Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency
Mission & Vision
Our faculty is committed to providing the highest quality patient care in the full scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery techniques. Our goal is for fellows, residents and interns to receive the highest quality education in basic, as well as advanced, techniques in minor and major oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Mission & Vision
Our faculty is committed to providing the highest quality patient care in the full scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery techniques. Our goal is for fellows, residents and interns to receive the highest quality education in basic, as well as advanced, techniques in minor and major oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Program Director’s Welcome
We thank you for your interest in our program. The University of Miami/Jackson Health System Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program is a large trauma, tumor and reconstructive center in South Florida. Our program is an American Dental Association-accredited (through the Commission on Dental Accreditation), four-year certificate program offered to U.S. and Canadian citizens.
Our Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery program covers 10 operating rooms per week at four hospital sites, and includes coverage of outpatient clinics at each of the four sites, as well. One of the four hospitals is Jackson Memorial Hospital, a public hospital and Level I trauma center caring for severe facial trauma patients and the underserved population of South Florida.
The residency program offers vast training in all oral and maxillofacial subspecialties including, anesthesia; dental implantology; maxillofacial trauma; orthognathic surgery; pathology; preprosthetic surgery and reconstructive surgery. There is a constant interaction with medicine; oncology; pathology; surgery and other ancillary services.
The residents will be involved in research on an ongoing basis throughout the residency, closely supervised by the program director and other faculty. The residents are encouraged to present results at national and international meetings.
The program receives national and international referrals and is exposed to pathology that other programs see only in textbooks; however, the true pride of the program involves the volume and variety of cases, along with extensive resident involvement in surgical management.
The surgical and anesthesia experience offered to the residents begins the first year and continues for an intense, four-year period.
Our overall objective is to provide a comprehensive education for the residents, while properly preparing residents for their future practices. The ultimate intention of the faculty is for all graduates of this program to become certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
-Yoh Sawatari, DDS, FACS
Program Director’s Welcome
We thank you for your interest in our program. The University of Miami/Jackson Health System Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program is a large trauma, tumor and reconstructive center in South Florida. Our program is an American Dental Association-accredited (through the Commission on Dental Accreditation), four-year certificate program offered to U.S. and Canadian citizens.
Our Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery program covers 10 operating rooms per week at four hospital sites, and includes coverage of outpatient clinics at each of the four sites, as well. One of the four hospitals is Jackson Memorial Hospital, a public hospital and Level I trauma center caring for severe facial trauma patients and the underserved population of South Florida.
The residency program offers vast training in all oral and maxillofacial subspecialties including, anesthesia; dental implantology; maxillofacial trauma; orthognathic surgery; pathology; preprosthetic surgery and reconstructive surgery. There is a constant interaction with medicine; oncology; pathology; surgery and other ancillary services.
The residents will be involved in research on an ongoing basis throughout the residency, closely supervised by the program director and other faculty. The residents are encouraged to present results at national and international meetings.
The program receives national and international referrals and is exposed to pathology that other programs see only in textbooks; however, the true pride of the program involves the volume and variety of cases, along with extensive resident involvement in surgical management.
The surgical and anesthesia experience offered to the residents begins the first year and continues for an intense, four-year period.
Our overall objective is to provide a comprehensive education for the residents, while properly preparing residents for their future practices. The ultimate intention of the faculty is for all graduates of this program to become certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
-Yoh Sawatari, DDS, FACS
Fast Facts
Accreditation
American Dental Association/Commission on Dental Accreditation
Number of Residents per Year?
4
Duration of Residency?
4 years
Program Curriculum
The division provides a combination of formal courses and conferences to provide in-depth education for our residents. Lectures are provided by faculty and guest lecturers at a level above the predoctoral level.
Formal Courses
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Grand Rounds
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Faculty Seminars
- Physical Diagnosis
- Anesthesia
- Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Morbidity and Mortality Conference
- Oral and Maxillofacial Journal Club Conference
- ATLS
- ACLS
- PALS
Additional Education
Additional education in microbiology; pharmacology; physiology and cosmetic maxillofacial surgery and trauma is provided within seminar and conference programs. Further didactic and clinical education is provided by attendance at regional and national meetings and periodic non-institutional education conferences.
Current Residents
PGY 4
Omar M. AlOmran, DDS
Hometown: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dental School: Kind Saud University
Jeffery Coon, DMD
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada
Dental School: University of Nevada – Las Vegas
Jelena Karovic, DMD
Hometown: Gaborone, Botswana
Dental School: Boston University
Lucas Reed, DDS
Hometown: Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dental School: Virginia Commonwealth University
PGY 3
Victoria Benet, DMD
Hometown: Lyndhurst, New Jersey
Dental School: Rutgers University
Jack Harris, DMD
Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri
Dental School: Harvard University
Jacob Teichner, DDS
Hometown: Miami Beach, Florida
Dental School: New York University
Lori Valentino, DMD
Hometown: Yonkers, New York
Dental School: Medical University of South Carolina
PGY 2
Sina Hedayatnia, DMD
Hometown: Richmond, Virginia
Dental School: Harvard University
George Iskandar, DMD
Hometown: Cairo, Egypt
Dental School: Tufts University
Jonathan Razon, DMD
Hometown: Boca Raton, Florida
Dental School: Nova Southeastern University
Firas Sabti, DDS
Hometown: Baghdad, Iraq
Dental School: Virginia Commonwealth University
PGY 1
Gerardo Alvarez, DMD
Hometown: Valencia, Venezuela
Dental School: Harvard University School of Dental Medicine
Austin Jackson, DMD
Hometown: Columbus, Ohio
Dental School: Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine
Taylor Pankey, DDS
Hometown: Stuart, Florida
Dental School: University of North Carolina School of Dentistry
Jason Park, DDS
Hometown: Leonia, New Jersey
Dental School: New York University College of Dentistry
Your Faculty
Lawrence Anthony Armentano, Jr., DDS, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Surgery
Daniel Atallah, DMD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Surgery
Charles H. Kates, DDS
Anesthesiology
Jose Montero, DDS
Clinical Faculty
Michael Peleg, DMD
Chief, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Professor, Clinical Surgery
Yoh Sawatari, DDS, FACS
Professor, Clinical Surgery
Director, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program
Diane Stern, DDS
Clinical Professor, Pathology
Molie Xu, DMD
Clinical Faculty