Associate Professor
Bernard & Gloria Pepper Katz Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Dr. Jose M. Marchena obtained his dental degree magna cum laude from Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1996 and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1998. He completed internships in oral and maxillofacial surgery and general surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and his residency training at Louisiana State University Medical Center-Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
After a decade in private practice, Dr. Marchena returned to the University of Texas Health Science Center as an Associate Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is a past and the current Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Ben Taub Hospital. He is the Vice President of Smile Bangladesh, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing cleft lip and palate repair operations in rural Bangladesh.
Dr. Marchena is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a Fellow of the American Academy of Craniomaxillofacial Surgeons
and the American College of Surgeons.