Winnie Furnari RDH, MS, FAADH

Winnie Furnari, RDH, MS, FAADH, is an active educator, leader, clinician, and forensic dental hygienist. She is a Past President of the New Jersey Dental Hygienists’ Association and the Dental Hygienists’ Association of the State of New York. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Dental Hygiene and has been published in national and international journals.

She is an Associate Professor and Assistant Clinical Director at New York University College of Dentistry and teaches a Forensic Dentistry/Bioterrorism Preparedness course for dental hygienists in the Baccalaureate program. She has earned national and international recognition for her work in dental hygiene and forensic dentistry. Her courses are developed from her experience as a forensic dental hygienist with the New York State Society of Forensic Dentistry, as a member of the New York City Chief Medical Examiner’s Dental Identification Team and her studies in Biosecurity/Disaster Preparedness.