Mark P. Mooney, Ph.D.
 Mark
P. Mooney, Ph.D. is presently an Associate Professor
of Oral Medicine & Pathology and Director of the
Posvar Hall Animal Care and Surgical Facilities at the
University of Pittsburgh. He also holds Joint appointments
in Anthropology, Surgery-Division of Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery, and Orthodontics. He received his Bachelors'
and Master's degrees in Bio-Psychology from Western
Illinois University in 1978 and 1980 respectively. He
was a research assistant at the Cleft Palate Center,
University of Iowa from 1979-1983 where he studied the
influence of cleft lip and palate surgery on craniofacial
growth and development in various animal models. He
moved to do research at the Cleft Palate Center at the
University of Pittsburgh in 1983 and finished his Ph.D.
in Physical Anthropology in 1986 from the University
of Pittsburgh. Dr. Mooney was a Research Assistant Professor
in the Department of Anthropology at the University
of Pittsburgh from 1986- 199 1. He Joined the Department
of Anatomy & Histology at the University of Pittsburgh
in 1991 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to
an Associate Professor in the same department in 1997
which merged with the Department of Oral Medicine &
Pathology in 1999.
Dr. Mooney is a member of a number of professional
societies including the American Cleft Palate-craniofacial
Association, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists,
and the International Association of Dental Research
where he has held various offices over the last 15 years.
He was on the editorial board of the Cleft Palate-craniofacial
Journal and has served as an external reviewer for a
number of grants through the National Institute of Health
and National Science Foundation study sections. He is
currently co-editing a book, Understanding Craniofacial
Anomalies: The Craniosynostoses and Facial Clefting
and has authored or coauthored more than 200 peer-reviewed
publications, book chapters, and reviews.
Dr. Mooney is an active researcher, teacher, and mentor
whose major research interests include craniofacial
and suture biology, cleft lip and palate and anomalous
craniofacial growth and development, and comparative,
functional morphology. His laboratory was responsible
for developing and maintaining a strain of rabbits with
familial craniosynostosis for scientific study.
 
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