David E. Frost

Dr. David E. Frost is a private practicing Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon in Chapel Hill, NC. He has been in the same group practice for 22 years. He is currently managing partner. David holds a Clinical Academic appointment in the Departments of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Dentistry.

David graduated from Texas A&M University with a BS in 1971 (Distinguished Military Graduate), from Baylor College of Dentistry with a DDS in 1974, and from the University of North Carolina with an MS in 1980. Clinical graduate training included a General Practice Residency, Chanute AFB, Il (1975-76; selected Outstanding Resident); Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Residency at North Carolina Memorial Hospital and UNC (1977 – 1980); and a Research Fellowship from UNC (1980 – 81) and Honorary  Senior Registrar, Canniesburn Hospital Scotland, (1980).

David has volunteered with Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO), a multidisciplinary international medical educational group () in Nepal, India, Viet Nam and Peru. He has also taught and volunteered in Chile, Cuba, England, and Scotland. He has been an active member of HVO since 1987 and is currently the Chairperson of the Board of Directors.

After reading George N. Marshall’s Challenge of a Liberal Faith, David and his wife joined Unitarian Universalism through the Church of the Larger Fellowship. They have been UU’s since 1982. Claudia, his wife of 37 years, has been a Meadville Lombard Student in the Modified Residency Program and served as a student member of the Board of Meadville Lombard. David and Claudia have worked together with multiple youth groups in their church lives and David has served as President of his home congregation, Eno River UU Fellowship. He has held numerous other positions in the Fellowship and in previous churches. David would describe himself as a religious and social Liberal with a Christian background (raised as a Methodist). Today he feels most at home with the religious humanists. David and Claudia are the proud parents of 3 children (Ryan 34, Holly 31, and Kyle 22) as well as grandparents of two little girls.