Research Mentors
Research Mentors
| Faculty | Academic Title | Administrative Title | Areas of Research Interest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Caton, DDS, MS | Professor | Department Chair, Program Director, Periodontics; Associate Director for Education, Eastman Institute for Oral Health | Wound healing, diagnosis, tissue engineering, clinical trials |
| Sharon Elad, DMD, MSc | Professor | Chair, Oral Medicine | Oral diseases, graft versus host disease, oral manifestations of systemic diseases, oral complications of cancer therapy, mucositis, dental treatment of medically complex patients, topical treatments |
| Eli Eliav, DMD, MSc, PhD | Professor | Director, Eastman Institute for Oral Health; Vice Dean for Oral Health, University of Rochester Medical Center | Chronic pain, neuropathic pain, chronic orofacial pain, transition from acute to chronic pain, pain modulation |
| Carlo Ercoli, DDS | Professor, Prosthodontics and Periodontics | Chair and Program Director, Prosthodontics | Biomechanics of dental implant, dental materials, cutting protocols for tooth and bone substrates |
| Paul Funkenbusch, MS, PhD | Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science | Experimental design, materials and mechanics, manufacturing and health-related applications | |
| Sangeeta Gajendra, DDS, MPH, MS | Associate Professor | Department Clinical Chief, Department of Community Dentistry and Oral Disease Prevention; NYS DPH Residency Program Eastman Dental Site Director | Epidemiology of oral diseases, risk assessment, smoking (traditional, e-cigarette) and periodontal disease, quality of life assessment, oral health surveillance programs, evaluation of public health programs |
| Junad Khan, BDS, MSD, MPH, PhD | Assistant Professor, Orofacial Pain | Acute and chronic orofacial pain, pain modulation, exercise induced hypoalgesia, neuropathic pain, pain genetics | |
| Dorota Kopycka-Kedzierawski, DDS, MPH | Associate Professor, Department of Community Dentistry and Oral Disease Prevention | Epidemiology of oral diseases, especially dental caries, risk factors of ECC, teledentistry, obesity and caries | |
| Hans Malmström, DDS | Professor | Program Director, Advanced Education in General Dentistry and Chair, Department of General Dentistry | Implantology, laser, halitosis, oral surgery, cariology and esthetic dentistry |
| Cyril Meyerowitz, DDS, MS | Professor | Director Emeritus, Eastman Institute for Oral Health | Cariology, salivary dysfunction, dental aspects of medically compromised patients and postdoctoral general dentistry education, practice-based clinical research |
| Yanfang Ren, DDS, PhD, MPH | Professor, Department of General Dentistry | Associate Chairman, General Dentistry and Clinical Chief, Urgent Care – Eastman Institute for Oral Health | Clinical and translational research in general dentistry |
| P. Emile Rossouw, BChD, PhD | Professor | Chair, Department of Orthodontics | Bonding, translational 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, Monroe Community Hospital | Investigations of clinical issues in geriatric dentistry 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 |
| Alexandra Tsigarida, DDS, MS | Assistant Professor of Clinical Dentistry, Department of Periodontology | Investigations of the microbial profile of peri-implantitis, evaluation of clinical and biological complications of different implant supported prosthesis, soft tissue augmentation techniques, use of probiotics in periodontal treatment | |
| Edwin van Wijngaarden, MSc, PhD | Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences | Director, Doctoral Program in Epidemiology and Chief, Division of Epidemiology | Evaluating the effect of environmental, chemical and physical agents on neurobehavioral and cognitive conditions and cancer |
| Gene Watson, DDS, MS, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Dentistry, Department of Environmental Medicine & Department of Pharmacology and Physiology | Director of Salivary –Dysfunction Center (Department of Dentistry); Director, Mercury Analytical Laboratory (Department of Environmental Medicine) | Toxicology of mercury and other heavy metals, disturbances of salivary gland function, dental caries, pharmacologic agents |
| Cynthia Wong, DMD, MS | Assistant Professor, Department of Dentistry, Division of Pediatric Dentistry | Research Coordinator – Division of Pediatric Dentistry | Early childhood caries, caries prevention modalities: chemotherapy, motivational interviewing, dental trauma |
| Jin Xiao, DDS, PhD | Associate Professor, Dept. of Dentistry | Severe tooth decay - or Early Childhood Caries (ECC), peri-natal dentistry, artificial intelligence and digital technologies | |
| Xinping Zhang, MD, MSc, PhD | Associate Professor, Center for Musculoskeletal Research | Tissue engineering periosteum, intravital imaging of cranial defect repair and molecular control of osteogenic differentiation of MSCs |