Maria Elisa Galarraga-Vinueza

Dr. Maria Elisa Galarraga Vinueza, DDS, MSc, PhD, is currently faculty in the Periodontology Program at Harvard University, Boston, USA. She was assistant professor in the department of Prosthodontics, Division of Implant Dentistry at Tufts University in Boston, USA (2022-2024). She served as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Biomaterials at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. Dr. Galarraga is an international speaker and has earned international awards, including the Osteology Foundation Scholarship in 2019. As part of her PhD research, she conducted clinical studies in the Oral Surgery Department at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Dr. Galarraga is an active member of several prominent professional organizations. She was appointed as the lead researcher on risk indicators and factors for peri-implant diseases for the 2024 Consensus Conference on Peri-implant Diseases, a joint initiative of the American Academy of Periodontology and the Academ