Orthodontics
Faculty
FULL TIME FACULTY
Laurance Jerrold, DDS, JD, ABO Dean, Program Director, Professor, ljerrol@ju.edu
Dr. Jerrold is a third generation Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics. He received his dental degree from NYU in 1975, and completed his orthodontic training there in 1978. He received his JD from Touro Law School in 1988 and his certificate in Bioethics from Columbia in 1997. Dr. Jerrold served as the Program Director for the orthodontic programs at both NYU and St. Barnabas Hospital before coming to JU; and has also served in leadership positions in all facets of organized dentistry. Dr. Jerrold is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of dental risk management and ethics and has published and presented over 300 papers and presentations. He is also the section Editor for Litigation, Legislation and Ethics in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.
Amy Counts, DDS, ABO, Clinical Director, Professor, acounts@ju.edu
Dr. Amy Counts is a Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve Dental Corps. She received her D.D.S. at the Medical College of Virginia in 1984 and her MSD in Orthodontics from Temple University in 1990. She has been the Head of the Orthodontics at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Norfolk Naval Dental Center, and Yokosuka Japan, where she earned the Meritorious Service Medal. She earned a Masters in Management from Troy State University in 1996. A Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics, her areas of special interest are orthognathic surgery and craniofacial abnormalities. She has accompanied Operation Smile to Honduras, Colombia, and Nicaragua. In addition, Dr. Counts is a member of the cleft palate teams at Shands and Nemours Hospitals in Jacksonville. Dr. Counts has collaborated with colleagues internationally, and has published 25 orthodontic articles.
Maan Al-Arabi, DCD, Assistant Professor, malarab@ju.edu
Dr. Al-Arabi obtained his dental degree from the University of Tishreen, Syria in 1996. Following that he served as a part-time assistant professor position in the Removable Prosthetics department. He then received his training in Orthodontics and Dento-Facial Orthopedics at the University of Aix-Marseille II earning a Certificate of Special Studies in Clinical Orthodontics (CECSMO) in 2002. Dr. Alarbi is a former member of the French Society of Dento-Facial Orthopedists and the French Society of Bioprogressive. Dr. Al-Arabi worked as an assistant orthodontist in two private clinics in Marseille from 2001 to 2003 prior to joining the faculty at Jacksonville University in July 2003. He is currently an active member of the American Association of Orthodontists.
Dipak Chudasama, BDS (Man) MSC (London) MORTH RCS (England) MORTH RCS (Edinburgh), Director of Research, Assistant Professor, dchudas@ju.edu
Dr. Chudasama received his dental degree from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore University, Karnataka, India in 1988. After practicing general denistry in Kenya for 10 years, he opted to specialize in Orthodontics and received his Masters in Orthodontics from Eastman Dental Institute, London, UK in 2003. He received his diplomas of Memberships in Orthodontics from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2004. He is on the Editorial Review Board for Materials with the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.
Marc Ackerman, DMD, Associate Professor, mackerm1@ju.edu Dr. Ackerman is a third generation orthodontist, having practiced in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania for the past 7 and a half years. Dr. Ackerman is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics, a member of the Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists and a Fellow in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He is the co-recipient of the 2004 B.F. and Helen Dewel Award from the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. Dr. Ackerman's book, "Enhancement Orthodontics: Theory and Practice" by Blackwell Publishing was released in May 2007. He has lectured extensively in the United States and Europe.
John Rumble, DDS, Assistant Professor, jrumble@ju.edu
Dr. Rumble obtained his dental degree from the University of Tennessee in 1955 and completed his specialty training there in 1959. After being on faculty there for a few years; and after a stint in the armed forces, Dr. Rumble opted for private practice and relocated back to Jacksonville. After joining the JU faculty on a part time basis in 2004, he recently retired from private practice and has now come full circle back to full time academics. Dr. Rumble is an active member of many local, state, regional and national orthodontic societies.
John Sheridan, DDS, ABO, Associate Professor, jsherid@ju.edu
Dr. Sheridan received his dental degree from Loyola University of the South in 1965. He then completed his orthodontic residency at Baylor School of Dentistry in 1967. From that point until 1981 Dr. Sheridan maintained a part time private practice in Shreveport while teaching part time at LSU. Displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 he found his way to Jacksonville University. Dr Sheridan has had over fifty articles published, lectures frequently on the national and international circuits, has written two texts, and has contributed chapters to several others. A Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics, he is also the Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics and an Assistant to the Editor of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Functional Orthopedics.
HALF TIME FACULTY
Gaby El Bahri, DDS, Assistant Professor, gelbahr@ju.edu
Dr. Bahri received his dental degree from Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon in 1982. He continued with his dental education in France receiving a certificate in Fixed Prosthetics from the University Rene Descartes in 1985. In 1987, he completed his training in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics from the University of Paris VII. Dr. Bahri has been in the private practice of Orthodontics in Jacksonville since 1991. He has been with JU since the programs inception in 2003.