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Roger E. Alexander
Professor
- Director, OMS Undergraduate Division
- Office Phone: 214-828-8455
- Faxline: 214-828-8382
- E-mail: ralexander@tambcd.edu
- Appointments: 214-828-8493
- Mailing Address: PO Box 660677 Dallas, TX 75266-0677
- Physical Address: 3302 Gaston Avenue, Dallas, TX 75246
Primary Responsibilities
Dr. Alexander is the Director of the Predoctoral (undergraduate) surgical education program. He participates as a Faculty member for the
Undergraduate OMS Clinic and participates (as time permits) in the Faculty Private Practice Clinic (Professional Services). He also serves on a number of College committees.
Educational Credentials
Predental Training:
Dental School:
- Marquette University School of Dentistry 1960-1964
General Practice Residency:
- Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia
Residency:
- Naval Regional Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA (Certificate - 1975)
Diplomat,
- American Board of OMS, 1978
Licensure:
Hospital Staff Privileges:
- Baylor University Medical Center
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 Dr. Alexander is an
excellent clinician and popular speaker who has presented talks in several different topic areas, coast to coast. He served in the U.S. Navy Dental Corps for 27.5 years, rising to the
rank of Captain, when he was recruited in 1990 to join the BCD Faculty. His talents as an experienced clinician, clinically oriented scientist, and his entertaining style of
speaking gave him an ability to take complex topics and make them understandable to other clinicians. He has appeared as an invited speaker to most major dental meetings,
including the American Dental Association, Chicago Midwinter, New York Dental Meeting, Yankee Dental Congress, Star of the North Dental Meeting, the Southwestern Dental
Meeting at Dallas, the California Dental Association Annual Meeting, and others.
Dr. Alexander has authored over 55 articles in the medical, dental, nursing, and pharmaceutical literature, and several textbook
chapters. Many of his articles were on "pioneer" topics not recently explored by other authors and researchers, but always relevant to clinical practice. He serves as a consultant to
numerous postgraduate education programs here at BCD and with the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy Dental Corps. Auxiliary groups have enjoyed his talks on professional stress and
stress management, and suicide in dentistry. He has been involved in teaching CPR for over 30 years and is currently the Coordinator and Texas Regional Faculty for the American Heart
Association Training Site at BCD. He has turned the BCD Predoctoral surgery program into a role model for the nation, and serves on several national committees related to Predoctoral education.
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Academic Appointments
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Texas A&M University System HSC, Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX
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Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Pharmacology
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Professor, Director of Undergraduate Surgical Education 2000 -Present
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Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX
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Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Pharmacology
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Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Surgical Education 1995-2000
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Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX
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Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Surgery 1990-1995
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Principal Memberships
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- American Dental Association
- American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
- North Texas Society of OMS
- Western Society of OMS
- American Dental Education Association
- American Society of Dental Anesthesiology
- American College of Dentists
- Delta Sigma Delta
- Omicron Kappa Upsilon, and others.
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Primary Interest Areas
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- Dentoalveolar surgery, surgical exodontia
- Clinical use and abuse of prophylactic antibiotics
- Use of Automated External Cardiac Defibrillators (AEDs) in dental office medical emergencies
- Clinical pharmacotherapeutics
- Basic Life Support, CPR
- Risk management and pretrial medico legal consulting
- Evaluation and management of medically compromised patients
- Clinical writing, speaking, teaching; patient communication
- Bloodborne pathogens and office infection control
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Most Recent Professional Publications
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Alexander, R: Stress-related suicides by dentists and other health care workers: fact or folklore?, J Amer Dent Assoc 132:786-794, 2001 (cited in the December, 2001 edition of "Psychology Today" magazine)
Alexander R, Wright J, Thiebaud S: Evaluating,
documenting and following up oral pathological conditions: a suggested protocol", J Amer Dent Assoc 132:329-335, 2001
Alexander R. A review of changes in the American Heart Association's 'Guidelines 2000' for CPR (BLS)", Texas Dent J 117:73-81, 2000.
