 Charles G. Maurice

In a teaching career that spanned 37 years at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Dr. Charles G. Maurice (1911–1997) began in the old Department of Applied Materia Medica and Therapeutics and ended up establishing the Department of Endodontics, becoming its first head in 1967.This was not his first pioneering effort in endodontics, however, as he was one of the founders of the American Association of Endodontists in 1943.