Skip to content
Department of Oral Health Sciences

Seminars

DEPARTMENT OF ORAL HEALTH SCIENCES  PRESENTS

Winter 2026 OHS 575 Seminar Series

Mondays from 12:30pm – 1:20pm Pacific Time

Hybrid model: Sessions held on Zoom or in-person in Health Sciences Building Room T359 depending on the presenter’s location.

Please see below for modality and contact ohsgrad@uw.edu for assistance.

DATE & Modality TOPIC PRESENTER
1/5 Zoom Cristina Teixeira, DMD, MS, PhD
Associate Professor, Orthodontics
NYU
1/12 Zoom Hatice Hasturk, DDS, PhD
Professor
Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Research
ADA Forsyth
1/19 HOLIDAY – NO CLASS
1/26 in person Yung-Ting Hsu, DDS, MDSc, MS, PhD
Associate Professor, Periodontics
UW School of Dentistry
2/2 in person Anna Kuchina, PhD
Assistant Professor
Institute for Systems Biology
2/9 Zoom Suchitra Nelson, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Department of Community Dentistry
School of Dental Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
2/16 HOLIDAY – NO CLASS
2/23 Zoom Ophir Klein, PhD, MD
Professor, Orofacial Sciences
School of Dentistry
UCSF
3/2 Zoom Patricia Diaz-Moreno, DDS, PhD
Sunstar Robert J. Genco Endowed Chair, Empire Innovation Professor of Oral Biology, Director UB Microbiome Center, University of Buffalo
3/9 Zoom Yang Chai, DDS, PhD
Dean
Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry
USC
3/16 Exam Week – NO CLASS