Current Environment:

Medical Services

Specialties

Programs & Services

Education

Undergraduate School

Bucknell University

1994, Lewisburg, PA

Graduate School

University of Pennsylvania

1998, Philadelphia, PA

Residency

Orthodontics

University of Rochester

2000, Rochester, NY

Fellowship

Medical Ethics

Harvard Medical School

2014, Boston, MA

Professional History

Dr. Ackerman has provided clinical care to patients in full-time private practice in Bryn Mawr, PA from 2000-2007, taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University’s dental schools during the same period, taught full-time at Jacksonville University Department of Orthodontics from 2007-2010 ultimately serving as Chair in 2010 and then came to Boston Children’s Hospital at the end of 2010.

Publications

I am a third-generation orthodontist. Orthodontics is a branch of dentistry that aims primarily to enhance appearance affecting psychosocial fitness and in a small subset of cases improve physical oral health as it is affected by congenital or acquired pathology. Orthodontic practice much like cosmetology exists to satisfy patients’ desire to become better than normal to whatever degree they wish.