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Department of Dentistry
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Dentistry - Pharmacy Building
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2N8

Telephone: (780) 492-3117
Dean's Fax: (780) 492-7536
email: arlene.bradley@ualberta.ca

 

Faculty Administration

Administrative Area

Name

Title

Telephone

 

Paul Major

Chair, Dentistry

(780) 492-3312

Academic Affairs

Steve Patterson

Associate Chair (Academic)

(780) 492-7383

Admissions

David Scott

Chair, Admissions Committee

(780) 492--2014

Graduate Studies

Carlos Flores-Mir

Graduate Studies

(780) 492-8014

Alumni Affairs

Bill Sharun

Alumni Affairs Representative

(780) 492-4469

Business Financial Affairs

Yvonne Pinchbeck

Assistant Chair, Administration

(780) 492-2850

Continuing Education

James Yacyshyn

Director

(780) 492-8240

Clinical Affairs

Rick Easton

Director, Clinic Programs

(780) 492-8681

Curriculum

Steve Patterson

Chair, Curriculum Committee

(780) 492-7383

Financial Aid

Yvonne Pinchbeck

Assistant Chair, Administration

(780) 492-2850

Hospital Dentistry

Tim McGaw

Director, Hospital Programs

(780) 492-2403

Student Affairs

Tom Stevenson

Associate Chair (Clinical Student Affairs)

(780) 492-5403

Dental Hygiene

Sharon Compton

Director, Dental Hygiene

(780) 492-6331

Research

Dan Pehowich

Associate Chair of Research

(780) 492-2838

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Faculty Members

Name, Phone, Fax & Email Address

Department/ Division

Academic/Research Areas of Interest

Administrative
Responsibilities

Amin, Maryam

Assistant Professor

Phone: (780) 492-7354
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: maryam.amin@ualberta.ca

Pediatric Dentistry

Community based interventions for early childhood caries in vulnerable populations;

Community servince learning in dental education;

Education transformation for global citizenship and social responsibilty

Head, Division of Pediatric Dentistry

AuCoin, Trudy

Clinical Assistant Professor

Phone: (780) 492-7459
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: taucoin@ualberta.ca

Comprehensive Care Clinic

CCC Leader

Baker, Philip

Professor

Phone: (780) 492-9728
Fax: (780) 492-7303
Email: philip.baker@ualberta.ca

Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Bakker, Sophy

Clinical Assistant Professor

Phone: (780) 492-6883
Fax: (780) 492-8552
Email:
sophy.bakker@ualberta.ca

Dental Hygiene

Bedard, Dennis

Clinical Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492-7100
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: dbedard@ualberta.ca

Pediatric Dentistry

Brouwer, Alan
Clinical Assistant Professor

Phone: (780) 492-6428
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: abrouwer@ualberta.ca

Clinical Dentistry

 

 

Cable, Cheryl
Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492-1395
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: cheryly@ualberta.ca

Implant Dentistry

Maxillofacial Prosodontics

Dental Implants

Co-Director, Dental Implant Clinic

Cobban, Sandy
Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492-1325
Fax: (780) 492-8552
Email: sandy.cobban@ualberta.ca

Dental Hygiene

Research Utilization, Knowledge Transfer, Critical thinking, Distance Education, Evaluation research

 

Compton, Sharon
Professor

Phone: (780) 492-6331
Fax: (780) 492-8552
Email: scompton@ualberta.ca

Dental Hygiene

Tobacco control research and related initiatives; reserach methods teaching; systematic reviews; dental implantology teaching

Director, Dental Hygiene Program

Associate Department Chair (DH)

Dederich, Doug

 

Phone: (780) 492-6256
Fax: (780) 492-7536
Email: dederich@ualberta.ca

Periodontics

 

 

Easton, Rick
Clinical Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492 0445
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: reaston@ualberta.ca

Clinical Dentistry

 

Director of Clinics

Edgington, Eunice
Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492 4457
Fax: (780) 492-8552
Email: ee2@ualberta.ca

Dental Hygiene

 

Eggert, Michael
Professor

Phone: (780) 492 3078
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: feggert@ualberta.ca

Periodontics

Clinically related metabolism of oral biofilms,
Periodontology,
Halitosis

Director, Oral Malodour Clinic
Head, Division of Periodontics

El-Bialy, Tarek

Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492-2751
Fax: (780) 492-7108
Email: telbialy@ualberta.ca

Orthodontics

Healing of teeth root resportion,
Tissue engineering and mandible condyle using stem cells,
Alveolar bone and pulp healing using ultrasound and gene therapy

 

Flores-Mir, Carlos

Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492-7429
Fax: (780) 492-7108
Email: carlosflores@ualberta.ca

Orthodontics

Evidence based dentistry,
3D facial soft tissue changes during Orthodontic Treatment

Human Research Ethics Board

Director of Graduate Studies

Ganatra, Seema
Clinical Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492-4541
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: Sganatra@ualberta.ca

Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology Radiology

Innovations in teaching diagnostic sciences, oral cancer, oral pathology, biopsy service

Head, Division of Oral Radiology

Gitzel, Barbara
Clinical Professor

Phone: (780) 492-1324
Fax: (780) 492-8552
Email: bgitzel@ualberta.ca

Dental Hygiene

Oral Health education, tobacco cessation, addication awareess, behaviour change theory

