Dr. Durand obtained his D.M.D. degree from the Université de Montréal in 2002. Thereafter, he obtained his specialty certificate in periodontics combined with a M.Sc. degree from the University of Minnesota in 2006. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada. He maintains a part-time private practice limited to periodontics and implantology in downtown Montreal. He is also a clinical supervisor at the Oral and Maxillofacial Prosthodontics Department of the Notre-Dame Hospital affiliated with the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and an examiner for the Royal College of Dentists of Canada.