Purnima Kumar

Dr. Purnima Kumar is the Chair of the Department of Periodontology, Oral Medicine and Dental Hygiene at the University of Michigan. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement for the Sciences (AAAS), Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM), the International College of Dentists and the American Association of Oral, Dental and Craniofacial Research. She is the Associate Editor of Periodontology 2000, Journal of Clinical Periodontology and Senior Editor of Microbiome. She is an active researcher, clinician, teacher, and administrator, has mentored several pre-dental, dental, master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral students and junior faculty colleagues, and has served on several grant review panels for the NIH. She serves on the budget committee and science strategy committee of the AAP. She completed her term as the Chair of the Continuing Education Oversight Committee for the AAP, Chair of the Council of