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November 4-7, 2009 • Boulder, Colorado
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Speakers and Keynote Presenters
| Keynote Speakers | Topic |
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| The Chuck Milam Memorial
Keynote Lecture: Larry Wolford |
Overview of TMJ disorders and treatment |
| Abass Alavi | Revolutionary Impact of Molecular Imaging with PET on Biological Sciences and Practice of Medicine |
| Dan Gazit | Stem cell based Skeletal Tissue Engineering |
| Paulette Spencer | Structure/Property Imaging of the TMJ Disc |
| Speaker | Topic |
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| Kyriacos Athanasiou | Tissue engineering conundrums with the TMJ disc |
| Michael Detamore | Gradient-based strategies for osteochondral regeneration |
| Sidney Eisig | PRP or TMJ ankylosis or reconstruction in hemifacial microsomia patients (as needed) |
| Jim Fricton | Advances in the Understanding and Outcomes of TMJ implants: Research from NIDCR's TMJ Implant Registry and Repository |
| Luigi Gallo | Ex vivo effects of energy density on chondrocyte biology |
| Julie Glowacki | TBA |
| Scott Hollister | Mandibular condyle reconstruction in pigs using computationally designed and manufactured PCL scaffolds |
| Clark Hung | Tissue engineering of anatomically-shaped osteochondral constructs |
| Howard Israel | Pathogenesis of Inflammatory & Degenerative Temporomandibular Joint Disease: The Role of Synovial Fluid Analysis |
| Laura Iwasaki | Differences in TMJ loads between healthy subjects and subjects in RDC-TMD subgroups |
| Jan Harm Koolstra | Biomechanics of the TMJ and its disc (can focus as necessary) |
| Helen Lu | Role of heterotypic cellular interactions in the repair and maintenance of soft tissue-to-bone interfaces |
| Jeremy Mao | TBA |
| Jeff Nickel | Joules in the TMJ: differences in work densities between TMD subjects and healthy individuals |
| Tony Ratcliffe | Biotechnology approaches to repair of articular joints Ð a research endeavor or product opportunity? |
| Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | TBA |
| Beth Winkelstein | Persistent neck pain from mechanical joint injury: Mechanistic insights from the whiplash problem |
| John Zuniga | Intra-articular analgesia of the temporomandibular joint |




