Dr. Aaron Myers is the senior associate dean for Clinical Affairs at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine (CDM), overseeing all aspects of clinical operations across the teaching clinics, which provide more than 100,000 patient visits each year. Before being appointed as clinical dean in 2024, he served as CDM’s chief dental officer and clinic director of the Pediatric Dentistry Clinic.

Dr. Myers is a board-certified pediatric dentist and associate professor in the Division of Pediatric Dentistry at CDM. He teaches predoctoral dental students and pediatric dentistry residents in both didactic and clinical settings.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his dental degree from Columbia University CDM. He went on to complete his pediatric dentistry training at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University. Dr. Myers also holds a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

His contributions to dental education and the profession have been recognized with the Guy Metcalf Teaching Award for dedicated and compassionate clinical instruction and he has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Dentists.