Alexander R, Throndson R: A review of perioperative corticosteroid use in dentoalveolar surgery, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Path Oral Rad Endod 90:406-415,2000
Alexander, R: Cardiac valvulopathy (Letter), J Amer Dent Assoc 131:862-868, 2000
Alexander, R, Gage, T: Parkinson's disease in dental patients, Gen Dent 48:572-582, 2000
Alexander, R: Dental Extraction wound management: a case against the medicating of post-extraction sockets, J Oral Maxillofac Surg 58:538-551, 2000
Alexander, R: Readability of published educational materials, J Amer Dent Assoc 131:937-942, 2000
Alexander, R: Chairside glucose testing: an inexpensive, invaluable diagnostic tool for dental offices, Texas Dent J, 117:18-26, April 2000
Alexander, R: Routine antibiotic prophylaxis in diabetic patients, J Calif Dent Assoc, 27:611-617,1999 ; Texas Dent J (reprinted)117:71-77, June, 2000.
Alexander, R: The Automated External Defibrillator: lifesaving device for medical emergencies, J Amer Dent Assoc 130:837-845, 1999
Alexander, R: Patient understanding of post-surgical instruction forms; Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Path Oral Rad Endod 87:153-158,1999
Alexander, R: Eleven myths of dentoalveolar surgery; J Amer Dent Assoc, 129:1271-1279, 1998.
Alexander, R: Basic principles of antibiotic therapy and prophylaxis", Quintessence Internat, 28:815-825, 1997
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Recent Professional Presentations
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- RAdm Wm. J.H. Vaughn Naval Reserve Dental Symposium, Fort Worth, Texas, January 20, 2002
- Arlington, Texas Dental Study Club, November 20, 2001
- North Texas Periodontics and Implantology Study Club, November 14, 2001
- Grand Prairie, Texas Dental Study Club, November 7, 2001
- U.S. Army Dental Activity Dental Staff, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, August 16, 2001
- U.S. Army Dental Corps AEDG Residency Training Program, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, August 16-17 2001
- Col. Allyn D. Burke Memorial Dental Symposium, Monterey, California, June 22, 2001
- Minnesota Star of the North Dental Meeting, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, April 22-23, 2001
- American Association of Endodontists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 28, 2001
- Greater Southwestern Dental Meeting at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, March 10-11, 2001
- Tennessee Dental Association 8th District, Clarksville, Tennessee, September 7, 2000
- U.S. Army Dental Activity Dental Staff, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, September 7 , 2000
- U.S. Army Dental Corps AEDG Residency Training Program, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, September 7-8, 2000
- U.S. Army Dental Corps Annual Review Course in Oral Surgery for General Dentists, Tacoma, Washington, May 2, 2000
- Continuing Education Seminar for Military Dental Officers and Contract Dentists, Naval Dental Command SW Region, San Diego,
California, April 12, 2000
- Arizona Dental Association Annual Scientific Session, Phoenix, Arizona, April 6, 2000
- American Association of Dental Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 4, 2000
- Garland, Texas Dental Research Study Club, Garland, Texas, February 17, 2000
- Dallas County, Texas Dental Hygienists' Association Continuing Education Symposium, January 22, 2000
- American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, Sept.29-Oct.2, 1999
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Other Accomplishments
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- Fellow, American College of Dentists
- Former Member, Board of Directors, American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas
- Peer Reviewer for Journal of the American Dental Association, Quintessence International, and Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral
Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics
- Faculty Advisor, Lambda Lambda Chapter, Delta Sigma Delta International Dental Fraternity
- Member, National Board Examination Test Construction Committee, American Dental Association, 2002-2003
- Member, National Task force for Standardization of National Oral Surgery, Pain Control, and Sedation Educational Curriculum
Competencies, American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, 2001-2002
- Member, Test Construction Committee, AAOMS Omsite Examination for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Residents, 1994-1999
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