Lisa J. Heaton is a Science Writer with the Analytics and Data Insights Team at CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, where she collaborates with internal and external partners to produce peer-reviewed publications and self-published materials for CareQuest Institute. These materials focus on issues related to the expansion of access to oral health care for historically marginalized populations, the intersections of oral and overall health, and integration of dental, medical, and behavioral health care. A clinical psychologist by training, Lisa was a post-doctoral fellow and faculty member at the University of Washington School of Dentistry for over a decade before her time at CareQuest Institute, where she provided clinical behavioral health care to patients with dental care-related fear and anxiety and with chronic orofacial pain, taught several courses involving the intersection of behavioral and oral health, and conducted research focused on oral health disparities and dental care-related fear and anxiety.