Francis V.
Howell
President, 1968-1969
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1969
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on January 12, 1928, Francis Howell served in the U.S. Army Infantry (1942--46). He received his A.B. from Stanford University, and in 1950, his D.D.S. from the College of the Pacific. He was an ADA Fellow at the AFIP and Instructor at Georgetown University School of Dentistry (1950- 52). Associate Professor and Department Head at the University of Oregon School of Dentistry (1952--56), he was also Instructor in Oral Medicine in the medical school. He was Associate Professor of Pathology and Director of Graduate Programs for Dentists at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry (1956- 70) and Special Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In 1968 he became associated with the University of California, San Diego, as Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology. In 1963 he began his association with Loma Linda University School of Dentistry as Professor of Oral Pathology. An advocate of laboratory practice independent of school affiliation, he conducted such practice and consultation in Portland, Oregon, and in Los Angeles, in San Diego (combined with endodontics), in San Francisco and, since 1963, in La Jolla. A member of the Scripps Memorial Hospital since 1963, he has been Chairman of its Department of Oral Medicine and Stomatology since 1978. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Technologica de Mexico. In 1975 Frank was President of the American Board of Oral Pathology.
His publications include Necrotizing sialometaplasia, Cancer, 1973; Focal osteoporotic bone marrow defects of the jaws, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1974; The calcifying odontogenic cyst: Report of four cases, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1968; Lymphocytic phenotype and syndrome, J Clin Invest, 1983; and Ocular and oral problems in arthritis, Postgrad Med, 1985.
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.