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Elena Riccio Leach, D.D.S., M.S.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Director of the International Dentist Education Program

Dr. Elena Riccio Leach is a full-time Clinical Assistant Professor at UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry.

She is the Director of the International Dentist Program, responsible for admission and training of international dentists seeking to obtain their dental license in United States. In addition, she is the director of the umbrella clinical patient management course of the third year of the DDS Program.  Prior to this role  she was assistant leader in the general group practices, supervising and instructing dental students during their daily comprehensive clinical activity and  one of the directors and developers of the Introduction to Patient Care course which is part of the innovative curriculum for earlier clinical education of pre-clinical dental students, her focus being diagnosis and treatment planning, and patient record management.

Her service commitments, among others, include being part of the LINC Clinical IPE group with the intent of researching and informing best practices in clinical interprofessional education at the university level.

Dr Riccio Leach also practices as a provider at the UT Dentistry Faculty Practice Clinic.

Dr. Riccio Leach graduated in 1998 from the School of Dentistry of the Second University of Napoli, Italy and worked in private practice as a general dentist for nine years before joining the Italian Navy as a Dental Officer. During her military service she earned her MS in Orthodontics at the University of Milano, Italy. In  2014 she moved with family to Texas and in 2016  she earned her DDS and Texas dental license through the International Dentist Education Program (IDEP) of the School of Dentistry at the UT Health San Antonio.