TEACHING

Role: Co-course Director, Lecturer    |    Lecture: Personalized/Precision Dentistry

Course description: Multi-disciplinary, inter-professional course examining functional physiology and craniofacial complex. Course mastery includes imaging and pharmaceutical management of craniofacial nociceptive, neuropathic, and psychogenic pain conditions.

Oral Sciences (OSCI). Course code: OSCI 562

Role: Lecturer   |   Lecture: The Tumor Microenvironment

Course description: A graduate level general cancer biology class that covers the basic molecular elements of the disease, establish the hallmarks of cancer and incorporate how they are targeted by therapies. 

Graduate Education in Medical Sciences (GEMS). Course code: GEMS 551

Role: Lecturer   |   Lecture: Big Data Approaches to the Pathogenesis of Oral Diseases

Course description: Covers the molecular basis of major oral diseases including: caries, periodontitis, viral diseases, salivary dysfunction and cancer. Students will learn the reciprocal relationship between systemic health and oral disease.

Oral Sciences (OSCI). Course code: OSCI 561

Role: Lecturer   |   Lecture: Wound Healing and its Parallels to Carcinogenesis

Course description: Multi-disciplinary comprehensive review of the basic and applied principles behind wound healing and tissue regeneration in the dental and craniofacial complex.

Oral Sciences (OSCI). Course code: OSCI 563

Role: Lecturer   |   Lecture: Wound Healing and its Parallels to Carcinogenesis

Course description: Basic concepts of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genetics; gene structure and function; gene expression; molecular aspects of mutation and recombination; chromosome structure and function.

Microbiology and Immunology (MIM). Course code: MIM 554