Master S Degree in Dental Science: Translational and Clinical Science

Master’s Degree in Dental Science: Translational and Clinical Science

LIST OF RESEARCH MENTORS # of Mentored MS Name Academic Title Administrative Title Research Support or PhD Students Areas of Interest Jack Caton, DDS, MS Professor Department Chair, Program Commercial 5 MS Wound healing, diagnosis, Director, Periodontics; Co-mentored: tissue engineering, clinical Associate Director for 12 MS trials Education, EIOH 5 PhD Sharon Elad, DMD, MSc Professor Chair, Oral Medicine Mentored and Oral diseases, graft versus co-mentored: host disease, oral 1 MS manifestations of systemic 22 DMD theses diseases, oral complications of cancer therapy, mucositis, dental treatment of medically complex patients, topical treatments Eli Eliav, DMD, MSc, PhD Professor Director, EIOH; Vice Dean Commercial None Chronic pain, neuropathic for Oral Health, University pain, chronic orofacial pain, of Rochester Medical transition from acute to Center chronic pain, pain modulation Carlo Ercoli, DDS Professor, Prosthodontics Chair and Program Commercial and 1 MS Biomechanics of dental and Periodontics Director, Prosthodontics Foundations implant, dental materials, cutting protocols for tooth and bone substrates Leonard Fishman, DDS Professor Research Director, None 15 MS Growth and development Orthodontics Department Paul Funkenbusch, MS, PhD Professor of Mechanical National Science 4 MS Experimental design, Engineering and Materials Foundation and 10 PhD materials and mechanics, Science Commercial manufacturing and health- related applications Sangeeta Gajendra, DDS, Associate Professor Department Clinical Chief, Foundation and 1 MPH, 1 MS (current) Epidemiology of oral MPH, MS Department of Community NYSDOH Dental Bureau AEGD residents, 2 DPH diseases, risk assessment, Dentistry and Oral Disease residents smoking (traditional, e- Prevention; NYS DPH cigarette) and periodontal Residency Program disease, quality of life Eastman Dental Site assessment, oral health Director surveillance programs, evaluation of public health programs Wei Hsu, PhD Dean’s Professor, NIH – NIDCR and NCI 12 PhD/Postdocs Craniofacial Department of Biomedical and NYS DOH – New 2 visiting scholars morphogenesis, skeletal Genetics, Center for Oral York Stem Cell 15 BS development and disease, Biology and Professor, neural development and Cancer Center degeneration, stem cell biology, birth defects, cancer biology Page 1 of 4 Revised 11/28/2016a

LIST OF RESEARCH MENTORS # of Mentored MS Name Academic Title Administrative Title Research Support or PhD Students Areas of Interest Junad Khan, BDS, MSD, Assistant Professor, Foundation 23 MS Acute and chronic orofacial MPH, PhD Orofacial Pain, EIOH Commercial Co-mentored: 2 PhD pain, pain modulation, exercise induced hypoalgesia, neuropathic pain, pain genetics Dorota Kopycka- Associate Professor, NIH Co-mentored: Epidemiology of oral Kedzierawski, DDS, MPH Department of Community 3 MS diseases, especially dental Dentistry and Oral Disease caries, risk factors of ECC, Prevention teledentistry, obesity and caries Hans Malmström, DDS Professor Program Director, Commercial Co-mentored: Implantology, laser, Advanced Education in 4 MS halitosis, oral surgery, General Dentistry and cariology and esthetic Chair, Department of dentistry General Dentistry Luiz Meirelles, DDS, PhD Assistant Professor, Commercial 3 MS Dental implants, tissue Eastman Institute for Oral 1 MS candidate responses, Health & Biomedical Co-mentored: osseointegration, peri- Engineering 3 PhD implant regeneration, biomaterials, surface properties, clinical follow- up Cyril Meyerowitz, DDS, MS Professor Director Emeritus, Eastman NIH 1 MS Cariology, salivary Institute for Oral Health Co-mentored: dysfunction, dental aspects 15 MS or MPH of medically compromised patients and postdoctoral general dentistry education, practice-based clinical research Catherine Ovitt, PhD Associate Professor, NIDCR/NIH, Wilmot 3 PhD Salivary gland function, Biomedical Genetics, Cancer Center, salivary gland repair and Center for Oral Biology Sjogren’s Syndrome regeneration, Foundation radioprotection of the salivary glands, salivary gland carcinomas Robert Quivey, PhD Professor of Microbiology Director, Center for Oral NIH 3 MS The stress-adaptive and Immunology in the Biology 12 PhD defenses of Streptococcus Center for Oral Biology Co-mentored: mutans and their role in 33 MS the pathophysiology of 24 PhD dental caries Yanfang Ren, DDS, PhD, Professor, Department of Associate Chairman, Commercial 2 MS Clinical and translational MPH General Dentistry General Dentistry and research in general Clinical Chief, Urgent Care – dentistry Eastman Institute for Oral Health

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LIST OF RESEARCH MENTORS # of Mentored MS Name Academic Title Administrative Title Research Support or PhD Students Areas of Interest P. Emile Rossouw, BChD, Professor Chair, Department of Commercial 5 MS Bonding, translational PhD Orthodontics research, growth and development including long-term changes and stability, retention, clinical trials including biomechanics, anchorage and outcomes Ralph H. Saunders, DDS, MS Professor Director of Dental Service, None 2MS Investigations of clinical Monroe Community issues in geriatric dentistry Hospital including the impact of the use of medications on saliva flow, behaviors of older patients and clinicians who provide their care, epidemiology and preventive dentistry for older adults and issues in education in geriatric dentistry Ross Tallents, DDS Professor Program Director, 4 MS Pain: clinical and animal Temporomandibular Joint studies Disorder Program Alexandra Tsigarida, DDS, Assistant Professor of Commercial 1 resident who already has a Investigations of the MS Clinical Dentistry, PhD microbial profile of peri- Department of implantitis, evaluation of Periodontology clinical and biological complications of different implant supported prosthesis, soft tissue augmentation techniques, use of probiotics in periodontal treatment Edwin van Wijngaarden, Associate Professor, Public Director, Doctoral Program NIH 29 MS Evaluating the effect of MSc, PhD Health Sciences in Epidemiology and Chief, 11 PhD environmental, chemical Division of Epidemiology Co-mentored: and physical agents on 16 MS neurobehavioral and 15 PhD cognitive conditions and cancer Gene Watson, DDS, MS, Associate Professor, Director of Salivary – NIEHS, NIDCR & Co-mentored: Toxicology of mercury and PhD Department of Dentistry, Dysfunction Center Commercial 4 MS other heavy metals, Department of (Department of Dentistry); 2 PhD disturbances of salivary Environmental Medicine & Director, Mercury gland function, dental Department of Analytical Laboratory caries, pharmacologic Pharmacology and (Department of agents Physiology Environmental Medicine)

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LIST OF RESEARCH MENTORS # of Mentored MS Name Academic Title Administrative Title Research Support or PhD Students Areas of Interest Cynthia Wong, DMD, MS Assistant Professor, Research Coordinator – None None Early childhood caries, Department of Dentistry, Division of Pediatric caries prevention Division of Pediatric Dentistry modalities: chemotherapy, Dentistry motivational interviewing, dental trauma Xinping Zhang, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Center NIH/NIAMS None Tissue engineering PhD for Musculoskeletal periosteum, intravital Research imaging of cranial defect repair and molecular control of osteogenic differentiation of MSCs Page 4 of 4 Revised 11/28/2016a