Leadership: Board of Directors
CDHP is governed by an interdisciplinary Board of Directors, including members of academia, private practice, suppliers/industry, and policy and communication experts. The Board meets four times annually.
The three standing committees of the Board are: Advancement, Finance and Governance.
CDHP Board of Directors
Burton L. Edelstein, DDS, MPH (Founder and Chair)
Professor of Dentistry and Health Policy and Management
Columbia University
New York, NY
Ned L. Savide, DDS (Treasurer)
Past President
American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
Palos Heights, IL
Caswell A. Evans, Jr., DDS, MPH
Associate Dean for Prevention and Public Health Sciences
University of Illinois College of Dentistry
Chicago, IL
Steven William Kess
Vice President
Henry Schein, Inc.
Melville, NY
Marion Ein Lewin
Chevy Chase, MD
Fotinos S. Panagakos, DMD PhD
Director of Professional Relations
Colgate Palmolive
New York, NY
Recently Retired Board
Claude Earl Fox, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Epidemiology Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Founding Director of the Florida Public Health Institute
Miami, Florida
Shelly Gehshan
Director, Pew Children’s Dental Campaign
Washington, DC
Kathleen T. O'Loughlin, DMD, MPH, MBA
Executive Director/Chief Operating Officer, American Dental Association
Chicago, IL
Burton Edelstein, DDS, MPH (Chair)
Burton Edelstein is a Board certified pediatric dentist and professor of dentistry and public health at Columbia University, where he is Chairman of the Section on Social and Behavioral Sciences. Burton practiced pediatric dentistry in Connecticut and taught pediatric dentistry and oral health policy at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine for 21 years before committing to full time health policy practice. He served as a 1996-7 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the office of US Senate minority leader Tom Daschle with primary responsibilities for SCHIP. He worked with the US Department of Health and Human Services on its oral health initiatives from 1998 to 2001, chaired the US Surgeon General's Workshop on Children and Oral Health, and authored the child section of the US Surgeon General's Report Oral Health in America. Edelstein is a graduate of Harpur College, SUNY Buffalo School of Dentistry, Harvard School of Public Health, and the Boston Children's Hospital pediatric dentistry residency program. His work has been recognized by a number of organizations including the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (Pediatric Dentist of the Year), the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (Outstanding Service Award), the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (Distinguished Alumnus Award), and the American College of Dentists (Outstanding Service Award). With support from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American Dental Education Association, Dr. Edelstein founded the Children's Dental Health Project in 1997, incorporating it as a 501(c)3 in 1999.
Elizabeth J. Noyes (Jackie), MA (Secretary)
Elizabeth J. Noyes (Jackie), MA, serves as Associate Executive Director of the American Academy of Pediatrics based in Washington, DC. In this capacity, Jackie has direct oversight for both the federal and state advocacy efforts. Jackie received her BA from Converse College and her MA from the University of Virginia. She joined the Washington Office of the Academy in 1973 as a Legislative Assistant and became Director of that office in 1977. In 1994 she was named Associate Executive Director. She is an honorary member of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and the Irish & American Pediatric Society. In December, 2000, she was appointed to the National Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines by DHHS Secretary Donna Shalala and in December, 2001, she was elected Chair. In October, 1999, she was presented with the U.S. Surgeon General's Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Contributions to the Health and Welfare of America's Children and Adolescents. She is listed in the guide to the most influential health policy makers in the United States. She serves on various professional/civic boards and has published in various professional journals.
Ned L. Savide, DDS (Treasurer)
Dr. Neophytos (Ned) L. Savide is a 1975 graduate of the School of Dentistry of Loyola University of Chicago. He completed his postgraduate program in pediatric dentistry at the School of Dentistry at University of California Los Angeles in 1977. Since that time, he has practiced full time in Palos Heights, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He is a staff member of the Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics at Hope children's Hospital. Dr. Savide is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, the American College of Dentists and the International College of Dentists. He is Past President of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Currently, he serves as a Director of the Children's Dental Health Project and Chair of the AAPD Perinatal Grant Committee.
