Victor
Halperin
President, 1971-1972
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1975
Victor Halperin was born on December 20, 1915, in New York City. He attended the City College of New York and the University of Mississippi where he received his B.A. He received his B.S. (1939) and his D.D.S. (1941) from the University of Illinois. After nine months of general practice, he entered the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Dental Corps and was separated in 1946 with the rank of Major. He spent two years in general practice and was then appointed Dentist in the VA. He studied oral pathology at Ohio State University, receiving his Gradu ate Oral Pathologist Diploma (1952). He became Assistant Professor of Oral Pathology at Emory University (1953) and Associate Professor of Oral Pathology at Loyola University, New Orleans, (1955). He was named Professor and Dean of Loyola's dental school when it was in the process of becoming Louisiana State University School of Dentistry. He was a faculty member at LSU School of Medicine (1965--67), and then became Professor and Head of the Department of Oral Pathology at LSU School of Dentistry (1967) and Assistant Dean (1970), retiring in 1980. In 1983 he was appointed Professor of Oral Pathology at Miami--Dade County Community College.
Vic received the Robert F. Eastman Xi Psi Phi Alumni Award, the LSU Alumni Federation Distinguished Faculty Award, the American Cancer Society's Louisiana Chapter Award for Notable Service, and the Research Administration Award of the New Orleans Chapter of the American Association for Dental Research.
His publications include The occurrence of Fordyce spots, median rhomboid glossitis and fissured tongue in 2478 dental patients, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1953; Follow-up on adenoameloblastomas, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, Malignant ameloblastomas from 1953 to 1966, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1986; Recurrent ameloblastic fibroma, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1970; and Immunological studies on chronic severe resorptive disease, J Perio, 1973.
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.