Biographical Sketch
Dr. Hayes was born in Boston and received her B.S. in Biology from Boston College
in 1983 and her D.M.D. from Tufts
University in
1987. She completed a General Practice Residency at Brigham and Women's
Hospital in 1988 and received both Master's (1989) and Doctoral (1993)
degrees in Epidemiology from Harvard
University. Dr.
Hayes is a diplomate of the American Board of
Dental Public Health and is currently a director on the same board. She
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Oral Health Policy and
Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the
Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. She
is a faculty member in the Oral Epidemiology training program and mentors
Master's and Doctoral students in epidemiology. Dr. Hayes teaches
research design and biostatistics to HSDM students and also directs the
pre doctoral research program. She has held leadership positions in
national and international organizations and has published numerous
articles and book chapters in the field of dental public health and
epidemiology. Her primary research interests include the epidemiology
of craniofacial anomalies and health services research in dentistry.
She is currently a Core Epidemiologist for the Center for Research to
Evaluate and Eliminate Dental Disparities(CREEDD)
and is Principal Investigator of a study within the center entitled:
The Effect of Severe Early Childhood Caries (ECC) on growth in young
children.
Clinical / Academic / Research interests
Dr. Hayes participates in numerous community service
activities related to dental public health. Her research focuses on the
epidemiology of craniofacial anomalies and oral health disparities.
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