Professor Eric Kang Ting graduated magna cum laude with a D.M.D. Degree (1991) from Harvard School of Medicine. He received an orthodontic certificate and a D.Med.Sc from Harvard University in 1994. He was the Academic Senate tenured Professor and founding chair in the Division of Growth and Development (Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics) at UCLA with a joint professorship at the School of Medicine and School of Engineering till 7/2021. Professor Ting served as the orthodontics chair at UCLA from 2013-2019. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA and the Executive Board Director of the International Orthodontics Foundation (www.iofglobal.org). He serves on the AAOF PARC committee from 2015 to 2023. Of note, his research team was the first and only group that received the AAOF Center grant "Standard Characterization of Clear Orthodontic Aligners" on this topic. The goal is to establish the very first academic center to set the standard and to share independently tested, reliable test data on clear aligners for AAO members’ information. Professor Ting's research team received the International Space Station (ISS) Innovation Award For Biology and Medicine for the Development of NELL-1 Bone-Growth Systemic Therapy from the American Astronautical Society in 2018. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, MA, and the Executive Board director of the International Orthodontics Foundation (www.iofglobal.org).