Professor Lakshman (Sam) Samaranayake of the University of Hong Kong was elected by the General Assembly to the Chair of the Science Commission of the International Dental Federation at the recent FDI meeting in Sydney.

In this capacity he will also serve as a councillor and a board member of the FDI. He is the first from the Asian region to be elected to this position and has served the Science Commission since 1998.

His current research interests span both laboratory and clinical studies in oral mycology and infection control in dentistry.