Dr. James L. Gutmann is a Professor Emeritus in Endodontics/Restorative Sciences, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, Dallas, Texas. Dr. Gutmann is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics & Honorary Diplomate of the Indian Board of Endodontics, Past President of the American Association of Endodontists and is the Past President of the American Academy of the History of Dentistry. Presently he is Editor of the Journal of the History of Dentistry. He is the recipient of both the IB Bender Award for Lifetime Educator Award and the Edgar D. Coolidge Award, the highest honor bestowed by the AAE. He has presented over 850 lectures, papers, and continuing education courses in the United States and 55 foreign countries. Additionally,he has authored or co-authored over 400 articles in both dental journals that address scientific, research, educational, and clinical topics and 3 textbooks; and has taught full time for over 30 years at four major universities in addition to full and part-time endodontic practice.

Athina-Maria Mavridou graduated in 2004 from the Dental School of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2008 she obtained a master's degree in endodontics at the University of Ghent (Belgium). From 2010 to 2021 she was a Ph.D and postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), conducting research on the subject of external cervical root resorption. In parallel, she was also working as an endodontist at the specialized clinic Proclin Rotterdam in the Netherlands. From 2021 until 2023 she was a visiting professor at Ghent University (Belgium). Athina has received the following awards for her publications in the field of External Cervical Root Resorption from JOE: Best Clinical Research Award (2017) and Horonable Mention Award (2018). Finally, since 2022 she is assistant professor of endodontics at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and works at her private clinic EndoToday in Rhodes Island (Greece).

Paul Abbott is an Emeritus Professor of Dentistry at The University of Western Australia. He is a Specialist Endodontist. Prior to taking a full-time University position in 2002, he spent 17 years in private specialist endodontic practice and he also held part-time academic positions at The University of Western Australia and the University of Melbourne. He was Dean and Head of the School of Dentistry at The University of Western Australia and Director of the Oral Health Centre of Western Australia from 2003-2009. He has presented over 1000 lectures and courses in 51 countries. He has published 235 articles in refereed journals, 25 textbook chapters and 47 Newsletter articles. From 2015-2022, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Dental Traumatology. Prof. Abbott’s main research and clinical interests revolve around dental traumatology, tooth resorption, the diagnosis and management of pulp, root canal and peri-radicular conditions, with particular emphasis on pain control and disinfection of the root canal system. Prof. Abbott has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching and service to the dental profession, particularly in education and research. In 2015, the Governor-General of Australia appointed Prof. Abbott as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) - one of the highest honors in Australia – “For distinguished service to clinical dentistry, and to higher education, as an academic, researcher and author, to endodontics as a practitioner, and to professional organizations.”

Paul Abbott is an Emeritus Professor of Dentistry at The University of Western Australia. He is a Specialist Endodontist. Prior to taking a full-time University position in 2002, he spent 17 years in private specialist endodontic practice and he also held part-time academic positions at The University of Western Australia and the University of Melbourne. He was Dean and Head of the School of Dentistry at The University of Western Australia and Director of the Oral Health Centre of Western Australia from 2003-2009. He has presented over 1000 lectures and courses in 51 countries. He has published 235 articles in refereed journals, 25 textbook chapters and 47 Newsletter articles. From 2015-2022, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Dental Traumatology. Prof. Abbott’s main research and clinical interests revolve around dental traumatology, tooth resorption, the diagnosis and management of pulp, root canal and peri-radicular conditions, with particular emphasis on pain control and disinfection of the root canal system. Prof. Abbott has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching and service to the dental profession, particularly in education and research. In 2015, the Governor-General of Australia appointed Prof. Abbott as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) - one of the highest honors in Australia – “For distinguished service to clinical dentistry, and to higher education, as an academic, researcher and author, to endodontics as a practitioner, and to professional organizations.”

I divide my time between working in a large multi-disciplinary specialist practice in central London and teaching future Specialist Endodontists in the Postgraduate Unit at Kings’ College London Dental Institute (KCL).

I am actively involved in clinical research and have co-supervised over 50 Masters and PhD students. My primary research interests reflect some of the challenges I face in everyday clinical practice and include survival of teeth, managing dental trauma, and the use of CBCT in Endodontics. I have been invited to lecture at over 80 international meetings spanning 5 continents.

I have been the lead author of Royal College of Surgeons guidelines on dental imaging in Endodontics, and the European Society of Endodontology position statements on CBCT in Endodontics (2014,2019), as well as External Cervical Resorption (2018).

In addition, I have published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and contributed to several textbooks, including Pathways of the Pulp and Essential Endodontology. 

I have co-edited 4 textbooks that have been translated into 5 languages.

Dr. Ordinola Zapata obtained his D.D.S. degree in 2001 from Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University in Lima-Peru. After practicing for six years as a general dentist, Dr. Ordinola Zapata continued his career at the Endodontic Department of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, where he obtained a Master and a Doctoral degree in Endodontics. In 2014, he moved to USA to continue his training. Dr. Ordinola Zapata completed a two-year Advance Education in General Dentistry residency program at Larkin Community Hospital in Miami and his Endodontic residency program at the IB Bender Endodontic Division, Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.

