Bradford R. Johnson DDS, MHPE

Dr. Johnson currently serves as the director of postdoctoral endodontics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is on the Scientific Advisory Board and Manuscript Review Panels of the Journal of Endodontics and Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontology. He also maintains a one-day per week clinical practice limited to endodontics.

His primary research interests include clinical decision making, dental education, clinical outcomes research and tissue regeneration. He has published clinical and research articles in the JOE, OOOOE, Journal of the American Dental Association, Journal of Dental Education, Practical Procedures & Aesthetic Dentistry, and Chicago Dental Society Review. He is also co-author of the Periradicular Surgery chapter in the 9th edition of Pathways of the Pulp and Management Considerations for the Medically Complex Endodontic Patient chapter in the 6th edition of Ingle's Endodontics. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics, and has also chaired the AAE Research and Scientific Affairs and Evidence-Based Endodontics Committees, in addition to serving on the Association's Continuing Education Committee.

Dr. Johnson completed his undergraduate education at the University of Colorado at Denver, and received his D.D.S. degree from Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Va. He completed a one-year general practice residency at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Ill., and practiced general dentistry for several years prior to his endodontic specialty training at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since 1991, he has taught in the department of endodontics and became director of postdoctoral endodontics in 1997. In 2005, he received a Master of Health Professions Education Degree from UIC, and was selected to be a 2005-2006 participant in the American Dental Education Association Leadership Institute Program.