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Setzer, DMD, PhD, MS, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endo- dontists, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Endodontics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. He teaches undergraduate students and post-doctoral residents. Dr Setzer specialises in root canal therapy, trauma and surgical root canal procedures. He received his first dental degree from the Dental School of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen- Nuremberg, Germany, in 1995, where he also received his doctoral degree in 1998. He pursued his endodontic specialty training at the University of Pennsylvania after working for nine years in a multi-specialist private practice as associate and partner. Setzer graduated from the endodontic programme of the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, receiving the Louis I Grossman Postdoctoral Award in Endodontics. He earned a Master of Science in Oral Biology and a DMD degree in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Setzer is teaching as clinic director and pre-doctoral program director at the Department of Endodontics of the University of Pennsylvania. Setzer lectures frequently nationally and internationally, has published in peer-review journals and serves, among others, as the associate editor for endodontics for Quintessence International and on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Endodontics and the Journal of the American Dental Association. He can be contacted at fsetzer@upenn.edu. roots 2 2018 21