Heo, Giseon

Assistant Professor

Phone: (780) 492-1332
Fax: (780) 492-7108
Email: gheo@ualberta.ca

Statistician

Statistical Analysis with applications in dentistry studies, shape analysis, sequential analysis and meta analysis

 

Howell, Marianne
Clinical Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492-5849
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: mhowell@cha.ab.ca

Clinical Dentistry

Geriatrics, Public Health

Satellite Clinic

Hursin, Loretta

Clinical Assistant Professor

Phone: (780) 492-1539
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: hursin@ualberta.ca

Comprehensive Care Clinic

CCC Leader

Kline, Loren W.
Professor

Phone: (780) 492-4468
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: lkline@ualberta.ca

Physiology

Calcium metabolism; Smooth muscle, tooth replacement in iguanas

Student Awards Director
Ethics in Research

Kula, Bernard
Clinical Assistant Professor


Phone: (780) 492-7429
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: kula@ualberta.ca

Clinical Dentistry

 

 

Leakey,Joan
Clinical Assistant Professor

Phone: (780) 492 4150
Fax: (780) 492-8552
Email: joan.leakey@ualberta.ca

Dental Hygiene

 

Clinic Coordinator 1st. year

Major, Paul
Professor

Phone: (780) 492-3312
Fax: (780) 492-7536
Email: major@ualberta.ca

Orthodontics

Orthodontic Biomechanics

Chair, Department of Dentistry
Director, Graduate Orthodontics

McGaw, Tim
Professor

Phone: (780) 492-5195
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: wmcgaw@ualberta.ca

Oral Medicine and Pathology

Antiviral chemotherapeutics; Clinical oncology

Hospital Affairs

Milos, Nadine
Professor

Phone: (780) 492-4958
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: nmilos@ualberta.ca

Oral Biology

Craniofacial embryology; neural crest cell adhesion

 

Nassar, Usama
Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492-4470
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: unassar@ualberta.ca

Fixed Prosthodontics

Dental Materials

Head, Division of Fixed Prosthodontics

Patterson, Steven K.
Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492-7383
Fax: (780) 492-7536
Email: steven.patterson@ualberta.ca

Dental Public Health

Tobacco Cessation; Ethics ,
Aboriginal Oral Health, Access to care, Interprofessionalism

Associate Chair (Academic)

Dental Public Health Centre

Tobacco Cessation Clinic

Pehowich, Daniel J.
Professor

Phone: (780) 492-2838
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: dpehowic@ualberta.ca

Physiology

Influence of estrogen on alveolar bone integrity; mediators of inflammation; nutrition

Associate Chair (Research)

Peters, Edmund
Professor

Phone: (780) 492-1338
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: peters@ualberta.ca

Oral Medicine and Pathology

Implants; Infection Control; Clinical/Pathologic Studies of Oral Disease

Infection Control Officer;

Pimlott, Janice

Professor

Phone: (780) 492-1326
Fax: (780) 492-8552
Email: jan.pimlott@ualberta.ca

Dental Hygiene

 

 

Preshing, William
Clinical Professor

Phone: (780) 492-0118
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: wdpreshi@ualberta.ca

Oral Diagnosis

Management of medically-compromised patients

GPR Director

Chair, Academic Standing Committee

Scott, David A.
Professor

Phone: (780) 492-2014
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: dave.scott@ualberta.ca

Operative Dentistry

Dental Materials; computer use in dental education

 

Senior, Anthea

Clinical Assistant Professor

Phone: (780) 492-0464
Fax : (780) 492-1624
Email: anthea.senior@ualberta.ca

Radiology

Third year clinic coordinator

Sheppard, Alexandra

Clinical Assistant Professor

Phone: (780) 492-4453
Fax: (780) 492-8552
Email: alexandra.sheppard@ualberta.ca

Dental Hygiene

Clininc Co-ordinator, 2nd year.

Stevenson, Tom

Clinical Professor

Phone: (780) 492-5403
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: tom.stevenson@ualberta.ca

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Associate Chair, Depatment of Dentistry
Head, Division of OMS

Tan, Han-Kuang
Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492-4471
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: htan@ualberta.ca

Removable Prosthodontics

Removable Prosthontics: Clinical relevance of dental materials

Head, Division of Removable Prosthodontics

Thie, Norman
Clinical Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492 2300
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: nthie@ualberta.ca

TMD/Orofacial Pain

Temporomandibular disorders/Orofacial pain

Director, Orofacial Pain Clinic

Valentine, John

Clinical Associate Professor

Phone: (780) 492-4897
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: jbv@ualberta.ca

Oral Diagnosis/Oral Medicine

Oral manifestations of systmeic diseases,

Diagnosis and treatment planning,

Medically compromised Patient Care

Infection Control,

Emergency response medical issues.

Verhaeghe, Tyler

Clinical Assistant Professor

Phone: (780) 492-4958
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: tylerv@ualberta.ca

Fixed Prosthodonics, Comprehensive Care Clinic

Quality Assurance

Yacyshyn, James
Clinical Assistant Professor

Phone: (780) 492-4592
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: jyacyshy@ualberta.ca

 

 

Director of Continuing Dental Education

Yu, Donald
Clinical Professor

Phone: (780) 492-1344
Fax: (780) 492-1624
Email: donaldyu@ualberta.ca

Endodontics (Part-Time)

 

Head, Division of Endodontics

 

Revised April 2010

 

 

 

 

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