Dr. Tsakalelli is Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM), Boston, USA, in the Department of Prosthodontics. She is the Preclinical Director of Removable Prosthodontics (RPD), Co-Director of Digital Dentistry and has served as Course Director of Biomaterials and Craniofacial Function and Occlusion in the predoctoral program. Dr. Tsakalelli received her DMD degree from Tufts University and holds her D.D.S. from University of Athens Dental School, in Greece. She completed her residency on Advanced Education in Prosthodontics and M.S. in Biomaterials at State University of New York at Buffalo and a Fellowship Program in Implant Dentistry at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She is a Fellow of the International Team for Implantology (ITI) and Fellow of Center of the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT). She has served on multiple committees at TUSDM and throughout her dental career, she has participated in many research projects and has presented numerous abstracts at both national and international meetings. She has also served as faculty advisor, thesis Committee member for the degree of Master of Science in dental research for several candidates at TUSDM. Her research areas of interest focus on dental materials and ceramics, digital technologies and dental education. In 2020, she completed the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Emerging Academic Leaders Program and she currently serves as the Chair-elect for the ADEA SIG on “Implant Dentistry”. She also completed two executive education programs on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Implications for Business Strategy and AI in Health Care offered by MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Computer science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Cambridge, MA, USA. Dr. Tsakalelli maintains a private practice in Boston limited to Prosthodontics, Esthetics and Implant Dentistry.
