Joseph F. Morales, D.D.S., FACD, FNYAD, has 40 years of professional experience, including more than 35 years dedicated to academic and community-based dental medicine. Dr. Morales currently serves as professor and chair of the Department of Dental Medicine at NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan and New York Medical College, as well as NYMC Dental Medicine Residency Program Liaison to the residency program's clinical training sites. He is the lead faculty member for the didactic curriculum of the NYMC General Dental Practice Residency Program and has been a principal investigator on several HRSA grants and has served as chief of service at multiple New York City hospitals. He also chairs and is a member of multiple university and hospital committees, including the NYMC Admissions and IRB Committees, as well as the chair of the Credentials and Infection Prevention/Control Committees at Metropolitan. In addition to his academic and clinical commitments at the college and its clinical affiliates, Dr. Morales is a member of the Medical Division in the New York City Police Department and treasurer of New York Dental Affiliates, the professional services affiliation group at Metropolitan Hospital.

Areas of Expertise

• Restorative implantology

Education

• D.D.S., Columbia University School of Dentistry and Oral Surgery
• Residency, University Hospital at SUNY Stony Brook

Publications

• Morales J, Santander S. "Assessing Cigarette Reduction Tax-Effectiveness in Low Tobacco Expenditure Contexts: An Application to Bolivia." Health economics, (), (2025) . doi: 10.1002/hec.4931
• Kok TT, Morales J, Deschrijver D, et. al. "Interpretable machine learning models for COPD ease of breathing estimation." Medical & biological engineering & computing, (), (2025) . doi: 10.1007/s11517-025-03285-2
• Sánchez SV, Otavalo GN, Gazeau F, et. al. "Intranasal delivery of extracellular vesicles: A promising new approach for treating neurological and respiratory disorders." Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society, 379(), (2025) 489-523. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2025.01.018
• Popejoy AB, Ritter DI, Azzariti D, et. al. "Design and implementation of an action plan for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion within the Clinical Genome Resource." American journal of human genetics, (), (2025) . pii: S0002-9297(24)00451-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.12.009
• Pérez-Soto M, Peñalver P, Muñoz-Báez P, et. al. "Oligostyrylbenzene Derivatives with Antiparasitic and Antibacterial Activity as Potent G-Quadruplex Ligands." Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 29(24), (2024) . doi: 10.3390/molecules29245875
• Gong L, Klein CJ, Caudle KE, et. al. "Integrating Pharmacogenomics into the Broader Construct of Genomic Medicine: Efforts by the ClinGen Pharmacogenomics Working Group (PGxWG)." Clinical chemistry, 71(1), (2025) 36-44. doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvae181
• Kang S, Penaloza Aponte JD, Elashkar O, et. al. "Leveraging pre-trained machine learning models for islet quantification in type 1 diabetes." Journal of pathology informatics, 16(), (2024) 100406. doi: 10.1016/j.jpi.2024.100406

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Memberships and Affiliations

• Fellow, New York Academy of Dentistry
• Fellow, American College of Dentists

Teaching Responsibilities

• Lead faculty in the NYMC SOM General Dental Medicine Residency Program’s didactic curriculum