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Donald Chi

Donald L. Chi is a professor and the Lloyd and Kay Chapman Endowed Chair of Oral Health at the University of Washington School of Dentistry and School of Public Health. He is dual board-certified in pediatric dentistry and dental public health. Chi’s research focuses on understanding and addressing children’s oral health inequalities. He received the 2017 IADR Distinguished Scientist Award and was named Pediatric Dentist of the Year by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry in 2018. He spent the 2016-2017 academic year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Chi teaches public health to dental students and pediatric dentistry residents and has been a staff pediatric dentist at the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic in Seattle since 2009.