insight Fall 2021
Research and Scholarship
Welcome to the fall 2021 issue of Insight, a newsletter celebrating the accomplishments of our community of scholars. We aim to spotlight insights from people at the Dugoni School working in all areas of scholarship, including clinical or biomedical research, the scholarship of teaching and learning, improvement of the health care system, and professional partnerships that advance the field.
Meet Our New Department Chairs Rebecca Moazzez, BDS, MSc, PhD, FDSRCS (Eng.), FDSRCS (Rest.), MRD, joined the Dugoni School of Dentistry as the chair of the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry in spring 2021. Previously, she was professor of Prosthodontics and Oral Clinical Research at King’s College London School of Dentistry in the UK, where she began teaching in 1998, focusing on predoctoral and specialty prosthodontics. In 2013, she also served as the college’s founding director of the Oral Clinical Research Unit, which has attracted over $7M of funding since its conception. David K. Lam, MD, DDS, PhD, FRCDC became the chair of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in fall 2021, as well as the Dr. T. Galt and Lee DeHaven Atwood Endowed Professor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Dr. Lam specializes in the comprehensive surgical management of patients with cancer, pathology, and trigeminal nerve injury. His research and clinical programs are closely integrated, and his research addresses the challenges he faces in the clinical management of oral and maxillofacial surgery patients. Dr. Adham A. Azim joined the Dugoni School family as our new chair of the Department of Endodontics. Dr. Azim comes to us from University at Buffalo, where he had been since 2015. An associate professor, his service there included director of the Post-Graduate Program in Endodontics (2015–2021) and head of the Division of Endodontics (2016–2020). Prior to joining the University at Buffalo, Dr. Azim served as the pre-doctoral director in the Department of Endodontics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.