Joel Epstein DMD, MSD, FRCD(C), FRCD(BC)

Joel is a dentist licensed in Illinois, Washington State and British Columbia, Canada, a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada and a Fellow of The College of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia in Oral Medicine. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in from Dentistry in 1976 and received a certificate in Oral Medicine and Masters' of Science Degree in Dentistry from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA, in 1979. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Oral Medicine and has served as an examiner of the Board and as President. He was a Professor at the University of Washington, and is currently a Professor and Head of Oral Medicine at the University of Illinois and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Oral Cancer Biology, Detection and Management at the Chicago Cancer Center. He was on the medical/dental staff of the British Columbia Cancer Agency; and Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre for many years. He has published extensively in the area of oncology, infectious disease, facial pain and general areas of Oral Medicine, with more than four hundred contributions to the literature in the form of papers, abstracts, and textbook chapters.