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James C. Melville, DDS, FACS, is a Tenured Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston UTHealth and specializes in Oral, Head & Neck Oncology, and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery. He graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2005 and completed a General Practice Residency at the University of California San Francisco in 2006. He completed a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery in 2012, followed by fellowships in oral, head, and neck oncology and microvascular reconstructive surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. He was appointed as the UTH OMFS internship director in 2017.

Dr. Melville was awarded the Faculty Educator Development Award (FEDA) in 2019 by the American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS). An award given to promising young academic surgeons. He was awarded the AAOMS Advocacy Challenge Coin by the AAOMS Board of Trustees and AAOMS Committee on Government Affairs in 2020. AAOMS designed its own Challenge Coin to recognize oral and maxillofacial surgeons who have made significant advocacy contributions on behalf of the Association. The AAOMS Challenge Coin is awarded to those elite few who transcend the efforts of their colleagues to further the specialty through advocacy. He was awarded the AAOMS Fellows Research award in 2023 for fostering innovations in new diagnostic and therapeutic interventions applicable to the clinical practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery. Dr. Melville served as the President of the Oral & Maxillofacial Section of the American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR) / International Association of Dental Researchers (IADR) in 2023. He was appointed the President of the AAOMS Clinical Interest Group (CIG) in Neurologic Disorders 2023. He also served on the International Academy of Oral Oncology (IAOO) as a scientific committee member for its 2022 conference.

Dr. Melville is a diplomate and oral examiner of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the American Academy of Craniomaxillofacial Surgeons, American College of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, and the American College of Surgeons. He has been an invited visiting professor and lecturer at over 20 academic institutions, including Case Western University, Columbia University, Harvard/MGH, McGill University, Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan, UOP/ Stanford University, University of Toronto, USC, UCLA, UMKC, and Yale.

He has written 5 textbooks on maxillofacial reconstruction and contributed to 30 textbook chapters concerning oral and maxillofacial surgery, oncology, maxillofacial reconstruction, microvascular reconstruction, and tissue engineering. In addition, he is the author of more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (JOMS), Triple OOOO Journal, Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Journal of Tissue Engineering, PLOS ONE, Bioengineering & Translational Medicine (Wiley), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Experimental Dermatology, Japanese Dental Science Review, FACE (Sage Journal), Ear, Nose & Throat Journal (Sage Journal) and of Journal of American Dental Association (JADA).