Ciancio To Deliver Merritt Lecture At Baylor Dental College

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Nationally known UB dental researcher Sebastian G. Ciancio, D.D.S., has been selected to speak at the 30th Anniversary Arthur H. Merritt Memorial Lectureship in Periodontics in August at Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas.

Ciancio is professor and chair of the Department of Periodontics and Endodontics in the UB School of Dental Medicine.

He also is president of the American Academy of Periodontology Foundation and a past president of the academy and of the Pharmacology Therapeutics Group of the American and International Associations for Dental Research.

Arthur Merritt, who died in 1971, was one of the academy's founders and a pioneer in the field of periodontology. Although his dental practice was in New York City, he was a supporter and frequent visitor to Baylor College of Dentistry.

Chair of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia Dental Division, Ciancio has served on numerous professional committees and councils of the American Dental Association.

The recipient of numerous awards from the academy, he is editor of Biological Therapies in Dentistry and Periodontal Insights and is a consultant for the Journal of Periodontology.

A native of Jamestown, he lives in Amherst.