JON B. SUZUKI, DDS, PhD, MBADr. Jon Suzuki has a Presidential Appointment as Professor of Microbiology in the School of Medicine and Professor of Periodontology in the School of Dentistry at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. He also serves as the Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Research, and International Affairs as well as Director of Graduate Periodontology at Temple University. He has served as Dean of the School of Dental Medicine and Chief of Hospital Dentistry at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Suzuki received his D.D.S. from Loyola University of Chicago and Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He completed an N.I.H. Fellowship in Immunology at the University of Washington in Seattle, and a Clinical Certificate in Periodontics at the University of Maryland. Recently, he completed an MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business of the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Suzuki is the immediate past-Chairman and current panel member of the Food and Drug Administration Dental Products Panel, Rockville, MD. He is on the faculty of the US Navy National Naval Medical Command, Bethesda, MD, and also holds Professorships at Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD and Maimonides University, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He served as Chairman of the American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs, Chicago, and served on the National Institutes of Health National Dental Advisory Research Council, Bethesda, MD. Dr. Suzuki has hospital appointments at the Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and at the Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, PA. He is a fellow of the American and International College of Dentists, a Boarded Microbiologist of the American College of Microbiology and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, a Diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantology, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. Dr. Suzuki is the current Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Supreme Chapter of Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the National Honorary Dental Society, Lincoln, Nebraska, and has served in this position for nearly two decades. His honors include being named "Alumnus of the Year", Loyola University of Chicago, "Alumnus of the Year", Illinois Wesleyan University, "Recognized Alumnus in Biological Sciences", Illinois Institute of Technology, and "Faculty of the Year", University of Maryland. Dr. Suzuki won 1st place, Orban Prize Competition of the American Academy of Periodontology and won 1st place in the ADA/Dentsply SCADA Table Clinic Competition. He is in private practice limited to periodontics in Philadelphia. Dr. Suzuki has published over 100 papers, chapters, and symposia, 175 abstracts, and 1 textbook in Medical Technology. |