Our Team of Oral Pathologists

Dr. Folk received her DDS from the University of Washington in 1998. Dr. Folk completed her Oral Pathology residency training at the Naval Dental School in Bethesda, MD, and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Upon graduation, she also received an MS degree in Oral Biology from George Washington University. She then  joined the pathology department at the Naval Medical Center San Diego, where she also served as Department Head of Anatomic Pathology.  She has contributed to the head and neck pathology, ENT, and oral surgery literature. Dr. Folk is a Diplomat of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and a Fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. She has been a staff pathologist at Scripps Oral Pathology Service since 2006, and laboratory director since 2015.

Dr. Slater graduated from the UCLA School of Dentistry. He received his oral pathology residency training at Indiana University in 1982  with Drs. Shafer and Tomich.  During his career in the US Air Force, he served as a staff pathologist in the Department of Oral Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) at Walter Read Army Medical Center in Washington DC for 7 years.  Dr. Slater has been a staff oral pathologist at Scripps Oral Pathology Service since 2000.