Organization: Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Biography Text: Paul earned a BS in mathematics from St. Lawrence University in 1962 and graduated from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 1966. After a general practice residency in Burlington, VT, he served as a periodontal officer in the US Navy at Great Lakes Naval Training Center for two years. In 1968, he married Patty J. Nichol and returned to Boston for specialty training in periodontology at Tufts under Dr. Irving Glickman. He practiced and taught periodontology in Vermont for 27 years and began teaching at Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1994. He has since taught at both Harvard and Tufts, as well as internationally, including a year at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona. Currently, he teaches full-time at Harvard and lectures at Tufts, UIC, and for dental organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Periodontology remains both his profession and passion.