The Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
www.omfs.ucsf.edu

Programs : Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Brian Bast, DMD, MD
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 2003

Clinical Interests:: Facial Trauma, Orthognathic Surgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Reconstruction, TMJ Surgery, Implantology, Dentoalveolar Surgery

Darrell Boychuk, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor

Educational Background:: Dental School - University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Board Certified - Orofacial Pain
Clinical Interests:: evaluation and conservative treatment of orofacial pain, including the temporomandibular joint and associated musculature. General dental care under sedation and general anesthesia.

Radhika Chigurupati, DMD, BDS
Associate Clinical Professor

Clinical Interests:: orthognathic surgery, craniofacial surgery, dentoalveolar surgery
Research Interests:: craniofacial surgery

Newton C. Gordon, DDS, MS
Clinical ProfessorChief, OMFS San Francisco General Hospital

Clinical Interests:: trauma, dentoalveolar surgery, implants
Research Interests:: pain mechanisms and management

Paul Green, PhD
Associate Adjunct Professor

Clinical Interests:: Neuroendocrine control of leukocyte function
Research Interests:: Neuroendocrine pathways in control of sexual dimorphism of inflammatory and pain responses

Mehran Hossaini, DMD
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Clinical Interests:: Implants, and associated hard and soft tissue surgery, Dentoalveolar Surgery

Ved Khosla, DDS,FDS, RCS
Professor Emeritus

Janice S. Lee, DDS, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Clinical Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Clinical Interests:: orthognathic surgery, craniofacial surgery, dentoalveolar surgery
Research Interests:: craniofacial surgery, fibro-osseous disease, bone regeneration

Jon Levine, PhD, MD
Professor and Research Director, Somatosensory Program

Clinical Interests:: pain management
Research Interests:: pathophysiology of pain

M. Anthony Pogrel, DDS, MD, FACS, FRCS
Professor and Chairman

Clinical Interests:: Head and Neck Pathology Temporomandibular Joint Surgery Orthognathic Surgery Use of Lasers in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Research Interests:: Study of hyaluronic acid, hyaluronidase and hyaluronidase inhibitors in saliva The effects of liquid nitrogen cryotherapy on osseous structures Anatomical studies of the lingual nerve, buccal branch of the facial nerve and nasolabial folds Biological behavior of salivary gland tumors

Patricia A. Rudd, PT
Assistant Clinical Professor

Clinical Interests:: physical therapy for temporomandibular disorders

Brian L. Schmidt, DDS, MD, PhD, FACS
Associate Professor, Director, Residency Training Program
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1999

Clinical Interests:: head and neck pathology, oral and maxillofacial reconstruction
Research Interests:: neural mechansisms of head and neck cancer pain, biomarkers of oral cancer

Rebeka Silva, DMD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Chief, Dental Service, and Chief, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Section VA Medical Center

Clinical Interests:: Implants, TMJ surgery, Bone reconstruction, Preprosthetic surgery
Research Interests:: Bone grafting, Cephalometric norms, Dental implants, Biomarkers in oral cancer

William H. Ware, DDS, MDS
Professor Emeritus
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1957

Part-Time Faculty

Henry Bennett, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1972

Richard Berger, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1991

Michael Chan, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor

Frank Grimaldi, DDS
Clinical Professor Director, Hospital Dentistry Program

Clinical Interests:: restorative dentistry dentistry for medically compromised patients conscious sedation for dental treatment dental treatment under general anesthesia dental treatment for fearful or phobic patients medical and legal dental evaluations
Research Interests:: Clinical outcome verification, specifically examining decayed, missing and probed indexes in developmentally disabled patients and comparing their deterioration after a two and three-year recall interval to the operating room.

Fred Mantz, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor

Charles McNeill, DDS
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Clinical Interests:: orofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders

Richard One, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor

Hieu D. Pham, DDS, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 2001

Clinical Interests:: dental implant reconstruction, bone grafting for implant reconstruction, facial cosmetic surgery, dentoalveolar surgery
Research Interests:: bone grafting for implant reconstruction, wound healing in relation to facial cosmetic surgery, distraction osteogenesis

Richard A. Smith, DDS
Clinical Professor Emeritus

Clinical Interests:: Ambulatory Dentoalveolar Surgery Reconstructive Implant Surgery Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
Research Interests:: Use of growth factors and osteoconductive materials in implant reconstruction

Volunteer Faculty

William Chan, DDS
Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1979

Jeff Clayton, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1994

S. Thaddeus Connelly, DDS, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 2007

Mark A. Crane, DDS, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1999

Sarah Davies, DDS, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

Donald Devlin, DDS
Clinical Professor

Kenneth Fader, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor

Brian Fong, DMD, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 2003

Jeffrey Fujimoto, DDS
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1983

C. Paul George, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1993

Jeffrey Graves, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1986

Mark Grecco, DMD
Associate Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1991

Paul Hall, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF GPR Graduation Year: 1984

Jack Jennings, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1984

Calvin Lee, DDS
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1988

Linda Lee, DMD, MD
2007-2008 Oncology Fellow
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 2007
UCSF Oncology Fellowship Completion Year: 2008

Mason Y. Lee, DMD, MD
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 2001

Liyoong Lim, DDS, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 2002

Richard McBride, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1987

Michael McDonald, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1991

Shelley Miyasaki, DDS, PHD
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1996

Avantika Nath, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor

Scott Podlesh, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1998

J. Reed Rayher, DDS, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 2007

Richard Robert, DDS
Clinical Professor

Dennis Song, DDS, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 2007

George Takahashi, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor

William Tom, DDS, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1989

Joy Wang, DMD, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 2002

Brian Yang, DDS, MD
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 2006

Chung-Kwan Yen, DDS
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF OMFS Graduation Year: 1987