Charles L.
Dunlap
President, 1980-1981
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1980
Born in Stigler, Oklahoma, on January 24, 1935, Charles Dunlap received his D.D.S. degree (1960) and the Graduate Diploma in Oral Pathology (1964) from the University of Missouri - Kansas City. (The University conferred the title of Graduate Oral Pathologist as the equivalent of the masters degree, as more representative of post-doctoral education in the dental specialty.) In 1964 Charles was appointed Assistant Professor of Dentistry (Oral Pathology) and Department Chairman, and, in 1972, was made Professor. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Kansas Medical Center.
Charles is the Oral Pathology Representative to the Physician-in-Residence program at the VA. He received the Outstanding Teacher Award at UMKC School of Dentistry nine times. During his tenure, although a strong supporter of continuing education, he opposed mandatory continuing education for diplomats of the Board. He organized the Boards voluntary reassessment examinations during the Academy meetings beginning in 1978 and terminating when the ADA ceased to pursue requirements for recertification. He was President of the Academy and of the Board simultaneously.
His publications include Metastatic retinoblastoma, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1968; Necrotizing sialometaplasia, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1974; Giant cell hyalin angiopathy, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1977; Myospherulosis of the jaws, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1980; and Melanocyte colonization of oral squamous cell carcinoma, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1981.
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.