{"id":60,"date":"2016-04-07T02:23:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T02:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:32:56","slug":"members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/members\/","title":{"rendered":"Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Faculty<\/h2>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/members\/john-a-sorensen\/\">John A Sorensen<\/a>, DMD, PhD, FACP, B4T Director<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/members\/alireza-sadr\/\">Alireza Sadr<\/a>, DDS, PhD, B4T Associate Director<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dental.washington.edu\/people\/yen-wei-chen\/\">Yen-Wei Chen,<\/a> DDS, MS, Assistant Professor<\/h4>\n<h2>Visiting Scholars and Affiliates<\/h2>\n<p>Grant Chyz, DDS, Affiliate Instructor<br \/>\nKen Hooi, BDS, MDSC, Affiliate Assistant Professor<br \/>\nShojiro Shimizu, DDS, PhD, Visting Assitant Professor (Asahi University, Japan) 2025-2026<br \/>\nJosh Wang, DDS, Visiting Scholar (National Taiwan University) 2026<\/p>\n<h2>UW Dental\u00a0and Graduate Students<\/h2>\n<p>Megha Rao (IDDS Research)<br \/>\nSanaz Saadat (Graduate Student, OHS 2020 &#8211; 2026)<\/p>\n<h2>Past Students and Visiting Researchers<\/h2>\n<p>Assaf DDS MS Visiting PhD Candidate (Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Egypt) 2024- 2025<br \/>\nHidenori Hamba DDS PhD, Visiting Scholar (Tokyo Dental College, Japan) 2024<br \/>\nFernando Reis DDS, VISIT Graduate Program (University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil) 2024- 2025<br \/>\nJuman Al-Haddad (SURF 2022)<br \/>\nSe Won An DDS<br \/>\nManuel Bratos DDS, MS (Research Faculty)<br \/>\nBehnoush Bakhtiari DDS MS (Volunteer Researcher\u00a02015-16)<br \/>\nAsher Chiu DDS MS (SURF 2018)<br \/>\nMohammad Feizizad DDS (IDDS Research)<br \/>\nSamar Haghighi DDS<br \/>\nJuri Hayashi, DDS, PhD, Visiting Scholar (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan 2018 &#8211; 2020)<br \/>\nPegah Hamedi (Predent 2023)<br \/>\nAyane Horike DDS (Visiting Dental Student, TMDU, Japan 2017)<br \/>\nDaniel Hovander DDS (SURF 2020)<br \/>\nPi-Yu Hsu DDS (SOD Graduate Prosthodontics 2017 &#8211; 2020)<br \/>\nXiaoping Hu DDS (Visiting Researcher, \u00a0Nanchang University, China 2015-16)<br \/>\nNaseeba Khouja DDS (PhD Graduate class of 2017)<br \/>\nRobert\u00a0Lee DDS, PhD (Collaborating Researcher, SOD Graduate Student 2017)<br \/>\nSojung Lee (UW Pre-dental Student 2016 &#8211; 2017)<br \/>\nJames Lovelace DDS MS<br \/>\nMinh Luong, DDS, PhD, Visiting Scholar (Lecturer, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2018 &#8211; 2020)<br \/>\nPaul Lutgen (Dental Student SURF 2016, 4th year Research-track 2018)<br \/>\nOmri Margalit DDS<br \/>\nMariko Matsumoto\u00a0DDS, PhD \u00a0(Visiting Researcher,\u00a0Hokkaido University, Japan 2015-16 )<br \/>\nNozomi Ogata DDS (Visiting Dental Student, TMDU, Japan 2017)<br \/>\nNousha Panahpour Eslami DDS (SURF 2018, GPR)<br \/>\nGabriela Queiroz de Melo Monteiro, DDS, PhD (Visiting Researcher 2017, Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil)<br \/>\nPimduean Sivavong (Chula School of Dentistry, Bnagkok, Thailand 2025)<br \/>\nDiala Sleek DDS (SURF 2021)<br \/>\nMark Van Duker DDS (SURF 2017)<br \/>\nPhilip A. Walczak DDS, PhD (SURF 2018)<br \/>\nVernon Zander DDS (SURF 2017)<br \/>\nYaxuan Zhou (Collaborating Graduate Student, Engineering 2017)<\/p>\n<h2>Volunteers<\/h2>\n<p>Laurie Huang (UW Pre-dental Student 2018)<br \/>\nNatasha Paranjapye (UW Pre-dental\u00a0Student 2016 &#8211; 2018)<br \/>\nSelene Saraf (UW Pre-dental Student 2017)<br \/>\nKaveh Shamsaddini DDS (Volunteer Researcher\u00a02017 &#8211; 2018)<br \/>\nSarah Soofian\u00a0 (Pre-dental Student 2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty John A Sorensen, DMD, PhD, FACP, B4T Director Alireza Sadr, DDS, PhD, B4T Associate Director Yen-Wei Chen, DDS, MS, Assistant Professor Visiting Scholars and Affiliates Grant Chyz, DDS, Affiliate Instructor Ken Hooi, BDS, MDSC, Affiliate Assistant Professor Shojiro Shimizu, DDS, PhD, Visting Assitant Professor (Asahi University, Japan) 2025-2026 Josh Wang, DDS, Visiting Scholar (National&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/members\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/b4t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}