Dr. Ronald Sakaguchi is the 10^th Dean of the OHSU School of Dentistry, appointed as interim Dean in October, 2020 and Dean in December, 2021. He joined OHSU in 1994 as a researcher in the Department of Biomaterials and Biomechanics in the School of Dentistry, then served as Professor and Associate Dean for Research & Innovation until 2010 when he joined the Division of Management in the School of Medicine to help launch the OHSU-Portland State University M.B.A. in Healthcare Management. Dr. Sakaguchi’s leadership focus is on innovation, organization and employee development and engagement, systems change, and strategic investment.

Dr. Sakaguchi received a D.D.S. from Northwestern University Dental School in Chicago, a B.S. in cybernetics from the University of California Los Angeles; an M.S. in prosthodontics from the University of Minnesota; a Ph.D. from the University of Greenwich in London, England (formerly Thames Polytechnic), and an M.B.A. in entrepreneurship from Babson College in Wellesley, MA.