Associate Professor Omar Kujan received his PhD from the University of Manchester, School of Dentistry, in 2006. The University of Manchester appointed him as a Clinical Research Fellow to develop and assess an innovative oral cytobrush. Afterwards, he took a training post at the Oral Pathology Department, Guy's Hospital, King's College of London, United Kingdom. He most recently joined the Oral Health Centre and School of Dentistry at the University of Western Australia in 2016 as a lead discipline in oral pathology. He is an experienced oral and maxillofacial pathologists and received the fellowships of the Royal College of Pathologists from the UK and Australasia.

His research expertise areas fall in the field of oral cancer screening, oral potentially malignant disorders, biomarkers for the prediction and prognostication of oral cancer and potentially malignant disorders, molecular pathology of oral carcinogenesis, and chemopreventive approaches.

Omar contributed significantly to developing the 2020 updated classification of oral potentially malignant disorders by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Cancer. The WHO Head and Neck Tumours classification has adopted his proposed binary oral epithelial dysplasia grading system. Dr Kujan leads the Oral and Maxillofacial Biology and Diseases Research Stream at UWA Dental School. He has achieved a remarkable track record, demonstrated by his successful research grant applications and publication of high-impact research papers. He currently supervises 8 PhD students and several DCD and DMD students. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine, Frontiers in Oncology, and Frontiers in Oral Health (Oral Cancer Section). He regularly reviews leading journals in dentistry, cancer and oral diseases.

-Lead discipline, Oral Pathology

-Graduate Research Coordinator

-Research Integrity Advisor

-Unit and module Coordinator

He has developed extensive teaching experience built on his academic work for 15 years post PhD award. He was responsible for delivering dental courses in relation to oral diagnostic sciences theoretically and clinically on both levels undergraduate and postgraduate. He delivers lectures and tutorials and supervises DMD and DCD students in oral medicine clinics, OHCWA.

His research expertise areas fall in the field of oral cancer screening, oral potentially malignant disorders, biomarkers for the prediction and prognostication of oral cancer and potentially malignant disorders, molecular pathology of oral carcinogenesis, and chemopreventive approaches, as well as dental education.

- Identifying biomarkers for the early diagnosis and prognostication of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

-Identifying reliable biomarkers for stratifying the risk of malignant transformation of oral potentially malignant disorders

- Understaning the molecular pathology and improving the grading of oral epithelial dsyplasia

- Associate Editor, Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine (Q1)

-Associate Editor, Frontiers in Oral Health (Oral Cancer section) and Frontiers in Oncology (Head and Neck Cancer)

-Editorial board member, Oral Diseases (Q1)