Dr. Winifred J. Booker, a pediatric dentist based in Owings Mills, Maryland, is the founder of Brushtime Products Inc., a company that manufactures child-friendly dental hygiene products. She also is the executive director of the nonprofit Maryland Children's Oral Health Institute, which she created in 1996 to focus on research surrounding children's oral health, and programs to empower children and their families with good dental hygiene practices.

Dr. Booker received a B.S. degree in biology from Tennessee State University; a doctor of dental surgery from Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee; and earned a certificate in pediatric dentistry from the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

She began her career in 1988 as an associate dentist in Baltimore private practices, then as a clinic dentist with the Baltimore City Health Department. She purchased her first private practice in 1990. She trained at the Children's National Medical Center in the department of pediatric dentistry, where she served as chief resident from 1994-1996 before joining the staff as a faculty, attending.

In 1996, Dr. Booker received her certificate in pediatric dentistry and re-established her private practice. In 2001, she became principal owner of Valley Dental Pediatrics.

She has served on the Oral Health Committee for the Surgeon General's Commission on Oral Health in America. She also sits on the Maryland Department of Health and Dental Hygiene's Oral Health Advisory Committee.

Dr. Booker was a media spokeswoman for the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. She was the secretary/treasurer of the Maryland Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. She served in a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services peer review group formed to monitor and evaluate pediatric dentistry grant programs.

She serves as a consultant for Ethnic Health America and for Pacifica Radio in Oakland, California; and has served as a consultant for Washington, D.C.'s, Head Start Bureau.