Dr. Bob Elam

Earns LLSR Award

Robert Elam, DDS of Nashville was awarded the rare and prestigious Lifelong Learning Service Recognition Award at the Academy of General Dentistry meeting recently in San Diego. The award recognizes continuing education achievements over the level of Mastership in the Academy, as well as service to dentistry and mankind. Dr. Elam’s service includes volunteering as a clinical professor of restorative dentistry at Meharry Dental School for the last three years and several mission trips to Ecuador.

Dr. Elam followed his father, Dr. Roy Elam, Jr. and his grandfather, Dr. Roy Elam, Sr. in general dental practice. He has practiced in Nashville for 31 years. He is a graduate of Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry and completed undergraduate studies in George Peabody College. He and his wife, Kathy, have be married 33 years and have two children.

First earning his Fellowship in 1984 and following that with his Masters in the Academy in 1996, last year Dr. Elam completed his certification by the American Board of General Dentistry. He practices full time and continues to enjoy all phases of dentistry. He spends his spare time with his hobbies of fishing and gardening.

Dr. Elam is only the third dentist in Tennessee earning the LLSR Award. He follows Dr. Gary McCown who received the award in 2010 and Dr. Carl Eaby who received the award in 2006.