Dr. Amber Ather earned his Bachelor of Dental Surgery (B.D.S.) and Master of Dental Surgery (M.D.S.) in Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics from Manipal University, India, in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He then served as a full-time Assistant Professor of Endodontics at his alma mater in India. Dr. Ather later moved to Colorado, where he obtained his D.D.S. in 2015. Following that, he worked as a general dentist in Texas. He received his Certificate in Endodontics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2020 and completed his M.S. degree in 2021, focusing his research on pulp biology, for which he received a grant from the AAE Foundation for Endodontics. Dr. Ather served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Endodontics at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry from 2021 to 2023. His research areas include pulp biology, pain, and surgical endodontics. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board for several journals, including the Journal of Endodontics, Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics, and PLOS ONE. Having published several high-impact research papers, Dr. Ather is committed to a long-term career as a clinician-scientist. Dr. Ather, a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics, currently works as an Associate Endodontist at Commonwealth Endodontics and serves as an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Endodontics at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry. In his free time, he enjoys traveling with his family and hiking.