Romesh Nalliah, DDS, MHCM

Dr. Nalliah is the Associate Dean for Patient Services at the School of Dentistry and oversees all patient care. Dr. Nalliah’s expertise is in process evaluation, and his research represents evaluations of healthcare processes, hospital processes and educational processes. Dr. Nalliah’s goal is to improve healthcare delivery systems by optimizing processes, minimizing inefficiencies, reducing healthcare bottlenecks, and increasing quality, with the aim of developing a more patient-centered, coherent healthcare system. Dr. Nalliah has focused on safe opioid prescribing by dentists and has identified various trends and patterns in prescribing that were previously unknown.