Through the generosity of alumni and others, the H. David Hall Scholarship has also helped support the H. David Hall Lecture Series. Established in 2001, the H. David Hall Lecture Series provides a venue for the profession's top clinicians and academicians to share their knowledge with residents, faculty, alumni, and community colleagues.
Each spring, Dr. Hall is recognized for his dedication and contributions to resident education through the Annual H. David Hall Lecture Series.
In the spirit on Dr. David Hall's contributions to Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, speakers for the annual H. David Hall Lecture are selected on the basis of noteworthy contributions to the specialty and, in particular, to resident education and training. Vanderbilt University Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery was delighted to have Waleed Zaid, DDS, MSc, FRCD(c), FACS, as the speaker for the 24th Annual H. David Hall Lecture. The topic of Dr. Zaid’s presentation was “Updates on Maxillofacial Benign Cysts and Tumors & The Role of Academic Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons."
Dr. Zaid completed his undergraduate dental degree from Ajman University of science and technology and received his degree as a Doctor in Dental surgery. Dr. Zaid practiced as an Oral and Maxillofacial surgery trainee in multiple hospitals in the UAE until he moved to Montreal, Canada, where he completed his oral and maxillofacial surgery residency program at McGill University.
Dr. Zaid composed his master’s thesis on a topic related to head and neck oncology titled “In Vitro Effects of bisphosphonates on Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma,” which awarded him an MSc degree from McGill University. During that time, Dr. Zaid became a fellow of the Royal College in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery after completing his Canadian Boards. Dr. Zaid went to Boston Medical center - Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine to complete his clinical head and neck oncology and microvascular reconstruction fellowship.
Since completing his fellowship Dr. Zaid has been on Staff as an Associate professor at Louisiana State University Health Science Center New Orleans / School of Dentistry at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery where he spends most of the time in Baton Rouge where he provides full scope Oral and Maxillofacial surgery services with great interest to Head and Neck Oncology and microvascular reconstruction, his interest in research allowed him to be published in multiple peer-reviewed journals like JOMS, Triple OOO, Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics of North America and multiple book chapters in the OMFS literature, this also allowed him to become a reviewer to many sections in multiple peer-reviewed journals, he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery and finally he is an active member of numerous local, national and international Oral and maxillofacial surgery societies and associations and is one of the LSU-Oral and Maxillofacial review board faculty members.
Currently, he is the chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Dentistry at Our Lady of The Lake Regional Medical center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Past Keynote Speakers:
- 2001 - Michael Block, DDS (Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA)
- 2002 - Edward Ellis, DDS, MD (UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX)
- 2003 - Robert V. Walker, DDS (UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX)
- 2004 - Jeffrey C. Posnick, DMD, MD, FRCS, FACS (Posnick Center for Facial Plastic Surgery, Chevy Chase, MD)
- 2005 - Eric J. Dierks, DMD, MD, FACS (Head and Neck Associates and Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR)
- 2006 - Thomas Indresano, DMD, FACD, FICD (University of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA)
- 2007 - T. William Evans, DDS, MD, FACS (Columbus, OH)
- 2008 - M. Anthony Pogrel, DDS, MD (University of California, San Francisco, CA)
- 2009 - John Beumer, III, DDS, MS (University of California, Los Angeles, CA)
- 2010 - Ricardo J. Padilla, DDS (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC)
- 2011 - Eric R. Carlson, DMD, MD, FACS (University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN)
- 2012 - Scott B. Boyd, DDS, PhD (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN)
- 2013 - Ole T. Jensen, DDS, MS (Denver, CO)
- 2014 - Myron R. Tucker, D.D.S. (Isles of Palms, SC)
- 2015 - Alan S. Herford, D.D.S., M.D., F.A.C.S. (Loma Linda University)
- 2016 - Julio Acero, M.D., D.M.D., Ph.D.
- 2017 - Alberto Garcia-Perla, M.D., Ph.D.
- 2018 - John R. Zugina, DMD, MD, PhD
- 2019 - Jaime G. Gozada, DDS
- 2022 - Daniel Huang, DDS, PhD
- 2023 - Douglas D. Damm, DDS
- 2024 - Waleed Zaid, DDS, MSc, FRCD(c)