Dr. Donald B. Giddon is a clinical professor of oral and developmental biology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is also a clinical professor emeritus of community health at Brown University School of Medicine and an attending physician at New York University Hospital. Dr. Giddon served as dean of the New York University College of Dentistry from 1975 to 1980, and professor of anesthesiology at the NYU School of Medicine and of psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Giddon is a 1959 DMD graduate from Harvard University. He received a PhD in psychology from Brandeis University, following an AB from Brown University and an MA in psychology from Boston University. He is the author of more than 150 published articles, abstracts, reviews, and books on self-image, the psychophysiology of stress and disease, pain and facial deformity, and the physical bases of the perception of normal and dysmorphic facial and body appearance.

Dr. Giddon is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Public Health Association, American Psychological Association, International College of Psychosomatic Medicine, and Royal Society of Medicine and a charter member of the American Pain Society.

Dr. Gerald Shklar was a longtime faculty member in what is now the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity. A widely published researcher, Dr. Shklar studied oral cancer and other oral pathologies. In 2003, he and a colleague received the Hayden-Harris Award from the American Academy of the History of Dentistry, the academy's highest honor, for "monumental contributions to the history of dentistry." In 2009, Dr. Shklar's wife, Se-Kyung (Sue) Shklar, established the Gerald Shklar Award at HSDM to honor her husband. The award is presented to a graduating student who has excelled in academics and demonstrated talents in humanitarian fields such as literature, art, music, and/or public service and volunteerism during predoctoral academic years.

Dr. Walter Guralnick was a beloved teacher and mentor at HSDM for many years, as well as an extraordinary oral surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his DMD from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1941.

In 2005, Dr. Guralnick was one of three professors across the University to receive the Harvard Medal at commencement. He was praised by then-Harvard President Larry Summers as a "pioneering professor and practitioner of oral surgery, [who has] helped change the face of modern dentistry, mentoring generations of students at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine while working to improve access to dental care around the world." Guralnick’s influence is wide ranging; among other achievements, he helped  develop Delta Dental insurance, established teaching missions in China, and initiated the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/MD/General Surgery Program at HSDM. Dr. Guralnick was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1986.

Dr. Chester Douglass received his DMD from Temple University in 1965 and a PhD from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in 1971. He has published more than 140 papers in referred journals covering a variety of topics in health policy, oral epidemiology, and dental public health, in which he is a boarded specialist. He served as principal investigator in the New England Elders Dental study, which produced 19 important papers on the epidemiology of dental diseases in the elderly.

Dr. Douglass's research also combines dental care policy and financing issues with oral epidemiology research. These studies have demonstrated the increase in need for dental care and decrease in the supply of dentists that will occur over the next 20 years. He is an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship program, past president of the American Board of Dental Public Health, past chair of the board of trustees of the Medical Foundation, and current chair of the DentaQuest Foundation board of directors. He has been a member of several national committees, including the American Dental Association committee for the development of national board exams and the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Future of Dental Education. He was the chief of dentistry and oral surgery for the Cambridge Health Alliance for a number of years. Dr. Douglass served for 10 years as the editor-in-chief of the Oral Care Report, a summary journal of advances in dentistry that is published quarterly with a distribution of 250,000 dentists in 49 countries in 14 languages. Dr. Douglass served as chair of the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine from 1978 to 2008.

Dr. John Zdanowicz was born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts, and earned a BA in chemistry from Salem State College in 1977. After receiving a DMD from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 1980, he earned a certificate in general dentistry from the Eastman Dental Center AEGD program in 1982 and a certificate from the Genesee Hospital General Practice Residency Program in 1983, both located in Rochester, New York. From 1983 through 2000, he was director of the Genesee Hospital General Practice Residency Program and then was director of the Harvard AEGD program from 2000 to 2004. Since 2004, he has been serving as director of the General Practice Residency Program of the Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Zdanowicz practices general dentistry at the Harvard Dental Center at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the Windsor Street Dental Clinic in Cambridge.

Dr. Xiu-Ping Wang received her MD and DMD degrees from Beijing Medical University, China, in 1995, and worked as a pediatric dentist. In 1999, Dr. Wang joined in the PhD program at the University of Helsinki, Finland, studying genetic regulations of craniofacial and tooth development. She then moved to Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School for her postdoctoral training, continuing working on tooth development and tooth regeneration.

Dr. Wang is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She is a member of American Association of Dental Research (AADR), the International Association of Dental Research (IADR), the Society for Developmental Biology, and the International Society for Stem Cell Research. Dr. Wang has received the IADR Bernard G. Sarnat Award in Craniofacial Biology, the IADR William J. Gies Award for Biology Research, and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine Dean's Scholarship.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Wang's research interests include molecular genetics of craniofacial and tooth development, and the regulation of stem cells in teeth.

Dr. Nachum Samet is assistant professor of restorative dentistry at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He also served as director of predoctoral prosthodontics from 2003 through 2008. He holds dental degrees from the Hebrew University and Hadassah School of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem, Israel (1987), as well as a certificate in prosthodontics (1992) from the Hebrew University and Hadassah School of Dental Medicine. He received his board certification in prosthodontics in Israel in 1992. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Academy of Osseointegration, American Academy of Periodontology, and American Dental Education Association, in which he serves as secretary in the Section on Prosthodontics.

Dr. Samet has been teaching predoctoral and postdoctoral students in prosthodontics since his graduation, contributing to the evolution of the curriculum in prosthodontics both at the Hebrew University and at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He has also organized and lectured in courses focused on dental implants and treatment planning. Dr. Samet has received numerous awards recognizing his teaching, including the Distinguished Junior Faculty Award of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine for 2006. He was recently honored by Harvard University as one of its Best Teachers in 2007. Dr. Samet's current work consists of clinical research, teaching, and intramural practice of all phases of implant dentistry and prosthodontics.

Dr. Samet is currently on leave from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Dr. Bill Horne received his PhD from Boston University. His early career, at Brigham and Women's Hospital and later at Yale University School of Medicine, focused on the investigation of cell regulatory mechanisms and cytoskeletal function in platelets and erythrocytes. In 1990, he became a research scientist in the research group of Dr. Roland Baron in the YUSM Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Horne became an instructor in the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity at HSDM in 2008 when the Baron group moved to the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Horne's research interests are the signaling mechanisms that regulate osteoclast function, particularly in response to calcitonin, and how the molecular and functional interactions of osteoclast cytoskeleton and cell attachment proteins control bone resorption by osteoclasts.

Dr. David Keith is known for his work with demporomandibular disorders and orofacial pain. Born in the United Kingdom, Dr. Keith trained at Guy's Hospital Dental School and qualified with a bachelor of dental surgery from the University of London. He obtained his fellowship in dental surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

In 1973, Dr. Keith spent three months on an exchange program with the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and has been on staff there ever since. He received his DMD from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and is currently a clinical professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Dr. Keith has edited a book on temporomandibular joint surgery and an atlas of oral and maxillofacial surgery. He has authored more than 100 original papers, book chapters, and reviews in these fields.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Keith's clinical interests include oral and maxillofacial surgery, the management of temporomandibular disorders, and orofacial pain. His research interests include surgical management of temporomandibular joint disorders-specifically, internal derangement, degenerative arthritis, and ankylosis.

Dr. Jeffry Shaefer, a specialist in orofacial pain and pain management, received his DDS from Georgetown University School of Dentistry. He completed his residency at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center and a fellowship at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Shaefer's clinical interests include facial pain, fixed and removable oral devices, and temporomandibular joint disease.

Dr. Taru Kinnunen received her PhD in experimental and health psychology from the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University in Boston in 1992. She is currently a full-time, tenure-track faculty member of the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and head of the Division of Clinical and Translational Research in the department. Dr. Kinnunen directs the Tobacco Dependence Treatment and Research Program at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Dr. Kinnunen teaches Patient-Doctor Communications, Research Methods, Biostatistics, and Gender Disparities in Oral Health at the Harvard Medical and Dental Schools. She also has a strong commitment to teaching health-care providers worldwide about prevention of tobacco and other addictions as well as applicable treatments and advancing behavioral and preventive medicine globally.

Dr. Kinnunen has held several advisory positions in national and international organizations and has published numerous articles and book chapters in the field of behavioral medicine. She is currently the president of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Drug Abuse and National Cancer Institute. Most recently, she received a highly competitive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of Health titled "Oral Cancer Detection Methods in the Community."

Fields of Interest

Dr. Kinnunen's research includes 1) integrating pharmacological and behavioral interventions to develop effective treatments for nicotine dependence; 2) tobacco-exposure measures and their relations to actual nicotine intake, biomarkers, and risk factors of diseases; 3) enhancing women's health; 4) reducing the disparities contributing to morbidity and mortality; and 5) global health.

Dr. Meredith August is known for her body of work on diagnosis and reconstruction in patients with cancers of the oral and maxillofacial region.

