Dr. Kurtz graduated from the NYU College of Dentistry, and after 12 years of general dental practice, returned for prosthodontic training at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and subsequent maxillofacial prosthetic training at the Bronx VAMC/Columbia University School of Dental Medicine, and also completed the NYU Implant Fellowship directed by Dr. Dennis Tarnow. He has coauthored nearly 50 scientific papers and is the recipient of the 2014 ACP Clinician Researcher Award. Dr. Kurtz is a peer reviewer for five scholarly journals, and currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Prosthodontics, Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, and the International Journal of Prosthodontics. In 2023, Dr. Kurtz completed his term as the President of the IADR Prosthodontics Research Group, and is the newly elected Vice-President of the American College of Prosthodontists.

He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics and serves as the Director, Division of Maxillofacial Prosthetics in the Department of Prosthodontics and Digital Technology at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine, and holds academic appointments at Montefiore Medical Center in both the Departments of Dentistry and Otorhinolaryngology as the Director of Prosthodontic Research in the graduate prosthodontic program. A Clinical Professor of Dentistry at Hofstra/Northwell School of Medicine, he has a practice limited to prosthodontics and maxillofacial prosthetics, Academic Prosthodontics of Long Island (AP-LI.com) in New Hyde Park, NY.

Disclosure: Dr. Kurtz has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.