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Welcome
New Faculty Members
This summer
we welcomed four new
full-time faculty members
to LSUSD. Drs. Brian
Christensen and Peter Park
have joined the Department
of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery and Drs. Edward
Starr and Bryan Lara are
new to Comprehensive
Dentistry.
Brian
Christensen, DDS, MD,
assistant professor,
received his DDS from the
University of Washington
in Seattle. In 2013 he
entered the LSUHSC oral
and maxillofacial surgery
residency. During his
residency he also
completed the LSUHSC
general surgery
internship. While a
resident, he was a member
of several teams that
received grants to study
maxillomandibular
reconstruction and
fracture repair. Dr.
Christensen is a peer
reviewer for the Journal
of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery.
Throughout his education,
he received numerous
scholarships and awards,
including the Quintessence
Award for Research
Achievement, and the AAOMS
Resident Research Award.
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Brian
Christensen, DDS,
MD
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Peter Park, DMD, MD,
assistant professor,
received his dental degree
from the University of
British Columbia.
Following completion of
the LSUHSC oral and
maxillofacial residency in
2017, he became a fellow
in head and neck
microvascular surgery at
the University of Alabama
at Birmingham. While in
dental school, he
co-founded a student-run
community dental clinic,
for which he received the
Robert W. Scott Memorial
Award for outstanding
contribution to the dental
student body. Among his
other awards was LSUHSC
Intern of the Year in OMFS
in 2012. His research
interests include
malignant transformation
of oral dysplasia and the
use of computer modeling
to reconstruct the
mandible and dentition
after tumor resection.
Edward
Starr, DDS,
assistant professor,
serves as clinical
director of the General
Dentistry Residency
program at University
Medical Center. A 2018
LSUSD graduate, he
recently completed a
certificate in hospital
dentistry at Advocate
Illinois Masonic Medical
Center in Chicago. While a
dental student, he lead
various community outreach
programs, most notably
bringing increased dental
care to the formerly
incarcerated community.
Bryan
Lara, DDS,
assistant professor, is a
maxillofacial
prosthodontist. He
completed his dental
degree in Costa Rica.
After finishing his
residency in
prosthodontics at The
Dental College of Georgia,
he completed a fellowship
in maxillofacial
prosthetics and oncologic
dentistry at MD Anderson
Cancer Center. He
currently divides his time
between the departments of
comprehensive dentistry
and prosthodontics.
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