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Dr. Bouquot, 1996 |
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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 20 years he was on the faculty of West Virginia University, 17 years as Chairman of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. During that time, he received numerous Outstanding Teacher awards, including West Virginia University's highest teaching award. He also received his University's highest award for service to society.
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 Head & Neck Diagnostics of America, one of the most widespread oral pathology biopsy services in the U.S. He has been the Dental Director for the state of West Virginia, a Senior Visiting Scientist of the Mayo Clinic and a Special Advisor to the National Institutes of Health. He is a Consultant to Pittsburgh Children's Hospital and New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, a Professor of Dental Medicine of Capital University Graduate School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and an Honorary Member of Dental Informatics, a division of the University of Goteborg School of Dentistry in Sweden.
Dr. Bouquot has more than 150 published papers, abstracts and book chapters. His work has been translated into several languages and cited hundreds of times in the literature. He is coauthor of a major textbook of Oral Pathology and is a reviewer for several journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Dental Association and the Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine. He has presented more than 800 research and continuing education talks throughout the world.
Dr. Bouquot has been a Director and President of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology and has been a member of the Executive Council of the American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. He has been President of two county-wide dental societies, and four times has been President of his state's American Cancer Society. He has been a member of the national Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society and now serves on that organization's National Assembly. As a member of the ACS national Research Committee he was among those responsible for reviewing and approving almost ninety million dollars in cancer research grants annually.