Omid Dianat earned his 2nd Endodontics Certificate and Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Maryland School of Dentistry in June 2020. He obtained his Doctorate in Dental Surgery with honors in 2005 from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Dental School, Tehran. After graduation, he immediately commenced an Endodontic Postgraduate Program at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, earning his 1st Endodontics Certificate and Master's degree in 2008.

Before relocating to the United States in 2015, Dr. Dianat served for seven years as a full-time faculty member in the Endodontic Department at Shahid Beheshti University, where he was teaching to both predoctoral and postgraduate students. His extensive research portfolio includes numerous systematic reviews, clinical trials, animal studies, and in-vitro investigations, culminating in over 75 publications in national and international PubMed-indexed dental journals.

Dr. Dianat's current and past research interests span pain mechanisms and management, advances in technology and biomaterials, Dynamic Navigation in endodontics, and the integration of Artificial Intelligence in dental practices.

He is currently a full-time practitioner at Irvine Endodontics and serves as dean's faculty at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry.

Dr. Ali Nosrat is currently a part-time Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Dentistry, University of Maryland in Baltimore. Dr. Nosrat received his specialty degree in Endodontics and Masters of Oral Biology in June 2015. He became a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics in June 2016. Dr. Nosrat maintains a full-time private practice limited to Endodontics in Northern Virginia.
Dr. Nosrat holds a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS, 2002) and Master of Science (MS) and a specialty degree in Endodontics from Tehran Dental School, Iran (2002). He received his Board Certification from Iranian Association of Endodontist in 2007. 
Dr. Nosrat currently serves on the Research and Scientific Affairs Committee at the AAE. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Journal of Endodontics and a scientific reviewer for International Endodontic Journal and Dental Traumatology. He has published more than 50 articles in the fields of pain, vital pulp therapy in immature teeth, regenerative endodontics, root canal anatomy, management of resorptions, and the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on endodontic patients.

Dr. Garry L. Myers currently serves as the graduate endodontic program director at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia. He completed his dental school education at the University of Texas Health Science Center/ San Antonio in 1985. Six years later he completed his endodontic residency program at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland AFB in San Antonio. He became a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics in 1994. After serving on active duty for 13 years, Dr. Myers left the USAF in 1998 to enter full-time private practice in Olympia, Washington where he practiced for the next 16 years. In the summer of 2014, full time education entered the picture when Dr. Myers accepted a position at VCU where he now works. Dr. Myers has been active in organized dentistry having served as the president of the Washington State Association of Endodontists in 2006-07 and as the President of the American Association of Endodontists in 2017-18. Dr. Myers currently serves as an ABE Director and as the endodontic CODA Commissioner. He has spoken internationally at meetings in Japan, South Korea, San Diego and Guatemala.

Dr. Dionne received a DDS from Georgetown University and a PhD from the Medical College of Virginia. He conducted clinical and translational pain research at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research for 34 years, as well as practiced dentistry part-time in the District of Columbia. He is currently a restless retiree living in Missouri.

Dr. Botero received her dental degree (DDS, 1987) from CES University in Medellin, Colombia, Specialty training in Endodontics at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia (1995) and the advanced Specialty Certificate in Endodontics from University of Michigan in 2005. She was Clinical Assistant Professor at CES University and had her private practice in Colombia (1989-2000). Dr. Botero joined the University of Michigan in 2001 and presently she is full time Clinical Professor and teaches Endodontics to graduate and undergraduate students. She is the director of the dental postgraduate fellowship program in endodontics. She also practices Endodontics at a private Dental clinic in Michigan.

In 2012 Dr. Botero became a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics and she joined the Regenerative Endodontic committee from the American Association of Endodontics since 2013 and chair 2014-2020. She is Past-president of the Pulp Biology and Regeneration group of the American Association and International Association of Dental Research. Dr. Botero has authored and co-authored numerous scientific peer reviewed articles and book chapters. She serves as reviewer for several endodontic and dental journals. Her research of interest and publications are on caries-induced angiogenesis and Regenerative Endodontics.

Dr. Michael Shapiro was born and raised in Calgary, Canada and completed his undergraduate dental training at the University of Manitoba in 1999. He continued his education, completing and Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency at the University of Michigan in 2000, after which he taught restorative dentistry. Michael practiced full-time comprehensive general dentistry until 2013 when his passion for endodontics led him to pursue specialty endodontics training at the University of Michigan. He completed the program in 2016 and became a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics in 2017, and is currently is in full time private practice at Root Canal Specialty Associates. He is also an adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, where he teaches at the undergraduate and graduate level, and is involved in several different dental societies. When not practicing or teaching endodontics, Michael enjoys astrophotography, cooking, golfing, reading and spending time with his beautiful wife Lainie, a local orthodontist, and two beautiful children Jacob and Maddie.