Brian O’Connell is currently Dean of Health Sciences at Trinity College, Dublin, with a special interest biomedical education. He co-leads the oral health component of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), in addition to research on treatment outcomes and the use of new technology in oral health care. Professor O’Connell is a core member of the European Platform for Better Oral Health, and President-Elect of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR).

Dr. López Fuentes is a tenured Professor in the Community Dentistry Section of the University of Puerto Rico School of Dental Medicine (UPR SDM). She was the 2023-24 Chair of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Board of Directors. Dr. López Fuentes served as Dean of the UPR SDM from 2014 to 2018 and is currently President of the Infection Control and Quality Assurance Standing Committees. Since 2006, she has been a member of the ADEA Collaborative on Dental Education Climate Assessment and UPR SDM’s ADEA Women’s Liaison Officer. She is an American Dental Association (ADA) Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) site visitor and ex-officio member/consultant to the Hispanic Dental Association (HDA) Board of Trustees. Dr. López Fuentes is a faculty advisor to the UPR SDM’s HDA and the American Association of Women Dentists Student Chapters. She served as Co-chair of the ADEA Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee from 2014 to 2021, on ADEA’s Annual Session Program Committee from 2018 to 2021, as Immediate Past Chair of the ADEA Section on Women in Leadership, and Councilor to the ADEA Council of Sections as the Section on Women in Leadership representative. From 2018 to 2019, Dr. López Fuentes represented the HDA in the American Dental Association Presidents’ Summit for Diversity and Inclusion. She served as a faculty advisor to the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine fellowship from 2018 to 2022. She is also a coach for the ADEA Council of Deans Fellowship Program and was selected as a participant in the 2024 Global Women on Boards leadership program.