Dr. Orhan Tuncay has been in academic orthodontics for fifty years. He served as Chairman at the Universities of Kentucky, Mississippi, and Temple. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journals "Orthodontics and Craniofacial Research" and "Progress in Orthodontics." Both journals had the highest Impact Factor; first OCR, and later, PiO. He had a long tenure in the AAOF – first, on the PARC, followed by BOD, and the President. He is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.