Panel 3: Drug Cost and Access I

Moderator: Paul Subar, Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Diagnostic Sciences, University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry

Biography: Paul Subar DDS, EdD, is an Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Diagnostic Sciences, and Director of the Special Care Clinic/Hospital Dentistry Program at the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco. He also has a faculty appointment as Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.

His primary interest is in issues of access to oral health for patients with special needs; including those with severe medical, developmental, and/or psychosocial conditions. He serves on several committees at the University and dental school. Dr. Subar is a tenured faculty member, teaching 3 core courses during the senior year as well as a variety of weekly seminar programs. His clinical responsibilities include delivery of dental services to patients requiring hospital dentistry as well as responding to consultation requests from the transplant and medicine services at California Pacific Medical Center. He has been awarded the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Faculty Award three years in a row and was the first award recipient of the California Dental Foundation’s annual Arthur A. Dugoni Faculty Award. Dr. Subar has lectured locally nationally, and internationally in areas of oral health for patients with special needs. In 2010 Dr. Subar was elected to the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Honor Society and serves as a Past President. In 2014, he became a Fellow of the American College of Dentists.

Dr. Subar graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with baccalaureate degrees in both biochemistry and molecular biology. He received his DDS from the University of California Los Angeles and completed his hospital training at the UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Subar took additional studies and in 2009 received his Doctorate in Education and Professional Leadership, EdD from the University of the Pacific Benerd School of Education.