Jeffrey B. Payne, DDS, MDentSc
F. Gene and Rosemary Dixon Endowed Chair in Dentistry
Professor, UNMC College of Dentistry Department of Surgical Specialties Division of Periodontics
Jeffrey Payne, DDS, MDentSc, holds the F. Gene and Rosemary Dixon Endowed Chair in Dentistry and is a professor in the Department of Surgical Specialties in the UNMC College of Dentistry. As a clinician scientist, he works in the college’s Cruzan Center for Dental Research and Bioregulation Group. His research focuses on the associations between periodontitis and systemic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. He is actively engaged in clinical and translational research activities and has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, Veterans Affairs, the Rheumatology Research Foundation and industry.
Dr. Payne has extensive experience conducting multicenter research studies, including clinical trials. He has served on multiple NIH study sections as well as study sections for private foundations.
Dr. Payne is actively engaged in training dental students, dental hygiene students and periodontology residents, and mentoring them in their research.
- DDS: State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine, 1986
- Residency: Periodontology, University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, 1989
- Graduate Education: MDentSc, Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, 1989
- The association between periodontitis and systemic diseases (including rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis)
- Periodontitis clinical studies and trials
- Associations between periodontitis and serum anti-malondialdehyde-acetaldehyde antibody concentrations in rheumatoid arthritis: A case-control study
- Serum antibodies to periodontal pathogens prior to rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis: A case-control study
- Loss of alveolar bone density in postmenopausal, osteopenic women is associated with circulating levels of gelatinases
- Alveolar bone loss is associated with circulating anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
- Subantimicrobial dose doxycycline effects on alveolar bone loss in post-menopausal women - PubMed
- University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry Alumni Association Honorary Life Membership Award
- University of Nebraska Medical Center Distinguished Scientist Award
- Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine Distinguished Alumnus
- Diplomate, American Board of Periodontology
- Faculty, University of Nebraska Graduate College
- Inducted into Omicron Kappa Upsilon, National Dental Honor Society, Sigma Tau Chapter, State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine