Annual Prosthodontics, - UNC School of Dentistry - University of ...

About the SpeakersDr. John Sorensen is Acting Professor in the Department ofRestorative Dentistry and Chair of the Clinic Revisions Task Force,University of Washington. He was founder and director of the PacificDental Institute in Portland, Oregon, conducting clinical trials, invitro materials testing, and offering CE programs. During that timeSorensen was in full-time private practice limited to prosthodonticsfrom 1993 to 2012. He is a Diplomate of the American Board ofProsthodontics. Previously he was The ODA Centennial Professor ofRestorative Dentistry and Director, Dental Clinical Research Center atOregon Health Sciences University. Dr. Sorensen has published over 80 research articlesand chapters as well as over 130 research abstracts. He has given over 150 invited lecturesin 31 countries.Dr. Mark Kutcher is an Associate Professor of Oral Medicine in the Department of DentalEcology at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry. He received his dentaldegree from Temple University School of Dentistry, his certificate in Oral-MaxillofacialRadiology from Vanderbilt Medical School, and his masters in Oral Medicine and Pathologyfrom Indiana University School of Dentistry. He was Chair of the Department of DiagnosticSciences from 1988 until 1994.He teaches courses in Oral Medicine, Internal Medicine,Physical Evaluation, Microbiology and Pathology, and is an adjunct attending in theDepartment of Dermatology in the School of Medicine. Dr. Kutcher's interests includethe medicinal management of various oral conditions. He is a Diplomate of the AmericanAcademy of Oral Medicine and is President of the Academy this year.Dr. Matthew Hopfensperger is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department ofProsthodontics at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry. Dr. Hopfenspergerjoined the faculty in 1998 and is the Director of the extensive UNC Predoctoral DentalImplant Program. He also initiated the elective UNC Predoctoral Implant Surgery Course.He received his DDS degree from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1986.The following year he attended the GPR Program at Sinai Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.After gaining additional private practice experience, he returned to University of Michiganand received a MS degree in Prosthodontics in 1991. Upon graduation, he served on thefaculty of the University of Western Australia from 1992 to 1993. In conjunction with hiswife, Dr. Sian Kwa, (who is also a Prosthodontist) he founded the first specialty practice ofthe Netherlands, which they operated together for 5 years until 1998. Dr. Hopfenspergermaintains an active practice in the UNC Dental Faculty Practice, which focuses onadvanced restorative and implant dentistry.Photo By Seth Oliver