Asgeir Sigurdsson

(Iceland)

Endodontics

Lectures "Endodontics from A to Z" (Hands-On)

"Management of Complicated Endo Cases. Dental Trauma." (Plenary)

Asgeir Sigurdsson, D.D.S., M.S. is born and raised in Reykjavik, Iceland. Graduated with cand. odont. degree from University of Iceland, Faculty of Dentistry in 1988. After one year in private practice in Akureyri, Iceland, moved to Chapel Hill, NC USA. Graduated from University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, School of Dentistry with certificate in endodontics and Master of Science degree in 1992 with emphasis on neurobiology and pain perception.

 Full time faculty member at UNC School of Dentistry from 1992 until 2004, first as an assistant professor and then promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2000. 

From 2004 an adjunct associate professor at UNC School of Dentistry. Appointed as the Graduate Program Director of Endodontics (specialty training) in 1997 and severed in that position until 2004. 

In private endodontic practice in Reykjavik and UK. Appointed as Honorary Clinical Teacher in Endodontology, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, London UK in 2006.

 Active in many professional organizations and is currently the immediate past-President of the International Association for Dental Traumatology (IADT).

Received in 1998 the Edward M. Osetek Educator Award, awarded by the American Association of Endodontists.