Assistant Professor Surgery, Oral Surgery, Oral Pathology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Penn State, Oregon Health Sciences University with interest in oral medicine, tumor biology, and wnt-gene function. Trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, UCLA, and University of Washington specializing clinically in Oral medicine and Oral and Maxillofacial surgery and scientifically published in Science, J Oral Surgery, EMBO J, and J Cell Biology among other publications studying gap junctions and wnt-gene function. First publication to infer wnt-5a as a putative tumor suppressor gene.