Short

Short Biographical Sketch
of J. E. Bouquot, DDS, MSD, FICD

Dr. Bouquot received his D.D.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Minnesota, with postdoctoral fellowships to the Mayo Clinic and the Royal Dental College in Copenhagen, Denmark as the recipient of a Career Development Award from the American Cancer Society. For almost two decades he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, West Virginia University. During that time, he received West Virginia University's highest teaching award and that University's highest award for service to the state.

He is now the Director of Research for the Maxillofacial Center for Diagnostics and Research in Morgantown, West Virginia. He is also the Director of a large national biopsy service, Head & Neck Diagnostics of America. His federally (CLIA) certified lab receives tissue from 45 U.S. states and 7 other countries. He has been the Dental Director for the state of West Virginia, a Senior Visiting Scientist of the Mayo Clinic, a Special Advisor to the National Institutes of Health, and an Honorary Member of Dental Informatics of the University of Göteborg, in Sweden. He is a Consultant to Pittsburgh Children's Hospital, the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, and the Clarksburg VA Hospital in West Virginia. He is a Professor of Dental Medicine at Capital University School of Integrated Medicine in Washington, D.C., an Adjunct Professor in the West Virginia University Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, a Fellow of the International College of Dentists, and a Fellow of the Academy of Dentistry Internationale.

Dr. Bouquot has more than 180 published papers, abstracts and book chapters. His work has been translated into several languages, has been cited many hundreds of times in the literature, and has been used by state and national governments to determine oral health policy. He is co-author of the most popular textbook of Oral Pathology, has been a reviewer for more than 15 medical and dental journals, and is on the editorial boards of two international journals. He has presented more than 1,100 research and continuing education seminars and courses worldwide.

Dr. Bouquot has been President of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology and an Executive Councilor of the American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. He has been President of 3 regional dental societies, President five times of his state’s American Cancer Society, and a member of the national Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society. As a member of the ACS national Research Committee he was among those responsible for reviewing and approving more than $90,000,000 in cancer research grants annually. He now serves on that organization’s National Assembly, is on the Board of Trustees for the 5-state Mid-Atlantic Division of the ACS, and is President of an ACS region representing 25 counties of West Virginia and Maryland.