Meet-a-Mentor Luncheon

Meet-a-Mentor Luncheon
Friday, June 27, 2014
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Cape Town International Convention Center, South Africa
The Meet-a-Mentor session format is designed to enhance the learning experience for students.
Senior scientists, who are also past recipients of the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award and/or
past Mentor Awardees, will lead motivational and realistic discussions about the paths they
took during their academic careers.
SPEAKERS – Tables #1-8:
Table #1
Speaker:
Prosthodontics and Implants
Yasumasa Akagawa (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Yasumasa Akagawa completed his degree in dentistry in 1975 at Hiroshima
University, Japan and earned his Ph.D. degree in dentistry in 1980 from the same
university. Since 1993 he has been serving as professor and chair of the department
of advanced prosthodontics at Hiroshima University. He has just retired and he is
currently appointed as president of Ohu University which has schools of dentistry
and pharmacy in Koriyama, Japan. He was appointed as president of Japan
Prosthodontic Society between 2005 and 2007 and co-president of International College of
Prosthodontists between 2002 and 2003. He published extensively more than 150 articles on peerreviewed journals in the field of prosthodontics. He was the winner of American Prosthodontic Society
Golden Medallion Award in 2013 and the recipient of the 2013 IADR Distinguished Scientist Award for
Research in Prosthodontics and Implants.
Table #2
Speaker:
H. Trendley Dean Memorial Award
(epidemiology and public health)
Janet Clarkson (Dundee Dental Education Centre, Scotland)
Janet Clarkson graduated with a degree in dentistry from the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne in 1987. After 10 years at the University of Manchester, she
joined the Dental Health Services Research Unit (DHSRU) at the University of
Dundee. Since 1998 she has been the Effective Dental Practice Programme director,
conducting high quality research and promoting implementation of research evidence
in dental primary care. She is a founding member of the Cochrane Oral Health
Group and her role as joint co-ordinating editor has influenced her research activity.
She is on the specialist list for paediatric dentistry. Clarkson is director of the
Scottish Dental Practice Based Research Network, which has undertaken unique
trials in healthcare, both in clinical practice and education. As director of the Scottish
Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme, she is responsible for the development, production and
dissemination of guidance in priority areas for dentistry in Scotland. The long-term collaboration with
researchers affiliated with DHSRU in particular the Health Services Research Unit, University of
Aberdeen, has created an international research collaboration that is currently taking forward
knowledge transfer to inform both service and educational policy in dentistry. She is joint principal
investigator in three NIHR HTA funded UK Multi Centre Trials and is an experienced trialist, having
successfully initiated, developed and conducted more than 20 clinical research trials in primary dental
care. Clarkson was the recipient of the 2013 IADR Distinguished Scientist H. Trendley Dean Memorial
Award.
Table #3
Speaker:
Research in Dental Caries
Adrian Lussi (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Adrian Lussi is head of the department of preventive, restorative and pediatric
dentistry at the University of Bern, Switzerland, as well as the executive director of
the school of dental medicine. He holds a diploma in chemistry from the Swiss
Federal University of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, a teaching license at college
level with chemistry as main subject, as well as a diploma and a doctorate in dentistry
from the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research over the past 20 years has
covered several aspects of erosion, caries diagnosis as well as minimally invasive
preparation techniques in operative dentistry. The publications in English have
reached a number of over 300. He has received numerous national and international
awards, including the Yngve Ericsson Prize for research in preventive dentistry, ORCA Prize for Caries
Research and the 2008 IADR Distinguished Scientist Award for Research in Dental Caries.
Table #4
Speaker:
Geriatric Oral Research Award
Frauke Müller (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Frauke Müller is professor and chair for gerodontology and removable
prosthodontics at the University of Geneva. She was born in Kiel, Germany and
studied dentistry in Bonn, where she received her dental and doctorate degrees.
Until 2003, she worked at the department of prosthetic dentistry of the University
of Mainz, Germany, where she received her Ph.D. in 1996. Thanks to fellowships,
she had the opportunity to spend several years at the London Hospital Medical
College, England. Müller served on the board of several professional associations:
ECG (European College of Gerodontology), GORG of IADR (Geriatric Oral
Research Group) and the SSRD (Swiss Society for Reconstructive Dentistry).
(SSRD). Since 2010 she has been the president of the Swiss Society for Dentistry for elderly and
handicapped persons (SGZBB). She is associate editor of Gerodontology and the textbook “Oral
Healthcare and The Frail Elder”. In 2013 she was awarded the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award for
Geriatric Oral Research. Her research activity is mainly related to gerodontology, oral function as well
as complete and implant prosthodontics.
Table #5
Speaker:
Salivary Research Award
Masataka Murakami (National Institute for Physiological
Sciences, Okazaki, Japan)
Masataka Murakami is associate professor of cell physiology at the National Institute
for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan. He
graduated from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and entered the research
field at Osaka Medical College, Japan. He has been in that position since 1985. He has
worked as a chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Salivary Glands and
Exocrine Biology (2011). Since the start of his research activity, he has focused on
the exocrine gland and its energy transduction for secretion of fluid. In addition, he
worked out a technique to isolate the gland from the animal body so that it would be possible to perfuse
the gland arterially by artificial solution, and to collect the venous effluent as well as the saliva produced
from the cannulated excretory duct. This procedure allowed him to measure various kinds of functional
parameters from the whole intact gland. Moreover, morphological information on quick frozen specimens
from the perfused gland could be gained. Using this preparation, he measured heat production, oxygen
consumption, bicarbonate production and fluid secretion to conclude that oxidative phosphorylation was
a major pathway for ATP production during fluid secretion. Thereafter he measured kinetics of ATP and
creatine phosphate by P31-NMR spectroscopy on a number of nuclides including Na and K. His ongoing
studies, using the 3D-confocal microscope, correlate the passage of various sized fluorescent dyes with
the size of the junctional pores. Murakami was the recipient of the 2013 IADR Distinguished Scientist
Award for Salivary Research.
Table #6
Speaker:
Basic Research in Periodontal Disease Award
Shinya Murakami (Osaka University, Japan)
Shinya Murakami is professor and chair of the department of periodontology at
Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry and president of the IADR
Periodontal Research Group. He has conducted important immunological, biological
and regenerative studies in the field of periodontology. He analyzed the
pathophysiological roles of adhesive interactions between lymphocytes and gingival
fibroblasts, and clarified the molecular mechanisms of lymphocyte retention and
lodging and the following prolonged inflammatory responses at inflamed periodontal
tissues. Murakami also worked on the transcriptome analysis of periodontal tissue,
successfully established the cDNA library of human periodontal ligament cells and
found a novel periodontal-ligament specific gene named PLAP-1 (Periodontal
Ligament Associated Protein-1). The information generated from this series of omic studies has
provided the scientific community with the molecular basis for gaining a deeper understanding of the
characteristics of periodontal tissues. Furthermore, Murakami clarified that basic fibroblast growth
factor (FGF-2) induced significant periodontal tissue regeneration through in vitro and in vivo
investigations. He also conducted the translational researches evaluating the efficacy and safety of FGF-2
therapy in human, in consequence, indicated that topical application of FGF-2 induced significant alveolar
bone formation. This series of study contributes to the establishment of new regenerative treatment.
Murakami has received the following awards: IADR Anthony Rizzo Periodontal Research Award (IADR
Periodontal Research Group) in 1998, AAP R. Earl Robinson Periodontal Regeneration Award in 2009,
IADR/AADR William J. Gies Award in 2012 and the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award for Basic
Research in Periodontal Disease in 2013.
Table #7
Speaker:
Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research Award
A. John Spencer (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
A. John Spencer is an emeritus professor at The University of Adelaide.
Previously he was the professor of social and preventive dentistry, School of
Dentistry and the director of the Australian Research Centre for Population
Oral Health (ARCPOH) at The University of Adelaide. He has tertiary
qualifications in dentistry from the University of Melbourne including a
B.D.Sc. and an M.D.Sc. in children’s and preventive dentistry, an M.P.H.
degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the University of
Melbourne. Spencer’s key research interests are in the areas of population strategies for prevention of
oral diseases and improving the effectiveness of dental practice in meeting the community’s needs. He
has published over 240 refereed scientific papers and co-authored several book chapters and numerous
non-refereed research monographs and papers. He is the Editor-in-Charge of "Community Dentistry and
Oral Epidemiology" and International Adviser to "Community Dental Health." Spencer’s contribution to
dental research was recognized by the award of the IADR Distinguished Scientist H. Trendley Dean
Memorial Award in 2002 for prevention and oral epidemiology. In 2005, he received the Alan Docking
IADR Science Award (ANZ Division) for his achievements in dental research. Further in 2012, he was
awarded the IADR E.W. Borrow Memorial Award for research in oral health promotion for children,
with a priority for caries prevention. In 2013, Spencer was awarded the IADR Distinguished Scientist
Award in Behavioral Sciences, Epidemiology and Health Services Research.
Table #8
Speaker:
Pulp Biology & Regeneration/Dental Materials
Gottfried Schmalz (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Gottfried Schmalz is professor in the Department of Operative Dentistry and
Periodontology, University of Regensburg, Germany. Besides being a noted
researcher in pulp biology and dental materials science, focusing mainly on the
biocompatibility of materials, he has been one of the driving forces of the
Continental European Division (CED) of IADR. Schmalz has contributed much to
the existing broad dental science network within Europe, covering all the different
fields of research within oral sciences. Receiving his undergraduate education in dentistry at the
University of Bonn, he went on to receive his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. Schmalz has made
very significant contributions to the field of pulp biology, especially through his long-standing program of
research on pulp cell behavior in response to dental materials. This program of research has extended
over 30 years during which time he has held many positions of leadership both within his own academic
institutions and within the broader academic and research community. Importantly, his contributions
have bridged both the basic and clinical sciences and he has been able to make significant achievements
through the clinical application of his work. He has served as IADR Division, Scientific Group and
Committee officers for many years. He is the recipient of the 2007 IADR Distinguished Scientist Award
for Pulp Biology & Regeneration Research and the 2011 IADR Distinguished Service Award.

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