After receiving her BA summa cum laude in English literature from Union College, Dr. August attended the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, where she received her DMD with honors. She completed the Harvard-MGH residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery, earning her MD from Harvard Medical School. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Fluent in Mandarin, Dr. August maintains a clinical practice that spans the full scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery, including orthognathic surgery, dentoalveolar surgery, dental implants, and oral cancer. She was coeditor of Treatment of the Female Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Patient, an issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics (2007).

Fields of Interest

Dr. August's clinical interests include oral cancers, orthognathic surgery, long-term outcomes studies, and women's issues in oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Dr. Thomas Flynn is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon and educator, whose special interests are severe oral infections and undergraduate oral surgery education. He studied classical languages at Columbia University as an undergraduate. Dr. Flynn received his DMD from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Dental School and completed a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City. He served as assistant director of the oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and as assistant professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. In 1987 he entered private practice in Hartford, Connecticut

In 1994, Dr. Flynn reentered academic oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York City, as assistant professor and deputy director of oral and maxillofacial surgery. He was responsible for the clinical and academic education of oral and maxillofacial surgery and general practice dental residents.

Since 1999, Dr. Flynn has been director of predoctoral education in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at HSDM. He has taken the lead in implementing the current major revisions to the oral surgery curriculum at the School.

Dr. Flynn has published extensively on severe dental infections, lecturing nationwide on this topic. He was awarded a research support grant by the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation entitled, "Molecular Techniques for Diagnosis of Odontogenic Infections."

Fields of Interest

Dr. Flynn is active in the clinical practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery, with special emphasis on dental implantology, maxillofacial trauma, and severe orofacial infections.

Dr. Maria Troulis is known for her work with minimally invasive oral and maxillofacial surgery techniques. She has been a major collaborator in the development of distraction osteogenesis, tissue engineering, and endoscopic applications in the oral and maxillofacial region.

Canadian-born from Greek descent, Dr. Troulis attended McGill University in Montreal, where she completed her DDS in dentistry. She completed her residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Montreal General Hospital. Dr. Troulis is currently director of the Massachusetts General Hospital residency training program in oral and maxillofacial surgery and director of the Skeletal Biology Research Laboratory. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Dr. Troulis is coeditor of the text Pediatric Maxillofacial Surgery and has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and 10 chapters. She has also produced three teaching videotapes on minimally invasive therapies.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Troulis's clinical interests include pediatric oral and maxillofacial surgery, reconstructive surgery, and orthognathic surgery. She was instrumental in developing an animal model to study distraction osteogenesis and has been on the forefront in the development of minimally invasive approaches for mandibular reconstruction.

Dr. Edward Lahey hails from Connecticut, where he received his undergraduate degree from Fairfield University. He received his DMD summa cum laude from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and then completed the year-long Clinical Research Training Program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Lahey obtained his MD from Harvard Medical School while completing his residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. Following his specialty training, he joined the faculty of HSDM and the Harvard oral and maxillofacial surgery faculty practice.

Dr. Lahey is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. His research-oriented practice focuses on the surgical treatment of adult and pediatric jaw abnormalities, wisdom teeth, dental implants, maxillofacial trauma, and pathology.

Dr. Shelly Abramowicz received her DMD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine. While at the University of Pittsburgh, she also obtained a master's degree in public health. She completed an internship and residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Florida.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Abramowicz's research interests focus on orthognathic surgery, cleft lip and palate, and temporomandibular joint disorder. She has been a primary investigator on studies involving the etiological factors in the development of cleft lip and palate, as well as a 20-year follow-up study for patients who underwent disc repositioning for temporomandibular joint internal derangement.

In addition, Dr. Abramowicz has also extensively researched and compared different TMJ reconstruction systems, including custom and Bioment prostheses.

Dr. Hiroe Ohyama received her DDS degree from the Tohoku University School of Dentistry in Japan. Following her graduation, she pursued research training in molecular pathology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, receiving both a certificate in general dentistry and an MMSc degree. Dr. Ohyama then returned to Japan, where she obtained a PhD in oral biology from Tokyo University, Faculty of Medicine. Upon her return to Boston, she completed her DMD in the advanced standing program at HSDM.

Dr. Ohyama joined the Department of Restorative Dentistry at HSDM in 2003 and has been serving as director of both Predoctoral Operative Dentistry and the Northeastern Regional Board of Dentistry Review Course.

Dr. Ohyama has received multiple awards recognizing her research, teaching, and patient care. These include the Scholars in Medicine Award from Harvard Medical School, the Distinguished Junior Faculty Award of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the Excellence in Cosmetic Dentistry Award from American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. She has published articles on restorative dentistry as well as head and neck cancer research.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Ohyama's clinical interest is restorative dentistry, particularly esthetics and implant dentistry. She has also been active in public advocacy and educational and dental education meetings.

Born into a New York City family that spawned 13 dentists in two generations, Dr. Ed Seldin euphemistically claims to have drifted into dentistry on a strong familial tide, having, as a youth, taken little personal responsibility for discovering the range of activities that adults engage in to give expression to their talents and to earn a living (other than dentistry). Dr. Seldin studied biology at Tufts University, in Medford, Mass. (BS, magna cum laude, 1964), and thought that he had made good his escape from the family preoccupation with dentistry. In retrospect, even as an undergraduate biology major, he sees himself as spiraling around the rim of a vortex leading inexorably to a career in dentistry.

By a "fantastic stroke of good fortune," Dr. Seldin was assigned to take the DAT at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the examination being proctored by the charismatic acting dean, J. Howard Oakes, under whose spell Dr. Seldin claims to have instantly fallen. Subsequently, as an HSDM student subject to a research requirement, Dr. Seldin received an extraordinary invitation for a summer research fellowship with Harvard Professor George Wald at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. This memorable experience encompassed a year in the Harvard Biolabs and three summers at MBL, studying special sensory physiology (visual systems) in marine invertebrates. By chance, it also bracketed the time in which Dr. Wald was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for his earlier work, elucidating the role of vitamin A in visual excitation. While working in Dr. Wald's laboratory, and writing a number of scientific papers, Dr. Seldin made the important personal discovery that the challenge of designing and building the special apparatus that makes it possible to conduct biological experiments can be just as exciting as the experiments themselves. This was Dr. Seldin's introduction to the world of biomedical engineering.

One of the first group of residents to complete the double degree training program in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Dr. Seldin subsequently served for 34 years as the oral and maxillofacial surgeon in the Medical Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A senior lecturer in mechanical engineering at MIT, for 14 years, he has taught a freshman advising seminar entitled "Mechanical Devices." Dr. Seldin has played a central role in advising premedical and predental students as chair of MIT's Pre-health Council. He has intercurrently been on the staff of MGH for 41 years, to date.

Dr. Seldin is working on his eighth and ninth patents, drawing on the facilities of MGH and the "Elm Street Iron Works" in Cambridge, Mass. Several prior patents he holds are relevant to surgery, but others are for toys, puzzles, and mechanical construction systems. His bibliography, currently with 27 original reports, is heavily weighted toward unique technical solutions for problems in surgery, but some of his writing has had to do with anomalies in health care attributable to the historical accident whereby medicine and dentistry became separate educational realms.

Dr. Seldin sees much of his adult life as consisting of a protracted effort to reconcile and integrate strong "outside" interests-art, architecture, and engineering-with the world of surgery. Although philosophically a therapeutic minimalist, Dr. Seldin is passionate about patient care and considers that outside interests help to inform and enrich care both directly and indirectly.

An important life lesson: "Learning to partner with individuals possessing skills and motivations that I lack has made it possible to complete projects that might have languished for want of proper attention. Learning to remain comfortable in the presence of individuals a lot more talented than I am is a skill that I have been honing with help from students at HSDM and MIT."

Fields of Interest

Dr. Seldin's interests include mpacted teeth, OMFS care of medically compromised patients, premedical and predental mentoring, architecture, history of technology, Stirling cycle heat engine design, and anomalies in health care attributable to the separation of medicine and dentistry into separate educational realms.

Dr. Sang Park received her DDS degree from New York University College of Dentistry and her advanced graduate certificate in prosthodontics and MMSc in oral biology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She is an instructor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, and is a senior tutor for the Peabody Society in the Office of Dental Education.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Park's research activities in dental materials grew from her effort to have her research interests, teaching, and patient care strongly support one another. In addition to her principal area of research in dental materials, she has been conducting educational research in student performance and clinical productivity.

Dr. Shigemi Ishikawa Nagai is an assistant professor of restorative dentistry and biomaterials sciences at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Since arriving at HSDM in 2001, she has been working as a full-time faculty member in prosthodontics and has served as director of advanced dentistry in the DMD program.

