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Associate Professor, Predoctoral Program Director in Pediatric Dentistry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adams School of Dentistry
Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Adams School of Dentistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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). He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the IADR Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research Group and as a consultant of the council on predoctoral education for the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Currently, Miguel is an associate professor and predoctoral program director in pediatric dentistry at the department of pediatric dentistry and dental public health, Adams school of dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.