Our Team

Pamela Den Besten, DDS

Professor, Department of Orofacial Sciences

Fatemeh Momen Heravi, DDS, MPH, PhD

Professor, Department of Orofacial Sciences; Chair, Division of Periodontics

Yukiko Nakano, DDS, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Orofacial Sciences

Janelle Urata, RDH, MS

Center Manager, Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, Orofacial Sciences

Yan Zhang, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Orofacial Sciences

Christopher Dvorak, MD

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology & Bone Marrow Transplantation; Medical Director, Pediatric Cellular Therapy Laboratory, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

Susan Fisher, PhD

Professor Director, Translational Research in Perinatal Biology and Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Stephen Hall, MD

Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Sciences

Thuan Le, DDS, PhD

Professor, Orofacial Sciences

Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH

Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Sciences

Sylvie Babajko, PhD

Research Director, Senior Investigator at Inserm, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Habilitation for Research Direction at the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris

Marilia Afonso Rabelo Buzalaf, DDS, PhD

Professor, Biochemistry and Cariology, University of São Paulo

James Chen, DDS, PhD

Assistant Professor, Predoctoral Program Director, University of the Pacific, San Francisco

Sirin Guner, DDS, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Altinbas Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey

Ali Mentes, DDS, PhD

Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

Kotaro Tanimoto, DDS, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Orthodontics, Hiroshima University Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Japan