Research Seminars

RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES SPEAKERS FOR 2023-24 

1.     Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine - Department of Medicine

Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH)

09/12/23

2.     Timothy Cox, PhD

Endowed Chair in Dental & Mineralized Tissue

Research Oral & Craniofacial Sciences School of Dentistry

University of Missouri-Kansas City

09/26/23

3. Georgios A. Kotsakis, DDS, MS, Professor of Oral Biology

Assistant Dean for Clinical Research & Director of Research

Rutgers School of Dental Medicine

10/10/23

4.     Rena Nayantara D’Souza, DDS, MS, PhD

Director, NIH & National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

Bethesda, MD

10/24/23 

5.     Jens Kreth, PhD

Associate Professor, Restorative Dentistry School of Dentistry

Oregon Health & Science University

11/14/23

6.     Raymond Cohlmia, DDS, Dean

University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry

American Dental Association - Executive Director

12/12/23

7.     Jessica Scoffield, Assistant Professor

Department of Microbiology

University of Alabama at Birmingham

01/09/24

8.     Casey Chen, BDS, PhD, DDS, Professor

Associate Dean, Applied Biomedical & Clinical Sciences

Co-Chair, Department of Endodontics & Periodontics

University of Southern California - Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry

01/23/24

9.     Frank C. Nichols, DDS, PhD

Professor, Division of Periodontology

School of Dental Medicine University of Connecticut

02/13/24

10. Jeffrey McLean, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Periodontics School of Dentistry

University of Washington

02/27/24

11.  Flora (Fatemeh) Momen-Heravi, DDS, PhD, MPH, MS

Associate Professor, Immunology and Cancer Biology Laboratory

Section of Oral, Diagnostic, and Rehabilitation Sciences

Columbia University Medical Center

03/12/24

12.  Lizi Wu, PhD

Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

University of Florida College of Medicine

03/26/24 

13.  Yu Zhang, PhD

Professor, Division of Restorative Dentistry

Preventive & Restorative Sciences 
University of Pennsylvania Dental Medicine

04/09/24

14.  Hung Ton-That, PhD

Professor, Division of Oral Biology and Medicine

UCLA School of Dentistry

05/14/24

15. Kathryn Kauffman, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Biology

University of Buffalo

04/23/24 

16.  Sukirth M. Ganesan, BDS, PhD

Director, Advanced Education in Periodontology

Assistant Professor, Department of Periodontics

The University of Iowa College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics

05/28/24