Michael Miloro

Dr. Michael Miloro, D.M.D., M.D., F.A.C.S. is Professor, Interim Department Head, and Director of the Postgraduate Residency Training Program in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, as well as Division Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Illinois Medical Center.

Dr. Miloro's responsibilities include both administrative and clinical duties, such as administration of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and postgraduate residency program on a day-to-day basis, developing the residents’ schedules in order to ensure consistency, and coordinating the operative and didactic aspects of resident education and training.

After receiving his BS (Bachelor of Science) degree in Biology: Neurobiological Sciences at the University of Rochester in New York, he earned a DMD (Doctor of Dental Medicine) degree at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1988. Dr. Miloro obtained his MD (Doctor of Medicine) degree in 1991, and completed his postgraduate residency training in General Surgery as well as Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1994.

That same year, he began his academic career by joining the faculty at The Ohio State University College of Dentistry in Columbus, Ohio. In 1999, Dr. Miloro joined the faculty of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore as an Associate Professor and Postgraduate Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

He next moved to Omaha, Nebraska, to face the challenge of leading a formal and extensive restructuring of the Oral Surgery residency training program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He was the Leon F. Davis Distinguished Chair in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Section Chief of the Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical Director of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic, and Director of Postgraduate Training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Dr. Miloro has received intramural and extramural funding for research endeavors that have led to publication of approximately 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals, numerous abstract presentations, and several textbook chapters in key Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery texts, and he has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally. Dr. Miloro has served as Editor-in-Chief of one of the major textbooks in the field of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, "Peterson’s Principles of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery". He has varied research interests including the evaluation and management of injuries to the trigeminal nerve, bone graft healing and survival, implant reconstruction, bone grafting and guided tissue regeneration, orthognathic surgery, and distraction osteogenesis. Dr. Miloro is married to Dr. Mary Beth Miloro, a general dentist, and they have a daughter, Macy.

External links

* [http://dentistry.uic.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry]

References

*"Dr. Michael Miloro Named to OMFS and Hospital Positions," "Vision Magazine," University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Fall/Winter 2005/2006.