Speakers

 

Dr Fernando Rojas-Vizcaya


Dr Rojas-Vizcaya is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Prosthodontics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC. He is the Founder and Director of the Mediterranean Prosthodontic Institute and maintains a private practice limited to dental implant surgery and prosthodontics in Castellón, Spain. He assists faculty in UCL Eastman, London and lectures extensively worldwide.

 

Dr Clark Stanford


Dr Stanford is Associate Dean for Research and Centennial Fund Professor for Clinical Research, Dows Institute for Dental Research and Department of Prosthodontics, College of Dentistry, University of Iowa. He holds secondary appointments in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr Stanford also runs the Office for Clinical Research and is Director for the Nanoscience section of the NIH Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS). He sees patients in an intramural practice at the University.

 

Professor Hugo De Bruyn


Prof De Bruyn is full-time professor in the Department of Periodontology at the University of Ghent. He is also Chairman of the Department of Periodontolgy and Oral Implantology, University Hospital Ghent; Course Director Postgraduate education Oral Implantology; Course Director specialty training Periodontology; and visiting Professor of Implant Prosthetics at the Department of Prosthodontics Malmo University Sweden.

 

Professor Carlo Maiorana

 

Professor Carlo Maiorana is Head of the Department of Implantology and Responsible for the centre of atrophic jaw rehabilitation at the Dental Clinic Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda in Milan. He is Associate Professor of Oral Surgery and Chairman of Oral Surgery and Implantology at the University of Milan College of Dentistry.


Professor Maiorana is president elect of the Italian society of specialists in oral surgery (SISCOO) and Director of the School of Specialty in Oral Surgery at the School of Medicine, University of Milan.

 

 

Associate Professor Greg Bain

 

Greg exclusively practices upper limb surgery. He is a member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society, the Australian Shoulder and Elbow Society and the Australian Sports Medicine Federation as well as a number of International Associations.

 

He has presented and published research papers locally and overseas on hand and upper limb topics as well as publishing text book chapters on the wrist and elbow. He is actively involved in pursuing an anatomically based approach to research.

 

 

Dr Paul Weigl

 

Dr Weigl is Senior Specialist Physician at the Polyclinic for Dental Prosthetics at the Department of Oral Surgery and Implant Dentistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Dr Weigl is also an Assistant Professor at the University, managing the preclinic study section at the Department of Prosthodontics, and runs a €3.4 million R&D project to develop a fully automatic working CAD/CAM process chain manufacturing complete crowns and bridges.

 

Dr Bach Le

 

Dr Le is Clinical Associate Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the USC School of Dentistry and Assistant Director of Residency Education at LAC-USC Medical Centre, and maintains a private practice in Whittier, California. Dr Le is a published author in numerous scientific journals and has lectured extensively.

 

Dr Harold Baumgarten

 

Dr. Baumgarten is a Clinical Professor with the Department of Periodontics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Baumgarten is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Implant and Reconstructive Dentistry and the The Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry.

 

Professor Axel Spahr

 

Axel Spahr is Head of Periodontics at the Sydney Dental Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney.


Professor Spahr’s research interest includes periodontal regeneration, enamel matrix proteins (Emdogain), bone regeneration, periodontitis and systemic diseases as well as antimicrobial therapy. He has lead large externally funded research projects and is collaborating with leading international research groups and companies in the field of periodontology, implantology and bone regeneration.

 

Dr Blackie Swart

 

Dr. Swart has been in private practise in Cape Town, South Africa as a maxillofacial surgeon since 1995. He is a member of the South African Dental Association, South African Society of MFOS, British Association of OMFS (associate member), British Society of Dental Anaesthetists, and British Dental Association. Dr. Swart lectures nationally and internationally mostly on dental implants and has done several live surgeries.

 

Professor Dale Howes

 

Professor Dale Geoffrey Howes B.Sc.(Dent); BDS; M.Dent (Wits); FCD(SA)Pros is in full time private prosthodontic practice in Morningside, Johannesburg.

 

He is a founder of the P.I. Branemark Institute of South Africa and has served on local and international prosthodontic academies and colleges for many years. His research has involved jaw movement studies, occlusion, caries susceptibility, implantology as well as rapid prototyping and manufacture for craniofacial reconstruction.

 

Dr Anthony Pogrel

 

Dr. Pogrel received his dental degree from Liverpool University in England and his medical degree from Aberdeen University in Scotland. He was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon near Cambridge in England until 1983 when he joined the full-time faculty of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of California San Francisco. Since 1994, he has been Professor and Chairman of the Department. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons as well as the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

 

Professor Mark Bartold

 

Professor Bartold completed a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Adelaide in 1979. In 1980 he received his Bachelor of Science in Dentistry with First Class Honours and in 1983 graduated Doctor of Philosophy. Professor Bartold  is a Fellow of the Academy of Dentistry International and the International College of Dentists.

 

Professor Mark Bartold is principally interested in the connective tissues of the periodontium and their role in health, disease and regeneration. In particular our focus is on the role that proteoglycans play in these tissues.

 

Professor Saso Ivanovski
 

Saso is a fellow of the International Team of Implantology (ITI), the immediate past federal president of the Australasian Osseointegration Society (AOS), and a past president of the state branches of the AOS and Australian Society of Periodontology (ASP).

 

He leads an internationally recognised research group with an interest in the biological aspects of osseointegration and periodontal regeneration.



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