Position: Professor of Oral Biology and Assistant Dean of Clinical Research at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine

Organization: Rutgers School of Dental Medicine

Biography Text: Dr. George Kotsakis received his DDS from the University of Athens and after graduation he practiced in Athens, Greece for several years prior to coming to the US. He then completed his residency in Periodontics and MS in Science at the University of Minnesota. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a Professor of Oral Biology and Assistant Dean of Clinical Research at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine. He is a clinical researcher focusing on bone regeneration procedures in Implant surgery and Peri-implantitis Therapy. His NIH-funded Translational Periodontal Research Lab conducting research on the biological mechanisms underlying peri-implant bone loss and developing novel treatments for dental and biomedical implants. Dr. Kotsakis has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and textbook chapters with more than 20,000 citations of his work. He is one of the few Dental researchers to have been published in prestigious medical publications, such as the Lancet and PNAS. He has been the recipient of multiple career and research awards from the American Academy of Periodontology, the Academy of Periodontology Foundation, International Association for Dental Research and other organizations. Additionally, he serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Periodontology.