Barnet M.
Levy
President, 1969-1970
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1970
Barnet Levy was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on January 12, 1917, received his A.B. (1938) and his D.D.S. (1942) from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.S. in Bacteriology and Pathology from the Medical College of Virginia (1944). He was Instructor in Bacteriology at Medical College of Virginia (1942- 44). Assistant and Associate Professor of Bacteriology and Pathology at Washington University (St. Louis) School of Dentistry (1944--49), Levy became Associate in Pathology in its medical school. He served as Chief of Dental Staff at St. Louis City Hospital (1946--48). He was Professor of Dentistry at Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1949--56) and was also a member of the medical faculty. In 1957 he moved to the University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston as Professor of Pathology and became Director of the University of Texas Dental Science Institute (1975), Adjunct Professor of Veterinary Anatomy at Texas A & M University, and Adjunct Foundation Scientist at Southwest Foundation for Research and Education. He was Visiting Professor at Universidad Autonoma de Mexico in 1979. In 1982 he took a sabbatical at Salk Institute, La Jolla, California and Columbia University.
Bar Levy has been Chairman of the Dental Study Section of NIDR and a member of the Committee on Dentistry of the National Academy of Sciences, of the National Advisory Council on Dental Research, and of the Conference Board of the Fulbright Screening Committee. He was Chair man of the Houston Board of Health for four years. President of the I.A.D.R. (1955--56), and Editor of the Journal of Dental Research (1976--82), he was President of the American Board of Oral Pathology in 1966. Honors include the Isaac Schour Award of the I.A.D.R., the Alumni Award of Merit from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry, the Fred Birnberg Research Medal from Columbia University Dental Alumni, Award for Distinguished Service from the Amer ican Association for Dental Research and the Ignacio Chavez Distinguished Professorship at the University of Mexico.
Co-author of the Textbook of Oral Pathology (1958 et subq.), his contributions to the periodical literature include Experimental production of jaw tumors in hamsters, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1950; Studies on salivary calculus I; Histochemical investigations of supra- and sub-gingival calculus, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, The marmoset periodontium in health and disease, Monogr Oral Sc, 1963; Periodontal status of patients with abnormalities of the immune system, J Perio Res, 1978; and Comparison of plaque micro flora in immunodeficient and immunocompetent patients, J Dent Res, 1979.
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.