Graham Garber

UConn School of Dental Medicine

I am in my first year of the D.M.D. curriculum after spending the last four years performing research on the genetics of aging at the UConn graduate school. I recently joined the UConn D.M.D./Ph.D. program and will graduate in four years with both a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science and a D.M.D. I am certainly looking forward to the day that I can put these degrees to use so I can help better the medical and dental care of underserved communities. During my childhood, I lived in both an urban and a rural community. I grew up in a working class residential neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, and then moved to a very rural community in Northern Vermont to attend high school. While growing up in those vastly different communities I became aware of one common denominator: many families and individuals cannot afford necessary healthcare. In the UST, I look forward to learning more about community healthcare needs in Connecticut. I am joining the UST with previous experience in medical research science but with no prior experience as a medical clinician. With my seven-year background in medical science, and with the experiences I hope to gain as part of my UConn Dental education, I will strive to make medical research more accessible to clinicians and healthcare more accessible to communities and people that need it.