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January 9, 2024

Lets put the mouth back into the body!

Diesrede 2024 UvA by Egija Zaura

 

 

Speech by Prof. dr. Egija Zaura, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. This speech was delivered during the 392nd Dies Natalis celebration on Thursday, 11 January 2024.

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It is my honor to stand here and speak from this lectern for the second time since my PhD defense in March 2002. Let me start with a fact I discovered recently, during my preparation for today’s speech: the last time the Faculty of Dentistry was privileged to give a Dies speech was 28 years ago, in 1996, by prof. dr. Bob ten Cate, now emeritus professor with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and knight in the order of the Dutch Lion.

A year later, in 1997, I exchanged work in a dental practice in Riga with becoming a PhD student at ACTA under Bob’s supervision. Today the bar is set very high for me, since I am following up my mentor and dear friend 28 years after his lecture.

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