute for Diversity in Leadership Class of 2019-2020. She is a past-president of the Massachusetts Hispanic Dental Association (2020).

Dr. Forero is the faculty advisor for the Hispanic Dental Association Student Chapter at TUSDM.

Additional information that reflects my leadership role and work with community partners

· Board member of the Health Advisory Committee Head Start & Early Head Start, Communities United Inc, Watertown, MA - 2016-Present

· Member of the Dental Programs Advisory Board, Middlesex Community College, Lowell, MA -2015-Present

· Member of the Dental Advisory Board, Greater Lawrence Technical School, Andover, MA –2016-Present

· Coordinator/advisor of the Give Kids a Smile event at TUFTS University Dental School –2017-present

· Selected as one of the 2016 Give Kids a Smile Community Leadership Development Institute Ambassadors, ADA Foundation

· Coordinator/advisor of the Autism Smiles at TUFTS University Dental School –2019-present

· Lessons in a Lunchbox program coordinator (The Children’s Oral Health Institute) schools in Boston area 2016 -Present

· Board member of the New England – Merrimack Valley YWCA, MA - 2022
Episode resources and links:

• https://facultyprofiles.tufts.edu/martha-forero

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