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

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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

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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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he future does not suddenly materialize in response to any single act but is built up of a framework and clothed in a tradition. When the School of Dental and Oral Surgery was established at Columbia University, this was a recognition of the fact that the teaching of dentistry constituted an academic discipline. Moreover, the concept was established that the role of this school should be to strive for excellence in all its activities, tutorial and investigative alike. To achieve this aim, it was necessary to assemble a staff which accepted this purpose, to choose a student body which could profit from this type of instruction, and to provide sufficient, appropriate facilities. The extent to which this was achieved can be judged from the accomplishments of the staff and the graduates. In addition to being part of a university, we have also been part of a medical center dedicated alike to research, to teaching, and to treatment. A relation, therefore, between dentistry and the various aspects of medicine has also been established through a process of evolution and experiment. Since there is a continually extending body of knowledge common to all the healing arts, the several basic science departments have been serving, and continue to serve all branches of practice. The recent reconstitution of the Faculty of Dentistry implies that instruction in dentistry will be independent of medicine but will remain in proximity to it. Our common purpose is the advancement of dentistry in its methods, in its accomplishments, in its scope, and in its dignity. All we need say of the future is that we shall continue, each in his way, to work for this aim. DR. SOLON A. ELLISON Arthur Bushel, D.D.S. Assoc. Prof, of Dental Public Health ;Curt Proskauer, D.M.D. Zvrator of the Museum Maxwell Karshan, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. of Biochemistry Wesley Halperr, D.D.S. Assoc, fn Bjocftemisfry Harry Van Dyke, Ph.D. Hosack Prof. of Pfiarmaco ogy Frederick G. Hofmann, Ph.D. Assf. Prof. of Pharmacology Shih-Chun Wang Ph.D., M.D. Prof, of Pharmacology Harry M. Rose, M.D. John E. Borne, Prof, of Med. and Surg. Research Herbert J. Bartelstone D.D.S. Asst. Prof. of Pharmacology lart W. Tanenboum Ph.D. Assoc. Prof, of Microbio ogy