MUDr. Jan Štembírek, Ph.D.

He graduated in Dentistry (2006) and General Medicine (2007) at Masaryk University. After graduation he worked at the Department of Dentoalveolar Surgery at St. Anne's University Hospital Brno and at the Laboratory of Animal Embryology at the Academy of Sciences Brno, where he worked on his PhD thesis as a postgraduate student, which he defended in 2013. From 2009 until now he has been working at the Department of Oral, Maxillofacial and Facial Surgery at the University Hospital Ostrava and in 2016 he was certified in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

He specializes in traumatology of the orofacial area with a focus on the orbit, as well as jaw anomalies, treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, treatment of the temporomandibular joint and head and neck oncology. He is co-author of more than three dozen impacted and non-impacted articles and co-investigator of three grants of the Czech Health Research Council and several smaller grants within the institutional support of the University Hospital Ostrava.

Currently, in collaboration with the Ophthalmology Department of the University Hospital Ostrava, he is trying to find indication criteria for isolated orbital fractures and, in collaboration with the oncology team, biomarkers to refine the diagnosis of oral squamous cell carcinoma.

Updated: 10. 03. 2025