Rena D’Souza

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2020

Rena D'Souza, a specialist in craniofacial development and regenerative medicine, served as Director of NIDCR from 2020 to 2025. An early initiative was promoting the Surgeon General's report Oral Health in America. D'Souza steered NIDCR through the COVID-19 pandemic, and in 2023 oversaw the launch of PRIMED, AHEAD, and IMPACT, innovative programs to boost practice-based research in dental schools, fight TMD, and battle head and neck cancer.

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