Dr. John Beattie has a master's degree in orthodontics and he is board certified in orthodontics. His father, Dr. Jack Beattie is a retired orthodontist. His brother, Dr. Jeff Beattie is a local oral surgeon.

Background
Dr. John grew up here in Central Florida. He graduated from Winter Park High School in 1979 where he was a state champion and All-American swimmer.

Undergraduate Education
He attended the University of Florida for two years on a swimming scholarship. He graduated from the University of Miami in 1983 where he also lettered in swimming.

Professional Education
He received his dental degree from the University of Texas Dental Branch in Houston in 1988. Two years later, he earned a Master of Science Degree in Orthodontics from the Graduate Program in Orthodontics at St. Louis University, considered by many to be one of the top orthodontic programs in the country.

Honors and awards
Dr. Beattie has received many awards and he has qualified for many honor societies over the years. The most important and most significant is the Award of Special Merit that he received from the American Association of Orthodontists for his graduate thesis describing research comparing extraction and nonextraction orthodontic treatments. Incidentally, Dr. John's father, Dr. Jack Beattie, won a similar research award (the Milo Helman Research Award) twenty-seven years earlier. They are the only father-and-son team to both win research awards from the orthodontic association.

Published research
Dr. Beattie has published articles on his research for peer-reviewed orthodontic journals; he has reviewed papers presented by other orthodontists for publication in orthodontic journals; he has been invited to present cases at regional and national orthodontic meetings; and he has given lectures at national dental and orthodontic meetings.

Leadership positions in dental and orthodontic organizations
Dr Beattie is past president of the Dental Society of Greater Orlando. He has also served in many other elected and appointed positions in various local dental and national orthodontic organizations. He is also active in community organizations.

Family
Dr. Beattie's wife, Debbie Denicole Beattie, is a high-school math teacher. They have been married since 1991. She too is a Winter Park High School grad. They celebrated the birth of their first son, John Jr. in September 2003. Dr. Beattie and his wife celebrated the birth of their daughter, Jackie, July 2005.

Interests/activities
Dr. Beattie enjoys water skiing, swimming, snow-boarding, and sailing. His passion, though, is his profession, orthodontics.