Dennis A. Mitchell is a Canadian-American university leader and scholar of dental medicine.
On the advice of an uncle, Mitchell left Canada to study in the US, earning his degree in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University.
He subsequently attended Howard University’s College of Dentistry, earning a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree, and earned a MPH in Executive Health Services Management from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
[1] After receiving a full-time appointment at Columbia University, he co-created and directed the Community DentCare Network,[2] which seeks to address the lack of oral healthcare services in northern Manhattan.
Since 2004, Mitchell has served as the Dean for Diversity and Inclusion for the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia.