Chair & Dr. T. Galt and Lee DeHaven Atwood Endowed Professor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
& Chair, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry
David K. Lam, MD, DDS, PhD, FRCDC; Endowed Professor & Chair, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. 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 patients with cancer. He obtained his DDS with Honors from the University of Toronto and subsequently obtained a PhD in the Collaborative Program in Neuroscience and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Specialty Certificate from the same institution. He earned his MD from the University of California, Davis and completed a Postdoctoral Neuroscience Research Fellowship, as well as a Surgical Fellowship in Maxillofacial Oncology and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and a Fellow (OMFS) in the Royal College of Dentists in Canada. His funded research focuses on the models and pathways concerning pain associated with head and neck cancer. In addition to funding on research, education and training grants, Lam has published and presented internationally, nationally and locally on a variety of topics relevant to his research and clinical interests.
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Thursday, September 30, 2021
12:25 PM – 12:35 PM CDT