Vol. 6, Issue 1

Volume 6, Issue 1

Pages 3–5

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Meet the Founding Resident Ambassador: John M. Le, DDS, MD

Oleksii O. Tymofieieva, Ievgen I. Fesenkob more
a Oleksii O. Tymofieiev

Chief Editor, Kyiv, Ukraine.

b Ievgen I. Fesenko

Managing Editor, Kyiv, Ukraine. Corresponding author’s address: Editorial office, Journal of Diagnostics and Treatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. 13-A Simferopolska Street, Kyiv 02096, Ukraine. E-mail: i.i.fesenko@dtjournal.org (Ievgen Fesenko)

January 24, 2022

https://doi.org/10.23999/j.dtomp.2022.1.2

J Diagn Treat Oral Maxillofac Pathol 2022;3–5.

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Tymofieiev OO, Fesenko II. Meet the founding resident ambassador: John M. Le, DDS, MD. J Diagn Treat Oral Maxillofac Pathol 2022;6(1):3–5.

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On the road to academic surgery.1

―John M. Le, DDS, MD, Resident

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

 

We are happy to continue adopting the best global publishing experience and traditions into the new year of 2022. To start off, we are honored to adopt the progressive tradition held by Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS) journal. As a phenomenal journal with more than 75 years of publishing developments, PRS serves as a trailblazer for the Journal of Diagnostics and Treatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. The PRS Editorial Board founded the Resident Ambassador position in 2014 after an unofficial Resident Advisory Board (RAB) meeting of four residents at the 2013 Annual Meeting.2 And now after 7 years, the PRS and PRS Global Open RAB includes more than 70 members across the world with six PRS and PRS Global Open Resident Ambassadors.2 The RAB serves both PRS and their daughter journal – Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open (PRS Global Open).3

 

The key missions for the members of the RAB are to participate in three of five activities: (1) the PRS journal club on Facebook, (2) the PRS Grand Rounds (a multipronged and multitopic live lectures with question-and-answer series)2 via Facebook, (3) creation of PRS promoting videos on their own social media pages, (4) supporting PRS and PRS Global Open as a peer-reviewers, and (5) voting on the journal’s social media pages.3

 

The search for a true leader to take on the role as the Founding Resident Ambassador for the Journal of Diagnostics and Treatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology was an uneasy task. After an extensive search, we are honored to start collaboration with an oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) resident from the state of Alabama in the United States of America. John M. Le, DDS, MD (Fig 1) and his colleagues in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have made a serious impact on global OMS specialty.4–15 Moreover, their article contribution to our journal in 2020 made a huge influence by attracting an international community of readers to our journal, making us enormously proud. The masterpiece was dedicated to the use of zygomatic implants for restoration of complex nasal defects.15 Thereby, the current academic achievements and research activities of Dr. Le serves as a model for other OMS residents in training. In general, his clinical interests include, but is not limited to head, neck and oral oncology and reconstructive surgery.16

FIGURE 1. John M. Le, DDS, MD.

In our journal, the mission of the Resident Ambassador will be determined by Dr. Le as the Founding Ambassador and will be in-line the journal’s aims & scope to attract a broad and diverse group of professionals around the globe.

 

To conclude, we would like to sincerely thank Dr. Le in accepting this role and welcome him into our continually evolving 5-year-old journal. We wish him all the best and look forward to the new year.

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