Anchal Malik Chopra, BDS, MHA

Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Anchal Malik Chopra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dental Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine. She plays a key role in predoctoral education, serving as the course director for Contemporary Cariology Foundations of Prevention and Intervention as well as for both the didactic and preclinical laboratory courses in Dental Anatomy and Morphology. Dr. Malik also developed and leads an online course on the Coursera platform titled Introduction to Dental Terminology. In addition to her primary teaching responsibilities, she regularly contributes as participating faculty in multiple other courses and helps coordinate the cariology and caries management curriculum. Dr. Malik leads initiatives at Pitt Dental Medicine focused on evidence-based caries detection and assessment, including training and calibrating faculty and students in the International Caries Classification and Management System (ICCMS), which is based on the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS).

Beyond teaching, Dr. Malik is actively involved in institutional service and maintains membership in several professional organizations, including the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and the American Academy of Cariology (AAC). She currently serves on the board of the AAC and is the Chair-Elect of the ADEA Section on Cariology. Previously, she chaired the ADEA Section on Minority Affairs, Diversity, and Inclusion.

Prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Malik served as a full-time faculty member at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, with joint appointments in the Departments of Pediatric Dentistry and Community and Preventive Dentistry. There, she contributed to NIH-funded research on oral health issues in very low birth weight (VLBW) and normal birth weight (NBW) infants, and participated in community-based trials on xylitol use for caries prevention and Head Start outreach programs.

Her broad research and academic interests include dental caries management, evidence-based dentistry, educational innovation, curriculum and professional development, and interprofessional education. Dr. Malik earned her Bachelor of Dental Surgery from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, India, and a Master of Health Administration (MHA) in Health Policy and Management from the University of South Carolina, Columbia.