Dr. Hugo De Clerck DDS, PhD

Dr. Hugo De Clerck is a graduate of the Ghent University orthodontic program, he received his PhD in 1986, and he maintains a private practice in Brussels. He was Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Orthodontics at the Université Catholique de Louvain from 1989 to 2006. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received the Dewel Award in 2012 from the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dento-facial Orthopedics. In 2019, he received the Jacob A. Salzmann Award of the American Association of Orthodontists, and the John Valentine Mershon Memorial Award in 2022. He’s a former President of the Belgian Orthodontic Society and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His main research interests are in skeletal anchorage, biomechanics and orthopedics. He has lectured extensively on these topics throughout the world.