Henry M.
Goldman
President, 1952-1953
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1950
Henry Goldman was born in Boston on December 9, 1911. He received his D.M.D. from Harvard Dental School in 1935. He was appointed a Research Fellow in Oral Pathology and from 1937 until 1946 he was Instructor in Oral Pathology at Harvard. He was Professor of Periodontology at the University of Pennsylvania (1943--59). From 1964 until 1977 he was Dean of the Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry. In 978 the school was renamed the Henry M. Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry. He continued as Professor of Oral Pathology, as Chairman of Stomatology at Boston University Medical School and as Associate Director of the University's Medical Center.
During World War II he was stationed at the Army Medical Museum in charge of the Dental-Oral and Eye-Nose and Throat Sections. A founder and President of the American Academy of Oral Pathology, he was a director of the American Board of Periodontology and a diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine. Henry has been President of the American Society of Periodontists and the Metropolitan District Dental Society. He received honorary ScD degrees from New Jersey College of Dentistry, Boston University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Among other honors, he received the Fones Award, the Alpha Omega Award the Harvard Dental Centennial Award, the Gold Medal of the American Academy of Periodontology and the Gies Award in Periodontology. The University of Pennsylvania established the Henry M. Goldman Award in Periodontology.
He has been Editor of Periodontics (1963--68) and of the Journal of Periodontics (1968--69). He is co-author of Periodontal Therapy. His contributions to the periodical literature include Pathology of dental cementum, J Amer Dent Assoc, 1939; Odontogenic tumors, Amer J Pathol, 1946; The behavior of transeptal fibers in periodontal disease, J Dent Res, 1957; Odontogenic mixed tumors: observations concerning inductive effects, Surg Clinics N Amer, 1969; and Role of endotoxins in periodontal disease, J Periodontol, 1970.
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.