Jerry Bouquot is Professor and Chair of the Department of Diagnostic Sciences at the University of Texas School of Dentistry in Houston. He is also an Adjunct Professor of the West Virginia University School of Dentistry, and is the Director of Research for the Maxillofacial Center for Education and Research. Bouquot has been President of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology and an Executive Counselor of the American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. He received his DDS and MSD 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.