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President, American Board of Pediatric Dentistry
University of Florida
University of Florida
Dr. Marcio Guelmann is Professor, Chair and Residency Program Director of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, FL. His D.D.S. degree is from the Federal University of Parana, Brazil, in 1984 and his Certificate in Pediatric Dentistry is from the Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem, Israel in 1988. While in Israel, Dr. Guelmann was in private practice and part-time academics for 10 years and served as President of the Israeli Society of Pediatric Dentistry from 1995 to 1998. He joined the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at UF in 1999. He became Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry (ABPD) in 2006, served the Examination Committee from 2009 to 2017, chaired the Oral Clinical Examination in 2018 and is currently President of the ABPD. In addition, Dr. Guelmann served as Consultant and site-visitor for the Commission of Dental Accreditation, a Fellow of the American Dental Education Association Leadership Institute and the American College of Dentists. In addition, Dr. Guelmann served as Executive Director for the Florida Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (2018-2019). In 2021, Dr. Guelmann was honored by the AAPD with “Dr. Lewis A. Kay Excellence in Education Award”. He is the author and co-author of over 50 manuscripts and book chapters, a member of the Editorial Board of the AAPD journal Pediatric Dentistry and is reviewer for national and international pediatric dental journals.