Donald Chi, DDS, PhD is Associate Professor of Oral Health Sciences at the University of Washington. He is a board-certified pediatric dentist. Dr. Chi’s research focuses on understanding and reducing children’s oral health inequalities. He is the first dentist to be named a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar, which funds his research interest on how neighborhoods influence teen oral health outcomes.

He was appointed to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry, is a Board Member of the International Association for Dental Research, and is incoming Chair of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Council on Scientific Affairs. He received the 2014 Nemours Child Health Services Research Award from Academy Health and the 2017 Distinguished Scientist Young Investigator Award from IADR. Dr. Chi teaches public health, and devotes his extramural clinical practice to treating Alaska Native children in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. He is currently a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University.