AAE President elect Chair, Department of Endodontics at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine Endodontic Program Rutgers School of Dental Medicine Graduated: 1983 Dental Program New York University Graduated: 1980

Lars Bjørndal (LB) Lars Bjørndal (born 1963). Civil status married 3 children. Graduated in 1988 as a dentist from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1992: Ph.D. thesis on the topic: Caries progression in enamel and the pulp-dentin organ using thin undemineralized tooth sections. In 2011: Dr. Odont. Thesis entitled: Endodontic treatment: reason, prevention and quality - shaping factors. From 1993-1998: Assistant professor at the Department of Cariology and Endodontics, University of Copenhagen. 1999-2001: Received specific postgraduate endodontic specialist course in collaboration with the universities in Copenhagen, Denmark, Malmö and Gothenburg, Sweden. Certified member of European Society of Endodontology from 2001. From 1998: Associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Head of Endodontic since 2016. In 2012 he was visiting Scholar at Loma Linda University, US. From 2012-2015: Head of the Special Clinical Unit receiving referrals at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been Secretary in the Scandinavian Endodontic Society (SES) from 1999-2001. Twice hosted the SES biennial congress in Denmark. Past President of the Danish National Endodontic Society and past country representative for the European Society of Endodontology (ESE). He has been giving lectures worldwide in Europe, Asia, North and South America, covering the field of deep caries lesion pathology, treatments and quality-shaping factors concerning endodontic treatments. LB has authored and co-authored numerous international and national articles, including book chapters and reviews. Editor of Textbook of Endodontology, WiIey ,Blackwell 3. edition. One day weekly he is in in private practice devoted endodontic referrals. ORCID: 0000-0002-2183-6400.

Dr. Fouad obtained his DDS, Certificate of Endodontics and MS at the University of Iowa. 

He served on the faculty and in various administrative roles at University of Connecticut, the University of Maryland, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently Professor and Chair, Department of Endodontics, Director, Advanced Endodontics Program, and Interim Director, Health Information and Business Systems (HIBS) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Fouad has published over 110 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 25 textbook chapters, and 145 abstracts. He edited and co-authored the textbooks: Endodontic Microbiology (now in its second edition), as well as the fifth and sixth editions of Endodontics: Principles and Practice. He is a Diplomate and Past President of the American Board of Endodontics, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Endodontics, Dental Traumatology and Frontiers of Dental Medicine – Endodontics. He received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Pulp Biology and Regeneration Group of the International Association of Dental Research in 2017, and the AAE President’s Award in 2022.

Received his dental degree from the University of Glasgow and his 4-year endodontic specialty training KCL, UK. For ten years, he worked part-time in specialist referral endodontic practice. He completed his PhD in the University of Birmingham on the subject of ‘Epigenetic approaches to the role of Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors (HDACi) in promoting dentine-pulp reparative mechanisms’. As an Academic Professor and Consultant in Endodontics, he has led endodontic teaching, service delivery and research in Dublin-Dental-University-Hospital for the last 15 years. He has published over 100 international peer-reviewed scientific articles, 40 abstracts, 18 book chapters and edited 2 textbooks. He was the primary author of the recent ESE position statement on ‘Management of deep caries and the exposed pulp’ and is the lead of the ongoing ‘ESE S3-level Guidelines for the Treatment of Endodontic Disease’. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the International Endodontic Journal. Hal has completed three sponsored research fellowships in New York University/Rutgers University investigating the role of epigenetic-modifying agents on tooth development and regeneration as well as receiving multiple research grants as principal investigator. In DDUH, he currently maintains a research lab and is the principal supervisor of clinical and scientifically trained PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in basic/translational pulp biology and endodontics. Currently, he is the Director of Research in the DDUH, a Member of the Executive Board of the ESE, the President Elect of the ESE, the President of the Irish Division of the IADR, the Vice-President of the Pulp Biology and Regeneration Group of the IADR and a Board Member of the Pan European Region of the IADR. He is a past president of the Irish Endodontic Society.

Dr. Brent Hiebert was awarded his DDS degree from Loma Linda University. He then served as a Dental Officer in the United States Navy for five years where Lieutenant Hiebert completed an Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency. He served in various military leadership positions, received two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals and was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. Subsequently, Dr. Hiebert completed Loma Linda University’s Advanced Specialty Education Program in Endodontics where he received a Certificate in Endodontics and a Master’s of Science in Endodontics. Dr. Hiebert lectures to both local and international audiences. He has published research in the Journal of Endodontics, the California Dental Association Journal and is a frequent contributor on the AAE discussion forum and Instagram. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics and maintains a full time Endodontic practice in Oregon.

David E. Witherspoon Graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Dental Sciences. Practiced General Dentistry for 5 years in both in Australia and the United Kingdom. Graduate from Baylor College of Dentistry graduate endodontic program. Currently is in full-time endodontic practice in Plano Texas. • President’s Award American Association of Endodontists (AAE) 2015 • Diplomat of the American Board of Endodontics 2003-Present • Lifetime member of the College of Diplomats American Board of Endodontics • Fellow of the International College of Dentists 2013- present • General Chair for the American Association of Endodontists annual meeting 2015 • Program Chair for the American Association of Endodontists annual meeting 2014 • Program Vice-Chair for the American Association of Endodontists annual meeting 2013 • Workshop Chair for the American Association of Endodontists annual meeting 2007-2011 • American Association of Endodontists annual session planning committee 2001-2003, 2007-2016 • Research and Scientific Affairs Committee American Association of Endodontists 2000-2003 • Edward M. Osetek Educator Award. American Association of Endodontists 1999 • Co-author of the surgery chapter in the 9th and 10th ed. of Pathways of the Pulp • Published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals