Curriculum Vitae
Name: Nagi Demian, DDS, MD, FACS
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston 7500 Cambridge, Suite SOD-6510 Houston, Texas 77030
Citizenship: USA
Undergraduate Education: 1984-1987: College des Freres Mont la Salle, Ain Saade, Lebanon High School degree
1987-1989: Hagazian University College, Beirut, Lebanon
1989-1990” The University of Timishoara, Timishoara, Romania
1991-1992: The University of Houston, Houston, TX
1992-1994: North Harris College, Harris County, TX
1994: The University of Houston, Houston, TX
Postgraduate Education: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Dental Branch Doctor in Dental Surgery degree 1995-1999
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Medical School Doctor of Medicine degree 2003-2003
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Internship in General Surgery 2003-2004
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency 1999-2005 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Hospital Privileges: Harris County Hospital District 2005-Present Methodist Hospital 2005 Present Memorial Hermann Hospital 2005 Present Michael DeBakey Veteran Medical Center 2005 Present
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Academic Appointment: Associate Professor-- The University of Texas Dental Branch- Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Department 2011-Present Assistant Professor – The University of Texas Dental Branch- Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Department 2005-2011
Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Service-Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital – Houston, TX 2007-Present
Director of the Externship Program – The University of Texas Dental Branch – Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Department
Private Practice: UT Dentists, University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston 2005-present
Licenses: Texas State Board of Dental Examiners 3/ 2000 –present Texas State Board of Medical Examiners 4/13/2007-present
Current Certifications: Basic Life Support – American Heart Association Expires August 2015 Advanced Cardiac Life Support – American Heart Association Expires August 2015 Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instruction – American Heart Association Expires August 2015 Pediatric Advanced Life Support Expires March 2015 Microsurgery – Craniofacial Institute in Southfield Michigan Issued May 2005 – current (No Expiration) Controlled Substance – Drug Enforcement Administration 6/1/2009 – 6/30/2015
Professional Organizations: Texas Medical Board Expert Panelist 2012-Present
American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 2007-Present
American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 2005-Present
American Medical Association 2005-Present
American Dental Association 2005-Present
Texas Dental Association 2005-Present Honors and Awards Received: Fellow of the American College of Surgeons 2013
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Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residents Award 2013
Omicron Kappa Upsilon (OKU) Award 2013
Board Certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2007
Faculty Retention Bonus. Hinds Academy 2007
Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award 2006 The University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston
American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Dental Student Award 1999
American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Dental Implant Student Award 1999
Editorial/Review Positions 2009-Present: Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
SERVICE: University of Texas Dental Branch Committees: DDS Admissions Committee 2005-Present Graduate Education Committee 2005-Present Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Hospital Committees: Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital, Houston, TX Executive Committee 2006-Present Operating Room Committee 2005-Present Head and Neck Tumor Board Committee 2010-Present
Harris Health System: Procedure Case Review Committee 2011-Present Medical Record Committee 2013-Present PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS: National A Novel biodegradable Matrix for Bone Regeneration, Southwest Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Conference. Santa Fe, NM 2002.
Endoscopically-assisted repair of subcondylar fracture With external pin fixation. Southwest Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Saint Augustine, Florida 2009
Common complications of office Oral Surgery and their Management. Gulf State Dental Association. San Antonio 2011
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Regional/Local Fractures In The Atrophic Mandible. Texas Medical Center Symposium on Facial Trauma 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
Infection In Facial Fractures. Texas Medical Center Symposium on Facial Trauma 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
External Fixation in Mandible Fractures. Texas Medical Center Symposium on Facial Trauma 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Pseudolymphoma. Southwest Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Conference. Austin, TX 2000.
