Dr. Dhar holds multiple positions at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry, including clinical professor and chair of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, and assistant dean of postgraduate and professional studies. He currently serves as the Director of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry (ABPD). Within the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD), Dr. Dhar is a member of both the Editorial Board of Pediatric Dentistry and the Evidence-Based Dentistry Committee. He also acts as a consultant for the Council on Scientific Affairs and the Council on Postdoctoral Education. He also serves as the chair of the American Dental Association (ADA) Guideline Advisory Panel. Additionally, he leads the Science Committee for the International Association of Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD). His work focuses on integrating evidence-based dentistry into education and patient care. Dr. Dhar contributes his expertise to AAPD, IAPD, and ADA expert panels, helping to develop evidence-based clinical recommendations.

Dr. Norman Tinanoff received his dental degree from the University of Maryland in 1971. After receiving his certificate and Masters Degree in Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Iowa, he spent another year at the V.A. Hospital in Iowa City in a research fellowship. For 23 years he was at the University of Connecticut Health Center where he was director of the Pediatric Dentistry graduate program for 16 years. From 1999 to 2016 he was Chairman of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry and the Department of Health Promotion and Policy at the University of Maryland. Dr. Tinanoff has authored or co-authored over 225 publications, primarily on fluoride mechanisms, antimicrobials, caries risk factors, early childhood caries and prevention.

Marlies Elfrink studied dentistry at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and followed the master program in paediatric dentistry at ACTA (Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam), the Netherlands. In 2012 she received her PhD for her research on Hypomineralised Second Primary Molars (HSPM). Nowadays she works as a paediatric dentist in clinical practice and participates in the Paediatric REsearch Project (PREP). She regularly writes articles on research projects and she presents it at national and international conferences. She is section editor (developmental defects) of the Eur Arch Paediatr Dent. She is a member of the science committee of the NVvK (Dutch association of Paediatric Dentistry) and IAPD and participates in guideline development in the Netherlands.

Joana Monteiro joined the University of Sheffield in 2021, where she was appointed Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry. Her main interests include the care of children with dental anomalies and she is currently undertaking a PhD investigating hypersensitivity in children with molar incisor hypomineralisation.Joana leads a joint clinic for children with metabolic bone disease, including rare conditions such as osteogenesis imperfecta and X-linked hypophosphataemia. She co-founded the UK Clinical Excellence Network for amelogenesis imperfecta and dentinogenesis imperfecta to support best practice and multidisciplinary collaboration, and she is currently co-editing a book on amelogenesis imperfecta.Joana has published on topics related to paediatric dental anomalies and contributes to the development of clinical guidelines for both the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD) and the International Association of Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD).

Young J Kim is a professor at the Seoul National University. He was the chair of the department of Pediatric Dentistry and the vice President of the University Dental Hospital. He was formerly the president of Seoul dental hospital for the people with disabilities. He is former president of KADH (Korean associations for disability and oral health) as well as AADOH (Asia Association for Disability and Oral Health). He is President elect of iADH (International association for the disability and oral health) and former Board of Directors at IAPD(International Association of Paediatric Dentistry). He is also President elect of KAPD (Korean Academy of Pediatric Dentistry). He received dental degree (DDS, MSD, PhD) from Seoul National University, Korea and worked for the advanced research at UCLA. He is board certified pediatric dentist and iADH fellow. He gave lots of invited lectures for the numerous conference and dental societies for various countries. He volunteered for several mission trips to provide dental care to underserved populations in Uganda, Malawi, Mongolia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Peru etc. Dr. Kim continues to provide lectures and hands on program for dental societies in developing countries with a focus on caries prevention and special needs dentistry. He published more than 250 papers and textbooks of Pediatric Dentistry and Special Care Dentistry.

Dimitris Emmanouil is a specialist paediatric dentist currently working in private practice and teaching.Past Assistant professor at the Department of Paediatric Dentistry, Dental School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, past senior lecturer at King’s College Dental Institute, London, UK.Clinical Director of DentalKids, a group of dental practices in three European countries(Greece Italy and the UK) dedicated to Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, having treated thousands of children over the span of 30 years of practice.He completed the Paediatric Dentistry postgraduate program of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA. He also earned a Master’s from Marquette University, USA, a PhD from the University of Athens, Greece and a Certificate in Epidemiology from Harvard Medical School.For more than 10 years he has been adjunct Assistant professor at Washington State University, School of Pharmacy where he has done extensive research on Nitrous Oxide Pharmacology winning awards from the American Academy of Paediatric Dentistry,International Association of Paediatric Dentistry and American Society of Dental Anesthesiology.Co-editor of the book “Nitrous oxide in Paediatric Dentistry” (Springer), authored chapters in Paediatric Dentistry, Sedation and Special Care textbooks and published in the international literature, receiving nearly 1.000 citations.He is being invited internationally to lecture on Nitrous Oxide, Special Care Dentistry and Behavior modification and he has lectured annually at Harvard Continuing Education courses in the USA.Past president and fellow of IADH (the International Association of Dentistry for Disability and Oral Health), ADSE (the American Dental Society of Europe), the oldest Dental Society in Europe. Regent of Greece and Cyprus for the International College of Dentists and National director of Special Smiles- Special Olympics, Greece.Speaks English, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish and German.

Dr. Andreas Agouropoulos is Assistant Professor at the Department of Paediatric Dentistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He received a Certificate in Paediatric Dentistry from Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine, Boston, USA and a M.Sc. Degree and PhD in Oral Biology from the University of Athens. Since 2003 he is also working in private practice limited to Paediatric Dentistry. His research interest and work is focused in epidemiology, oral biology, clinical research in healthy and patients with special needs, caries risk assessment, biomaterials, patient behaviour and evidence based clinical guidelines development. He is the President of the Hellenic Society of Paediatric Dentistry, Member of the Constitution Committee of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD), member of the Education Committee of the International Association of Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD). He has participated as a speaker in national and international congresses, has published several articles and he has received international awards for his research work.