Director/Associate Professor
Fones School of Dental Hygiene
Branford, Connecticut, United States
Marion C. Manski, RDH, MS, Associate Professor and Director Fones School of Dental Hygiene, University of Bridgeport. She earned her certificate and associate's degree in 1983 from The Forsyth School for Dental Hygienists and Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Dental Hygiene at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry in 1988. Professor Manski also graduated from the University of Maryland Graduate School with a Master of Science degree in 2004. She is an Associate Professor and serves as the Director of the program. Director Manski was Associate Professor and Director, Director of Admissions at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry’s Dental Hygiene Program. She currently serves as Chair-Elect for the American Dental Education Association’s Council of Allied Dental Program Directors and has served as Legislative Chair and Component Trustee for the American Dental Hygienists’ Association Connecticut. She is Past President of the Maryland Dental Hygienists’ Association, Delegate to the ADHA, and ADEA. Marion is the Course Coordinator of the Local Anesthesia Certification Course for hygienists at UB, and enjoys local and national recognition regarding this topic. She is an active member of the International Federation of Dental Hygienists, the American Dental Hygienists' Association, and the American Dental Education Association. Her research interests are local anesthesia, early childhood caries, and access to care.
Manski serves on the editorial review board of The Journal of Dental Education, Dimensions of Dental Hygiene and Perspectives of the Midlevel Practitioner. She was honored by her peers with the Maryland Dental Hygienists' Association Symbol of Excellence Award in 2013. Ms. Manski was honored nationally by her peers in 2016 as a “Mover and Shaker” in Dimensions of Dental Hygiene’s Annual Six Dental Hygienists You Want to Know, and in 2017 she received the ADHA’s Irene Newman Award.
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