Dr. Nagai received her DDS in 1982 and her PhD in 1988, both from Iwate Medical University School of Dentistry in Japan. She also received her board certification in prosthodontics in Japan in 1990. While on sabbatical in Boston, Dr. Nagai received a master's degree in biomaterials from Boston University Goldman School of Dentistry in 1995. Throughout her career, Dr. Nagai has been dedicated to teaching prosthodontics and mentoring students' research, first as assistant professor at Iwate Medical School and, since 2001, at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Dr. Nagai has received numerous awards recognizing her teaching, including the Distinguished Junior Faculty Award from HSDM in 2004, the Claude R. Baker Teaching Award for excellence in teaching pre-doctoral fixed prosthodontics in 2006, and several Outstanding Teaching Faculty awards from the predoctoral students at HSDM. She also has more than 35 peer-reviewed publications, including one in the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry for which she received the Judson C. Hickey Scientific Writing Award in 2006.

Dr. Nagai has been operating the Nagai Lab in the Research and Education Building at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, conducting both clinical and in-vitro research. She continues to mentor numerous predoctoral students and prosthodontics residents, guiding them to publication and research awards.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Nagai's primary research interest and expertise are in translational and clinical research in color science in dentistry. She was deeply involved in the development of a commercially available dental spectrophotometer that is currently the most reliable color-measuring device in clinical dentistry. Her interest in color science has moved into fluorescence, which can be used for early dental caries detection. Currently, she is focusing on development of a novel optical system for caries detection using an NIR (near-infra-red) fluorescence probe. At the same time, she continues her color science projects, which include computerized color-matching technology for dental restorations and maxillofacial prostheses.

Dr. Romesh Nalliah received his degree in dental surgery (BDS) at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He has worked in rural Australia, serving elderly persons in aged-care settings, children in underserved communities, inmates in correctional facilities, and Indigenous Australians. He also received training in project management at the University of Adelaide and managed a pediatric dental outreach program in rural Australia. He has been a business partner in a private practice in Mt. Barker (Australia), where he worked for six years.

Dr. Nalliah has served as a clinical instructor at the Adelaide University Dental School and as a lecturer at the Illinois School of Health Careers. He now serves as senior tutor for the Castle Society at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Nalliah's area of interest is public health dentistry. He has worked for six years in Australian public dentistry and has been involved in many projects providing dental care to underserved communities. He is involved in research and community service that relates to low socioeconomic groups in Massachusetts.

Dr. Thomas Dodson is recognized for his patient-oriented research and as a teacher of evidence-based clinical practice and clinical investigation. His work has played an important role in the management of third molars and has spurred debate on social issues including mandatory seatbelt laws, oral surgical management of HIV-positive patients, and domestic violence. He is active in evaluating risks and repair of nerve injury, management of giant cell tumors, and bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws.

A native of rural Oregon, Dr. Dodson attended the University of Oregon before receiving his DMD cum laude from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical epidemiology and dental public health. He served on the academic faculties of the University of California, San Francisco, and Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, and is currently an associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and director of the Center for Applied Clinical Investigation. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

A frequent speaker and invited lecturer, Dr. Dodson has presented at professional meetings throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Hong Kong, Scotland, Taiwan, and Turkey, He serves as research editor of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and is on the board of directors of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation. Dr. Dodson is the recipient of the 2004 Daniel M. Laskin award for the most outstanding article published in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the 2009 HSDM Distinguished Senior Faculty Award.

With a deep belief that scientific evidence drives clinical decision making, Dr. Dodson finds his clinical practice enhanced and informed by the depth of his research activities. His approach to practice is to combine state-of-the-art technology with evidence-based treatment planning to provide the "optimal" experience for the patient: a balance between therapeutic value, cost, convenience, pain, and risk.

Dr. Dodson is the author or coauthor of more than 120 scientific publications and chapters.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Dodson's clinical interests include maxillofacial trauma, orthognathic surgery, management of impacted wisdom teeth, dentoalveolar surgery, dental implants, and reconstructive surgery

Dr. Leonard Kaban is internationally recognized for his accomplishments in the fields of craniofacial deformities-such as hemifacial microsomia-pediatric oral and maxillofacial surgery, jaw tumors in children, and minimally invasive surgical techniques for maxillofacial surgery.

Currently chief of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Walter C. Guralnick professor and head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Dr. Kaban attended Queens College of the City University of New York, then received his DMD from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the American Board of Medical Examiners and is a fellow of both the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons.

As speaker and visiting professor, Dr. Kaban has crisscrossed the globe, presenting at professional meetings in Australia, Britain, Iceland, South Africa, Switzerland, and Vietnam, among others. He is particularly known for treatment of children with craniofacial abnormalities and for an innovative protocol for the treatment of giant cell tumors of the jaw. His scientific research includes the development of distraction osteogenesis techniques for mandibular advancement and tissue engineering using autologous mesenchymal stem cells. Dr. Kaban is the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Harvard School of Dental Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award, AAOMS Research Recognition Award, Donald Osborn Outstanding Educator Award, and the Harvard Medical School Award for Mentoring Women Faculty.

Because the nature of oral and maxillofacial surgery touches so many children, Dr. Kaban's research interests work hand-in-hand with his clinical practice. His approach is to use biomedical engineering, computer-assisted techniques, and tissue engineering to refine the art of facial reconstruction for congenital and acquired facial deformities. He works avidly to reduce the surgical trauma, enhance the quality of healing, and improve the outcomes of facial surgery. He has also been working on the biology of giant cell tumors of bone in an effort to develop medical therapies for these aggressive jaw lesions in children.

Dr. Kaban is the author or coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications and five books, including the text Pediatric Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Kaban's clinical interests include craniofacial surgery, distraction osteogenesis, maxillofacial trauma, orthognathic surgery, pediatric oral and maxillofacial surgery, temporomandibular joint surgery, hemifacial microsomia, and giant cell tumors of the jaw.

Dr. Sung-Kiang Chuang was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He obtained his early education in Singapore and graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a BA in mathematics in 1986 and obtained an MS in statistics and operations research from New York University in 1987. He attended Harvard School of Dental Medicine, where he obtained his DMD in 1992. Simultaneously, Dr. Chuang obtained his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He also obtained his MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1995, completed his advanced training in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York in 1998, and in 2002 obtained a MSc in epidemiology and a DMSc in oral epidemiology and biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, respectively. He completed his advanced training in dental public health at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health in 2002. He completed the fellowship in clinical investigation sponsored by the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital in 2004.

Dr. Chuang holds an appointment as an assistant professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and is board-certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Dr. Chuang is an epidemiology and statistical editor of the Journal of Evidenced-Based Dental Practice and has published more than 45 peer-reviewed papers and textbook chapters.

Dr. Chuang is particularly well known for his innovative applied analytical methods and his interests focusing on clinical research and outcomes in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Chuang's research interests include dental implants, outcomes of third-molar surgery, survival analysis in dental research, and dental public health.

Dr. Bonnie Padwa was born in New York City and grew up in Buffalo, N.Y. She completed her undergraduate education at Emory University and received her dental degree from Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1988 and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1990. After completing residency training in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, she completed a fellowship in craniofacial surgery at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Padwa is board certified in oral and maxillofacial surgery and is an associate professor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Harvard Medical School. She practices at Children's Hospital Boston, where she is oral surgeon-in-chief and an active member of the craniofacial and cleft teams.

Dr. Padwa served for six years on the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery as section cochair. She is the oral and maxillofacial surgery residency program director in the Longwood Medical Area. She is an editorial reviewer for 10 journals and has published more than 70 papers, has authored textbooks, and has lectured worldwide.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Padwa's research interests include the genetics of cleft and craniofacial anomalies, their impact on facial growth and surgical outcomes.

Dr. John Da Silva was born in New York City. He attended Williams College as an undergraduate and received his DMD from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1987. Dr. Da Silva returned to the School of Public Health and received his ScM in health policy and management. His professional training has been at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, where he completed specialty training in implant dentistry, and prosthodontics in 1992. He has been a member of the Departments of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences and Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at HSDM. In 1998 he was appointed director of Advanced Graduate Education. Currently he is the interim head of the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences. Dr. Da Silva has been actively involved in the Harvard Dental Center as the medical director and HIPAA privacy officer.

In addition to these responsibilities, Dr. Da Silva has made major contributions in research in the area of color science. He has also been involved in curricular change to improve content on substance-abuse screening and brief interventions.

Dr. Da Silva serves on the board of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry's Research Foundation and is currently chair of its Grants Review Committee. He is editor of the Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Dentistry and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Oral Implantology, Public Health Reports, Journal of Periodontology, and Journal of Dentistry. Dr. Da Silva has been chair of the Education Committee for the American Academy of Implant Dentistry since 2004.

Dr. Da Silva has received numerous honors during his academic career, including becoming an honored fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, and the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He has published journal articles and lectured nationwide.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Da Silva's research interests include the application of color science in dentistry, bone growth/regeneration, and public health issues.

Dr. Nadeem Y. Karimbux was born in Nakuru, Kenya. He attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as an undergraduate and received his DMD from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1991 and his MMSc in oral biology and certificate in periodontology from HSDM in 1993. Dr. Karimbux's professional career has centered on dental curriculum development and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Before assuming the position of assistant dean for dental education at HSDM in 1998, he was the director of predoctoral periodontology at the School. He has also been the interim program director of the Advanced Graduate Education Program in Periodontology since 2005.

