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Orthodontics Faculty & Staff

UIC Orthodontics Faculty Composite Fall 2025

Department Head and Directors
Veerasathpurush Allareddy
Department Head
Brodie Craniofacial Endowed Chair
Professor

Budi Kusnoto
Program and Clinic Director
Professor

Maria Therese Galang-Boquiren
Director, Predoctoral Orthodontics
Professor

Maysaa Oubaidin
Associate Director of Post Graduate Orthodontics
Associate Professor

Staff
Marta Kucharska
Business Administrative Associate

Huibi Liu
Clinic Practice Data Analyst

Full-time Faculty
Veerasathpurush Allareddy
Phimon Atsawasuwan
Mohammed H. Elnagar
Maria Therese Galang-Boquiren
Budi Kusnoto
Min Kyeong Lee
Christina Nicholas, Anthropologist
Maysaa Oubaidin
Flavio Sanchez
Grace Viana, Statistician

Part-time Faculty
Patrick Brady
Kyint Chwa
Lana Dalbah
Sharon Durfee
Laurence Golden

Qingshan Li
Ayas Makki
Noor Obaisi
Jacqueline Rosen
Matthew Sagun
Isaac C. Yue
Insia Virji

Adjunct Faculty / Lecturers
Dale Benjamin (orthodontics)
Samuel Berkowitz (orthodontics)
Myung-rip Kim (orthodontics)
James Hartsfield (orthodontics)
Manal Ibrahim-LaVacca (orthodontics)
Spiro Megremis (materials)
Yana Nedvetsky (inter-disciplinary)
Nelson Oppermann (orthodontics)
Michael E. Stone (psychology)
Ronald Jacobson (orthodontics)
Nikhilesh R. Vaid (orthodontics)
Ejaz Tahir (orthodontics)
KyungMin Clara Lee (orthodontics)

Visiting Lecturers
Vincent Arpino
Dan Bills
Gregory Defelice
Edward Lin
Ahmed Masoud
Spencer Pope
Terry Sellke

Department of Orthodontics (M/C 841)

College of Dentistry University of Illinois Chicago 801 S. Paulina Street, RM 131 Chicago, IL 60612-7211 Fax 312-996-0873.

For general information about the Department of Orthodontics, programs, residency applications, and events, call 312-996-7138.

Applicants to the orthodontic specialty program may also acquire information about application procedures via email: ortho@uic.edu.