Normal H.
Rickles
President, 1962-1963
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1963
Norman Rickles was born in Seattle, Washington, on May 8, 1920. After studying at Lower Columbia Junior College, the University of Washington and Texas A & M, he entered Washington University (St. Louis) School of Dentistry, and received his D.D.S. in 1947. He taught dental medicine at the University of California in San Francisco (1947-58), receiving his M.S. in 1951. From 1948 until 1951 he also was in general practice in San Francisco, and in 1952 held a Fellowship at AFIP.
In 1966 he joined the faculty at the University of Oregon, becoming Professor and Chairman of Oral Pathology in the dental school (1960) and Professor of Pathology in the medical school (1969). He took leave to serve as Fulbright Professor at the School of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and visiting Professor at Guys Hospital, London.
Norman Rickles publication include Cat scratch disease, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1960; Hypophosphatasia with premature shedding of teeth and aplasia of cementum, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1962; The histogenesis of branchial cysts: Part I, Am J Pathol, 1960; Inhibition of acidogenesis in human dental plaque in situ following use of topical sodium fluoride, Arch Oral Biol, 1971; and Oral exfoliative cytology: an adjunct to biopsy, CA - A Cancer J for Clin, 1972.
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.