Welcome message from the New President 2026-2029
Dear Members of IOFOS, dear colleagues and friends,
It is a great honour to have been re-elected President of the International Organization for Forensic Odonto-Stomatology for a second term, covering 2026–2029. I am grateful to the delegates and members for their confidence and support. I take on this renewed responsibility with commitment to IOFOS and to the international community of forensic odontology.
I would like to thank the members of the Executive Board, our national societies, committees, working groups and all those who have contributed to the work of IOFOS. The progress of our organization depends on the knowledge, time and commitment that members across the world bring to it.
During this mandate, we will build on the work already undertaken and focus on practical priorities. We will promote shared principles for postgraduate education and professional competence, while respecting national systems. We will complete, review and formally adopt the IOFOS Quality Assurance documents, informed by relevant international guidance and standards. We will encourage greater consistency and cooperation in European forensic procedures, in a way that remains connected to IOFOS’s global mission and diverse legal contexts.
We will also support the full scientific scope of forensic odontology, including human identification, age assessment, disaster victim identification, oral and orofacial trauma, and the investigation of abuse and violence. Progress in these areas requires close cooperation with related disciplines and the justice system. IOFOS must provide meaningful opportunities for practitioners, academics, researchers, students and early-career professionals to contribute to its committees, working groups, scientific programmes and leadership.
Finally, we will continue to strengthen the Journal of Forensic Odontostomatology and the IOFOS Newsletter as accessible, reliable and internationally visible channels for scientific exchange and for sharing the work of our members.
Thank you for your trust and continued support.
Warmest regards,
Cristiana Palmela Pereira
President, IOFOS
21 September 2026
Welcome message from the President 2023-2026
It is an honour for me to have been elected as new president of the International Organization for Forensic Odonto-Stomatology for the triennia 2023-2026 and a high responsibility and challenging as well.
I am following Professor Hrvoje Brkic in the role of I.O.F.O.S. I am inheriting from him and his predecessors an organization which is well known and makes a mark in the forensic odontology community. The organization under their leadership was developed as a strong organization with an internationalization and scientific strategic vision. This makes my role very challenging. It also puts a burden on me to transfer the organization to the next President in the excellent shape I inherited.
I am elected President together with a new Executive Board, members of which is diverse and very capable to achieve the I.O.F.O.S. goals. Together with the Executive Board we will aim to make our community grow, improve the education on forensic odontology and improve the scientific research on forensic odontology supporting the forensic experts on their professional institutions and supporting the new forensic odontologist.
Our organization is celebrating this year the 50th anniversary of a continuous record contributing to the scientific progress of Forensic Odontology all over the world.
On behalf of new elected Executive Board, I can only promise all our efforts to try to achieve the goals propose at the last General Assembly of I.O.F.O.S., 9 September 2023 Dubrovnik, so we can progress towards a better forensic odontology. Making the I.O.F.O.S. a much more inclusive organization and paying particular attention to the young people who have come into the organization since this last meeting. I can only promise all my efforts to try to achieve these aims. We dream with an organization where experts of the different fields of our discipline from all the countries can feel at home, exchanging ideas and knowledge so we can progress towards a better forensic odontology and therefore to a better and strong justice. The creation of best practices in each area of forensic odontology has been a crucial step forward. Quality education and research is the cornerstone for the advancement of all scientific fields. With all of these in mind, I’m committed and dedicated to achieving the best for a better future of I.O.F.O.S.
Warmest regards,
Cristiana Palmela Pereira
I.O.F.O.S. President
24 September 2023