Professor
University of Texas Health Sciene Center at Houston
Houston, Texas
Simon Young, DDS, MD, PhD, FACS, is Professor, Acting Chair, and Director of Research in the Katz Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Dentistry. He completed his DDS at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, in 2003, his PhD at Rice University, Department of Bioengineering, Houston, Texas, in 2008, and his MD at McGovern Medical School - UTHealth Houston in 2011. He subsequently completed his Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and then a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Immuno-Engineering at Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Dr. Young is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is the author of over 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has an NIH-funded laboratory that studies biomaterials-based cancer immunotherapies and maxillofacial tissue engineering.
SS13 - From Bench to Bedside: The Evolution of Tissue-Engineered Maxillofacial Reconstruction
Saturday, October 3, 2026
10:20 AM - 11:10 AM PDT