Pravinkumar Patil
International Medical University [IMU], Malaysia
Biography
Dr. Pravinkumar G. Patil completed his BDS (2003) from MUHS Nashik, MDS (2008) from GDC Nagpur, India. He is Fellow of ISOI (2014) and Affiliate-Fellow of AAMP (2015) USA. Currently working as Senior-Lecturer in ‘School of Dentistry’, International Medical University (IMU), Kuala Lumpur and Faculty of Examiners (for Diploma in Implant Dentistry) in Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh-UK. He was selected for Indian and Japanese Prosthodontic Societys’ International Scientific Exchange Program (2010) at Tokyo Dental College, Japan. He is currently Editorial Board Member of ‘Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry’ (IF:1.753), ‘Journal of Prosthodontics’ (IF:1.071) and ‘World Journal of Stomatology’. He is current Section-Editor (Implant-Section) for Journal of Indian Prosthodontic Society, Managing-Editor for ‘International Journal of Prosthodontics and Restorative Dentistry’ and Peer-Reviewer for many more including ‘Indian Journal of Cancer’ (IF:0.802). He was selected as ‘Young-Star Speaker’ at 8th Asian Prosthodontics Society Conference (2012), Chennai. He is recipient of 3-times ‘Teacher of the Year’ award at GDC Nagpur and nominated as ‘INSA young-scientist Award 2012’. He is Module Co-ordinator for Post-graduate Diploma in Implant Dentistry (PGDID) at IMU. He received several research grants as Principal-Investigator from ITI-Switzerland, IMU-Malaysia, LTMT-India, IPS-India and Colgate-India etc. He developed about 12-innovative devices/techniques in prosthodontics including Mouth-exercising device with 5-pending patents. He published about 85 papers in few top-ranked dentistry journals including JPD, JADA, JOPR, JPOR, JAP, EJPRD, APJCP, IJDR, JIPS etc with total ISI Impact-Factor of 43.791 and 204-Citations. He presented more than 25 National-international presentations and conducted many pre-conference courses on Implants and Maxillofacial Prosthodontics.