Dr. Marc Ackerman

Biography

Marc Bernard Ackerman is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, specializing in orthodontic treatment for children with dentofacial deformities and intellectual and physical disabilities, as well as sleep-disordered breathing. He received his DMD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1998 and completed a certificate in orthodontics at the University of Rochester-Eastman Dental Center in 2000. In addition to his clinical education, Ackerman earned an MBA in Executive Leadership from Jacksonville University's Davis College of Business in 2009 and a fellowship in medical ethics from Harvard Medical School in 2014. He serves as the director of orthodontics at Boston Children's Hospital and teaches residents in pediatric dentistry and orthodontics at HSDM. Ackerman is a fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, the Academy of Dentistry for Persons with Disabilities, and the American College of Dentists, and has been recognized with awards such as the Alumni Award of Merit from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. An accomplished researcher and author, he has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in orthodontics and professional ethics, and his monograph, "Enhancement Orthodontics: Theory and Practice," was released in 2007 by Blackwell-Wiley. He is the editor-in-chief of the Special Care Dentistry Journal since 2013, and was a co-recipient of the 2004 B.F. Helen E. Dewel Award from the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics for the highest-rated clinical research article published that year.

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