Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, MBA

Dr Schleyer received his Doctorate of Dental Medicine from the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, and a PhD in Molecular Biology. He emigrated to the USA and received another DMD degree, from Temple University, along with an MBA in Health Administration. He stayed on at Temple and rose to Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Dental Informatics in the School of Dentistry. In 2005 he moved to the University of Pittsburgh to become Associate Professor of Dental Medicine and Director of the Center for Dental Informatics, and Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics. His nomination notes that Dr Schleyer is a pioneer in the discipline of dental informatics, a field that only recently has begun to mature. He is currently the highest-published author in the field of dental informatics. At the time of his election to the College, Dr Schleyer was principal investigator on a NIH RO1 grant entitled ëA Controlled Terminology for Diagnoses and Findings in General Dentistryí. Prior to this award, no investigator in the USA had ever received an R01 award for a dental informatics research project. He is the fourth dentist to be elected to Fellowship in the College, among the approximately 150?000 active dental practitioners in the country. He has been an active contributor to the CTSA consortium and chairs the CTSA Communications workgroup. He has also chaired two ANSI standards committee working groups, for educational software and dental electronic health record information models. His election to the College recognizes these technical and professional service contributions.