David G.
Gardner
President, 1984-1985
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1983
David Gardner was born in Darlington, England, February 14, 1936. He emigrated to Canada where he became a citizen in 1957. He received his D.D.S. from the University of Toronto (1958) and his M.S.D. from Indiana University (1965). He served in the Royal Canadian Dental Corps (1956-63). He was Assistant Professor of Oral Medicine at the University of British Columbia (1955-66), Associate Professor of Oral Pathology at the University of Western Ontario (1966-70), being appointed Chairman of the Division in 1970 and Professor in 1973. The next year he was on sabbatical leave at Guys Hospital in London. During a sabbatical leave (1981-82) he was at the AFIP. In 1984 he moved to the United States where he became Chairman of Pathology and Radiology at the Health Sciences Center of the University of Texas Dental Branch in Houston. In 1987, he was appointed Dean of the University of Colorado School of Dentistry.
David held a Dental Research Fellowship of the National Research Council of Canada (1963-65), a Fellowship of the Physicians Services Incorporated (1973-74), and the Ontario Ministry of Health Fellowship (1981-82). He chaired a task force of the Ontario Department of Health on dental needs of mentally retarded in provincial institutions.
His publications include Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor: An amyloid-producing neoplasm, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1968; Peripheral ameloblastoma. A study of 21 cases including 5 reported as basal cell carcinoma of the gingiva, Cancer, 1977; Plexiform unicystic ameloblastoma, Cancer, 1984; A pathologists approach to treatment of ameloblastoma, J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 1984; The use of the terms of monomorphic adenoma, basal cell adenoma and canalicular adenoma as applied to salivary gland tumors, 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.