Biographies of Authors and Editors
Dean, David D. Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Department of Orthopaedics (Mail Code 7774)
7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
E-mail: deand@uthscsa.edu
Web-site: www.uthscsa.edu
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In 1992, he joined Drs. Barbara Boyan and Zvi Schwartz to form a multidisciplinary team addressing mechanisms of calcification in growth plate chondrocytes and osteoblasts mediated by hormones, growth factors, and cytokines. Dr. Dean's areas of research interest focus on the involvement of matrix metalloproteinases in normal and pathologic processes. In addition, he is interested in osteoblast response to particulate wear debris and the response of osteoblasts to changes in titanium surface roughness. Before arriving in San Antonio, Dr. Dean was an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine, where he was associated with Dr. David Howell from 1985-1992 and worked on animal models of osteoarthritis and mechanisms of hypertrophic cell enlargement in the growth plate.
