Jean Connor, RDH
President
American Dental Hygienists’ Association

Jean Connor of Cambridge, Mass., is the 2007-2008 president of the Chicago-based American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA).

Connor has served in numerous positions within ADHA including five years as District I trustee, director of the Oral Health Institute, ADHA delegate and student alternate delegate, as well as both the president-elect and vice president. She served four years as treasurer of the dental hygiene political action committee. Connor has also served as president for both the Massachusetts Dental Hygienists’ Association (MDHA) and the Middlesex component.

Connor has served on a variety of educational, public health and healthcare committees including the advisory boards at Forsythe Dental Hygiene Program at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Science and Middlesex Community College Dental Hygiene Program. Her contributions have lead to her recognition as hygienist of the year by the Middlesex Component and MDHA along with the Massachusetts Dental Society. Most recently, Connor was honored by her alma mater with the 2007 Outstanding Alumni Award.

While serving as MDHA president, she received a Governor’s appointment to represent dental hygiene as part of the Special Legislative Commission to Study the Oral Health of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Connor graduated from Middlesex Community College in Middlesex, Massachusetts with her associate in science degree in dental hygiene in 1994. After beginning her career in clinical practice, she shifted to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health as a certified Healthcare Investigator for the Board of Registration in Dentistry. Connor currently works as a practitioner in a clinical practice in Cambridge.

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