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The Office of Research sponsors
several ongoing lecture series, as well as independent visiting lecturers.
Among
them are the Scholars in Dentistry Seminar Series,
and the Brown Bag Lecture Series hosted by the Northwest/Alaska
Center to Reduce Oral Health Disparities.
To RSVP for a Brown Bag lecture, please email brwnbags@u.washington.edu
(Title TBD)
Edward O’Neil, PhD, MPA, FAAN
Thursday, October 2, 12:30-1:30 PM (tentative time)
Health Sciences Building, Room B-508
Edward O'Neil is a Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine, Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences and Social
and Behavioral Sciences (School of Nursing) at the University of California, San Francisco. He also serves as the Director of the Center
for the Health Professions, a research, advocacy and training institute which he created to assist health care professionals, health
professions schools, care delivery organizations and public policy makers understand the challenges and opportunities of educating and
managing a health care workforce capable of improving the health and well being of people and their communities. Dr. O'Neil served as
the Executive Director of the Pew Health Professions Commission from 1989 through 1999; the Commission was a nationally recognized
advocacy group focused on reform in health workforce issues. He has published numerous articles, chapters and books on this and other
work. He is or has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, Government of New Zealand, Rockefeller Foundation, Pew
Charitable Trusts, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Fetzer Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, California HealthCare Foundation as well
as a number of federal, state and institutional agencies. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Alabama and a
Master’s of Public Administration and Doctorate in History from Syracuse University. In addition he has received honorary degrees from
New York Medical College, the Western University of Health Sciences and two other Universities. In 2003 he was elected to an honorary
Fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing.
"The Relative Contribution of Genetic and Environmental Factors to Oral Diseases. The Twin Study Design"
Dr. Walter Bretz, DDS, PhD
Thursday, October 23, 12:30-1:30 PM
Health Sciences Building, Room B-508
Dr. Walter Bretz is Associate Professor of Dentistry at New York University College of Dentistry in the Department of Cariology &
Comprehensive Care. He is the Director of the Twins Program in Genetics Research and Co-Director of the Laboratory for Microbial Genetic
Analysis at NYUCD. Dr. Bretz has been involved in a number of studies of the etiology and treatment of dental caries and periodontal
diseases and their subsequent role in medical diseases. More recently, Dr. Bretz has focused his research in understanding the relative
contribution of genetic and environmental factors to oral diseases and treatment responses do dental therapies.
“Documenting the natural history of oral health and disease through the first three decades of life – some findings from the
Dunedin study”
W. Murray Thomson, BSc, BDS, McomDent, MA, PhD, FICD
Thursday, December 11, 12:30-1:30 PM
Health Sciences Building, Room B-508
W. Murray Thomson is Professor of Dental Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Editor of the New
Zealand Dental Journal and an Associate Editor for Special Care in Dentistry. He undertakes most of his work in collaboration with other
researchers, because he believes strongly that the answers to health problems do not lie wholly within the bounds of any single discipline
or research tradition, and that diverse groups of researchers are able to arrive at insights that would otherwise be missed. Much of
Thomson’s research output is concerned with social inequalities in oral health, as well as the natural history of oral diseases. His
epidemiological and clinical research encompasses a wide range of oral conditions, problems and settings (most notably in the fields of
gerodontology, dental caries and tooth loss, periodontal disease, dental anxiety and xerostomia). He is the dental principal investigator
on the renowned Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study.
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