TEACHING University of Texas Dental Branch DENF 3801 OFMS II: Advanced Oral & Maxillofacial Odontogenic Infection. Diagnosis and Biopsy, and Complications. 2006-Present DENF 2801 OMFS I: Preclinical Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery: Surgical and Anesthetic Office Complications. 2006-present
OMS Resident Teaching: Tuesday Clinical Conference. 2005-Present Fluids, Electrolytes, & CBC Abnormalities 2005, 2006
Complex Implantology 2010-2012
Reconstruction of the Maxilla 2010-present
Bone Cysts, 2011
Emergency Center Evaluation of the Facial Trauma Patient 2008-2009-2010
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Training 2006-Present Medical Director 2009-Present
ENT Residents Teaching 2008-Present University of Texas Medical School Emergency Center Evaluation of the Facial Trauma Patient 2008-2009-2010
Baylor College of Medicine 2008-Present Otolaryngology Residents Introduction to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
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MENTORING AND ADVISING The University of Texas Dental Branch 2012 Restropective Hospital Study on Pediatric Facial Cellulitis: A Comparison of Odontogenic and Non-Odontogenic Infections Thesis Committee Members: Brian Steele, MD Catherine Flaitz, DDS, MS Art Jeske, PhD, DMD Robert Tate, DDS, MS Nagi Demian, DDS, MD Stanley Cron, MSPS
2011 John Seng, DS3-DS4-graduated
2010-2012 John C. Hornberger, DS3-DS4-gradated
2009-2012 Tamir Anver, DS2-DS3-graduated
2008-2011 Robbie Harris, DS2-DS4-graduated
2008-09 Patrick Beetar, DS2-graduated
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: “Osteomyelitis of the Mandible in a 13 Year Old Adolescent” has been provisionally accepted for publication in the “Journal of Dentistry for Children”.
Qari H, Blundell G, Demian N, Covinsky M, Bouquot J. CPC case: massive, mixed, cystic lesion of the mandibular midline (adenomatoid odontogenic tumor). Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol 2014; 117. (in press)
Patrick P. Spicer, Sarita R. Shah, Allan M. Henslee, Brendan M. Watson, Lucas A. Kinard, James D. Kretlow, Kristin Bevil, Lauren Kattchee, George N. Bennett, Nagi Demian, Katrin Mende, Clinton K. Murray, John A. Jansen, Mark E. Wong, Antonios G. Mikos, F. Kurtis Kasper, ‘Evaluation of antibiotic releasing porous polymethylmethacrylate space maintainers in an infected composite tissue defect model” Acta Biomaterialia 9 (2013) 8832 - 8839
Jundt J., Demian N. Face-bow Assisted Zygomaticomaxillary Complex Fracture Reduction. JOMT. In press.
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Mahmood L., Weinstock E., Demian N. Mandibular nerve Schwannoma resection using Sagittal Split Ramus Osteotomy. JOMS. In press.
Spicer PP, Shah SR, Henslee AM, Watson BM, Kinard LA, Kretlow JD, Bevil K, Kattchee L, Bennett GN, Demian N, Mende K, Murray CK,Jansen JA, Wong ME, Mikos AG, Kasper FK. Evaluation of antibiotic releasing porous polymethylmethacrylate space maintainers in an infected composite tissue defect model. Acta Biomater. 2013 Jul 25. pii: S1742-7061(13)00357-7. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2013.07.018.
M. Shi, J.D. Kretlow, P.P. Spicer, Y. Tabata, N. Demian, M.E. Wong, F.K. Kasper, and A.G. Mikos, “Antibiotic-Releasing porous Polymethylmethacrylate/Gelatin/Antibiotic Constructs for Craniofacial Tissue Engineering,” J. Controlled Release (2011).
P.P. Spicer, J.D. Kretlow, A.M. Henslee, M. Shi, S. Young, N. Demian, J.A. Jansen, M.E. Wong, A.G. Mikos, and F.K. Kasper, “In Situ Formation of Porous Space Maintainers in a Composite Tissue Defect,” J. Biomed. Mater. Res. Part A, 100A, 827-833 (2012).
J.D. Kretlow, M. Shi, S. Young, P.P. Spicer, N. Demian, J.A. Jansen, M.E. Wong, F.K. Kaasper and A.G. Mikos, “Evaluation of Soft Tissue Coverage over Porous Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Space Maintainers within Non-Healing Alveolar Bone Defects, “engineering. Part C, Methods 16(6):1427-38, 2010 Dec .
Nagi Demian, Robbie J. Harris, Kenneth Abramovitch, James W. Wilson, Nadarajah Vigneswaran. Malignant Transformation of Calcifying Epithelial Odontogenic Tumor is Associated with the Loss of p53 Transcriptional activity: A Case Report with Review of the Literature. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery -09 June 2010.
