Dr. Scott S. De Rossi, most recently the Founding Dean of the Workman School of Dental Medicine at High Point University and head of HPU Oral Health Network of clinical practices, is also the Senior Vice President of Innovation and Strategic Growth at Serendequity Partners/Nexus Dental Systems. He received his D.M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1995 and completed his post-doctoral training in Oral Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in 1997. He achieved Diplomate status from the American Board of Oral Medicine in 1999. Beginning in 2007 he was Professor of Oral Medicine, Director of the Clinical Center for Oral Medicine, and Chairman of Oral Health and Diagnostic Sciences at the Augusta University Dental College of Georgia where he also held joint faculty appointments in the Departments of Dermatology and Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia. He completed his MBA from the Hull College of Business at Augusta University in 2016. He served as the 8th Dean of the University of North Carolina Adams School of Dentistry while serving as faculty in the division of Oral & Craniofacial Health and the Department of Otolaryngology in the UNC School of Medicine. He is a co-author of the Burket’s Oral Medicine textbook, Editor of the July 2013 edition of Dental Clinics of North America on Orofacial Pain and has lectured and published over 100 scientific articles, textbook chapters, and monographs on all aspects of Oral Medicine. He is the principal founder of DentAlliance, a global partnership of multiple dental schools that launched in 2020, the 2011 recipient of the International Association of Dental Research Innovation in Oral Care Award, a 2012-13 Fellow in the ADEA Leadership Institute, recipient of numerous awards and honors for teaching and service, and serves as a Commissioner to the Commission on Dental Accreditation and President of the American Board of Dental Specialties.