Satish B. Alapati BDS, MS, PhD, DDS

Dr. Satish Alapati, Assistant Professor, Endodontics, on May 6 assumed the duties of Endodontic Clinic Operations Director and Consultant to the Managing Partners. Dr. Alapati is a clinician-scientist, researcher, and educator. He succeeds Dr. Michael J. Barrows, who is retiring.
,br/> Dr. Alapati earned his BDS degree in India. Afterwards, he continued his education in the United States at a hospital-based general practice residency program (GPR) in Kansas City, MO. Subsequently, he received his MS in Dental Materials Science and a PhD in Oral Biology from The Ohio State University in 2006. He earned his Certificate in Endodontics from the College in 2011.

He is an American Association of Endodontists Foundation Educator Award recipient and has an active translational research program on therapeutic applications for regenerative endodontic treatment/root canal therapy utilizing mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from dental pulp tissue. His laboratory focuses on the development of a novel treatment to regenerate pulp-dentin complex tissue in diseased immature teeth using a stem-cell based tissue-engineering approach. He also maintains an active practice limited to Endodontics in the College Anderson Faculty Dental Practice.