Teaching Activities: Dr. Kuthy serves as course director for Administration of Public Dental Programs (111:205), Field Experience in Dental Public Health (111:208), and Practice of Dentistry in Community II (111:161). He also co-directs the Introduction to Dental Public Health course (111:200). He teaches in Dentistry in the Community I (111:160), Fundamentals of Clinical Dentistry (111:116), Preventive Dentistry, Communication and Patient Care (111:118), and Principles of Oral Epidemiology (111:204).
Research Activities: Dr. Kuthy's primary research interests include effect of extramural dental school programs on willingness to treat underserved populations; oral health needs assessment for local and state level policy development; outcomes of continuing dental education; the dentist workforce; and dental student career decision making.
National or International Professional Appointments or Activities: Dr. Kuthy
is a past president of the American Board
of Public Health. He is an ad hoc reviewer for Special Care in Dentistry; Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology;
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontics; Medical Care; Journal of Aging and Health
; and Journal of Public Health Dentistry. Dr. Kuthy is a consultant for the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors.
He is the recipient of the following national awards: President's Award of the American Association of Public Health Dentistry (1997);
Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (1997); and the Exemplary Service Award
from the Chief Dental Officer, U.S. Public Health Service (1995). He also has been the recipient of the Boston University
Distinguished Alumni Award (2007). Dr. Kuthy is a member of the Iowa Dental Association, the Johnson
County Dental Society, the Association for Health Services Research, the American Association for Dental Research, the American
Association of Public Health Dentistry, and the American Dental Association.
E-mail: Raymond A. Kuthy
Raymond A. Kuthy, DDS, MPH
Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry
University of Iowa College of Dentistry
Iowa City, IA 52242-1010
319-335-7201
319-335-7187 (Fax)