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Kenneth Shay, DDS, MS

Kenneth Shay

Dr. Shay is currently the Director of Geriatric Programs for the Office of Geriatrics and Extended Care, US Department of Veterans Affairs. In this capacity he oversees the VA's twenty Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Centers (“GRECCs”) and a variety of geriatric clinical programs nationally.  He is also the section Chief for Dental Geriatrics at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center and Adjunct Professor of Dentistry at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry.  He is a Section Editor for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and is a Fellow of the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry, of the Gerontological Society of America, and of the American College of Dentists.  For over twenty years he has limited his practice of dentistry to caring for very old adults who have significantly debilitating physical and cognitive disorders.


Address: PO Box 134002, Ann Arbor, MI  48119


Phone: (734) 930-5641 Fax: (734) 930-5632