Dr. Cheryle Baptiste Hill

Dr. Baptiste Hill started working in her father’s dental practice when she was 12-years-old on the weekends and summer vacations. She is a 1984 graduate of Howard University College of Dentistry where she received the Outstanding Student in Oral Diagnosis Award. Upon graduation she completed an Oral Surgery Fellowship and started her own dental practice in 1994.

She is a member of and has served as an officer, committee chair and committee member of numerous professional organizations such as the American Dental Association (ADA), DC Dental Society (DCDS), National Dental Association (NDA), NDA Eddie G Smith Leadership Institute and Mentoring Programs, Robert T Freeman Dental Society (RTFDS), Academy of General Dentistry (AGD), Founding Member Women Dentists of Metropolitan DC (WDMDC), Greater Washington Academy of Women Dentists (GWAWD), International Association of Dentists (IAD),  American Institute of Implant Dentistry (AIID),  NDA/RTFDS Independent Provider Association (IPA),member of the ADA Task Force to Eliminate Barriers for Underrepresented Minorities into the Dental Profession, and National Medical Association (NMA).

Dr. Baptiste currently serves as the 2025 - 101st President of the National Dental Association, Immediate Past President of RTFDS,  and the Immediate Past President of the DC Dental Society. She is a Fellow o f the American College of Dentists (ACD), Fellow of the International College of Dentists (ICD), and a Diplomate of the International Academy of Mini Dental Implantology (IAMDI).

Dr. Baptiste is retired from private practice in Washington, DC, and is the Dental Clinical Director at the Elaine Ellis Center of Health in NE DC/Takoma Park, MD. She enjoys traveling and spending time on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with her Husband, Darryl Hill.