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Division of Pediatric and Public Health
Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Miguel obtained his DDS from the University of Cartagena (’08) and upon graduation; he enrolled in a dual-degree program to obtain his Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology and a certificate in Applied Statistics. He served as a tenured Associate Professor in the dental research department at the University of Cartagena until 2018 where he worked as interim chair of the same department and as visiting professor at the University of Verona in Italy. Upon moving to the United States, he started to work as a post-doctoral fellow researcher in oral epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adams School of Dentistry under the supervision of Dr. Kimon Divaris (2018-2022) where he also completed his postdoctoral training in Pediatric Dentistry. Throughout his career, he has achieved several research awards including the prestigious American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Graduate Student Research Award (2020), and the North Carolina AADOCR Research Day Award (2022). Since 2020, he has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the IADR Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research Group (2019-2021: North America student representative and 2021-2023: Director for North America).
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
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