2005 - 2008
Håkan Mörnstad, president
Born in Malmö, Sweden, in 1942. Graduated from the Faculty of Odontology at the University of Lund in 1967. Postgraduate studies in oral pathology, PhD and docent in oral pathology in 1977. Associate professor in cariology at the University of Umeå 1978 - 1990. From 1990 full time forensic odontologist at the National Board of Forensic Medicine, Stockholm. Involved in forensic odontology since 1975. President of the Swedish Society of Forensic Odontology since 1986.
Leif Kullman, Secretary
Born in Norrköping, Sweden, in 1946. Graduated from the Faculty of Odontology at the University of Lund in 1975. Postgraduate studies in oral radiology, PhD in oral radiology in 1995. Assistant professor in oral radiology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, since 1982. Involved in forensic odontology since 1982. Secretary of the Swedish Society of Forensic Odontology since 1986.
Aina Teivens, Treasurer
Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1942. Graduated from the Faculty of Odontology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, in 1967. Working in hospital dentistry since 1970. Assistant in forensic odontology at the Karolinska Institutet since 1988. Treasurer of the Swedish Society of Forensic Odontology since 1986.
Cyril Thomas, Editor of The Journal of Forensic Odonto-Stomatology,
Born in South Africa in 1938. Graduated BDS from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1961, and joined the same University as lecturer in 1964. Developed an interest in Prosthodontics and in 1972 appointed head of Department of Dental Prosthetics, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town. PhD in 1983 and in 1988 appointed to the University of Sydney, Australia, in the Department of Prosthetic Dentistry. Forensic odontology has been an interest for at least 20 years, and now, combining a love of the written word, editor of the Journal of Forensic Odonto-Stomatology.
Håkan Mörnstad, Editor of the Newsletter