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Professor Nessrin Taha
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Dr Mustafa Gündoğar
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Dr. Gündoğar’s areas of interests are; nickel titanium file’s kinematic properties and latest trends in endodontic irrigation. Dr Gündoğar has been been working at the Regenerative and Restorative Medicine Research Center (REMER) since 2020 and mainly focuses on artifical intelligence, regenerative endodontics and laser technology at endodontics.

Associate Professor Victoria Yu
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Professor Henry (Hal) Duncan
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Received his dental degree from the University of Glasgow and his 4-year endodontic speciality training in Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London. For ten years, he worked part-time in specialist referral endodontic practice. He completed his PhD in the University of Birmingham on the subject of ‘Epigenetic approaches to the role of Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors (HDACi) in promoting dentine-pulp reparative mechanisms’. As an Academic Professor and Consultant in Endodontics, he has led endodontic teaching, service delivery and research in Dublin Dental University Hospital (DDUH) for the last 15 years.
He has published over 160 international peer-reviewed scientific articles, 60 research abstracts, 18 book chapters as well as editing 3 textbooks. He was the primary author of the European Society of Endodontology (ESE) position statement on ‘Management of deep caries and the exposed pulp’ and is the lead of the ‘ESE S3-level Guidelines for the Treatment of Endodontic Disease’.
He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the International Endodontic Journal and the immediate past-president of the ESE. Hal has received multiple research grants as principal investigator and currently maintains a research lab and is the principal supervisor of clinical and scientifically trained PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in his research area of interest basic and translational pulp biology and endodontics.
Currently, he is the Director of Research in the DDUH and is an Ex-President of the Irish Division of the IADR, Pulp Biology and Regeneration Group of the IADR as well as the Irish Endodontic Society.

Associate Professor Bettina Basrani
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Associate Professor Bettina Basrani
Dr. Bettina Basrani is a Tenured Associate Professor and Director of the MSc Program in Endodontics at the University of Toronto, Canada. She holds a DDS degree from the University of Buenos Aires (1989), a Specialty Diploma in Endodontics, and a PhD from Maimonides University in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Dr. Basrani’s internationally recognized expertise includes over 40 scientific publications, three textbooks, and numerous textbook chapters and abstracts. Notably, she has been honored with the Louis Grossman Award by the French Society of Endodontics and received the prestigious ‘Honoris Causa’ degree from her alma mater, Maimonides University, recognizing her outstanding contributions to academia and endodontics. Her commitment to advancing the field extends to her role as a reviewer for endodontic journals and active membership in global endodontic societies.

Professor Liran Levin
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Prof. Liran Levin was previously the Head of Periodontology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and the Head of Research at the School of Dentistry, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Faculty of Medicine – Technion IIT Haifa, Israel.
Prof. Liran Levin received his DMD degree with distinction at Tel Aviv University and completed his Post Graduate Periodontology Program at the Department of Periodontology, Rambam Health Care Campus. He also received his Periodontology Specialist Certificate from the European Federation of Periodontology as well as a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada in Periodontology.
Prof. Liran Levin has published more than 350 articles and book chapters in the international professional literature and is involved in research mainly in periodontology, dental implants and dental trauma. His papers received more than 15,000 scientific citations. He has been lecturing extensively both nationally and internationally in the fields of dental implants and periodontal diseases.
Prof. Levin serves as the Editor-in Chief of Dental Traumatology, an Associate Editor for the International Dental Journal, Scientific Associate Editor for the Quintessence International and as an Editorial Board Member and a manuscript reviewer for some of the leading international professional Journals in the fields of periodontology, dental implants, dental trauma and general dentistry.
Prof. Levin is the President of the Periodontal Research Group of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR). He is currently the President of the International Association for Dental Traumatology (IADT) and was chairing the 2020 IADT dental trauma guidelines committee as well as the 2024 joint IADT and ASD guidelines for prevention of traumatic dental injuries committee.

Professor Elisabetta Cotti
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Associate Professor Maximiliano Schünke Gomes
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Associate Professor Maximiliano Schünke Gomes
Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Brazil, 1999.
Endodontics Residency, Lutheran University of Brazil – ULBRA, Brazil, 2002.
Master of Science in Endodontics (MSc), Lutheran University of Brazil – ULBRA, Brazil, 2005.
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Health Management, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Brazil, 2009.
Faculty Research Fellow, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA, 2011.
Doctor of Endodontics (PhD), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Brazil, 2013).
Postdoctoral Fellow (CNPq/RHAE, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS, Brazil, 2015).
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Dentistry and Associate Professor of Endodontics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS, Brazil.
Director of the Research Group on “Etiopathogenesis, Treatment and Systemic Implications of Periodontal, Pulp and Periapical Diseases” at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS, Brazil.
Has experience in dentistry, with an emphasis on endodontics, working mainly on the following topics: endodontics, systemic repercussions of endodontic infections, health management, and oral epidemiology.

Associate Professor Adham Azim
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Associate Professor Adham Azim
Dr. Azim is an Associate Professor, Chair of the Endodontic Department, and the Director of the Post-Graduate Program at University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. He maintains a private practice limited to Endodontics and he is also the Founder and CEO of Endolit.
Dr. Azim earned his BDS from Cairo University, where he also did his Endodontic training. He later completed his Endodontic certificate at Columbia University, and since then, he has been a full-time Educator and a Part-Time Private Practitioner. Before Joining the University of the Pacific, he Served as the Division Head and the Director of the Endodontic Post-Graduate Program at University at Buffalo.
Dr. Azim is the recipient of the 2023 AAE Edward M. Osetek Award for outstanding educators. He is Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics and has lectured all over the world. He has over 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals and several text-book chapters contributions. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal of Endodontics, and a reviewer for multiple other Endodontic Journals.

Professor Dr Henry Kim
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Professor Dr Henry Kim
HYEON-CHEOL HENRY KIM, DDS, MS, PhD, Professor
Pusan National University School of Dentistry & University Dental Hospital.
Prof. Kim graduated from Pusan National University School of Dentistry (PNUD), where he completed the residency program specializing in Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics and earned his Ph.D.

Professor Anibal Diogenes
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Professor Anibal Diogenes
Dr. Anibal Diogenes received his dental degree from UFPE in Brazil, his M.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Nebraska, and his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and his Certificate in Endodontics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Dr. Diogenes is the Chair of the Department of Endodontics at the University of Texas Health at San Antonio, and a Director of the American Board of Endodontics. His areas of research include inflammation, pain, and regenerative endodontics.
He has received the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Distinguished Research Award, the AAE Osetek Award, and the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Professorship Award. Dr. Diogenes maintains a clinical practice limited to Endodontics in San Antonio, Texas.

Professor Sondos Albadri
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Professor Sondos Albadri
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