In addition to these responsibilities, Dr. Karimbux has made major contributions in research to the specialty of periodontology and problem-based learning in dental education. A board-certified periodontist, he practices periodontology at the Harvard Dental Center and at Children's Hospital Boston.

Dr. Karimbux served for four years on the Council of Faculty for the American Dental Education Association. He has served on the board of editors for the Journal of Dental Education and is an associate editor for the Journal of Periodontology and MedEdPORTAL.

Dr. Karimbux has received numerous honors during his academic career, including the G.W. Teuscher Award from the American Society of Dentistry for Children, the Periodontal Educator Award from the American Academy of Periodontology, and Distinguished Faculty Awards from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He has published more than 40 papers, authored textbooks, and lectured worldwide.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Karimbux's research interests include the oral health-systemic link, periodontal wound healing, the use of haptic technology to train dental students, and the outcomes of problem-based learning in dental education.

Dr. Bernard Friedland teaches all pre- and postdoctoral courses in oral and maxillofacial radiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is responsible for all predoctoral clinical training in the discipline. Under his leadership, HSDM was the first school to introduce complex motion tomography in dentistry and conebeam CT into Massachusetts. Dr. Friedland is active in the HSDM Faculty Group Practice at the Harvard Dental Center, where his radiology practice enjoys a wide referral base from dentists outside HSDM.

He is a frequent speaker at local dental study clubs on the role of conebeam CT in dentistry. In addition to publishing articles, he has contributed chapters to textbooks. He is chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. Dr. Friedland developed and teaches a course on dental ethics and lectures on medicolegal issues to both pre- and postdoctoral students. He is a member of the Division of Ethics at Harvard Medical School and represents HSDM on the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine Committee on Human Studies (IRB).

In addition to his dental and radiology training, Dr. Friedland has a law degree and is admitted to the Massachusetts bar. He is one of only a handful of dentists elected to fellowship in the American College of Legal Medicine, where he serves on the editorial board of the organization’s flagship publication. He has published in the medicolegal/ethical fields and has contributed a textbook chapter on medicolegal jurisprudence.

Dr. Peggy Timothé was born in New York City. She attended New York University as an undergraduate and received her DDS from New York University College of Dentistry in 1994. She completed a postgraduate residency program (AEGD) at the Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1995. In 2002, Dr. Timothé received an MPH degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and in 2003 completed a dental public health residency at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. She is board certified in the specialty of dental public health.

Dr. Timothé has practiced in variety of clinical settings, including community health centers, correctional health centers, and private practice. She is currently the senior tutor for the Oliver Wendell Homes Society and an instructor in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at HSDM.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Timothé has various interests in the field of dental public health, including community-based health promotion and current trends in caries risk.

Dr. T. Howard Howell was born in Atlanta, Ga. After earning his undergraduate and master of science degrees at Georgia State University, he received his DDS from Emory University and his certificate in periodontology from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Following completion of his specialty program, he was appointed to the faculty at Harvard and is currently the A. Lee Loomis professor of periodontology and dean for dental education at the School. He also has served as interim head of the HSDM Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity.

In his current administrative role, Dr. Howell is responsible for all educational and student programs offered by HSDM, including predoctoral, advanced graduate, and continuing education. In this capacity, he has been the primary architect of Harvard’s innovative problem-based learning predoctoral clinical curriculum.
 
In addition to his commitment to dental education, Dr. Howell has had an active career in periodontal research. He has authored numerous publications on the use of pharmacologic agents for the treatment of periodontal disease, and also has conducted extensive work in the area of periodontal regeneration using bone morphogenetic protein and growth factors. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Dental Education and the Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry. Dr. Howell has lectured extensively within the United States and internationally. He has served as external examiner for the University of Hong Kong and is currently adviser to the dean of Khon Kaen University in Thailand. Dr. Howell is the recipient of a number of honors, including the HSDM Distinguished Alumni Award and the HSDM Distinguished Faculty Award.

Dr. Howell maintains a clinical practice in the Faculty Group Practice at the Harvard Dental Center.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Howell’s research interests include periodontal regeneration, modifying factors in periodontal disease progression, pharmacologic treatment of periodontal disease, and educational methodology.

Dr. Agnes Lau is a Boston native and a graduate of Harvard College. She earned her DMD at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and completed a two-year general practice residency program at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She has focused her career in hospital dentistry and graduate resident education. At Massachusetts General Hospital, she is chief of the MGH Division of Dentistry. She is currently also the director of the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard General Practice Residency in Dentistry. Her appointment at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is assistant professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Lau's interests focus on hospital dentistry, dental care of the medically compromised patient, and all facets of general dentistry.

Dr. R. Bruce Donoff was born in New York City. He attended Brooklyn College as an undergraduate, received his DMD from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1967 and his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1973. Dr. Donoff’s professional career has centered on Harvard’s Faculty of Medicine and the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He began as an intern in 1967 and has served in the department since that time, becoming chair and chief of service in 1983.
In 1991, Dr. Donoff was named dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, a post that he continues to hold.

In addition to these responsibilities, Dr. Donoff has made major contributions in research to the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Dr. Donoff served 12 years on the board of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation and is currently president of the Friends of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. He is editor of the MGH Manual of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the Massachusetts Dental Society Journal.

Dr. Donoff has received numerous honors during his academic career, including the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Research Recognition Award, William J. Gies Foundation Award for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Distinguished Alumni and Faculty Awards from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He has published more than 90 papers, authored textbooks, and lectured worldwide.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Donoff's research interests include wound healing, bone graft survival, sensory nerve repair, and oral cancer.

Dr. Supattriya Chutinan received the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) from Mahidol University School of Dentistry, Thailand, in 1996. Following graduation, Dr. Chutinan worked at a community hospital in a rural area in Thailand where she saw many dental health problems, especially the needs for restorative treatment, and became interested in the field of Operative Dentistry. In 1999, she attended the Operative Dentistry program at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), earning the Certificate of Postgraduate of Operative Dentistry in 2001 and the degree of Masters of Science in Dentistry (MSD) in 2002, respectively. After earning her MSD, Dr. Chutinan returned to Thailand and worked as a full-time faculty member at the School of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Thailand. She also worked as a practitioner at several private practices in Thailand, focusing primarily on esthetic dentistry. Dr. Chutinan received the certificate of American Board of Operative Dentistry in 2008 and joined the Department of Biomaterial Science and Restorative Dentistry at HSDM as a full-time faculty member in 2010. Dr. Chutinan is an active member of the American Academy of Operative Dentistry, the Dental Association of Thailand, and the Thai Society of Operative Dentistry.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Chutinan's clinical interest is in restorative dentistry, especially cosmetic dentistry. She has extensive experience with many advanced dental materials from her practice. Her treatment philosophy draws largely from the concept of minimally invasive treatment.

Dr. Chutinan's research is focused on dental materials. Of particular interest are tooth color materials, resin composite, and fluoride releasing materials. She has also studied tooth whitening agents. She has published many articles on restorative dentistry and dental material science and presented the findings at conferences in Thailand and other countries.

Dr. Pierre Striehl received an undergraduate degree from the University of Heidelberg in Germany and a PhD degree in physics from Harvard University.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Striehl's current research interests include continuous particle separation in microfluidic devices and tissue engineering.

Dr. Man Wai Ng is chief of the Department of Dentistry at the Children's Hospital Boston. Previously she was chief of the Department of Dentistry at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where she was also the director of the Residency Program in Pediatric Dentistry. Dr. Ng received her DDS degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her MPH degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed residency training in pediatric dentistry at Children's Hospital Boston.

Dr. Ng was formerly a member of the HRSA Advisory Committee in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry (Title VII programs) and a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration. She currently serves as a consultant to the Commission on Dental Accreditation and the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry. She is also a member of the editorial board of Pediatric Dentistry, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Ng is interested in public health, public policy, and advocacy to improve the oral health of children, especially on behalf of underserved children. Her research interests include preventing and managing early childhood caries and improving the education and training of medical and dental providers in oral health issues.

Dr. Joel N.H. Stern received a BS degree in biology from Columbia University, while conducting behavioral genetics research at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). After completing an undergraduate degree, he taught basic science at CSHL's DNA Learning Center. He then received MS and PhD degrees in biological sciences from Harvard University, where his thesis adviser was Professor Jack L. Strominger. Dr. Stern then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Edmond J. Yunis. Dr. Stern is currently an instructor in the Department of Developmental Biology at HSDM, under the mentorship of Dean Björn R. Olsen. He is also a member of the Board of Tutors in Biochemical Sciences at FAS, and is a visiting scholar in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Stern's scientific work focuses on the pathogenesis and modulation of autoimmune diseases, including blistering diseases of the mouth and skin, such as pemphigus, multiple sclerosis (MS), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Pemphigus is a blistering autoimmune disease of the mouth and skin. The most common type of pemphigus, Pemphigus vulgaris (PV), is characterized by blisters and erosions in the mucus membranes and skin. Blisters occur due to a loss of cell adhesion deep within the epidermis, called acantholysis, which is caused by pathogenic auto-antibodies. Several proteases have recently been identified that may be involved in acantholysis formation, and new approaches have been initiated to investigate the role of these proteases in PV pathogenesis.

