Professor Phil Messersmith has been appointed as a member of the National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Research Council( NADCRC), the advisory council of the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research(NIDCR) of the National Institute of Health (NIH).
The NADCRC is responsible for advising, consulting with, and making recommendations to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Director of the NIDRC.