Dr. DeWayne B. McCamish, an orthodontist with offices in Chattanooga, Signal Mountain, and Ooltewah, has been elected the 2016-17 president of the American Association of Orthodontists (AAO), the world’s oldest and largest dental specialty organization with more than 18,000 members.
Dr. McCamish is a graduate of the University of Tennessee Dental School, where he earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1970, and earned a master’s degree in orthodontics in 1973 from its Graduate School of Orthodontics. He has been in the private practice of orthodontics since 1973 and currently practices with his partners, Dr. Randy Cooper and Dr. K.C. Dyer.
“Each year the AAO helps members deliver the best possible care to their patients by providing them and their staff with educational opportunities, ongoing research, advocacy work and professional services,” said Dr. McCamish, who has served on the AAO board of trustees since 2009. “As the AAO continues to serve an increasingly diverse range of members and patients, I am humbly honored to represent and to be part of an organization that has a lifelong positive impact on the health and well being of children, teenagers and adults. Orthodontists throughout the world affect the lives of those we treat by giving smiles that change lives.”