{"id":49,"date":"2020-06-11T17:36:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.dental.uw.edu\/uwperiolab\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T17:57:06","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.dental.uw.edu\/uwperiolab\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<h2>Primary Researcher<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<div  class=\"grid row    \" >\n<div  class=\"col-sm-3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-136 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/research.dental.uw.edu\/kotsakis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/DDaubert-2016-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"257\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"col-sm-8\">\n<p><strong>Diane Daubert, PhD, MS, RDH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Daubert\u2019s primary research interests lie in the exploration of peri-implant disease including risk factors, prevalence, titanium corrosion as a modifier of the implant microbiome, peri-implant health and epigenetic changes associated with implant health and disease. In addition, she has studied the use of glycine powder air polishing for reduction of microbiome, and has published on the first paper finding a phenotypic change in the dentition due to a single nucleotide polymorphism in the ENAM gene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Current Lab Members<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<div  class=\"grid row    \" >\n<div  class=\"col-sm-3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-217\" src=\"http:\/\/research.dental.uw.edu\/kotsakis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/03\/Hsu-for-web-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"255\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"col-sm-8\">\n<p><strong>Yung-Ting (Lizzy) Hsu, DDS, MDSc, MS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hsu\u2019s research interests focus on periodontal regeneration, treatment and prevention of peri-implant diseases, and interdisciplinary therapy. She is intensively involved in pre-clinical and clinical studies, including application of biologic agents on periodontal and bone regeneration, the impacts of implant designs and occlusal scheme on peri-implant tissue, and management of peri-implant diseases. She teaches both didactic courses and clinical teaching in pre-doctoral and post-doctoral level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSharing my experiences and brainstorming with people who also have a sincere passion for the field periodontics is something I have strived for throughout my entire life.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div  class=\"grid row    \" >\n<div  class=\"col-sm-3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-165 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/research.dental.uw.edu\/kotsakis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/casual-headshot-1-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"192\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"col-sm-8\">\n<p><strong>Jason Kum, DDS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Resident, Graduate Periodontics<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kum&#8217;s interest in periodontics and implant dentistry originates from\u00a0his research experience in microbiology, histology, and antibiotics in his undergraduate education. His current study evaluates\u00a0how titanium dissolution affects the microbiome in the peri-implant sulcus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div  class=\"grid row    \" >\n<div  class=\"col-sm-3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-167 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/research.dental.uw.edu\/kotsakis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/2x2_Eddie-Lee-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"172\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"col-sm-8\">\n<p><strong>Eddie Lee, D.M.D<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Resident, Graduate Periodontics<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eddie&#8217;s research interest lie in\u00a0assessing whether dental hygiene procedures designed for use around teeth, such as ultrasonics, result in increased Ti dissolution, and consequent upregulation of inflammatory biomarkers in the peri-implant crevicular fluid of implants undergoing aggressive versus Ti-friendly cleaning. In addition to development of surgical therapeutic management of peri-implantitis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div  class=\"grid row    \" >\n<div  class=\"col-sm-3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-220\" src=\"http:\/\/research.dental.uw.edu\/kotsakis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/03\/Latimer-for-web-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"204\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"col-sm-8\">\n<p><strong>Jessica Latimer, DDS Candidate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jessica is a forth-year dental student at the University of Washington (UW) pursuing a career in Periodontology. Jessica is an incoming resident in the combined Doctor of Medical Sciences and Periodontology program at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.\u00a0 Her current research interests include pathophysiologic alterations of alveolar bone, prosthetic and biologic risk factors associated with peri-implant disease, and dental education.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Collaborators<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<div  class=\"grid row    \" >\n<div  class=\"col-sm-3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-175 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/research.dental.uw.edu\/kotsakis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/Georgios_Kotsakis_Edit_Wang2-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"251\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"col-sm-8\">\n<p><strong>Georgios A. 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Dr. Kotsakis\u2019 funded work has been supported both by NIDCR\/NIH and by investigator-initiated industry-funded studies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary Researcher Current Lab Members Collaborators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>People - UW Clinical Periodontal Research Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The CPRL research focus of the lab is on the epidemiology, etiology and treatment of periodontal and peri-implantitis diseases.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.dental.uw.edu\/uwperiolab\/people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People - 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