Dental/Craniofacial Biomaterials
The Dental/Craniofacial Biomaterials Special Interest Group focuses on basic, applied, and clinical biomaterials research using approaches ranging from synthetic materials to biological mechanisms of therapy, and including materials/biological constructs and tissue structure-function analyses as biomimetic/design bases. Each of these approaches converge into the larger objective of restoring oral tissue structure and function. Issues related to materials used or having potential for use intra-orally or extra-orally for the restoration, fixation, replacement, or regeneration of hard and soft tissues in and about the oral cavity and craniofacial region are included. New dental biomaterials technologies include advanced inorganic and organic materials, biomimetics, smart materials, tissue engineering, drug delivery strategies and surface modified materials.
Officers
Chair: Katie Hixon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth College
15 Thayer Drive
Hanover, NH 3755
t: (603) 646-5717
e: katherine.r.hixon@dartmouth.edu
Vice Chair: Candan Tamerler, Ph.D.
Professor & Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
University of Kansas
1530 W.15th Street, Mechanical Eng. Office
Lawrence, KS 66045
t: (206) 618-1672
e: ctamerler@ku.edu
Secretary/Treasurer: Amisha Parekh, BDS
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Mississippi Medical Center
2500 N State St
Jackson, MS 39216
t: (601) 767-7788
e: amishaparekh96@gmail.com
Program Chair: Christine Knabe-Ducheyne, DDS, PhD
Director Dept. of Experimental Orofacial Medicine
School of Dental Medicine
Philipps-University Marburg
Berlin Institute of Health Visiting Professor
Georg-Voigt-Str. 3
D-35039 Marburg
Germany
t: 49-6421 58 6-36 00
e: knabec@med.uni-marburg.de
Web Representative: Santiago Orrego, Ph.D.
Temple University
3223 North Broad Street AEGD Clinic - Room 2E15
Philadelphia, PA 19140
e:sorrego@temple.edu
Student Representative: Ben Swanson
University of Michigan
e: wbentons@umich.edu
Industry Representative: TBD
Biomaterials Forum Reporter: TBD
Past Chair: Daniel Harrington, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
1941 East Rd
BBS 4202A
Houston, TX 77054
e: daniel.harrington@uth.tmc.edu