Speaker Biography
Dr. Jon Suzuki has a Presidential Appointment as Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine and Professor of Periodontology and Oral Implantology in the School of Dentistry at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He also serves as Chairman and Director of Graduate Periodontology and Oral Implantology at Temple University. He has been Dean of the University of Pittsburgh, Chief of Hospital Dentistry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and CEO of the Faculty Dental Practice Plan.
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 a current panel member and the immediate past-Chairman of the Food and Drug Administration Dental Products Panel, Washington, DC. 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 and continues to serve as an ADA consultant on the Scientific Council, Dental Practice Council, and the Commission on Dental Accreditation, Chicago. Dr. Suzuki served on the National Institutes of Health National Dental Advisory Research Council, and numerous NIH Study Sections in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Suzuki has hospital appointments at Temple Episcopal Hospital and the Veterans’ Affairs Medical Centers.
He is a fellow of the American International College of Dentists, a Specialist Microbiologist of the American College of Microbiology, a Diplomate and Board Examiner 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 Upsilom, the national Honorary Dental Society, Lincoln, Nebraska, and has served in position for over two decades. He also serves as current President and Board member of the ICOI, the world’s largest implant organization.
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 in the ADA/Dentsply SCADA Table Clinic Competition.
He is in private practice limited to periodontics in Philadelphia.
Dr. Suzuki has published over 150 papers, chapters, and symposia, 200 abstracts, and 1 textbook in Medical Technology.
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