Fuks, Anna

Prof. Fuks Anna (ISR)

Prof. Anna B. Fuks was born in Curitiba, Brazil, and graduated in Dentistry by the Federal University of the State of Parana. She completed her post-graduate course in Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Alabama, U.S.A. in 1966, and did her residency at the Children’s Hospital of the same University. She then returned to her home town in Brazil, where she practiced and taught Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Parana until 1973. At that same year she immigrated to Israel and joined the Department of Pediatric Dentistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Following an academic career, she reached the degree of Professor that she maintains until the present date. Concomitantly to teaching and clinical practice Prof. Fuks dedicated herself to clinical and laboratory research, and became a Board member of the International Association of Pediatric Dentistry (IAPD). As visiting professor at the Medical Research Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa and of the Universities of New Jersey, USA and London, Ontario, Canada, she developed research studies mainly in the fields of Pulp Therapy, Dental Materials and Restorative Techniques. Being fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew, she lectured and taught courses in Pediatric Dentistry in several countries in South and Central America, Mexico, United States, Canada, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Panama, Germany, China, South Africa, Ireland, Thailand and Australia, and became honorary member of the Mexican, Italian ,Belgian and Brazilian Academies of Pediatric Dentistry.

Dr. Fuks is a member of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and of the editorial board of several dental journals. Having received several international prizes in research, she has published over 120 articles and 85 abstracts in many international journals, and wrote 15 chapters in Pediatric Dentistry books. Presently she continues teaching at the Department of Pediatric Dentistry of the Hadassah School of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem, is a member of the Israeli State Board Exams for Pediatric Dentistry and Endodontics, and is Past-President of the International Association of Pediatric Dentistry.