Lay Soon, RDH, MS, MEd

Lay Soon, RDH, MS, MEd

Research Assistant, OHS PhD Student

Lay Soon, RDH, MS, MEd

Lay is a second-year PhD student in the McLean lab. Proud to be a Huskie for the third time, she has returned to the University of Washington for her doctoral studies after earning her B.A. in Business Administration (Information Systems) and M.S. in Oral Biology. As a registered dental hygienist, Lay sees dental patients in the Graduate Periodontics Clinic at the UW School of Dentistry.

Lay was a dental hygiene educator who had taught as a first-year lead in the Dental Hygiene program at Clark College, Vancouver WA and as a senior lecturer in the Oral Health Therapy program at Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore. She also received her M.Ed. in Educational Assessment from the National Institute of Education / Nanyang Technological University while teaching in Singapore from 2012 to 2022. Lay is currently leading aspects of our NIH NIDCR funded clinical trial on experimental gingivitis as an examiner and will investigate Inflammatory Responder Types in this study as part of her PhD thesis.

Outside of lab and clinic, Lay enjoys hiking, reading and photography.