Denise M. Bowen

Professor

	Email:	bowedeni@isu.edu
	Phone:	(208) 282-3159
	Address:	Mail Stop 8048 Pocatello, ID. 83209-8048
	Office:	Dental Arts 106
	M.S., 1976	Old Dominion University
	B.S. , 1975	Old Dominion University

Denise M. Bowen, RDH, MS, is a Professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Idaho State University where she joined the full-time faculty in 1976. She has served as a consultant to dental industry, as well as numerous government, university and private organizations and presently is a member of the National Advisory Panel for the National Center for Dental Hygiene Research in the U.S. Her previous appointments include Visiting Scholar at the National Institute of Dental Research, Chair of the American Dental Hygienists' Association Council on Research, and Chair of the Research Committee for the Institute for Oral Health. She has received national awards for excellence in dental hygiene and was recognized as Outstanding Researcher at Idaho State University. Professor Bowen has presented at meetings of the American Dental Hygienists' Association, Canadian Dental Hygienists' Association, the American Association of Dental Schools, American Public Health Association, Soviet-American Dental Hygienists' Conferences in Moscow and Leningrad, and the International Symposiums on Dental Hygiene in Canada, China and Costa Rica. She is co-author of Research Methods for Oral Health Professionals and has made contributions to several highly regarded texts: Dental Hygiene Theory and Practice, Darby/Walsh, Eds., Comprehensive Review of Dental Hygiene, Darby/Bushee, Eds., and Concepts in Nonsurgical Periodontal Therapy, Hodges, Ed. Professor Bowen is widely known through her numerous published articles and her continuing education programs related to nonsurgical periodontal therapy, preventive oral self-care, research methodology, and dental hygiene education.