Caswell A. Evans, Jr., DDS, MPH
Caswell A. Evans is the Associate Dean for Prevention and Public health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), College of Dentistry. Via an appointment with the School of Public Health, Dr, Evans is also the Director of the Center for Prevention and Public Health Sciences in Oral Health, UIC Health Research and Policy Centers. For the seven years prior to taking on his current role, Dr. Evans was Director, National Oral Health Initiative, within the office of the U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Evans represented the Surgeon General providing guidance and assistance to state and local initiatives responsive to Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General, and to the subsequent National Call To Action. Dr. Evans served as the Executive Editor and Project Director for the Surgeon General's report, released in May 2000, and provided direction for the development of the National Call To Action to Promote Oral Health, released in April 2003. Dr. Evans has been elected into the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Evans received his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery in New York City, and earned his Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan, School of Public Health.
Steven William Kess
Steven Kess received his Bachelor and Master Degrees of Business Administration from the Baruch School of the City College of New York. He has held a number of management positions in the communications and healthcare industries with a focus on marketing and business development. His diverse experience has included consumer packaged goods and the dental and healthcare industries. Widely recognized for his critical insight and ability to synthesize business and public policy concerns, Mr. Kess has been both an entrepreneur and a member of larger corporations in his career. Since 1991, Mr. Kess has held several executive positions with Henry Schein, Inc. of Melville, New York in both the medical and dental divisions. Currently he is the Vice President of Professional Relations for Sullivan-Schein Dental and Henry Schein, Inc. Within the dental community, he has served with distinction on the board of directors of many organizations, including the American Dental Association Foundation, currently it's Vice President, the Academy of General Dentistry Foundation, the National Museum of Dentistry, Oral Health America, and the American Dental Assistant's Association. In addition, he has served on the corporate advisory board of the National Dental Association and the Hispanic Dental Association. He is the Chairman of the American Dental Trade Association's Community Relations Committee, Secretary-Treasurer of the Santa Fe Group oral health think tank and a member of the Nation's Healthy People 2010 Committee. He has written numerous articles on advertising, marketing and innovation, and is an award-winning documentary film producer. Biographical sketches of Mr. Kess appear in the 1988-1990 editions of Who's Who in the East and in the 1985-1986 edition of Who's Who in Industry and Finance.
Marion Ein Lewin
Marion Ein Lewin, until September 2001, served as Senior Staff Officer at the Institute of Medicine and headed its Office of Health Policy Programs and Fellowships. In this position, she directed The Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships Program, the Gustav O. Lienhard Award, the IOM/AAN Nurse-Scholar Programs, and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lecture Series. Ms. Lewin has also served as study director for major IOM reports including, "Balancing the Scales of Opportunity: Ensuring Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Health Professions" (1994), "Improving the Medicare Market: Adding Choice and Protections" (1996), and most recently a government-sponsored study on "America's Health Care Safety Net: Intact but Endangered" (2000). Ms. Lewin's tenure at the IOM began in 1987. Before coming to the IOM, Ms. Lewin was Director of the Center for Health Policy Research at the American Enterprise Institute, where she conducted research and policy studies related to the financing and delivery of health care including indigent care, Medicare and Medicaid, and private sector health cost management efforts. Previous to this assignment she was Deputy Director of the National Health Policy Forum and worked as a health legislative aide in the Congress. Ms. Lewin has written extensively on a wide range of health care topics. She authors a quarterly "Washington Outlook" section for the Journal of Medical Practice Management. In 1996, she headed a major project for the Association for Health Services Research (AHSR, now AcademyHealth), the development and publication of a Baxter Health Policy Review volume on "Strategic Choices for a Changing Health Care System." Ms. Lewin serves on the boards of Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C. and the Primary Health Care Association of Montgomery County. Ms. Lewin is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. She received her undergraduate and graduate education at Columbia University. Currently, Ms. Lewin works as a special projects health care policy consultant.
Fotinos S. Panagakos, DMD, PhD
Dr. Panagakos received his DMD from UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School and his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UMDNJ-Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 1992. Following a one-year research fellowship, Dr. Panagakos returned to NJDS as an assistant professor in the Department of Prosthodontics and Biomaterials. In 1999, he received his Masters in Education from Seton Hall University and in 2007 he received his Master’s in Business Administration from Lehigh University.
