After completing an undergraduate degree in Chemistry, Dr Curtis received his DMD from Case Western Reserve University. He then completed a GPR at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI and both a prosthodontics residency in the US Air Force and a MS degree at UTHSCSA in San Antonio, Texas. He has worked in general dentistry and prosthodontic settings and taught at the University of New England prior to coming to the department of prosthodontics at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry.