Robert G.
Boyers
President, 1975-1976
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1973
Robert Boyers was born in Morgan town, West Virginia, on November 15, 1924, attended Duke University and the University of West Virginia, and then received his D.D.S. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1952. He received his M.S. from Georgetown University in 1961. He was in general practice in Morgantown (1952-54) and in the U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston (1954-55). Visitor in Oral Pathology at Landstuhl Army Hospital (1956-58), he was Junior Staff Pathologist at AFIP and Graduate Assistant in Oral Pathology at Georgetown University (1958-61). He served as Resident Assistant in Oral Pathology at Georgetown and Chief of Oral Pathology at Walter Reed Army Institute of Pathology. From 1963 until 1966 he was Chief of Oral Diagnosis and Preventive Dentistry and Chief of Oral Pathology Laboratory Service at Landstuhl Army Medical Center, diagnosing and reviewing all oral surgical specimens for Armed Services in Europe, Africa and the Near East. He was Assistant Chief of the Department of Oral Pathology, Army Institute of Dental Research at Walter Reed Hospital (1966--69), and Chief of the Dental and Oral Divisions and the Oral Tumors Branch of AFIP (1966--73). He also served as Registrar of the American Registry of Oral Pathology. Bob was Lecturer in Oral Pathology and Professor of Histopathology at Howard University School of Dentistry, Lecturer in Oral Pathology at West Virginia University School of Dentistry, Assistant Professor of Oral Pathology and of Forensic Sciences at Georgetown University. He retired from the Army with the rank of Colo nel, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine as well as Oral Pathology.
His publications include Bone induction in soft tissues of the jaws using decalcified dentin matrix, Ann. Progress Rep., U.S. Army Inst. Dent. Research, 1968; Adenoid squamous cell carcinoma of the oral labial mucosa, Oral Surg., Oral Med. & Oral Path., 1971; Mixed tumors of the salivary glands, Cancer, 1972; and Salivary gland lesions in children. A survey of 430 cases, Cancer, 1972.
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.