Associate Professor of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Shigemi Nagai received her DDS in 1982 and her PhD in 1988, both from Iwate Medical University School of Dentistry in Japan. She also received her board certification in prosthodontics in Japan in 1990. Dr. Nagai has been working as a full-time faculty member in prosthodontics at Harvard School of Dental Medicine since 2001, and serves as director of advanced dentistry in the DMD program. Dr. Nagai has received numerous awards recognizing her teaching, including the Distinguished Junior Faculty Award from HSDM in 2004, the Claude R. Baker Teaching Award for excellence in teaching pre-doctoral fixed prosthodontics in 2006, and several Outstanding Teaching Faculty awards from the predoctoral students at HSDM. She also has more than 35 peer-reviewed publications, including one in the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry for which she received the Judson C. Hickey Scientific Writing Award in 2006.