Dr. Chad P. Gehani has attended and delivered many keynote lectures in dental conferences in the Indo-Pak subcontinent, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Philippines, and hence, very well known to the dental fraternity in Pakistan. Prof. Dr Fazal Ghani recently met him in Buenos Aires during the FDI world Dental Congress.
Dr Chad P. Gehani, D.D.S., an endodontist from Queens, New York, is the new president-elect of the American Dental Association (ADA). Dr Gehani was recently elected during a meeting of the ADA House of Delegates in Honolulu. He will assume the role of president of the ADA in September 2019, leading the 161,000-member organization that is America’s leading advocate for oral health.
Since 2014, Dr Gehani has served as the Second District trustee to the ADA Board of Trustees, and was a delegate in the House of Delegates from 2000-2014. Dr Gehani was previously the president of the New York State Dental Association and the Queens County Dental Society.
Dr Gehani received dental education from the University of Mumbai (India) and from the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine. He practices in Queens, New York, where he lives with his wife Rekha, who is also a dentist. Two of their three children are dentists and the other is a physician.