Faculty/Staff Profile

James C. Melville, DDS, is a professor in the Bernard and Gloria Pepper Katz Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at UTHealth School of Dentistry. He graduated from University of Michigan School of Dentistry in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2005 and completed a general practice residency at University of California, San Francisco in 2006. He completed a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery in 2012, followed by fellowships in oral, head, and neck oncology, and microvascular reconstructive surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. He was appointed UT OMS internship director in 2017.

He is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the American Academy of Craniomaxillofacial Surgeons, and American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Melville was awarded the Faculty Educator Development Award (FEDA) in 2019 by AAOMS, an award given to promising young academic surgeons. In 2020, he was awarded the AAOMS Advocacy Challenge Coin by the association’s board of trustees and committee on government affairs. The challenge coin was designed to recognize AAOMS members who have made significant advocacy contributions on behalf of the association.

He has written a Springer textbook on maxillofacial reconstruction and contributed to 18 chapters in textbooks concerning oral and maxillofacial surgery, oncology, maxillofacial reconstruction, microvascular reconstruction, and tissue engineering. In addition, he is the author of more than 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Triple OOOO Journal, Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, and Journal of Tissue Engineering.