Casey Chen, DDS, PhD  

Associate Professor and Chair

Division of Primary Oral Health Care

USC School of Dentistry

925 W 34th Street

Los Angeles, CA 90089-0641

Phone: 213-740-1075

Professor Chen first graduated from National Taiwan University with a degree of BDS in 1980, and has since obtained a dental degree from Loma Linda University, a Ph.D. in Oral Biology from State University of New York at Buffalo, and a certificate in Advanced Periodontology at University of Pittsburgh. He is active in research of periodontal microbiology. He has more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and serves as a member on the editorial board of the Journal of Dental Research. He is currently leading an NIH-funded research group studying the pathogenic mechanism of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans and the clonal diversity of subgingival bacterial species that include Eikenella corrodens.