Both MS and ALS are diseases of the central nervous system. Murine models of MS and ALS are employed. The primary objective of Dr. Stern's investigation is the development of novel treatments for these autoimmune diseases. Along with studying the basic mechanisms of their pathogenesis, he is exploring means of regulating these diseases through design and administration of immune system modulators. These modulators currently comprise two main categories of compounds: synthetic peptides and copolymers/polypeptides.

Dr. Stern is also working on alternative therapeutic approaches that involve the design of an in vivo antigen delivery system, using monoclonal fusion antibodies coupled with protein fragments of pathogenic targets. The mechanism by which these fusion antibodies alter immune responses is currently under investigation.

Dr. Nathaniel Treister is an assistant professor of oral medicine at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and an associate surgeon in the Division of Oral Medicine and Dentistry at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he also serves as the site coordinator for the Brigham and Women's/Harvard-Wide General Practice Residency program. He received his DMD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and completed his postgraduate training at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, where he received a certificate in oral medicine and a DMSc degree in oral biology. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine and is an active member in the American Academy of Oral Medicine, where he chairs several committees. Dr Treister has published extensively in the field of oral medicine and has recently coauthored a clinical textbook for physicians and oral health care specialists entitled Clinical Oral Medicine and Pathology. He received the Lester Burket Award, Basic Sciences Category, from the American Academy of Oral Medicine in 2005.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Treister's clinical and research interests are focused primarily on the diagnosis and management of oral complications (soft and hard tissues) in cancer patients. He works very closely with a number of disease programs through the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, including Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplantation, Head and Neck Oncology, and Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, where he actively sees patients and collaborates on numerous clinical research initiatives. He is particularly interested in oral chronic graft-versus-host disease, and is principal investigator on several clinical trials. The goal of his research is to better define various oral complications of cancer and cancer therapies, explore their underlying pathobiological mechansisms, and evaluate approaches to diagnosis and management. As postgraduate director of oral medicine and the GPR site coordinator at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Treister teaches extensively in the classroom as well as the clinic, with predoctoral dental and medical students and postdoctoral oral medicine trainees.

Dr. Sook-Bin Woo has been an associate professor in the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine since 2008. She graduated with a BDS from Singapore University in 1980, worked for two years as a general dentist, and then as an oral and maxillofacial surgery resident before moving to the United States. She received her MS in oral pathology from Indiana University in 1984 and completed a fellowship in head and neck pathology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in 1986. She then obtained her DMD from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and further training in oral and maxillofacial pathology, receiving her MMSc degree in 1991. She became board certified in oral and maxillofacial pathology in 1991 and became an associate pathologist at Pathology Services Inc. and attending dentist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where she was coordinator of dental services for inpatient care.

The biopsy service of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine merged with Pathology Services Inc. in 1997, and Dr. Woo became chief of the service and director of the graduate training program in oral and maxillofacial pathology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She became board certified in oral medicine in 2003 and is now director of clinical services at the Division of Oral Medicine and Dentistry at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. She has served on the Fellowship Committee and Executive Council of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and is on the board of the American Academy of Oral Medicine. Dr. Woo has published many scholarly papers and book chapters and is reviewer for several journals.

Professional Honors and Recognition

Singapore University Bronze Medal, Best Preclinical Student - 1978
Singapore University Silver Medal - 1979
Singapore University Silver Medal, Best Clinical Student - 1980
National Research Service Award, NIH - 1988-1991
American Cancer Society Career Development Award - 1994-1997

Dr. David M. Kim is an assistant professor and the director of predoctoral periodontology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is also a diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and serves as consultant and ad hoc reviewer for peer-review dental journals. Dr. Kim received his dental degree from the University of Maryland Dental School and completed his periodontology training and doctorate in oral biology from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Kim's strong interest in bone regeneration and dental implant therapies has led to his extensive publication in peer-reviewed journals and in textbooks.

Dr. Mark A. Lerman received his BA and his DMD from Tufts University and earned a certificate for completion of the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard-Wide General Practice Residency. He completed his oral pathology residency at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens and is a fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology as well as a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.

Dr. Lerman directs the Advanced Oral Medicine, Pathology, and Radiology course for postgraduate students and codirects the Oral Pathology and Pathophysiology course for undergraduate students at HSDM. He instructs oral and maxillofacial pathology postgraduates in surgical oral pathology and teaches dental residents as well as medical and dental students. He is dually appointed at HSDM and Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he is an attending in the Division of Oral Medicine and Dentistry.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Lerman's clinical and research interests include reactive and premalignant white lesions of the oral cavity, as well as oral mucosal diseases and complications of cancer therapies, including bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaws.

Dr. Gregory An is a clinical instructor at HSDM. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, as an undergraduate. After receiving his DDS from the University of Michigan School of Dental Medicine, Ann Arbor, in 2000, Dr. An completed his fellowship in geriatric dentistry at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and received his master's of public health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. An was named codirector of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine's fellowship program in geriatrics in 2004.

Fields of Interest

Dr. An has received grants for his work in minority health, cultural competence, and interdisciplinary health care for elders.

Dr. Arthur J. Garvey was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended the State College at Worcester, Mass., as an undergraduate, and received his PhD from Boston College in 1972 in educational psychology and statistics. He has been on the faculty of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine since 1980.

Dr. Garvey began his research career with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in 1971, and was director of social epidemiology at the VA-sponsored Normative Aging Study (NAS) from 1980 to 1996. He worked for 25 years on the prospective follow-up of NAS participants and on the analysis of medical and dental data collected on the 2,280 NAS research participants. He has also been involved in the study of psychosocial and biomedical aspects of smoking for the past 36 years.

Dr. Garvey was principal investigator (PI) of a study of nicotine gum treatment efficacy funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) from 1991 to 1996, and PI for a study involving individualized nicotine-replacement treatment funded by NIDA from 2000 to 2005. He is currently PI of a study funded by NIDA of front-loaded counseling as a treatment for addicted smokers that is nearing completion. This study is investigating the efficacy of early, relapse-sensitive counseling vs. standard weekly counseling in improving smoking-cessation outcomes. He is also the PI of a new study funded by NIDA that is examining the effects on smoking abstinence of extending the counseling period for longer durations of time.

Dr. Garvey has published many research papers and made numerous scientific presentations worldwide. He has served on National Institutes of Health research advisory panels and regularly reviews research papers being considered for publication in scientific journals.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Garvey has made major contributions to efforts in the field of health promotion and disease prevention. His interests are in the development of new treatments to help addicted smokers quit smoking and maintain permanent smoking abstinence.

Dr. Elsbeth Kalenderian is a health care executive with more than 20 years' experience in the health care, human services, and public health fields. An oral surgeon by training, Dr. Kalenderian began her health care management career, after obtaining her master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, as the administrator for Children's Hospital Boston's long-term-care facility. From there she moved to the Partners Healthcare System (Boston) in various senior management roles at North Shore Medical Center (NSMC). As vice president for case management and vice president for patient care services, she was intimately involved in the management of the cardiac department and cardiac patients. She was instrumental in writing the proposal that secured NSMC's approval for the open-heart program and developed the implementation plan. She served on Partners' outpatient ethics committee and reestablished the inpatient ethics committee at NSMC. In 2002, looking for a change from the hospital environment, Dr. Kalenderian became the executive vice president of a human services organization in Cambridge, Mass., which succeeded in its mission to providing long-lasting solutions to victims of domestic violence through an effective partnership with an extensive group of volunteers.

In July 2004 Dr. Kalenderian became the vice president for quality improvement Initiatives at the American Heart Association (AHA) in the Northeast affiliate (Framingham, Mass.). In this role, she was responsible for the implementation of the "Get With The Guidelines" program, a hospital-based, concurrent case management program focusing on standardizing secondary prevention care measures for all stroke and cardiovascular patients throughout the Northeast region. In December 2005 she became the senior vice president for health strategies for AHA's Heritage affiliate in New York City. In this role, she was responsible for the quality improvement, communications and marketing, advocacy, cause, state health alliances, and cultural health and health disparities initiatives departments covering the NYC, Long Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut markets. In October 2007 Dr. Kalenderian was appointed assistant dean for clinical affairs and an instructor in oral health policy and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She is responsible for the overall management of the Harvard Dental Center's dental practice; facilitates bridging basic and translational research with clinical research in patient care delivery; and as a member of the faculty, participates in the educational efforts of the School. In 2008 she was appointed interim chair of the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology. She was actively involved in the conversion of the Harvard Dental Center's practices to the electronic-health-record and practice-management software AxiUm, which was implemented in summer 2009.

