Charlotte AHEC

Peter B Lockhart, DDS

Peter B. Lockhart, D.D.S., a native of Massachusetts, graduated from the University Of North Carolina School Of Dentistry. After completing a two-year GPR at the University Of Vermont College Of Medicine, he joined the faculty at Brigham and Women’s hospital, where he directed the GPR program, practiced, and conducted clinical research for 10 years. He is currently Chairman of the Department of Oral Medicine and Director of the Institute for Oral Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte. NC. He was a recipient of a World Health Organization Fellowship in Oral Medicine in the United Kingdom, and later a TC White Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow Scotland. He holds Fellowship in Dental Surgery diplomas from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, for whom he is the Regional Advisor for the North America. He has a variety of clinical and research interests in oral medicine, particularly the dental management of medically compromised patients. He has had funding for bacteremia research for the past 15 years, most recently as the P1 on an NIDCR ROl grant concerning surrogate measures of bacteremia from dental procedures. He has over 50 peer reviewed medical and dental journal articles and textbook chapters, and is the editor of the book, Dental Care for the Medically Complex Patient. Since 2004 he has been on the Endocarditis Writing Committee for the American Heart Association.