Dental Surgery and Medicine

Dr. Francesco Chiappelli is a Professor in the Section of Oral Biology in the Division of Oral Biology and Medicine. Dr. Chiappelli has done his MA in Research Methodology & Statistics, Graduate School of Education, UCLA, 1981 and PhD in Counseling Psychology, Graduate School of Education, UCLA, 1986. Dr. Chiappelli is an active member of AAAS, IADR/AADR, the Tuscan Academy of Dentistry, the Brazilian Society of Evidence-Based Decisions and Comparative Effectiveness Research, the Network of Italian Scholar Association, the International Forum for Evidence-Based Decisions & Comparative Effectiveness Research, and the Fulbright Association; and a formerly active member of the International Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRS) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI), the Club of Rome (US Division), and several other organizations in his fields. Dr. Chiappelli has served as the elected President of the American Association of Oral Biologists.

Dr. Francesco Chiappelli research interests include: Mind-body interaction The role of the psychoneuroendocrine system in regulating cellular immune surveillance Dental surgery

Dr. Vladimir W Spolsky research interests include: Preventive dentistry Sjogren's syndrome using proteomics and metabolomics technologies

Medicinal Chemistry Research (International Journal, Springer) Official Peer-Reviewer Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) The New Honorable President

Dr. Francesco Piva research interests include: Building of models to predict splicing patterns of human genes also in the presence of mutations or polymorphisms Reconstruction of gene regulatory networks for system biology approaches. NGS data analysis. Targeted cancer therapies. Exosomes and cancer.

Letizia Perillo is Associate Professor - eligible for Full Professorship - at the Second University of Naples, where she is also Head of the Orthodontic Unit, Chair of the Postgraduate Orthodontic Program, and Coordinator of the Undergraduate Dental Programme and the Erasmus Dental Program for under- and postgraduate students. Moreover Dr Perillo is Adjunct Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. She graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1986 from the University of Naples Federico II, where she went on to receive a specialty in Orthodontics in1989. She held a postgraduate fellowship at the University of Michigan from 1992 to1933, and was awarded a PhD in Interceptive Orthodontics from the University of Florence in 1997. She is a member of the World Federation of Orthodontists, the Angle Society (North Atlantic component), the American Association of Orthodontists, the European Orthodontic Society, and the Charles H. Tweed International Foundation for Orthodontic Research, where she also works as a clinical instructor. She is a member of the Italian Society of Orthodontics, acting as Advisor (2006-2007) and Auditor (2011-2012), and is currently Secretary Elect (2015-2016), having served on the board since 2013. Dr Perillo is a member of the Editorial Board of Oral Health and Dental Management, International Journal of Orthopedics and Open Journal of Orthopedics. She is part of the Permanent Peer Review and Advisory Council of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, The Angle Orthodontist, Progress in Orthodontics, the South European Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Research, the Stomatology Edu Journal and the Asian Pacific Orthodontic Society Journal. She reviews also for other dental journals including the European Journal of Orthodontics, the European Journal of Pediatric Dentistry, BMC Pediatrics. She is the author and co-author of over 200 publications and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences. Her main research interests include early treatment, non-extraction treatment, class II and class III orthopaedic treatment, cleft lip and palate patients, and growth and development

Dr.Letizia Perillo research interests include: Early Treatment Non-Extraction Treatment Class II and Class III Orthopaedic Treatment Cleft Lip and Palate Patients and Growth and Development

Dr. Jiiang-Huei Jeng research interests include: Chemical carcinogenesis/Mutagenesis/transformation Oral cancer: Biology and clinical research Pharmacology & Toxicology and Pulp/periodontal Biology Dental Materials Clinical endodontics Angiogenesis, thrombosis & platelet function Thrombin, fibrin, platelet-rich plasma, Integrin Carcinogenesis & cell cycle control Oral cavity healthy & systemic diseases Tumor cells-induced platelet activation

Dr. Eiichi Honda research interests include: Oral function including speech, swallowing and mastication in the light of MRI movie and functional MRI Development of a non-magnetic alloy and production of a intravascular stent and an aneurysm clip made of the alloy PACS system Quality assurance of intra-oral digital radiography Performance of dental cone beam CT LED lighting equipment easy on eyes