Biography
CURRICULUM VITAE RESUME
José L. de la Hoz, MD, DDS, MS
José L. de la Hoz was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1962. After six years of Medical School, in 1986 he obtained his Medicine (MD) degree at the
Complutense University in Madrid where he got his Stomatology (DMD) degree in 1989. From 1990 to 1992 he joined the International Dental
Studies program of the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry in San Francisco graduating with High Honours as DDS. During the second year of
the program he served as President of the IDS Class’92, he was invited to join the TKO and OKU Dental Honour Societies and was awarded the
“Leadership Award” and the "Appreciation Award" of UOP. Back in Madrid he followed the Postgraduate Master Program in Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) in the University Hospital Gregorio Marañon and a Master Program in Orofacial Pain (MSc) in the Medical School of CEU University. From 1995 to 2002 he was the doctor in charge of the TMD/OFP Section of the Stomatology Dpt. in Clinica de la Concepción in Madrid. In 2024 he obtained his PhD degree in Traslational Medicine at the School of Medicine of CEU University. Presently he is associate professor of OFP and TMD at the School of Detinstry of the University San Pablo CEU and works in his private practice devoted to TMD/OFP and Restorative Dentistry. He is interested in research regarding the application of Botulinum Toxin for the therapeutic management of TMD & OFP. He is Past President of the Spanish Academy of Craniomandibular Disorders and Orofacial Pain and the European Academy of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction, Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain, Active Member and Fellow of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain. He is also Active
Member of the Spanish Prosthodontics Association.