Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery - Dental Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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PEDODONTICS Dental education at Columbia has always been based upon the concept that dentistry is an important health service, closely allied to other essential health services. As a University discipline it should also include the necessary educational stimuli to create students ' awareness of their professional status and responsibilities to society. With these guiding concepts, and with the striving for excellence so characteristic of Columbia, future education at our dental school should be marked by improvements and changes in several areas. Among these are: 1. Greater emphasis on the principles of basic biological sciences and their specific applications to dentistry. This will help to provide a more sound and scientific foundation for the dental graduate in his efforts to interpret oral problems and institute correct indicated therapy. 2. Improvement in facilities for teaching and research. This should include new clinical facilities with newly developed proven aids for clinical teach- ing. New research facilities should also be obtained so that future leaders in dental research can be trained, and Columbia can again become the leading center for dental research. 3. Closely allied to the foregoing factors, yet independently essential, is greater emphasis on prevention of oral disease and disorders. We have felt that the most fertile field for the application of preventive principles and measures is in dentistry for children; principles of tooth conservation and prevention of disease have been translated into, and presented as, practicable measures for ready application in treatment planning for children. With advances in these directions our new Faculty can assume its right- ful, outstanding position in the training of leaders in dentistry. Dr. Solomon N. Rosenstein SOLOMON N. ROSENSTEIN B.S., D.D.S. Prof., Director, Division of Pedodontics Jerry J. Adelson, A.B., D.D.S., Asst. Clin. Prof. Julian SchrofT, B.S., D.D.S. Asst. Clin. Prof. William A. Verlin, A.B., D.D.S., Assl. Clin. Prof. Marc L. Berg, D.D.S. Instructor George C. Kiriakopoulos Philip Kutner, B.S., D.D.S. A.B., D.D.S., Instructor Instructor Lawrence Marder, A.I D.D.S., Instructor Bernard Nathanson, B.S., D.D.S., Instructor Arnold Rosenberg, B.S., D.D.S., nsfrucfor Mark Benes, A.B., D.D.S. Assisfonf 15

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ORTHODONTICS i JJ-t- ' 1 -J J J Jr 1 4 NICHOLAS A. Dl SALVO B.S., D.D.S , Ph.D. Prof., Director, Div. of Orthodontics Dentistry is more closely allied to medicine today than ever before, and nowhere is this belief more strongly held than at Columbia. Why then did our University choose to separate the two Faculties at this time? Of course, no one person should presume to answer such a question for the University. This decision was reached after long deliberation in ma ny committees, served by many members of the University family. Nevertheless, certain things seem clear. Certainly there was no intent that the two pro- fessions should divide and go their separate ways without benefit of mutual cooperation. Perhaps the simplest analogy would be that of a son who has matured and who leaves the family household to assume his own responsi- bilities. This is necessary in order that he may develop to his fullest potentialities. So Dentistry has come of age. The many technical problems which have been so masterfully solved in the past few decades, need no longer consume so much of its efforts. It can now turn toward the solution of its underlying biological problems. But to do this it must imbue its recruits with a new doc- trine; one which is dedicated undividedly to Dentistry. The Dental profession should welcome and encourage the assistance of allied professions in the solution of its problems but the primary responsibility must always remain with Dentistry. We must, therefore, develop from within our ranks the leaders who will carry the torch of knowledge into the darkness of the unknown, for only in this way will Dentistry achieve its fullest potential. Dr. Nicholas A. DiSalvo Horry A. Galton, D.D.S. Henry I. Nahoum, A.B., Clin. Prof. D.D.S., Asst. Clin. Prof. Julius Tarshis, D.D.S. Asst. Clin. Prof. Walter G. Spengeman A.B., D.D.S., Instructor Laszlo L. Schwartz, B.S., D.D.S., Clin. Prof. { m ( «r| t David Blistein, D.D.S. Assistant Monroe Gliedmon, B.S., Richard Gliedman, B.S., D.D.S., Assistant D.D.S., Assistant Bert. B. Schoeneman, A.B., D.D.S., Clin. Asst. Charles M. Chayes, A.B. D.D.S., Instructor Harold P. Cobin, B.S., D.D.S., Instructor

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PRECLINICAL SCIENCES Edmund Applebaum D.D.S. Assoc. Prof. of Dent Anatomy Melvin L. Moss D.D.S., Ph.D. Assf. Prof, of Anafomy S. A. ELLISON, D.D.S., Ph.D. Asst. Prof, of Microbiology W. M. Copenhaver, Ph.D. Prof, of Anatomy Dorothy D. Johnson, Ph.D. Asst. Prof, of Anatomy Harry P. Smith, M.D. De afie d Prof, of Pathology Lester R. Cahn, D.D.S. Assoc. Prof. of Oral Pathology George P. Vennart, M.D. Assf. Prof, of Pathology Charles R. Noback, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof, of Anafomy William M. Rogers, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof, of Anafomy agnus 1. Gregerson Walter S. Root, Ph.D. Louis J. Cizek, M.D. Shu Chien, M.B.,Ph.D. Wellington B. Stewart James P. Catell, M.D. Ph.D. Prof, of Physiology Assoc. Prof. Assoc. Prof. M.D. of Psychiatry Dalton Prof. of Physiology of Physiology Assoc. Prof of Pathology Assf Clin. Prof. of Physio ogy