Alan J.
Drinnan
President, 1979-1980
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1979
Alan Drinnan was born in Bristol, England, on April 6, 1932, and became a U.S. citizen after moving to Buffalo, New York. He received his B.D.S. from Bristol University Dental School (1954) and his M.B., Ch.B. from Bristol University Medical School and his F.D.S. from the Royal College of Surgeons of London in 1962. He served as Dental Officer in the British Army (1955-57). He was Tutor in Oral Surgery at Bristol University (1957-8), and received his D.D.S. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, (SUNYAB) in 1964. He was a Medical Intern at Buffalo General Hospital (1964-5), Assistant and Associate Professor of Oral Medicine at SUNYAB (1964-70) where he has served as Professor since 1970. He was Director of Hospital Dental Service (1971-78) and Assistant Dean for Hospital and Intramural Programs since 1978. He has also been Chief of Dental Service at Buffalo General Hospital since 1969, and has been consultant for WHO to Port Moresby Dental College in New Guinea and the University of Damascus, Syria. He has served at the University of Papua, the University of Melbourne, Australia, and at the University of Cairo, Egypt. He chaired the Working Group on Forensic Dentistry of the FDI.
Alan received the Albert Lasker Medical Journalism Award and was Senior Scholar as a Fulbright Awardee at the University of Melbourne.
He is co-author of Physical evaluation of the dental patient, 1982, and a translation from the Latin of Froriep's 1892 Aspects of the Tongue, 1982. His periodical publications include Dangers of using radiolucent dental materials, J Am Dent Assoc 1967; Medical-dental relationships, Dent Clin N Am, 1968; Idiopathic mandibular bone cavity, Arch Otolaryngol, 1974; Anatomy and physiology of the edentulous mouth, Dent Clin N Am, 1977; and Education for forensic odontology, Internat Dent J, 1979.
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.