HOUSTON, Texas — Auburn native Gary Badger, DDS, MS, is the new chairman of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Dentistry.

Badger has been on the UTHealth School of Dentistry faculty since 2008 as a volunteer, teaching two days per month in the pediatric dentistry residency program while maintaining a private practice in College Station, Texas. Badger has sold the practice and will make his home in Houston.