Leon
Eisenbud
President, 1982-1983
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1982
Leon Eisenbud was born in New York City on October 20, 1917, received his B.S. from City College of New York (1936), and his D.D.S. from New York University School of Dentistry (1940). He served as Rotating Intern at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York (1940-41) and as a Captain in the U.S. Army Dental Corps (1943-46). He was Associate Professor of Pathology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (1966-71), Lecturer in Pathology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (1975), Professor of Oral Pathology at the School of Dental Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Lecturer in Oral Pathology at Harvard University School of Dental Medicine and Preceptor in the Graduate Program in Health Care Administration at the University of Pennsylvania.
Leon has long been active in hospital-related programs at Mt. Sinai Hospital (1941-76), and Chairman of the Department of Dentistry at Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center (1955-83). President of the Medical Board of Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center (1974-76), he was also President of the Metropolitan Conference of Hospital Dental Chiefs and a founder of the American Association of Hospital dentists. He served as Chairman of the ADA Council on Hospitals and Institutional Dentistry (1975-78).
In 1986, Eisenbud received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Dental Association.
Leon's contributions to the literature include Analysis of oral reactions to dilantin sodium, J Dent Res, 1943; Histochemical analysis of white lesions of the mouth, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1962; The role of sialography in the diagnosis and therapy of chronic obstructive sialadenitis, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1963; Chemotherapy for head and neck cancer relapsing after radiation, Cancer, 1981; and Oral Presentations in 31 cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Part I, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1983.
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.