Richard P.
Elzay
President, 1973-1974
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1974
Richard Elzay was born in Lima, Ohio, on December 6, 1931. He was on active duty in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 until 1954, and received his B.S. (1957), his D.D.S. (1960) and his M.S.D. (1962) from Indiana University. He was a USPHS Post- Doctoral Research Fellow at Indiana University, and in part-time general practice (1960-62). He served as an A.D. Williams Academic Research Fellow at Medical College of Virginia (1963), and was Assistant and Associate Professor, and became Professor of Pathology and Department Chairman at MCV School of Dentistry and Professor of Pathology in the medical school (1969). He was appointed Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry in 1986.
Dick has been Vice President of the Richmond Chapter of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and President of the Virginia Division of the American Cancer Society. In 1978 he was President of the American Board of Oral Pathology. He received the Meritorious Service Award from the Virginia Division of the American Cancer Society and has received outstanding teaching awards at the Medical College of Virginia.
His publications include Effects of simultaneous administration of parathyroid extract and estrogen upon teeth, periodontium and long bones of growing albino rats, J. Dent. Res., 1964; A comparative study of the dental health status of pre-Columbian Peruvian cultures, Am. J. Phys. Anthrop., 1977; Myxomas of the para-oral soft tissues, Oral Surg., Oral Med. & Oral Path., 1978; Primary intra--osseous carcinoma of the jaws: A review and update of odontogenic carcinomas, Oral Surg., Oral Med. & Oral Path., 1982; and Traumatic ulcerative granuloma with stromal eosinophilia (Riga-Fed's disease and traumatic eosinophilic granulona), Oral Surg., Oral Med. & Oral Path., 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.