Barry Gerard Acker
Curriculum Vitae
Birthdate: March 24, 1941
Education
- Texas Christian University 1959 - 1963 B.S. - June 1963
- Baylor University College 1964 - 1968 D.D.S - June 1968 Of Dentistry
- Parkland Memorial Hospital 1975 - 1978 - June 1978
- Southwestern Medical School Residency Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Private Practice
- Ft. Worth, Texas 1968 - 1975 - General Dentistry
- Tyler, Texas 1978 - Current - Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Practice limited to diseases, injuries, and abnormalities of jaws and associated structures.
Memberships
- American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons
- American Medical Association
- American Dental Association
- Texas Dental Association
- Texas Society of Oral Surgeons
- Southwest Society of Oral Surgeons
- East Texas Dental Society
- Smith County Dental Society
Offices
- Past President Smith County Dental Society
- Chief of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Service - Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
- Co-Founder of East Texas Dentofacial Deformities Team
- Chief of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Service - East Texas Medical Center Hospital
- Operating Room Committee - Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
- Operating Room Committee - East Texas Medical Hospital
- Credentials Committee - Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
- Emergency Room Committee - Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
- Emergency Room Committee - East Texas Medical Hospital
- Laser Committee - Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Committee - Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
- Resource consultant for consulting firm in Canada
Hospital Appointments
- Attending Staff - Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
- Attending Staff - East Texas Medical Hospital
- Clinical Assistant Professor - The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas
- Courtesy Staff - University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler Texas
Civic Endeavors
- Has served on executive boards of:
- Historic Tyler
- Smith County Mental Health Association
- Children's Village
- Chairman of Children's Village Benefit Rodeo and Horse Show
Special Honors
- Selected to participate in multiple re-constructive jaw surgeries in Guatemala - 1978
- Lecturer - Belize Medical & Dental Association - 1992
- Lecturer - Singapore Oral & Maxillofacial College - 2001
- Has lectured to numerous medical and dental groups on temporomandibular joint disorders,
- facial pain, trauma and dental implants
Dental License
Texas # 8636 1968 - Present
Continuing Education
- Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Laser Workshop - October 1986
- Northwestern University Dental School - Chicago
- Advances Head, Neck, and Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunctions - Houston - November 1983
- Osseointegration in Clinical Dentistry
- Washington Hospital Center - Washington, D.C. April 1986
- Advanced Branemark Implant Course - Baylor Dental College - Dallas 1992
- Temporomandibular Joint Symposium - Dallas 1990
- Total Joint Prosthesis Course - Dallas 1988
- Temporomandibular Joint Clinical Congress - San Diego
- Multiple AAOMS and Southwest Society of OMS Meetings
- Advanced Bone Grafting March 2002
- Advanced Bone Grafting September 2002
- Peer Practicum Implant 40 hours 2003 2004
- Advance Cardiac Life Support
- Academy of Dental Therapeutics and Stomatology 2006
- Overview of Office Anesthesia Evaluation 2007
Board Certification
American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons March 1981
