Outstanding researcher on oral surgery and oral implantology. He has a multidisciplinary research group focused on both high quality fundamental science and translation for human health. The collaborators will meet regularly with the post-docs and the students involved in their area of expertise, and the whole research team will have monthly meetings for reviewing the progress of the whole project.
ACADEMIC RECORD:
- 1973 – 1979 Bachelor’s degree in medicine and Surgery 1973-1979, University of Valencia, Spain.
- 1979 Phd Thesis in Medicine and Surgery. University of Valencia, Spain.
- 1979 – 1981 Specialist in Stomatology. School of Dentistry, University of Valencia.
- 1981 – 1985 Specialist in Neurology, Internal Medical Resident (MIR) at University Hospital La Fe, Valencia.
- 1997 – 2000 Master in Oral Surgery and Implantology, University of Barcelona
Research activity- areas of interest:
Dr Peñarrocha main research interests have been periapical surgery, orofacial pain, oral implantology in several different clinical and anatomic conditions, like epidermolisis and maxillary atrophy.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
- 1988-1992 Associate Professor, assigned to the area of Stomatology (Oral Medicine), Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Valencia.
- 1992-2007 Full Professor of “Oral Medicine”, from 9-9-1992 to 03-09-2007, assigned to Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Valencia.
- 1993-1995 Vice-decan of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and Director of the Dental Clinic. University of Valencia.
- 2007-2016 Professor and Chairman of Oral Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Valencia.
- 2009-2011 Fundador and President of the Valenciana Society of Oral Surgery
- 1992-2006 Chairman and Director of Master in Oral Surgery and Dental Implantology. Faculty of Medicine And Dentistry. University of Valencia.
- 2013-2016 Director of Department of Stomatology of the University of Valencia.
BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS:
March 2017: indicized publication number about 433; citations 4000
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION ACTIVITY:
Dr Peñarrocha has coauthored about 255 papers indexed and 140 non indexed (1886 citations, 21 h index) of which 293 (160 like Penarrocha-Diago m and 133 like penarrocha m) in international peer-reviewed Journals on the service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=peñarrocha-diago+m) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=penarrocha+m) most of these papers have dealt with Implant Dentistry and Oral Surgery.
Publications: 15 publicated books, 26 capitols books, and 4 monografíes on-line.
Contributions to congress: over 600 posters, communications and conference contributions.