Professional Experience and Education
Letizia Perillo is full Professor and Dean of the School of Dentistry, Chairman of the NEBEOP Postgraduate Orthodontic Program, Head of the Orthodontic Division at Multidisciplinary Department of Medical-Surgical and Dental Specialties, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples. She is 2018-2020 Visiting Professor at University of Alexandria, Egypt, 2021 Elected President of the Italian Society of Orthodontics (SIDO), 2022 Elected President of the Mediterranean Orthodontic Integration Project (MOIP), 2018-2020 International Ambassador of the American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) for SIDO, Member of the WFO, AAO, EHASO, EOS, SIDO and CH Tweed Foundation (clinical instructor), and member of the Editorial Board of several orthodontic and dental journals. Prof Perillo graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1986 and specialized in Orthodontics in 1989 at the University of Naples Federico II. She completed her orthodontic training with a postgraduate fellowship at the University of Michigan in 1993 and a PhD in Interceptive Orthodontics at the University of Florence in 1997.
Honors
• Dean of the School of Dentistry, 2018-present
• Postgraduate Orthodontic Program Director, 2008-present
• Italian Orthodontic Society (SIDO) President, 2021
• Mediterranean Orthodontic Integration Project (MOIP) President, 2022
• American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) International Ambassador, 2018-2020
• World Federation of Orthodontists (WFO) Representative, 2018-2019
• Progress in Orthodontics (PIO) Associate Editor, 2017-present
• EH Angle Society of Orthodontists (EHASO) North Atlantic Components, Member, 2014-present
• CH Tweed International Foundation, Active member and Clinical instructor, 1999-present
• European Orthodontic Society (EOS) Member, 1995-present

Awards
• WJB Houston Poster Award: The association between the morphology of the upper arch and palate and buccally displaced maxillary canines in mixed dentition: a three-dimensional study. 94th EOS Congress. Edinburgh, UK, June 2018
• Poster Prize: Universal three-dimensional reference system for craniofacial deformities. 6th MOIP Congress, Alexandria, Egypt, October 2018
• Poster Prize: Descriptive superimposition of CBCT generated digital cast. 6th MOIP Congress. Alexandria, Egypt, October 2018
• Oral Presentation Prize: Gingival crevicular fluid changes during orthodontic treatment with fixed appliances: evaluation by vibrational spectroscopies. 6th MOIP Congress. Alexandria, Egypt, October 2018
• Poster Prize F. Bruno: Association between 3D palatal morphology and upper arch dimensions in buccally displaced maxillary canines in mixed dentition. 49th SIDO. Florence, Italy, October 2018
• Poster Prize: Association between 3D palatal morphology and upper arch dimensions in buccally displaced maxillary canines in mixed dentition. 49th SIDO Congress, Florence, October 2018
• Poster Prize: Rapid and Mixed maxillary expansion: comparison on postero-anterior cephalograms and dental casts. 5th MOIP Congress, Limassol, Cyprus, November 2016
• APOS Trends Award for the Best Reviewers. Bali, Indonesia, September 2016
• Poster Prize: Early Class III treatment: RME/FM vs SEC III. SIDO Congress, Milan, October 2015
• Oral Presentation Prize: Friction forces during sliding mechanics: in vitro comparison of conventional, Self-ligating and Low-friction brackets. SIDO Congress, Rome, March 2013
Research Interests
Her main research topics are early treatment, non-extraction treatment, cleft lip and palate, dentofacial orthopedics and genetics.