We have been holding a series of events called “Find-Your-Role-Model” Session to provide students with opportunities to interact with TMDU alumni and worldwide leaders in health sciences. Through this roundtable-type, relaxed atmosphere event, we hope students will be able to find their role models in order to facilitate their career development in becoming future global leaders.

We will host Prof. Keiichi Hosaka. He was born (1978) and raised in Tokyo, and is currently a professor in the Department of Regenerative Dental Medicine, Tokushima University, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan. He was educated at TMDU, achieving his D.D.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007). In 2005-2006, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, Medical College of Georgia, USA. His research and clinical work focus on the bonding of tooth-colored biomaterials to dental hard tissues. He has published more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and lectured both nationally and internationally in adhesive dentistry and restorative dentistry.

This session will be carried out in a round-table discussion format, and will cover the following points. Everyone is welcome to join us in a hearty discussion.

Topics

• Personal Background: Motivations behind aspiration to current career, his vision for the future
• Research themes: Functionally and esthetically regenerative dental treatment using dental adhesive under the minimally invasive concept, an overview about his past and current research topics
• How to build a career as a professor: How he will work as a young professor, what he learned through being a faculty member for many years
• Advice for students: What to prepare in your undergraduate or postgraduate period for becoming a good scientist, clinician, or instructor