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Jeremie Oliver Piña is an impassioned clinician-engineer with particular interest in cleft lip & palate and overall craniofacial health.

He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Utah, partnered with the NIH, focused on the single-cell spatial omics of palate development. Notably, Jeremie has published in a wide range of high-impact journals, amassing over 1,200 citations (H-Index = 19; i10-Index = 34) and 95 PubMed-indexed publications across clinical, translational, and basic sciences.

Jeremie has also earned bachelor’s degrees in Microbiology and Biomedical Science from the University of Hawai’i-Manoa and Brigham Young University-Hawai’i, respectively; a Master of Science degree in Healthcare Delivery Science from the Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business.

Most recently, Jeremie completed a second doctorate program - Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry while working full-time as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Janice Lee’s lab at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. There, he studied translational applications of next-generation sequencing and spatial omics for both cleft palate and temporomandibular joint disorders.

Now, he is a resident in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery - while completing his 3rd (and final) doctorate degree, a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) at Emory University School of Medicine.

He aims to fully unite his scientific and clinical training as a maxillofacial surgeon-engineer with a focus on craniofacial anomalies to better translate novel treatments from bench-to-bedside.