Michelle Arnett currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Primary Dental Care, Division of Dental Hygiene at the University of Minnesota (UMN) School of Dentistry (SOD). She has 20 years of clinical practice experience and nine years of experience in academics and research at the University of Michigan SOD and the UMN SOD. Her areas of
research focus are motivational interviewing and periodontology in addition to topics to enhance her teaching, student mentorship, and dental hygiene educator burnout.
Michelle Arnett teaches Communications, Periodontology, and the Process of Care in Allied Oral Health: Clinical Application III and IV in the UMN SOD dental hygiene undergraduate program and Thesis I and the Capstone Track in the UMN dental hygiene graduate program. Her professional memberships include Sigma Phi Alpha-Nu Chapter, American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA), and the American Dental Education Association (ADEA).