Dr. Vince Lee
Vincent Lee, DDS, MSc/Dip Pros, has joined the Department of Oral Health Sciences as an assistant professor in the Division of Prosthodontics. Dr. Lee received his undergraduate degree in 2000 from UBC and his Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Western Ontario in 2004. Lee then practised general dentistry in the Greater Vancouver area until 2013, when he began his specialty training at UBC, completing a combined Diploma in Prosthodontics and Master of Science degree in 2016.
During his graduate program, Lee received the Association of Prosthodontists of Canada award for Academic Achievement, the Jamie Kaukinen Entrance Scholarship in Prosthodontics and the BC Society of Prosthodontists Entrance Award. Also, based on his MSc project, he was selected to receive one of three Research Fellowships awarded in 2014 by the American College of Prosthodontics Education Foundation.
Dr. Lee has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at UBC Dentistry, and has been a clinical instructor and prosthodontics consultant in the Integrated Clinical Care clinics. His main research area is the use of an acrylic repositioning stent during intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head and neck cancer patients.
Lee’s teaching plan at UBC Dentistry, at the undergraduate level, includes clinical prosthodontic consultant for Years 3 and 4, and module coordinator for DENT 430 Fixed Prosthodontics for Year 3. He will also be involved with teaching occlusion at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr. Nesrine Mostafa
Nesrine Zakaryia Mostafa, BDS, MSc, MSc/Dip Pros, PhD, FRCD(C), has joined the Department of Oral Health Sciences as assistant professor in Prosthodontics. Dr. Mostafa received her Bachelor of Dental Surgery from Alexandria University (Egypt) in 2002. She completed a Master of Medical Sciences (Dentistry and Biomedical Engineering) from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta (UAlberta), in 2008, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy (Medical Sciences–Dentistry) in 2013. In 2016, she completed a combined Diploma in Prosthodontics and Master of Science degree at UBC. Mostafa has taught as a clinical instructor at UAlberta as well as UBC, where she has also been prosthodontics consultant in the Integrated Care Clinic.
While at UAlberta, Mostafa received several prestigious awards and scholarships, including the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction and a CIHR–Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship. At UBC, she received a BC Society of Prosthodontist Entrance Award, American College of Prosthodontists Resident Poster Session award and DMD Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.
Mostafa’s research interests include the marginal fit of lithium disilicate crowns, bone regeneration therapies, the capacity of human gingival fibroblasts for periodontal regeneration, and the assessment of oral health in osteoporotic females. She has published extensively in journals such as Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery and Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, to name just a few.
Her teaching plan at UBC Dentistry, at the undergraduate level, will include clinical prosthodontic consultant for Years 3 and 4 and teaching Restorative Dentistry II. At the graduate level, she will teach Prosthodontics I and II.
Dr. Siddharth Vora
Siddharth (Sid) Vora, BDS, MSD, PhD, has joined the Department of Oral Health Sciences as assistant professor in the Division of Orthodontics. Dr. Vora obtained his dental surgery degree from the University of Mumbai, India, in 2002; a Doctor of Philosophy (Oral Biology) in 2009 from Boston University; and a Master of Science in Dentistry and a Certificate in Orthodontics from the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle in 2012.
Dr. Vora has been a faculty member at UW since 2013, where he taught undergraduate dental students as well as trained orthodontic residents. He was also a senior Fellow at Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute. While at UW, Dr. Vora received a National Institutes of Health T90 Research Training Award and a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the American Association of Orthodontists Foundation. An active member of many orthodontic and dental research organizations, he also worked part-time in private orthodontic practice in the Seattle area.
Vora’s priorities at UBC are to establish and develop his research program in craniofacial growth and in graduate orthodontic teaching. His primary research interests lie in the comprehensive understanding of craniofacial growth and development, with a focus on the genetic, epigenetic, morphogenic and molecular controls on cranial base and mid-face growth. His work will utilize both mouse models and human data to investigate developmental ontogeny and mechanisms.
The Faculty’s ongoing curriculum renewal initiative will benefit from Dr. Vora’s fresh ideas and innovative approaches for both undergraduate and graduate orthodontic education, to better integrate current and future clinical practice with biological paradigms.