J. Timothy Wright gained his DDS from West Virginia University School of Dentistry and his MS/Cert from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship. In 1990 he received his board certification from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Since then he has been a member of the Graduate Faculty of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, becoming Professor in the UNC School of Dentistry in 1995. Dr. Wright served as Chair of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at UNC School of Dentistry (2004-2014). He has in the past also had terms as Colgate Visiting Professor at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, Visiting Professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, and Gorlin Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota. On three occasions Dr.

Wright has won the William J Gies Award from the American Association for Dental Research. In 2006 he was appointed James Bawden Distinguished Professor at UNC and in 2012 he received an Honorary Lifetime Membership Award from the UNC Dental Alumni Association. He has served on numerous committees and other bodies, including as Chair of the American Dental Association's Council on Scientific Affairs. Dr. Wright currently sits on the Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's Scientific Affairs Committee and chairs that organizations Evidence Based Dentistry Committee. Has has served as the President of the American Association for Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Research and currently serves as Editor in Chief for the Journal of there American Dental Association. He has published 3 texts, 30 chapters, over 220 peer reviewed manuscripts and has had extensive funding from the National Institutes of Health to support his research.