Dr. Ammaar Abidi is the Director of Bioscience and an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Lincoln Memorial University, College of Dental Medicine.  Dr. Abidi graduated with a dual degree (D.D.S/Ph.D.) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN.  Dr. Abidi’s career has been focused on combining his basic science knowledge of periodontal cells, cellular/molecular signaling, pharmacology, inflammation, and therapeutics to help evolve the current clinical therapies for oral inflammation. He has been actively presenting and lecturing on developing novel approaches to regulate oral pain and uncontrolled inflammation signaling to improve public oral and systemic health.