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OMDS: Faculty
  • Richard Monahan, DDS, MS
  • Head, Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Radiology.
  • Clinical interests:
    • Digital imaging;
    • 3D image analysis;
    • Imaging of craniofacial anomalies.
  • Guy Adami, PhD. Associate Professor
  • Research interests:
    • Cellular senescence;
    • Changes in cells that occur with aging;
    • Effects of DNA damaging agents on cells;
    • Rapid, non-invasive diagnosis of oral cancer
  • Michael Colvard, DDS, MTS, MS, M O Med RCSEd
  • Associate Professor
  • Director: Science, Technology, and Security, CADRE, OVCR.
  • Director: Disaster Emergency Medicine Readiness Training Center, COD.
  • Research interests:
    • National Response Capabilities Research and Education for Health Care Operations,
    • Medical Anthropology and Ethnomedicine Drug Discovery for Oral Medicine Pain and Pathologies.
  • Meghan Crisham, DDS
  • Gary L. Drahos, DDS, MJ, BS, RPh
  • Clinical Associate Professor
  • Director of Initial Patient Care Services
  • Special Interests:
    • Effective administration of initial patient care services
    • Protocol and implementaton of Urgent Care
    • Effects of prescribed medications on comprehensive dental treatment
  • Tel: (312) 996-8070
  • Joel Epstein, DMD, MSD, FRCD(C), FDSRCSE
  • Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Oral Cancer,
  • College of Medicine, Chicago Cancer Center.
  • Clinical interests:
    • Oral Medicine/Orofacial Pain
  • Research interests:
    • Oral Oncology:
      • Prevention and management of oral complications in radiation, chemotherapy and hematopoietic cell transplantation;
      • Early recognition and diagnosis of oral premalignant lesions and oropharyngeal cancer
  • Dena Fischer, DDS, MSD, MS
  • Assistant Professor, Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
  • Director of Oral Medicine and Graduate Studies
  • Tel: (312) 996-1105
  • Clinical and Research Interests:
    • Characterization of oral discomfort in cancer patients at the end of life
    • Evaluating coping mechanisms for people with orofacial chronic pains
    • Studying the relationship between burning mouth syndrome and vulvodynia in middle-aged females
    • Comparison of orofacial pains in Multiple Sclerosis patients with and without widespread pain
    • Evaluating quality of life measures, such as pain, in patients with a history of head/neck cancer
  • Sara Gordon, DDS, MSc, FRCD(C)
  • Associate Professor, Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
  • Director of Oral Pathology Graduate Education
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.
  • Tel: (312) 996-1104
  • Melissa Jentz-Cote, DDS
  • Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Initial Patient Care Services.
  • Speical Interests:
    • Treatment and diagnosis of the episodic patient
    • Oral lesions
  • Tel: (312) 996-8636
  • Gary Klasser, DMD, Cert. Orofacial Pain
  • Assistant Professor and
  • Chief of the Oral Medicine Clinic.
  • Clinical and research interests:
    • Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and Orofacial Pain;
    • Burning Mouth syndrome;
    • Neuropathic pain and sensory/motor disorders;
    • Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Sleep Disordered Breathing.
  • Joel M. Laudenbach, DMD
  • Assistant Professor, Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
  • Clinic Chief, Hospital and Geriatric Dentistry
  • Tel: (312) 996-3543
  • Clinical Interests:
    • Oral mucosal lesion assessment / diagnosis, biopsy & management
    • Diagnosis & management of oral & facial pain disorders
    • Salivary gland dysfunction assessment / diagnosis & management
  • Research, Academic & Administrative Interests:
    • Hospital-based dental education
    • Oral & oropharyngeal candidiasis
    • Salivary gland disease resulting from radioactive iodine therapy
    • Medical / dental writing & editing
  • Deborah Marmor, DMD
  • Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Inital Patient Care services
  • Special Interests:
    • Oral medicine
    • Soft tissue lessions
  • Philip Patston, DPhil
  • Associate Professor
  • Tel: (312) 996-8554
  • Research interests:
    • Regulation of plasma kallikrein activity by C1-inhibitor;
    • Structure and function of serpin family of proteins;
    • Curriculum development, including the integration of biomedical sciences in dental education.
  • Ofelia Pod, DDS
  • Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Initial Patient Care Service
  • Special Interests:
    • Clinical education
    • Urgent care patients
    • Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
  • Robert Rada, DDS, MBA
  • Clinical Associate Professor.
  • Clinical interests:
    • Treatment of developmentally disabled and medically complex patients;
    • Hospital Dentistry;
    • Restorative and Cosmetic Dentistry;
    • Composite resin;
    • Glass ionomers;
  • Joel L. Schwartz, DMD, DMSc
  • Professor, Director of Oral Maxillofacial Pathology.
    • Early oral keratinocyte events upon exposure to human papilloma virus and/or environmental or tobacco smoke derived carcinogens;
    • Oral pathology.
  • Herve Sroussi DMD, PhD
  • Assistant Professor and Chief of Oral Medicine
  • Research and clinical interests:
    • Regulation of leukocyte migration;
    • Innate immunology and neutrophil functions;
    • Auto-immune and infectious diseases of the mouth;
    • Oral manifestations of HIV
  • Timothy R. Toepke, DDS
  • Clinical Assistant Professor.
  • Chief of General Dentistry, University of Illinois Hospital
  • Clinical interests:
    • Hospital, geriatric and special needs patient care;
    • General restorative and implant dentistry;
    • Clinical research in saliva, dental plaque and dental materials
  • Stephanie Ward-Harris, DDS, BSD, BS
  • Harvey Wigdor, DDS, MS
  • Clinical Professor, Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
  • Clinical interests:
    • Oral Pathology
    • Medically-Compromised Patients
    • Hospital Dentistry