James A. McNamara Jr. (born in San Francisco)McNamara, McNamara, Burkhardt & Nolan Orthodontic Practice, Staff Biography
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-trained, board certified, orthodontist. He is known for his development of ''McNamara analysis'', one of the more popular methods of cephalometric analysis in cephalometry.Optimizing Orthodontic Treatment Timing: When to Start and What to Do, USC Dental School, February 11, 2005

Life

James A McNamara Jr., is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He attended dental school at the University of California, San Francisco and continued on to a postgraduate residency in

orthodontics Orthodontics is a dentistry specialty that addresses the diagnosis, prevention, management, and correction of mal-positioned teeth and jaws, and misaligned bite patterns. It may also address the modification of facial growth, known as dentofacial ...

at the same institution. He then attended the University of Michigan, where he received a doctorate in anatomy in 1972. McNamara currently serves as the Thomas M. and

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Endowed Professor of Dentistry in the Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, professor of cell and

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and research scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development. McNamara is a member and past president of the Midwest component of the Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists. He served as the

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of the Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Association of Orthodontics from 1993 to 1996, and is currently the editor-in-chief of Craniofacial Growth Monograph Series, a 41-volume work published through the University of Michigan. McNamara is the author of over 190 scientific articles, has written, edited or otherwise contributed to 53 textbooks and has presented lectures in 43 countries. Of particular note is his seminal work, ''Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics'', used as a text in many orthodontic courses. He developed a form of cephalometric analysis referred to as the McNamara method of analysis. He has maintained a private orthodontic practice in

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, Michigan since 1971. He lives with his wife, Charlene, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Awards and accolades

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''Research Award'' from the American Association of Orthodontists * 1979 ''E. Sheldon Friel Memorial Lecturer'' of the European Orthodontic Society * 1983 ''Research Recognition Award'' from the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons * 1994 ''Jacob A. Salzmann Award'' from the American Association of Orthodontists Foundation * 1997 ''BF Dewel Biomedical Research Award'' from the American Association of Orthodontists Foundation * 2001 ''James E. Brophy Distinguished Service Award'' from the American Association of Orthodontists * 2003 ''Outstanding Research Award'' from the Edward H. Angle Education and Research Foundation * 2008 ''

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Memorial Award'' from the American Board of OrthodonticsAmerican Board of Orthodontics

References

External links

Partial listing of scientific papers
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