4. Pegah Kamrani - a podcast by Kasha Ely

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In this episode, recorded over the summer break, we chat with Pegah Kamrani. Kamrani is a fourth-year doctoral student at the UNC Adams School of Dentistry and the most recent recipient of the International Association for Dental Research's (IADR) Craniofacial Biology Group Award for her work studying Class III malocclusions in an ongoing project at Adams. She believes this award represents the appealing translational dimension of her research.

This project has a rich 15-year history and began with Dr. Frazier-Bowers and other orthodontists identifying Class III subtypes in the early 2000s. This later paved way to a research project done by Gustavo Zanardi in 2011, a graduate of the orthodontics residency program at UNC-CH. Pegah’s project is similar to Zanardi’s but with a deeper focus on each patient’s surgical risk. Both projects used the help of our mathematician, Xingye Qiao.

Kamrani acknowledges that this award was a team effort and would not have been possible without Dr. Frazier-Bowers, for her mentorship, Dr. Wiesen from the Odum Institute, for his collaboration, as well as Dr. Wright and Dr. Slade for their feedback on her presentation. 

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