Position: Chair and Professor

Organization: Division of Periodontology, The Ohio State University College of Dentistry

Biography Text: Dr. Chan finished periodontal specialty training with a prestigious award, Sigurd P. Ramfjord Award for Excellence in Graduate Periodontics, at the University of Michigan in 2011. Since graduation, he has been teaching as a full-time clinical faculty at the University of Michigan. Currently he is the Chair and Professor at the Division of Periodontology, the Ohio State University, College of Dentistry. His teaching interests are microsurgery and minimally invasive regenerative surgery. He is the principal investigator of the Ohio-Michigan Dental Ultrasound Team. His research endeavor is to study ultrasound imaging for diagnosing periodontal and peri-implant diseases. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards and other foundations/institutes, etc. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and conference abstracts/presentations related to periodontics and implant therapy. He received several other awards from the AAP, including Fellowship to the Institute for Teaching & Learning (2011), Abram and Sylvia Chasens Teaching and Research Fellowship (2011), Nevins Teaching and Clinical Research Fellowship, the AAP foundation (2013), Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring in Periodontics (2015) and AAP Sunstar Innovation Award (2018). He is currently the President of the Midwest Society of Periodontology.