Team

TAMIMI MARIÑO, Faleh

co-Director

Dr. Tamimi is a dentist who holds 2 clinical certificates, in Geriatric Dentistry, and in Implant-Prosthodontics, respectively, as well as a Ph.D. in Biomaterials. He is Also a Canada Research Chair in Translational Craniofacial Research.

Before being appointed as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry, Dr. Tamimi held a postdoctoral position at McGill University for two years. During his training, Dr. Tamimi worked in the Departments of Oral Surgery, Prosthodontics, Physical Chemistry (University Complutense of Madrid, Spain) and Pharmaceutical Technology (University of Parma, Italy), developing a multidisciplinary research profile and network.

BEDOS, Christophe

co-Director

Email: christophe.bedos@mcgill.ca

Christophe Bedos is a dentist with a PhD in public health. He is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Dentistry of McGill University and Adjunct Professor with the School of public health of Université de Montréal. His research focuses mainly on access to care for the underprivileged and the development of person-centred dentistry.

LESSARD, Andree

Coordinator/Manager

Email: andree.lessard@mcgill.ca

Andree holds a doctorate in physiology from the Université de Montréal. She pursued her training in neuroscience at Cornell University as a postdoc and instructor and was recruited by the University of Maryland School of Medicine as an assistant professor. Dr. Lessard has published several first- and corresponding-authored original manuscripts investigating brain circuitry involved in stress and mental diseases. From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a program manager for the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. She brings her strong expertise and experience as both principal investigator and program manager to our network.

RESEARCH AXES COORDINATORS

CHANDAD, Fatiha

Email: fatiha.chandad@greb.ulaval.ca

Oral microbiologie, immunology of periodontal diseases, inflammation, oxidative stress.

EMAMI, Elham

Email: elham.emami@umontreal.ca

Oral Health Promotion, Dental Public Health , Rural and Remote Disparity, Clinical Randomized Trials, Mixed methods Research, Prosthodontics, Meta-analysis and systematic reviews.