Dr. Kalenderian is currently involved in research focused on the electronic health record and received an American Dental Award for research that seeks to predict future (clinical years) performance of dental students through assessing their performance in a first-year, longitudinal course that focuses on the relationship between patient and provider. She is actively involved in teaching the first-year students in the Patient-Doctor I course. Additionally, she teaches the third-year students several oral and maxillofacial surgery classes and is the program director for the five-month Oral Health Leadership Course, also for the third-year dental students.

Dr. Kalenderian received a Fulbright scholarship in 1983.

Dr. Vicki Rosen arrived at HSDM by way of industry, having spent the majority of her research career as a scientist at Genetics Institute, a biotechnology company, where she was part of a research team that identified the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) genes in 1988. She became a professor in the Faculty of Medicine in 2001, and chair of the Department of Developmental Biology at HSDM in 2005.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Rosen's lab studies the physiological roles that bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) play in the development, maintenance, and repair of musculoskeletal tissues (bone, cartilage, tendon, ligament, meniscus, muscle). The researchers use molecular, cellular, and genetic approaches in a variety of model systems (Xenopus, chick, and mouse) to investigate BMP activities. The investigators believe that enhancing current understanding of BMP biology will lead to the development of novel strategies for repair and regeneration of individual components of the musculoskeletal system, as well as provide new models for examining complex tissue interactions that are required for its function.

Dr. Doirudee Jumlongras received her DDS from Mahidol University, Thailand. She completed her PhD at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 2003.

Dr. Jumlongras is the senior tutor in the HSDM problem-based DMD curriculum, and organizes and manages the clinical treatment teams for third- and fourth-year predoctoral students.

Dr. Chin-Yu Lin was born in Taiwan. He received a DDS from the Yang-Ming University (Taiwan), an MS from the National Defense Medical Center (Taiwan), an MSD & orthodontic certificate from St. Louis University, and a PhD from the University of California, San Francisco. After serving as an assistant professor at St. Louis University, he joined the faculty in the Department of Developmental Biology at HSDM in 2004.

Dr. Lin is currently the director of advanced graduate education in orthodontics. His education strategy focuses on problem-based and role-playing-based learning and interdisciplinary learning and practice.

Dr. Lin has received numerous honors, including the Hatton Award and the Travel Award from the American Association of Dental Research, the Robert M. Ricketts Sunflower Orthodontics Fellowship Award, the Anthony A. Gianelly Teaching Fellowship Award, the T.M. Graber Teaching Fellowship Award, the Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the American Association of Orthodontists Foundation, and the Eleanor and Miles Shore 50th Anniversary Fellowship Award from Harvard Medical School.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Lin's research works focus on two areas: evidence-based orthodontics, and the molecular mechanism of dental follicles and periodontal membranes on the skeletal homeostasis.

Dr. Yefu Li was born in China. He attended Beijing Capital Medical College and Beijing Union Medical College and received his MD in 1986. He joined a PhD program in developmental biology and genetics at Brigham Young University in Utah, and received his PhD in 1991. Dr. Li then joined the laboratory of Dr. Bjorn Olsen for his postdoctoral training.

Dr. Li has been a faculty member of the Department of Developmental Biology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School since 1999. He has been mentoring predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in his laboratory. Research projects in Dr. Li's laboratory have been supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Li's research focuses on two major areas: the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis, and the genetic regulation of skeletogenesis.

Dr. Beate Lanske was born and raised in Salzburg, Austria, where she received her PhD in biology from the Faculty of Natural Sciences. After completing her graduate work at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Endocrinology in Hannover, Germany, and at the Helmholtz Centre in Munich in 1991, Dr. Lanske was awarded a scholarship from the Max-Kade Foundation to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Harvard Medical School in Boston. During that time, her work focused on the generation and characterization of knock-out mice for the parathyroid hormone (PTH)/parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP) receptor. In a collaborative effort with the laboratory of Dr. Cliff Tabin at HMS, Dr. Lanske's research led to the important discovery of the negative feedback loop between the Indian hedgehog gene and PTHrP. This discovery launched the critical understanding of the regulation of chondrocyte differentiation in the growth plate, and provided useful information that helped to identify various forms of chondrodysplasia in humans (Jansen's methaphyseal chondrodysplasia and Bloomstrand's Chondrodysplasia).

In 1998, Dr. Lanske was recruited as an independent group leader at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. There she investigated the biology of a newly discovered phosphate-regulating hormone, fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23). In 2002 she moved back to Boston as associate professor of developmental biology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She has established a strong group of investigators studying the role of Indian hedgehog during endochondral bone formation and the pathophysiological role of FGF-23 using genetically altered mouse models.

Dr. Lanske has received many honors and awards during her academic career, including the Von-Recklinghausen Prize of the German Society for Endocrinology, the Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), and the Czitober Research Prize for Bone and Mineral Metabolism of the Austrian Society for Bone and Mineral Research. Many of her postdoctoral fellows have received the Young Investigator Award of the ASBMR, John Haddad Young Investigator Award of AIMM, Harold Frost Young Investigator Award of the ASBMR, Howard Hughes fellowships, and various travel awards. Dr. Lanske is dedicated to improving the research experience for predoctoral DMD students at HSDM, and serves on many curriculum and education committees.

Dr. Lanske is a member of numerous societies, such as the Endocrine Society, IBMS, Matrix Biology, ECTS, NY Academy of Sciences, and ASBMR. She is also on the editorial board of Bone and Matrix Biology. She has published more than 65 papers and has lectured worldwide, giving speeches at international conferences in Brazil, Spain, The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Italy, and Canada.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Lanske has made major contributions in the field of bone research, with special interests in chondrocyte differentiation and postnatal bone growth. In addition, she has pioneered the work on the complex interactions between FGF-23 and vitamin D. Visit the Lanske Lab for details of this research.

Dr. Winston Kuo received his bachelor's degree in biology from the State University of New York at Albany, and his dental degree from Columbia University. He completed a two-year dental general practice residency program at Catholic Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and obtained his pediatric dentistry specialty from the University of Southern California and Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center in California. In 2005, Dr. Kuo completed his dental informatics and oral medicine specialty training and his DMSc in oral biology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. As part of his informatics training at HSDM, he completed his master's of science in medical informatics (a concentration in bioinformatics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Arhat Abzhanov's lab.

In 2007, Dr. Kuo established the Laboratory for Innovative Translational Technologies (LITT) at HSDM to provide the Harvard research community with early access to enabling leading-edge genomic and proteomic technologies, which is now an integral part of the Harvard Catalyst clinical and translational science center. Dr. Kuo is currently the director of the Harvard Catalyst Laboratory for Innovative Translational Technologies (HC-LITT).

Fields of Interest

Dr. Kuo's research involves the application of genomic and proteomic technologies two broad areas: craniofacial development and oral cancer.

Dr. Kuo's craniofacial research focuses on roles of microRNAs in craniofacial development. Craniofacial abnormalities are some of the most common structural birth defects that are often associated with developmental disabilities, abnormalities to brain maturation, hearing loss, and functional problems related to breathing, eating, and speech. Impaired cranial bone formation and remodeling can contribute to many of these craniofacial abnormalities, such as Apert's, Crouzon's, Treacher-Collins, Pierre Robin Complex, hemifacial microsomia, etc. Great strides have been made in identifying the genetic etiologies of a number of syndromes, though the pathogenesis of the developing cranial skeletal structures still remains poorly understood. A conditional knock-out mutation in Dicer, which is involved in microRNA processing, with several cre-LoxP lines that target various craniofacial and skeletal tissues and structures, will be used to describe the overall roles for miRNAs in craniofacial development. Preliminary results demonstrate a profound yet specific intramebranous (dermal) bone phenotype. Dr. Kuo's goal is to improve characterization of the nature of miRNA involvement and to search for specific microRNAs involved in cranial development. In addition, he plans to incorporate the transcriptional activity of multiple skeletogenic markers and signaling molecules using microRNA and DNA microarrays, and of key classes of kinase-dependent pathways using kinase-protein chips.

Dr. Kuo's research in oral cancer involves the mining and analysis of data for a panel of biomarkers that will allow for the identification of molecularly premalignant lesions as well as histologic dysplastic lesions, which are more likely to progress to cancer. Such identification would be of great value, as early detection has the greatest impact on survival rates for oral cancer. Accordingly, gene expression profiling of microdissected keratinocytes from biopsies containing normal mucosal tissue and invasive HNSCC will be performed to define a set of genes with marked alteration in expression in the course of carcinogenic transformation. These potential markers will then be subjected to a two-step validation process to determine their potential utility as biomarkers for two distinct phases of cancer progression.

Dr. Laura Gamer received her BA from Dartmouth College and her PhD in cell and developmental biology from Vanderbilt University. After completing her postdoctoral fellowship at the biotech company Genetics Institute, she became a staff scientist and teamed up with Dr. Vicki Rosen to study the biology of BMPs and their roles in the skeleton. She moved with Dr. Rosen to HSDM in 2001.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Gamer is currently focusing on understanding the functions of BMP2, BMP3, and the type II BMP receptors in musculoskeletal tissues.

