Prof. Omar Kujan

Associate Prof. Omar Kujan (BDS, MDS, PhD, FRCPath) is the discipline lead in Oral Pathology at UWA Dental School. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester and a fellowship from the Royal College of Pathologists (UK). He has advanced experience in the field of oral pathology and oral oncology. He published many highly cited publications on head and neck cancer, oral potentially malignant disorders, epithelial dysplasia, and oral carcinogenesis, including the latest 2021 classification by the WHO Collaborating Group for Oral Cancer. He co-authored the 2022 WHO Blue Book on Head and neck tumor classification. Dr. Kujan leads the Oral and Maxillofacial Biology & Diseases Research Stream at UWA Dental School. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine, Frontiers in Oral Health (Oral Cancer Section). 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. Dr. Kujan was listed in Stanford University's 2023 list of the world's top 2% of scientists.