Rear Admiral Nick S. Makrides
Chief Dental Officer, USPHS
(May 2014 to Sep 2018)

Background

As Chief Dental Officer, RADM Makrides leads the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service dental professional affairs and advises the Office of the Surgeon General and the Department of Health and Human Services on the recruitment, assignment,deployment, retention, and career development of Corps dentists.RADM Makrides also provides consultation to correctional executives, advances program development and oversees the management of the BOP's 119 prisons. He is a subject matter expert in correctional dentistry, having been advisory to various state correctional systems.

Education/Training

RADM Makrides holds a Bachelor Science Degree in Biology and a Doctorate of Dental Medicine Degree from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He completed a Master of Arts Degree in Health Care Management from Webster University and a Master of Public Health Degree in Community Health from the University of Texas Houston Health Sciences Center (El Paso). In 1998, he completed specialty training in Dental Public Health at the Baylor College of Dentistry/Dallas Veterans Administration.

Professional History

RADM Nick Makrides started his career in 1987 as a staff dental officer at Federal Correctional Institution La Tuna in Anthony, New Mexico. Since his initial assignment, he has been the Chief Dental Officer at three prison facilities and a Regional Dentist for the South Central Region of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In 2001, RADM Makrides was selected as the Chief Dentist of the BOP headquartered in Washington, DC.During his tenure, he has integrated an oral health message into the BOP's Medical Clinical Practice Guidelines and has established quality management metrics for the dental program. He supervised the development of the BOP's electronic dental record and spearheaded the conversion of celluloid based radiography to a digital format for all BOP dental clinics.

RADM Makrides has been active in Corps activity serving on many workgroups, to include Assistant Secretary of Health's Workgroup on Transformation. Currently, RADM Makrides is a member of the Oral Health Care Committee, serves as an ex-officio member of the Dental Professional Advisory Committee and is the BOP's representative to the Surgeon General's Professional Advisory Committee. In addition to his Corps activity, RADM Makrides serves as a consultant to the American Dental Association and serves as their representative on the Board of Directors of the National Commission on Correctional Healthcare. He alsohas authored numerous publications addressing institutional dentistry.

Awards

RADM Makrides has received numerous awards from the U.S. Public Health Service and was the recipient of the USPHS Dental Category Jack D. Robertson Award (2007).

Nicholas S. Makrides, D.M.D., M.P.H.
Chief Dental Officer, USPHS