Bone Tissue Engineering

1. Introduction (market, clinical need, bone grafts) a. Choice 1: Alan S Herford, DDS, MD (Loma Linda University).- 2. Basic bone biology a. Choice 1: David T Scadden, MD (Massachusetts General Hospital).- 3. Principles of bone tissue engineering a. Choice 1: Antonios G Mikos, PhD (Rice University) b. Choice 2: Susmita Bose, PhD (Washington State University).- 4. Additive manufacturing technologies a. Choice 1: Anthony Atala, MD (Wake Forest School of Medicine) b. Choice 2: Jennifer A Lewis, ScD (Harvard University).- 5. 3D printing scaffolds for oral and maxillofacial regeneration a. Choice 1: Fernando PS Guastaldi, PhD (Massachusetts General Hospital) and Maria J Troulis, MsC (Massachusetts General Hospital).- 6. 3D printing scaffolds for orthopedic joint tissue engineering a. Choice 1: Anthony J Melchiorri, PhD (Rice University).- 7. 3D bioprinting and nanotechnology for bone tissue engineering a. Choice 1: Bhushan Mahadik, PhD (University of Maryland).- 8. Bioreactors and scale-up in bone tissue engineering a. Choice 1: John P Fisher, PhD (University of Maryland).- 9. Commercialization, legal, and regulatory considerations to translate 3D printing-based products to the marketplace and the clinic a. Choice 1: Anthony Ratcliffe, PhD (Synthasome, Inc.).- 10. Future directions and challenges a. Choice 1: James J Yoo, PhD (Wake Forest School of Medicine) b. Choice 2: Fernando PS Guastaldi, PhD (Massachusetts General Hospital) and Bhushan Mahadik, PhD (University of Maryland).

Fernando P.S. Guastaldi received his DDS degree (2006) from the Dental School of Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. He is Specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) and received both a Master of Science (2010) and PhD (2013) in OMFS from the Dental School of Araçatuba (UNESP/Brazil). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Biomaterials and Biomimetics at New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) in 2012. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Dental School of Araraquara (UNESP/Brazil) (2014- 2017). Currently he is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Skeletal Biology Research Center, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard School of Dental Medicine (2017-present).
Bhushan Mahadik received his Bachelor of Science (2008) in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and his Master of Science (2010) and PhD (2014) in Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign (UIUC). He was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Chemical Engineering department at UIUC (2014-2017). Currently he is the Assistant Director for the NIH/NIBIB Center for Engineering Complex Tissues (CECT) at the University of Maryland (2017-present).