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Donald E. Patthoff, Jr., DDS, Consultant to Bioethics, Inc.
(Email Dr. Patthoff:   dpatthoff@peoplepc.com)

Dr. Patthoff has practiced general dentistry in Martinsburg, WV since 1981 and is involved nationally and internationally with a variety of issues in ethics. Prior to private practice, he was a clinical dentist and a principle research investigator at the VA hospital in Martinsburg from 1974-83. He received a BS from Ohio State University in 1964 and was a research associate at Kettering Institute in Yellow Springs, Ohio until 1965. He served in the US Army in Germany and Viet Nam and received his DDS from the University of Detroit in 1974. He is a Master of the Academy of General Dentistry and a Fellow of the American College of Dentists.

A few of his leadership positions include president of the West Virginia Dental Association and the American Society of Dental Ethics. He is an ethics consultant to the Council on Ethics Bylaws and Judicial Affairs of the American Dental Association, and is a past liaison from the American Society for Dental Ethics to the ADA, ACD, ADEA, and NIH. His academic pursuits include university appointments, lecturing nationwide and internationally, and many ethics publications, including co-authorship of a regular Academy of General Dentistry ethics column in Impact, and co-editing a special edition of the Journal of Dental Education on Professional Promises: Hopes and Gaps to Access to Oral Health Care, and section chair for a Springer Publication book chapter. He is a past board member of the International Dental Ethics and Law Society and Chaired the 2016 IDEALS Congress.

Dr Patthoff has co-organized and presented at multiple national workshops and summits on professional ethics in dentistry and was co-developer of the Intensive Bioethics Course for Dentists at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Dr. Patthoff has served the program committee of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and has presented numerous times to its Dental Interest Group. He is Chair of the Ethics Committee at WVU Berkeley Medical Center and is currently developing an applied ethics model designed to improve healthcare access for the underserved. He has chaired the Ethics Committee of the Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce, The Eastern Panhandle Ethics Project. He is a co-developer of the George Washington Chair of Living Ethics at Shepherd University, and the George Washington Institute of Ethics. His many publications include such things as "There are no spectators in ethics," Jnl Am Coll Dent, 2000 Summer, 67(2):19-20., "Ethics and Mediation," Dentistry, 1993 Dec13(4):8-15, and "Dental Ethics at Chairside" in 2018 along with David Ozar and David Sokol. Dr. Patthoff is the ethics Chair of the Academy of Laser Dentistry and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Laser Dentistry. He is also co-founder and co-director of the Foundation for Photobiomodulation Research.
 



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