Maryam Jessri

Dr. Maryam Jessri is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Dentistry at the University of Queensland and an Oral Medicine Consultant at Queensland Health, Metro North Hospital and Health Service in Brisbane. She holds qualifications including DDS, PhD, Dip ABOM, and FOMAA. Her research encompasses oral oncology, head and neck pathology, genetics, next-generation sequencing, genomics, clinical dentistry, and the application of artificial intelligence in digital histopathology for conditions such as oral squamous cell carcinoma and oral epithelial dysplasia.

Dr. Jessri's publications include journal articles such as 'AI-generated podcasts for health education' (2026, Medical Teacher), 'Efficacy and empathy of AI chatbots in answering frequently asked questions on oral oncology' (2025, Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology), 'Oral chronic graft-versus-host disease: pathogenesis, diagnosis, current treatment, and emerging therapies' (2024, International Journal of Molecular Sciences), 'Deep learning-based image classification and segmentation on digital histopathology for oral squamous cell carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis' (2024, Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine), 'An Update on the use of artificial intelligence in digital pathology for oral epithelial dysplasia research' (2024, Head and Neck Pathology), 'Generative adversarial networks in digital histopathology: current applications, limitations, ethical considerations, and future directions' (2024, Modern Pathology), 'Exome sequencing of oral leukoplakia and oral squamous cell carcinoma implicates DNA damage repair gene defects in malignant transformation' (2019, Oral Oncology), 'Deficient double-strand break repair in oral squamous cell carcinoma cell lines' (2017, Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine), 'hMSH6: a potential diagnostic marker for oral carcinoma in situ' (2015, Journal of Clinical Pathology), 'Next generation sequencing and its application in deciphering head and neck cancer' (2014, Oral Oncology), and 'Harnessing massively parallel sequencing in personalized head and neck oncology' (2014, Journal of Dental Research). Book chapters include 'Oral leukoplakia' (2023), 'Orofacial Granulomatosis' (2023), 'Other Granulomatous Disorders' (2023, Oral Medicine-A Clinical Guide), 'Next generation sequencing applications in head and neck oncology' (2015), and 'Human papillomavirus in head and neck cancer: Detection methods and clinical significance' (2015). She coordinates courses including Clinical Sciences I (DENT7911) and Clinical Sciences II (DENT7912) in the Doctor of Clinical Dentistry program.

Professional Email: m.jessri@uq.edu.au