Journal of Oral Healthcare

Dr. Ricard G Stevenson is currently Professor of Clinical Dentistry and Chair of the Section of Restorative Dentistry, with over 100 faculty members. Since 2009 he has been the Director of the Senior Select Programs at UCLA, which are special advanced programs for pre-doctoral students wishing to learn more advanced concepts of occlusion, implantology, esthetics and dental photography. He has made numerous instructional videos in restorative dentistry techniques including ceramic inlays and onlays, dental materials, impressions and dental photography these videos have been viewed by thousands of dentists internationally. In 2009, he created the 2-year post-doctoral Advanced Restorative Clinical Training program. He practices dentistry with Dr. Ed McLaren in the Center for Esthetic Dentistry at UCLA. In 2011, he was named the UCLA School of Dentistry Alumnus of the Year in recognition of his outstanding contributions to organized dentistry, the school, the community and the UCLA Dental Alumni Association. He started Stevenson Dental Solutions, a teaching institute and Master Milling Center, a dental laboratory in 2014.

Dr. Dena Garner is a professor in the Department of Health, Exercise and Sport Science and is the Director of Undergraduate Research at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. She started working at The Citadel in 2004 while completing her post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurology at the Medical University of South Carolina, also located in Charleston. She has been working in the area of mouthpiece use and effect on human performance since 2005 with studies that have focused on reaction time, lactate, and cortisol and the effect of mouthpiece use on these parameters. In addition, her research has focused on mouthpiece use during steady state exercise and effects on oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange as well as the proposed mechanisms for positive effects on airway dynamics in a healthy population. Recently she has compared current mouthpiece designs to new designs of mouthpieces. In addition to research in the area of mouthpiece use and effect on human performance, Dr. Garner is involved in a research study which involves testing and evaluating physiologic neuro-assessment devices in healthy versus traumatic brain injury populations.

He graduated in medicine at the University of Bologna. After two years at the University of Trieste, he worked at the ENT Department of Padua University from 1970 to 1997. He has been awarded ad hominem fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and ad eundem fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Glasgow, Ireland and Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is a fellow or a member of other Colleges and scientific societies. He has been honored with several distinctions from professional ENT Societies including two Presidential Citations from the American Laryngological Association for his contributions made to the field of laryngology and the association. He has been appointed as the International Liaison for Corresponding Fellows of the American Laryngological Association. He collaborated as a member of the World Health Organizations Committee on Histological Typing of Tumours of the Upper Respiratory Tract and Ear. He is also a member of the Laryngeal Cancer Association?s Committee on the Classification of Laryngeal Cancer. He was consultant to Yale University. He has delivered prestigious lectures all over the world. Recently he gave the 2nd Morrison Lecture in San Francisco (2006) and the 19th Som Lecture in New York (2006).

Dr. Robert C. Bransfield, MD, DLFAPA is an Associate Clinical Professor at Rutgers-RWJ School of Medicine and Past President of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation. Dr Bransfield is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He earned his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC and completed a residency in psychiatry at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. Dr. Bransfield has an interest in healthcare policy and the association between infections, psychoimmunology and mental illness. He has authored a number of publications in peer-reviewed literature, other medical publications, and books; has presented at numerous medical conferences, both nationally and internationally, including the American Psychiatric Association Annual Convention and has appeared on network and regional television and radio.

Dr. Kamil Kuca is a Professor in Department of Toxicology, University of Defence, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Also working for several academic institutes (University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic; University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Czech republic; Florida International University, USA; etc.). His research interests are pharmacology, drug design, toxicology, technology transfer, pharmacoeconomy, etc. He was/is principal investigator on numerous national and international projects (EU, NATO, GACR, IGA MZ, MSMT etc.). He has published more than 350 IF research papers. He is working with several companies as a scientific consultant. He has lots of cooperators throughout the world (e.g. Korea, Croatia, United Arab Emirates, USA, France, Turkey and Singapore).

Dr. Muy-Teck TEH is working as an Associate Professor in Head and Neck Cancer at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, England. Dr. TEH Leading a clinical translational research group investigating Cancer biomarker discovery, Molecular diagnostics, Molecular reprogramming of adult epithelial stem cell renewal, Differentiation, and Senescence. Dr. TEH was awarded “Molecule of the Year 2010” for his pioneering research on FOXM1 in human cancer initiation. Overall, Dr. TEH aims to translate basic science into clinical applications and towards personalized medicine based on a combination of patient’s genetic, Epigenetic, Exosomal and Gene expression signatures. Dr. TEH has published over 50 papers in high impact journals.

Dr. Lo Russo is currently Associate Professor of Oral Diseases at the School of Dentistry in the University of Foggia. Dr. Lo Russo research activity includes basic and clinical issues in the field of Oral Medicine and Pathology, Periodontology, Operative and Digital Dentistry, as well as multidisciplinary topics in medical specialties. Dr. Lo Russo, in fact, is involved in the study of oral potentially malignant lesions and oral cancer, in particular for aspects related to early diagnosis and prognosis. Dr. Lo Russo studies also autoimmune disorders of the oral cavity, in particular their diagnostic and therapeutic aspects. Dr. Lo Russo other fields of interest are the diagnosis and management of disorders affecting salivation,the differential diagnosis and clinical implications of non plaque related periodontal disease, side effects of drugs in the oral cavity and the application of digital technologies to dentistry.