中华口腔医学会口腔正畸专业委员会第23次全国口腔正畸学术会议

美国俄亥俄州立大学牙科学院正畸学系教授兼主任

美国密歇根大学生物工程和生物材料博士

曾于明尼苏达大学牙科研究中心生物力学和生物材料学口腔生物系执教（1994-2006年）

曾于北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校担任正畸系教授（2006-2020年）

英文简介：

Dr. Ko has been associated with academic bioengineering and clinical orthodontics in various capacities over the last 30 years.

He is presently the Professor and Vig/William Endowed Chair of the Division of Orthodontics, Ohio State University College of Dentistry in Columbus, OH. He received his dental training first at Kaohsiung Medical College, and then PhD in Bioengineering at University of Michigan and then Orthodontic Specialty from University of Minnesota. He was an Assistant Professor of Oral Biology at Minnesota Dental Research Center for Biomechanics and Biomaterials at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis US, from 1994 to 2006, and Professor in the Department of Orthodontics at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) from 2006 to 2020. Before leaving UNC, he served as Program Director (2013-2019) and Chairman (2017-2020) at UNC. Many of his students received awards from American Association of Orthodontists Foundation under his direct mentorship. Dr. Ko has contributed more than 170 publications to the scientific literature in biomaterial/biomechanical sciences, orthodontics, and bone biology. He has co-authored more than 10 book chapters and recently co-edited the book entitled “Machine Learning in Dentistry”. His research in bone tissue engineering and orthodontic bioengineering was funded by NIH. He maintains a faculty clinical practice at OSU.