Dr. Satish Kumar currently serves as a tenured Professor and Director (Chair) of Periodontics at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health (ASDOH), A. T. Still University (ATSU) in Mesa, Arizona. Dr. Kumar spends most of his time providing surgical care at ASDOH. When he is not treating patients, he is supervising students, lecturing, pursuing research, overseeing clinical operations and administration. Prior to joining ASDOH, Dr. Kumar served as a full-time faculty and provided patient care at the Ostrow School of Dentistry of University of Southern California and at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Kumar’s educational background includes advanced specialty training in periodontics, dental implant surgery, oral medicine, temporomandibular disorders, and orofacial pain, all at the Ostrow School of Dentistry of University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Dr. Kumar is a boardcertified specialist and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, the American Board of Oral Medicine, and the American Board of Orofacial Pain. Dr. Kumar’s research training includes basic science research in oral cancer, clinical research design and management, and evidence-based health care. Dr Kumar is a Fellow of the American Dental Education Association’s (ADEA) Leadership Institute and Fellow of the American College of Dentists. Dr. Kumar is a certified evidence reviewer by the American Dental Association (ADA) Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry where he taught the practice of applying best available clinical research evidence to patient care and served as a consultant to the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs. He is a frequently invited speaker and provides continuing education courses in his areas of clinical expertise throughout the country. Dr. Kumar has won many awards for his efforts in education as well as research including American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) Foundation’s Educator Scholarship, AAP’s Teaching and Mentoring Award, AAP’s Balint Orban Memorial Award for Clinical Research and American Academy of Oral Medicine’s Lester Burket Memorial Award. Dr. Kumar has published 75 original articles, reviews, critical summaries, and book chapters. Dr. Kumar is a member of many professional organizations including ADA, AAP, and Western Society of Periodontology (WSP). He was elected to the board of WSP and currently serves as Secretary. He serves on numerous committees at his institution and national professional organizations including AAP, AAP Foundation, and ADEA. He is a peer reviewer for high impact scientific journals in dentistry and medicine and served as an invited editorial contributor in Practice Update Clinical Dentistry, an online resource for evidence summaries from latest published research in dental journals.