Updated Jan. 2012
Former Head
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Hebrew University Hadassah
School of Dental Medicine
Born –1938, Kalish (Poland).
Degree - D.M.D. – 1965.
Board certified in O.M.F.S. since – 1968.
Academic degree –
1969 – Lecturer.
1973 – Senior Lecturer.
1978 – Associate Professor.
1985 – Professor.
1990-1993 - Dean, Faculty of Dental Medicine.
1996-2003 - Head of the Department Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.
2005 – Professor Emeritus.
Telephone – +972 - 2 – 6776854.
E-mail – shteyer@cc.huji.ac.il
Academic appointments
1978 - Visiting Professor: Univ. of Connecticut, USA.
1983 – Visiting Professor: Univ. of Calif. at Irvine, USA.
1983 - Research Assoc., N.I.H., Bethesda,MD USA.
1986 – Visiting Professor: Univ. of Calif. at San Francisco, USA.
1989 - Adjunct Prof., Univ. of Calif. at San Francisco, USA.
1995, 1998 - Visiting Professor: Harvard Univ., MGH, Boston, MA, USA.
Past Research interests
· Purification of histone H4-related osteogenic growth peptide (OGP) from healing bone marrow.
· The effect of OGP on bone defects, on ridge augmentation and on fracture healing.
· Anomalies in the facial skeleton.
· Evaluation of dental implants.
· Cleidocranial dysplasia: mapping and cloning the gene in humans.
Recent publications (since 2003) –
1. Y. Tam, E. Regev, N. Casap, A. Shteyer, M. Attar-Namdar, A. Alexandrovich, O. Lahat, E. Shohami, I. Bab.: "Traumatic Brain Injury Stimulates Bone Formation: Possible Role for Leptin Signaling". JBMR, 18(2), 2003.
2. Casap N, Zeltser R., Regev E. Shteyer, A.: Maxillofacial Gunshot Injuries in Hostility Activities in 2000-2003. J. Isr. Dent. Ass. 21:47-53, 2004
3. Gabet, Y., Muller, R., Regev, E., Sela, J., Shteyer, A., Salisbury, K. Chorev, M. and Bab, I: Osteogenic Growth Peptide modulates fracture callus structural and mechanical properties. Bone, 35:65-73, 2004
4. Casap N, Zeltser R, Regev E, Shteyer A.: Maxillofacial gunshot injuries in hostility activities in 2000-2003. Refuat Hapeh Vehashinayim. 2004 Jan;21(1):47-53, 101. Hebrew.
5. Casap, N. Zeltser, R. Abu-Tier, J. and Shteyer, A.: Removal of a large Odontoma by sagittal split Osteotomy. J. Oral & Maxillof. Surg. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2006 Dec;64(12):1833-6.
6. Tam J, Trembovler V, Di Marzo V, Petrosino S, Leo G, Alexandrovich A, Regev E, Casap N, Shteyer A,: Ledent C, Karsak M, Zimmer A, Mechoulam R, Yirmiya R, Shohami E, Bab I. The cannabinoid CB1 receptor regulates bone formation by modulating adrenergic signaling. FASEB J. 2008 Jan;22(1):285-94. Epub 2007 Aug 17.
7. Cohen A, Maly A, Shteyer A, Zeltser R.: Intrauterine diagnosis of teratoid cyst with bronchogenic epithelium. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2011 Jan;69(1):214-7. Epub 2010 Jul 3. No abstract available.
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