Dr. Tarek El-Bialy

Dr. Tarek El-Bialy is a tenured full-time professor of orthodontics and biomedical engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. He received a BDS from Tanta University, Egypt in 1987 and completed a Master’s degree in Orthodontics, at Tanta University, Egypt; in 1993 concurrently, he received a law degree from Tanta University in 1994. He has successfully completed a certificate of specialty in Orthodontics, Master’s degree in Oral Sciences and PhD in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA in 2000 and 2001. In addition, he completed Executive Master of Business and Administration (EMBA) at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2012. In addition, he recently (June 2019) received a doctoral degree from university of Bonn, Germany. A significant part of Dr. El-Bialy’s work was devoted to repair of orthodontically induced root resorption and biomechanics. Dr. El-Bialy is a fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada (RCDC) and Diplomat of the American Board of Orthodontics. In addition, he is a senior research fellow, von Humboldt Foundation, Germany since 2013. Dr. El-Bialy has 143 peer-reviewed publications, 14 book chapters and three books, one of them about biomechanics of treatment of complex cases using clear aligners. Dr. El-Bialy is the one who introduced one week aligner change at the Invisalign ortho summit, 2016, also he introduced Invisalign first. He has been beta tester for Invisalign mandibular advancement feature and Invisalign personalized plan using artificial intelligence clincheck planning as well as Invisalign Palatal Expander.