Nagi Demian, Jeff Alford, Mas Takashima. An Alternative Technique for Genioglossus Muscle Advancement in Phase I Surgery in the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. October 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 10, Pages 2315-2318)
Peter Bui, Nagi Demian, Patrick Beetar. Infection Rate in Mandibular Angle Fractures Treated with 2.0-mm 8-hole Curved
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Strut Plate. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. April 2009 (JOMS-D-08-0013R1)
Vincent J. Cavaretta, Nagi Demian, Samer Fakhri. Suppurative thromobophlebitis of the internal jugular vein: a rare complication of the mandible fracture. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery. April 2009 (JOMS-D-08-00190R1)
Nagi Demian, William Curtis A Simple Technique for cannulation of the parotid duct. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. July 2008 (Vol. 66, Issue 7, Pages 1532-1533)
Didier D. Malis, Nagi M. Demian, Luciano Lemos, Mark E. Wong: Carcinoid Tumor Presenting as Trismus: Immunohistochemical Evidence of Metastatic Lung Disease to the Infratemporal Fossa. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. July 2007 (Vol. 65, Issue 7, Pages 1382-1388)
John Fisher, Zahid Lalani, Carla Bossano, Eri Brey, Nagi Demian, Carol Johnston, David Dean, John Jansen, Mark E.K. Wong, Antonio G. Mikos: Effect of Biomaterial Properties on Bone Healign in a Rabbit Tooth Extraction Socket Model. Journal of Biomedical Material Research. March 2004 (68A.2004: 428- 438)
Texas Dental Journal Nagi Demian, Stephen Scholmann, Jerry Bouquot, Jon Bradrick: Oral Pathology Case of the Month: Atypical Hystiocytic Granuloma (Pseudolymphoma). Texas Dental Journal. 127, (7) June 2010. pp.698-705.
Nagi Demian, Nadarajah Vigneswaran: Oral Pathology Case of the Month: Van Der Woude Syndrome. Texas Dental Journal. 128,(8)
August 2011. pp 768-772.
BOOK CHAPTERS: Nagi Demian, Joann Marruffo, James McCaul, Mark E.K. Wong. Reconstruction of Maxillary Region. In: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. (Lars Anderson, Karl-Erik Kahnberg, M. Anthony Pogrel) First Edition. Oxford, UK. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010; 1085-1107.
Christopher John Haggerty, Nagi Demian, Jose Marchena. Zygomaticomaxillary Complex Fractures. In: Current Therapy in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. (Shahrokh C. Bagheri, R. Bryan Bell, Husain Ali Khan) . St Louis , Missouri. Saunders, 2012; 324-332.
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GRANTS: Texas Cancer Diagnostics Pipeline Consortium. R-10-Multi- Investigator Research Award (MIRA)-1. Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Consortium. UTHSC Grant Amount: $ 1,033,989. Projects Chief Investigator: John McDevitt (Rice University). Oral cancer subproject UTHSC P.I.: Nadarajah Vigneswaran (15% effort). Co-P.I.: Nagi Demian (5% effort) 8/2010 – 07/2015.
Mandibular Space Maintenance. HSC-DB-10-0635. Department of DEfense: Oral Cancer Subproject. Wong M., Principal Investigator. Nagi, D. Co-Investigator. 2%. 2010-2013.
Mandible l Fracture Repair Experience: A Retrospective Review. HSC-DB-10-0094. Nagi, D. Principal Investigator. 2009-2011.
Oral and Maxillofacial Infections. A Retrospective Study. HSC- DB-10-0124. Nagi, D. Principal Investigator. 2009-2011.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): BioNanoScaffolds (BNS) for Post-Traumatic Osteogeneration, Wong M. Dental Branch Principal Investigator. Nagi D. Collaborator. 25%. 2009-2010.
ABSRACTS: Characterization of Potentially Malignant Oral Lesions Using a Non-invasive Lab-on-a-chip. Presented in Toronto on July 21, 2012 at The American Head & Neck Society Meeting. Co- Authors: Pierre N. Floriano, Nicolaos Christodoulides, Nadarajah Vigneswaran, Y. Etan. Weinstock, Nagi Demian, Spencer Redding, Martin Thornhill, Craig Murdoch, Brian Schmidt, A. Ross Kerr, John T. McDevitt.
Rice University, Houston, TX, U.S.A., University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston and San Antonio, TX, U.S.A., New York University, New York, NY, U.S.A., University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Massive, Aggressive Adenomatoid Odonotgenic Tumor (AOT) Report of an Unusual Mandibular Lesion. To be presented at American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology on June 26, 2012. Co-Authors: G. Blundell, N. Demian, M. Covinsky, and J E. Bouquot.
Languages: Fluent in: Arabic, English and French. Fair in Spanish
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Posters: Qari H., Bouquot J., Covinski M., Blundell G., Demian N,: MASSIVE ADENOMATOID ODONOTGENIC TUMOR (AOT) REPORT OF AN UNUSUAL MANDIBULAR LESION. Presented in the 2012 AAOMP meeting in Minneapolis.
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