Jenny Haydee Abanto Alvarez

Jenny Abanto is a paediatric dentistry specialist and has obtained her MSc, PhD and Post-PhD in Pediatric Dentistry at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Later, she obtained her Post-PhD in the field of Epidemiology for Mother and Child Health and Nutrition at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She has been conducting clinical research in the field of Paediatric Dentistry for infants and preschoolers the past 15 years publishing 70 scholarly articles in professional peer-reviewed journals. The research is focused on epidemiology, early childhood caries, oral health-related quality of life, behaviour management techniques, risk assessment and caries prevention in infants and preschoolers. She wrote 46 chapters in books and edited 04 books in Paediatric Dentistry. She is currently Chair Professor in Pediatric Dentistry for Babies Postgraduate course at FAOA Dental School in Brazil and Assistant Professor in Pediatric Dentistry Postgraduate course at the International University of Catalunya in Spain. She is the Clinical and Scientific Coordinator of the Oral Health Area of the Study of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MINA) in the first 1,000 days of life at the Public Health School of University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. She has extensively been lecturing in Latin America. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)