Sam A. Merabi, DMD, MPH

Dr. Merabi grew up in Massachusetts and attended college at Brandeis University. He then worked for several years at Franciscan Childrens’ Hospital as a Mental Health Specialist. After some work experience, he attended Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, for his D.M.D. where he obtained awards in both community service and research including an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, a MassHealth Access Program Scholarship, multiple awards for research, and The Presidential Award for Citizenship and Public Service. He went on to the Harvard School of Public Health to earn an M.P.H. He is currently doing oral health epidemiology research at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.

Dr. Merabi has worked for Cambridge Health Alliance as an Attending Dentist teaching Dental Residents in general practice. He was an Instructor for Harvard School of Dental Medicine for several years and enjoyed working with first year dental students on international projects until 2016. He was appointed to the Board of Health in Newburyport in 2016 and completed two terms, which included the Covid years, before beginning a M.S. in Epidemiology at Columbia.

Dr. Merabi is a founding board member of two Massachusetts based non-profits including Here Today Adopted Tomorrow Animal Sanctuary.

https://www.heretodaysanctuary.org

In addition, Dr. Merabi devotes his free time to work in Malawi after having served as Chief Oral Health Advisor for the charitable program, Raising Malawi which was co-founded by Madonna. His current work in Malawi deals with clean water development in rural villages of the Mchinji District.

Dr. Merabi was named by the Massachusetts Dental Society as one of the 2010 Ten Under 10, a recognition that awards ten young dentists in The Commonwealth who have been in practice under ten years and that have made significant contributions to the profession.

After practicing in Central Massachusetts and the Boston area for many years, Dr. Merabi was thrilled to relocate to Newburyport to incorporate Portside Family Dental and considers himself very lucky to lead an amazing team in a beautiful and dynamic city. He is dedicated to the practice of life-long ethical, evidenced based and high quality dentistry.