Dr. Tracy Keller received her BS in nuclear engineering from Kansas State University, her MS in cancer biology from the Harvard School of Public Health, and her PhD in cell and developmental biology from Harvard University.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Keller's research interests are in signal transduction during chronic inflammation, tumor metastasis, muscle homeostasis, and the development of small molecule inhibitors of chronic inflammation.

Dr. Eileen Boye received her university education in the United Kingdom and holds an MSc in medical genetics from the University of Newcastle-upon Tyne and a PhD in medical genetics from the University of London. She completed a first postdoctoral fellowship at the Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris, France, and a second in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. She is currently an instructor in the Department of Developmental Biology at HSDM.

Dr. Boye is primarily involved in basic science research, and is currently cochair of the HSDM Predoctoral Research Advisory Committee. She also serves on several other HSDM committees: the Curriculum Committee, Promotions and Examinations Committee, Research Training Committee, and Environmental Health and Safety Committee.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Boye's research interests lie in two areas: endothelial cell biology, and the molecular mechanisms underlying blood vessel formation and the development of vascular disorders, particularly hemangiomas and venous malformations.

Dr. Rachel Badovinac Ramoni was born in Chicago, Ill. She attended the University of North Texas in Denton from the ages of 15 to 17, after which she pursued a bachelor's degree in international studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She received her DMD from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and her ScD in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She also holds certificates in dental public health and oral epidemiology. Since completing her studies, she has been an instructor in the Department of Developmental Biology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

As a dental student, Dr. Ramoni received the Pierre Fauchard Academy Undergraduate Certificate of Merit and the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Dental Student Award. For her postdoctoral work, she received the James M. Dunning Award. She is currently supported by a Career Development Award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She is both a dedicated educator and researcher and has published 17 journal articles and two book chapters, in addition to presenting her research both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Ramoni serves on the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects at the Harvard Faculty of Medicine and is committed to the ethical conduct of research.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Ramoni's research interests include the application of advanced statistical modeling techniques to epidemiologic problems and the use of the electronic dental record as a research and quality-assurance tool.

Dr. Mohammed Razzaque received his MD degree from the Chittagong University, Bangladesh, and earned his PhD degree from Nagasaki University, Japan, in 1994, becoming a faculty member in the Department of Pathology at Nagasaki University School of Medicine. Dr. Razzaque was involved in reporting surgical pathology and conducting basic research to understand molecular mechanisms of wound healing, emphasizing the roles and regulation of heat shock protein 47 (HSP47) in fibrogenesis. In 1999, Dr. Razzaque came to the United States to work with Dr. Barbara Miller of Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, and one year later joined the Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, chaired by Dr. Stephen Sonis, at HSDM. Dr. Razzaque's current research focuses on understanding renal regulation of phosphate metabolism, emphasizing the endocrine actions of the fibroblast growth factor (FGF23)-klotho axis.

Dr. Razzaque has published more than 100 papers in prestigious medical journals, authored multiple books, and has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the American Journal of Nephrology.

Fields of Interest

After completing his PhD, over the last 16 years Dr. Razzaque has made important contributions in understanding the roles and regulation of HSP47 in fibrogenesis, involving lung, eye, skin, and, kidney. In addition, Dr. Razzaque has shown the significance of reducing GH-IGF1 pathway and caloric restriction in prolonging mammalian survival. Dr. Razzaque's study is instrumental in determining the significance of "phosphate toxicity" in vascular calcification, a fatal complication, frequently observed in patients with chronic kidney diseases.

Dr. Martin Nweeia is a part-time clinical instructor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, and a National Science Foundation Scientist since 2004. Dr. Nweeia is also a research associate in the Department of Mammalogy at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and at the Marine Mammal Program at the Smithsonian Institution. He is the principal investigator for Narwhal Tusk Research, an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research collaboration to determine the purpose and function of the erupted tusk of the narwhal. Recognized by the International Polar Year Scientific Committee, Dr. Nweeia was selected in 2007 as one of the pioneering Arctic scientists to speak at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science’s Philip Hauge Abelson Advancing Science Seminar for the "New Horizons in Polar Science" to describe the approach to solving a 500-year-old scientific enigma using Inuit traditional knowledge and scientific methodology.

Dr Nweeia received his baccalaureate from Trinity College in Hartford in biology and English, and his doctorate in dental surgery from Case Western Reserve University. In 2002, Dr. Nweeia received his doctorate in dental medicine from Case School of Dental Medicine. He completed postgraduate implant surgical and restorative training in Goteborg, Sweden. Dr. Nweeia has served as editor of three national dental publications and received the International College of Dentists Golden Pen Award and the Academy of General Dentistry’s Award of Excellence for editorial writing. As a consumer advocate, Dr. Nweeia was a health correspondent for the CBS affiliate KGMB-TV, and a columnist for Gannett-USA Today. His book The Whole Tooth, in its second edition, compiles his writing for Gannett. Dr. Nweeia is in private practice in Sharon, Connecticut, and teaches part-time at HSDM.

Dr. Bjorn R. Olsen has made major contributions to the fields of extracellular matrix biology, genetics, and cell and developmental biology. These contributions have earned him international recognition and acclaim.

A native of Skien, Norway, Dr. Olsen received his medical and doctoral degrees from the University of Oslo in 1967, where he became a faculty member at the Anatomical lnstitute and conducted molecular studies on the structure of collagen. In 1971, he came to the United States to work with Dr. Darwin Prockop, and one year later joined the faculty of the Department of Biochemistry, chaired by Dr. Prockop, at Rutgers Medical School, now UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where he was promoted to the rank of professor in 1976.

In 1985 Dr. Olsen was appointed the Hersey professor of anatomy and cellular biology at Harvard Medical School; this was changed to Hersey professor of cell biology when the Anatomy and Physiology departments were merged to form the Department of Cell Biology. Since 1996 he has also been senior member of the staff at the Forsyth Institute and professor of developmental biology at HSDM, where he is now dean for research.

Dr. Olsen has published more than 350 papers in professional journals. He is a member of and has held leadership positions in several professional organizations, including the International Society for Matrix Biology (as one of the founders and as president), and serves or has served on the editorial boards of several major journals, including the Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Development. He is currently editor-in-chief of Matrix Biology and founder and editor-in-chief of BioMed Central's Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine.

Fields of Interest

Over the past 35 years, Dr. Olsen has made groundbreaking contributions to research into the roles of the extracellular matrix in embryonic development, and skeletal and vascular cell and molecular biology. His research has furthered our understanding of diseases from dwarfism to congenital vascular anomalies, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, corneal dystrophy and retinal degeneration. His studies have uncovered fundamental roles of collagens, transcription factors, and receptors that affect not only skeletal development, but also angiogenesis and blood vessel morphogenesis.

Professional Awards and Recognition

Dr. Olsen's honors include election to the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and ScanBalt Academy, honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Oslo and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, the Humboldt Research Award from Germany, the H.C. Jacobæus Prize, and the Senior Research Prize of the American Society of Matrix Biology.

Dr. Lin Xu received her MD from Beijing Capital Medical University in China and her PhD in molecular biology from Brigham Young University in Utah. After finishing her postdoctoral training with Drs. Elizabeth Hay and Bjorn Olsen in the Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Xu joined the faculty in the Department of Developmental Biology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 2001.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Xu's main research focuses on the pathogenesis of temporomandibular joint degeneration.

Dr. Malcolm Whitman received his undergraduate degree in biology from Yale College and his PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University. His thesis work in the lab of Lew Cantley investigated the association of phosphatidylinositol kinases with oncogene and growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases, and culminated in the discovery of the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase signal transduction pathway. In his postdoctoral work with Doug Melton, Dr. Whitman developed the frog embryo as a tool for studying mechanisms of growth factor signaling during early development.

Dr. Whitman is a professor of developmental biology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is a member of the BBS graduate program, an affiliate of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Cancer Cell Biology Program, and a member of the steering committee for the Harvard Integrative Developmental Biology program.

Fields of Interest

As an independent investigator, Dr. Whitman has focused on transduction of TGFß superfamily signals. The laboratory identified the first Smad-interacting transcription factor, FAST-1, and established that FAST-1 has a central role in the regulation of early developmental patterning by TGFß ligands. The laboratory also pioneered the use of activation-state specific antibodies to establish endogenous patterns of TGFß superfamily signaling during development. Dr. Whitman's current research interests continue to address the problem of how TGFß superfamily ligands signal in different contexts, and how TGFß signaling might be manipulated in vivo for therapeutic purposes.

Dr. Roland Baron received his training at the University of Paris, France, where he was awarded his DDS and then his PhD in oral biology. Upon receiving his degrees, Dr. Baron remained at the University of Paris, where he went on to become a member of the dental faculty. He was first appointed as an assistant professor in physiology, was soon promoted to an associate professor of physiology, and became chief of the Physiology Section.

