A fully qualified oral medicine specialist, Dr Suma Sukumar is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and Staff Specialist in Oral Medicine at Westmead Center for Oral Health. The Clinical Lead of the Medically Complex Dental Service, Dr Suma Sukumar is involved in clinical and academic teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate dental students as well as mentoring junior dentists in the dental management of complex medical patients and mucosal pathology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and an invited Examiner for the RACDS examinations in Histology and Pathology for the Primary examination as well as Oral Medicine for the Final Section of the General Stream. Dr Sukumar is a Fellow of the Oral Medicine Academy of Australasia.