PROGRAMS FOR FELLOWS AND JUNIOR FACULTY

THE JOSEPH L. HENRY ORAL HEALTH PROGRAM

FELLOWS' BIOS: 2001-2003

PHILLIP D. WOODS, DDS, MPH

Dr. Woods’ principal area of interest is assessing, designing and providing services which address racial and cultural disparities in primary oral health care for at-risk populations. He is particularly interested in the oral health of racial/ethnic minorities and immigrants and the role of systemic disease upon their oral health status. Dr. Woods currently serves a 1,500-inmate diverse population in a medium/high security federal prison in Phoenix. Dr. Woods is committed to the identification, recruitment and retention of qualified minority high school students for oral health careers. He currently serves on the U.S. Public Health Service’s Dental Professional Advisory Committee, which provides advice and consultation to the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service on issues related to professional practices and personnel activities of Civil Service and Commissioned Corps Dentists, and as Chair of the Minority Affairs Subcommittee. He has taught at Meharry, Tufts, Harvard, and Boston University Dental Schools, and is a former Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves. LCDR Woods recently co-authored the first chapter on Oral Medicine in a prominent correctional medicine text. Dr. Woods received a dental degree from the University of North Carolina Dental School in 1984, and his periodontal certificate from Tufts in 1986; he completed an oral medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1989, and obtained his MPH degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2002.

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