Dr. Panagakos served for 14 years as a faculty member at New Jersey Dental School. While at New Jersey Dental School, Dr. Panagakos served in a number of administrative positions, including Group Practice Administrator, Director of Environmental Safety and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.
In 2005, Dr. Panagakos joined the Colgate Palmolive Oral Care Clinical Research Department as an Associate Director. His responsibilities included clinical research and development support for the North American Oral Care division and Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals. In 2006, Dr. Panagakos was promoted to Director of Professional Relations – North America. In his current role, Dr. Panagakos serves as the primary liaison between Colgate and professional and academic groups in the US, coordinates all professional education programs, and serves as the scientific affairs liaison to the professional community.
Rakesh Singh
Rakesh Singh is a Vice President of Communications for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. In this role, Rakesh manages the day-to-day marketing and outreach strategy for information and publications produced by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, the Foundation's largest program area.
Prior to his five years at Kaiser, Rakesh was a policy associate and, later, policy director for the Alliance for Health Reform, a nonprofit organization chaired by Senator Jay Rockefeller and vice-chaired by Senator Bill Frist, which educates policy staff and the media on health policy issues. Rakesh served on the health staff of the U.S. Committee on Finance under the supervision of then ranking member Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1995 to 1997. He also served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Representative Jim Cooper (TN) during the national health care debate of 1993-94.
Rakesh is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in political science.
Claude Earl Fox is a public health physician who has headed federal, state and local agencies in a greater than three-decade career dedicated to equal access to health care. He is currently a professor in the Department of Epidemiology Public Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the founding director of the Florida Public Health Institute. Dr. Fox is also one of 6 people (the only one from North America) serving on an internal pandemic influenza advisory committee to Roche Labs in Basil, Switzerland. He was previously the first permanent director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and Professor of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with joint academic appointments in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and School of Medicine.
Dr. Fox is a 1968 graduate of Mississippi College, earned his medical degree at the University of Mississippi in 1972 and received a master’s of public health from the University of North Carolina in 1975. He performed his pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Mississippi and moved to south Florida 18 months ago. He is board certified in Prevention Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Fox is also a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Shelly Gehshan
Shelly Gehshan directs the Children’s Dental Campaign for Pew Charitable Trusts. This initiative works with states to expand access to prevention and treatment for children through policy changes in Medicaid, sealant programs, community water fluoridation, and workforce. Prior to joining Pew, she spent nearly 20 years working for state policymakers on a range of issues affecting low-income women and children, such as oral health, behavioral health, reproductive health, service delivery and health care financing through Medicaid and SCHIP. She has a master’s degree in public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley
Kathy O'Loughlin, DMD, MPH, MBA
Kathleen T. O'Loughlin is Executive Director/Chief Operating Officer of the American Dental Association.
Prior to joining the ADA staff, Dr. O'Loughlin worked briefly for United Healthcare as its chief dental officer after having served as a consultant to Tufts University School of Dental Medicine on curriculum development in preparation for expansion of the dental school facility and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science, Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene in preparation for their 2009 Accreditation. As a course director at Tufts, Dr. O'Loughlin prepared second year dental students for the clinical treatment of patients. She served on the Executive Faculty Committee and chaired the Outcomes Assessment Committee during the school's latest accreditation. Dr. O'Loughlin received her bachelor's degree cum laude from Boston University in 1974, her doctorate from Tufts University summa cum laude in 1981, and a Masters in Public Health in health care administration from Harvard in 1998. Dr. O'Loughlin has served as program chairperson on three occasions for the Yankee Dental Congress, the fifth largest dental meeting in the United States. Other volunteer activities include establishing a dental clinic at a homeless shelter in Lawrence, MA in 1992, as well as serving on the executive committee for the Massachusetts Dental Society and as president of both the Tufts Dental Alumni and the St. Appolonia Guild. Dr. O'Loughlin is a fellow of the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists, and the Pierre Fouchard Society. She is also a member of the International Association for Dental Research, the American Dental Association, the American Association of Women Dentists, and the American Dental Education Association.
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