Albert M.
Abrams
President, 1983-1984
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1982
Albert Abrams was born in Los Angeles on June 7, 1931. He received his D.D.S. from the University of California, San Francisco, in 1957, and entered into general practice in Santa Monica, California, for one year until he became Instructor in Oral Pathology and Periodontics at the University of Southern California during the next year. He was a graduate student in general pathology at University of Southern California School of Medicine and Los Angeles General Hospital (1959-62), and received his M.S. in 1961. He was a USPHS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (1960-62) and continued on that fellowship while an Oral Pathology Resident at AFIP (1962-64). He was a Research Fellow in Cytopathology at Los Angeles General Hospital in 1964-65. Abrams was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Pathology (1965-71) at the USC School of Dentistry. Since 1971 he has been Professor of Pathology at the Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, and Program Director of Clinical Cancer Training. He has been department chairman since 1965.
Al was Chairman of the Section of Oral Pathology of the ADA Council on Scientific Sessions and President of the Southern California Academy of Oral Pathology. President of the American Board of Oral Pathology (1982). he received the Dart Award for Innovations in Teaching from the University of Southern California. He led the presentation of the Academy's opposition to the proposed changes in the ADA's requirements for recognition of specialty areas and chaired the group which prepared an effective report that led to recertification of Oral Pathology as a specialty of dentistry.
Al Abrams publications include Acinic cell adenocarcinoma of major salivary glands: A clinicopathologic study of 77 cases, Cancer, 1973; Mucoepidermoid tumors of the intraoral minor salivary glands, J Oral Pathol, 1973; Florid osseous dysplasia: A clinicopathologic study of 34 cases, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1976; and Juvenile fibromatosis affecting the jaws, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1980.
These notes and photos are from: Robinson HBG. History of the American Academy of Oral Pathology 1946-1987. The American Academy of Oral Pathology, Chicago, 1988, pp. 1-100. Used with permission.