Leah Leinbach is a dental public health research fellow at the NIDCR.  She earned her DMD at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, completed a general practice dental residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  She has prior clinical experience providing collaborative oral health care to primarily hospital-based patients and has served in leadership and programmatic roles at two large academic medical centers.  She hopes to leverage this past experience with the research skills gained through the fellowship to promote further integration of oral health into the rest of healthcare.