Professor
Adams School of Dentistry, UNC-Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Kimon Divaris is Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric and Public Health and the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A board-certified pediatric dentist, he is actively involved in teaching at all levels, clinical practice and research. He is an oral and genetic epidemiologist, with a research focus lying in the intersection of clinical, biological, and public health research for precision pediatric oral health applications. His NIH-funded research program includes genomics studies of early childhood caries, the oral microbiome, and integrative clinical and omics investigations. He has received several major awards and has had substantial scholarly and editorial activity. Currently, he studies the interplay between biological (i.e., multi-omics), behavioral, environmental and social determinants of early childhood caries in the context of a large, multi-ethnic, community-based cohort of preschool-age children in North Carolina.