In 1975, Dr. Baron began a long career at Yale University School of Medicine. He held several positions at Yale, beginning as an assistant professor in pathology. He soon moved to the Department of Internal Medicine and Cell Biology and climbed through the ranks to eventually become a tenured full professor. In 2008, he left Yale to become the chair of the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. In addition to being chair, Dr. Baron is also a professor of oral medicine, infection, and immunity and a professor of internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and at the Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Baron is the founder and current editor-in-chief of Bone, the Official Journal of the International Bone and Mineral Society. Between 1994 and 2002, he also held the position of vice president and head of the Bone Diseases Group at Hoechst Marion Roussel and then Aventis. In 2002 he founded ProSkelia, a small pharmaceutical company devoted to the discovery and development of new drugs for bone and hormonal dependent diseases. He held the positions of president and chief scientific officer of ProSkelia and then ProStrakan, a merger between ProSkelia and Strakan, until April 2006. Dr Baron has published more than 250 scientific papers in the field of bone cell and molecular biology.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Baron is internationally known for his groundbreaking advances in bone biology. His research is the basis for the development of novel therapies to prevent bone loss such as that in arthritis and osteoporosis. The Baron Laboratory is focused on signal transduction and the ways in which it controls cell differentiation and function. For this purpose, the researchers primarily study skeletal development and remodeling as a model system.

Professional Awards and Recognition

Recipient, Thesis Prize, Silver Medal, Laureate of Paris V University for the PhD Thesis, 1972
Recipient, MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health, NIDR, NIH, Bethesda, 1993
Member of the Council of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 1991–1994
Member, Board of Directors, International Bone and Mineral Society, 1995–present
Recipient, Seymour J. Kreshover Lecture Award, NIDR, NIH, Bethesda, 1997
Recipient, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science travel grant, 2002
Recipient, Louis V. Avioli Founders Award, American Society For Bone and Mineral Research, 2002
Doctor Honoris Causa, University René Descartes, Paris, France, 2002
Recipient, D. Harold Copp Award in Basic Research, International Bone and Mineral Society, Geneva 2005
President-elect, European Calcified Tissue Society, ECTS, 2007

Dr. German Gallucci obtained his doctorate in dental medicine from the Department of Prosthodontics in the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Currently, he is director of the Harvard Dental Implant Program in the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Dr. Gallucci participates as an invited lecturer in national and international conferences and congresses. He is a fellow of the International Team for Implantology (ITI), Switzerland, and an active member of the Academy of Osseointegration and the European Academy of Osseointegration. His work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals, and he serves as an editorial board member for Clinical Oral Implants Research.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Gallucci actively participates in clinical research related to esthetics and loading protocols in implant therapies. 

Dr. I. Leon Dogon is a professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, head of the Department of Dental Materials at the Forsyth Institute, and director of dental health education for Project Hope. He is also a member of the oral health team for the United Nations Millennium Project for Africa.

Dr. Dogon has been granted honorary professorship at three of the major dental schools in China: West China University of Medical Sciences School of Stomatology, Shanghai School of Stomatology, and School of Stomatology at Wuhan University. He has established numerous preventive programs in rural communities in China, as well as in Indonesia, Bosnia, Poland, Macedonia, and India. Dr. Dogon has lectured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. He is a member of many American and international dental associations.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Dogon has long been active in the development, evaluation, and testing of a wide range of polymeric materials for both restorative and preventive purposes. He has published extensively in refereed journals on biomaterials research and preventive dentistry and is coeditor of the Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Acid Etch Technique.

Dr. Jarshen Lin received his doctor of dental surgery degree from Chicago’s Northwestern University in 1992 and went on to specialize in the field of endodontics at the University of Michigan in 1994. Dr. Lin serves as director of predoctoral endodontics and director of extramural education at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

In the past 11 years at Harvard, Dr. Lin has received 14 teaching awards, including the HSDM Distinguished Junior Faculty Award, the Massachusetts Dental Society Faculty Recognition Award, the American Student Dental Association Faculty Award, the student-awarded Full-Time Faculty Award, Distinguished Faculty Award, and Best Lecturer Award. In addition, he is the recipient of the 2007 Edward Osetek Educator Award from the American Association of Endodontists, the highest award accorded to junior educators in endodontics.

Dr. Lin acts as endodontics editor for various dental textbooks and serves on the editorial board of several journals. His own publications can be found in dental journals such as the Journal of the American Dental Association, General Dentistry, and Journal of Endodontics.

Dr. Lin mentors many students as the faculty adviser of the Endodontics Study Club at HSDM. He also acts as a leader in numerous dental societies and associations, including the American Association of Endodontists, National Board Dental Examination Board, Master Tract of Academic of General Dentistry, and American Dental Education Association.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Lin’s clinical interests range from nonsurgical endodontic treatment and surgical endodontic treatment to dental trauma. However, his research focuses primarily on developing oral health educational programs and protocols for medical staff and patients, and the systematic reviews of the literature.

Dr. Brian M. Chang received his dental degrees (DDS) from Seoul National University School of Dentistry in 1989 and the University of Southern California in 1993. He was awarded a certificate from the postdoctoral prosthodontics residency program at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1996 and a certificate in maxillofacial prosthetics at Columbia University and the Bronx VA Medical Center in 1998.

After serving as a faculty member at Marquette University in Milwaukee and director of the prosthodontics residency program at Catholic University of Korea, he taught at the University of Nebraska School of Dentistry from 2000 to 2006. He was named as Dr. Merritt C. Pederson endowed chair professor of dentistry and director of the implant program at the University of Nebraska as a tenured associate professor.

Currently, Dr. Chang serves as a director of predoctoral prosthodontics education and a course director of Advanced Occlusion for the postgraduate prosthodontics residency program at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Dr. Chang was selected by the American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics to receive the Claude R. Baker Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching Fixed Prosthodontics in 2005. He received the Four-Year Teaching Award from the Alpha Alpha Chapter of OKU National Dental Honor Society in 2004 and 2006. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award from the DMD Classes of 2007, 2008, and 2009 of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He was also selected as the Best Editorial Reviewer of 2008 from the Journal of Prosthodontics.

Dr. Chang has been serving as a test constructor on the National Dental Board Part-II prosthodontics examination since 2009. He is a member of American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics and the American College of Prosthodontists and an associate fellow of the American Academy of Maxillofacial Prosthetics.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Chang's research focuses on speech and functional rehabilitation with maxillofacial prostheses for head and neck cancer patients, occlusion, and fracture mechanics of the porcelain system.

Dr. Robert R. White received his bachelor's degree from Colgate University and his DMD from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his internship at the University of Rochester, followed by service as chief resident at the New York University Brookdale Hospital. His endodontic certificate was granted by Tufts University, where he remained in full-time academics for 17 years. During that tenure, he served as director of both pre- and postdoctoral programs, as well as acting department chair. He joined the faculty at HSDM in 1996.

Dr. White is a diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics and a founding member of the College of Diplomates. He has served as the chair of the American Association of Endodontists Research and Scientific Affairs Committee and the Evidence-Based Endodontics Committee. He is a past president of the Massachusetts Association of Endodontists and a former consultant to the ADA Commission on Accreditation.

Dr. White and his residents have numerous publications, and he is an editor for the Journal of Endodontics. Dr. White maintains an active practice limited to endodontics at the Harvard Dental Center at HSDM.

Fields of Interest

Dr. White's varied research interests embrace sealers and filling materials, endodontic microbiota, and root resorption. With his residents, he is also involved in a multicenter clinical study of nonsurgical endodontic outcomes.

Dr. Robert Wright serves as director of advanced graduate prosthodontics at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He received his BS degree from the University of Memphis and his DDS from the University of Tennessee, Memphis. Dr. Wright completed his prosthodontics, maxillofacial prosthetics, and implant fellowships at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/Cornell University in 1987. He served as director of the Division of Prosthodontics for 12 years at Columbia University and taught at Columbia for 18 years. In addition, he was program director of graduate prosthodontics and founded and directed the Maxillofacial Fellowship at Columbia University.

Dr. Wright has more than 20 years' experience in predoctoral education. At Columbia, he established a successful mentoring program that mentored more than 35 dental school graduates from Columbia who went on to specialize in prosthodontics. At HSDM, Dr. Wright has improved clinical productivity in the advanced graduate prosthodontics teaching clinic, increased the number of US students enrolled, revised the curriculum, revised the research requirement, increased the activity in scholarly projects, and added a board certification requirement for the program. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics, fellow of the American College of Prosthodontists, fellow of the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics, and a recently appointed associate fellow of the Academy of Prosthodontics. In addition, he is a prosthodontics site visitor for the Commission on Dental Accreditation. Dr. Wright is an editor of the Journal of Prosthodontics and serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. He formerly served as an editor for Quintessence International. Dr. Wright has published extensively in medical and dental literature and has lectured throughout North America and Asia.

Fields of Interest

Dr. Wright's research focuses on education, maxillofacial prosthodontics and implants, dental materials, and clinical trials.