Advisory Board

Scott D. Benjamin, D.D.S.

Dr. Benjamin is a graduate of SUNY Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine and has been in full-time private practice in rural upstate New York for over 30 years. Dr. Benjamin is an internationally recognized authority and lecturer on Oral Cancer and its early detection and diagnosis. He has also been a leader in computerized dental technology and dental lasers since their infancy. He has presented internationally at major dental meetings, universities, workshops, study clubs, and user meetings and has authored more than 200 articles.

Christiane Blais-Touloumis

Dr. Blais-Touloumis is a graduate in Dental Medecine from University of Montreal. She has obtained a degree in medical translation at the same university, a diploma in Health Computer Science at University of Sherbrooke and a training in graphic communication. She has been in private practice as a general practionner for the last 30 years. Since 2005, she is employed as an inspector and expert in dental records and diagnosis by the Order of Dentists of Quebec (Quebec dental licensing board) and has visited over 1,000 clinics both private and institutional.

Claude Boutin

Dr. Boutin graduated as a Dentist from the University of Alberta in 1986, subsequently received his specialty training from the University of Toronto and has been in private practice as an Orthodontist in Calgary, Alberta, Canada since 1991. His was the first office in Canada to use Dolphin Digital Imaging and he has always worked to incorporate leading edge technology in his practice. He was approached in 2005 to help develop ICE Dental Systems into a comprehensive integrated imaging, patient education and practice management package delivered over the Internet for dentists and orthodontists. In addition to using the system in his daily practice, Dr. Boutin feels it is important to disclose that he has a financial interest in both ICE Dental Systems and its parent company, Essentialtalk.

Jason Bryan Cope, DDS, PhD

Dr. Cope received his dental training at Baylor College of Dentistry – DDS (‘95), orthodontic certificate (’97), and PhD (’99) in distraction osteogenesis. Upon completion of his orthodontic certificate, he was invited to join the department as an adjunct clinical assistant professor.

David French

Dr. French studied Dentistry at University of Alberta, where he graduated as the Gold Medallist in 1991. He worked in Calgary for a year practicing general dentistry. He then completed his specialty degree in Periodontics at the University of British Columbia. After graduation in 1994, Dr. French returned to Calgary to start a full-time private practice in periodontics and dental implants in the city’s northwest.

William (Bill) Harrell, Jr., DMD

Dr. Harrell graduated from the University of Alabama, School of Dentistry in Birmingham in 1975 and completed his orthodontic residency at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1977. He is in private orthodontic practice in Alexander City, Alabama. He was Board Certified by the American Board of Orthodontics (ABO) in 1989 and is a member of the Mid West Angle Society. He worked with the late Dr. Bill Farrar in Montgomery, AL in the area of TMJ Disorders and also does research in the area of 3D imaging and TMJ disorders. Dr. Harrell also treats sleep disorders (OSA, Snoring, etc) in conjunction with sleep positions in children and adults.

James Mah

Dr. Mah is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At USC he is the Director of Redmond Imaging Center and the Director of the Craniofacial Virtual Reality Laboratory. His research has been focused on creating virtual 3-dimensional craniofacial patients upon which diagnosis, treatment planning and simulations can be performed.

Joseph C. McMurray, D.M.D.

After receiving his DMD degree with distinction from the prestigious Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. McMurray completed a four year intensive hospital residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Southern California School of Medicine/ Los Angeles County Medical Center. His training focused primarily on reconstructive surgery ranging from complex facial deformities, trauma and diseases.

Scott Morrison, D.D.S., M.S.D.

Dr. Morrison is Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education at the Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health in Mesa, AZ. He received his DDS in 1979 and his MSD in Endodontics in 1986 from Indiana University School of Dentistry, joining the faculty as Acting Director of Undergraduate Endodontics in 1987. Dr. Morrison earned his board certification in 1988, after which he and his wife, Dr. Karen Panietz (also an endodontist), relocated to Arizona to begin their endodontic practice in Chandler, AZ.

Patrice Pellerin

Dr. Pellerin received his dental degree (1985) and his post graduate certificate in orthodontics (1991) from the University of Montreal. He received the Senior Student Award from the Academy of General Dentistry, and the Certificate of Merit from the American Society of Dentistry for Children. Since 1991 he maintains a solo private practice in Lachine, Quebec.

Rajendra Rana

Dr. Rana a Board Certified Orthodontist, has practiced Orthodontics for adults & children for over 25 years. He is an associate professor at Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Orthodontics and an adjunct professor of Orthodontics at New York University, College of Dentistry. He maintains a full time private practice in both Kingston and Rhinebeck, New York.

Ron Redmond

Dr. Redmond has lectured extensively, both nationally and abroad, including presentations to the American Association of Orthodontists, the Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists, the Middle Atlantic Society of Orthodontists, the Alberta Society of Orthodontists, the European Orthodontic Society, and the American Lingual Orthodontic Society. Dr. Redmond maintains several orthodontic practices with his two sons, William J. Redmond, DDS, MS, and M. John Redmond, DDS, MS.

Joel L. Rosenlicht

Dr. Rosenlicht is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University Dental School. He completed his oral and maxillofacial surgical training at the combined programs of Tufts University and Boston University School of Graduate Dental Medicine.

Priveer Sharma

Dr. Sharma is a Board Certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon. He is a Diplomat of the Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons. He is a member of the Charlotte Dental Society and North Carolina Society of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons. He is the Director of the Outer Loop Education Study Club, an affiliate of the Seattle Study Club, which actively provides national, regional, and local continuing education to the dental community of Charlotte.

Leonard B. Smith, D.D.S., M.Sc., F.R.C.D.(C), F.A.A.P., F.I.C.D.

Dr. Smith Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, is Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Calgary. Dr. Smith is Chairman of the Non-Hospital Surgical Facilities Committee for the Alberta Dental Association and College, and Past President of both the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped and the Alberta Society of Pediatric Dentists. He is the recipient of the Integrity Award from the Rotary Club of Calgary.

John A. Valenza

Dr. Valenza is a full-time faculty member at The University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston. He is a 1981 graduate of the school and completed a general practice residency at The University of Tennessee Memorial Hospital in Tennessee. Dr. Valenza practiced full-time in Nashville while also serving as part-time faculty at Meharry Medical College – School of Dentistry. Since 2004 Dr. Valenza has served as the Executive Associate Dean of the Dental Branch.

LaQuia A. Walker, DDS, MPH

A self proclaimed techno-geek, Dr. Walker is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at Indiana University School of Dentistry where she is involved in both clinical and didactic teaching in the predoctoral and postdoctoral programs as well as is a member of the Riley Hospital for Children Craniofacial Anomalies team. Board certified in her specialty, LaQuia graduated Magna Cum Laude from Xavier University of Louisiana with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry with Honors, Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry, certificate in pediatric dentistry from the University of Illinois, Chicago, College of Dentistry, and most recently completed a Master’s in Public Health in Public Health Informatics from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Dr. Walker’s research interest focus is on electronic health records in dentistry, best practices for the implementation of technology in dental offices, and the use of information technology in a dental education.

Brian Whitestone

Dr. Whitestone hails from Toronto. Following graduation from the University of Toronto, he experienced two years of Post-graduate training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto prior to his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Whitestone came to Calgary in July 1988. He is a Member of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.