Hamilton
B. G. Robinson
Founder & President,
1953-1954
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1959
Hamilton Robinson was born in Philadelphia on February 16, 1910. He received his D.D.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1934 and accepted an appointment as a Rockefeller Fellow in Dentistry in the Department of Pathology at the University of Rochester. He received his M.S. in pathology in 1936 and for the next year, while still a member of the Pathology Department, was assigned to oral surgery as the equivalent of a resident. In 1938 Ham was appointed Assistant Professor of Oral Histology and Pathology at Washington University (St. Louis) in the dental school and Assistant Professor of Pathology in the medical school. He also served as chief of dental service at St. Louis City and Homer Phillips Hospital. In 1944 he became Professor of Dentistry at Ohio State University's dental school and Professor of Pathology at its medical school. He was Chief of Dental Service at University Hospital and in 1952 became associate Dean. In 1958 he became Dean at the University of Kansas City, which became the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He served as Dean until his retirement in 1975 except for 1967-68 when he was Acting Chancellor of the University.
He was President of the American Board of Oral Pathology in 1952, 1957 and 1960, first Editor of the Academy and a Director of the American Board of Oral Medicine. He has been President of the Columbus Dental Society, the Columbus Board of Health, the Council of Associations of the Health Professions, the International Association for Dental Research, the American Association of Dental Schools, the Pierre Fauchard Academy, and First Vice President of the ADA and Chairman of its Council on Dental Education. He has been a member of the National Advisory Councils on Dental Research and Community Health and of the Board of Councilors of the NIDR He was the Webb-Johnson Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons (London), the Burket Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and has received the Tufts Award for Leadership in Oral Pathology, the Fauchard Gold Medal, the Jarvie-Burkhardt Medal, the Callahan Memorial Medal, the International Research Award of the Massachusetts Dental Society, the University of Pennsylvania's Alumni Award of Merit, the Centennial Achievement Award of the Ohio State University, the Hinman Distinguished Service Award and the Presidents Distinguished Service Award of the Academy. He received the ScD degree from Georgetown University.
Ham was Editor of the Journal of Dental Research, Journal of the Ohio State Dental Society, Dental Survey and Dental World. He is co-author of Oral and Dental Diagnosis (1955), Colby, Kerr and Robinson's Color Atlas of Oral Pathology (1956), Editor of Tumors of the Oral Regions (1957) and co-editor of the Year Books of Dentistry since 1949. His publications in the periodical literature include Ameloblastoma, Arch Pathol, 1937; Anachoretic effect in pulpitis, Arch Pathol, 1942; Anachoretic effect in pulpitis, J Amer Dent Assoc, 1942; Osseous dysplasia: reaction of bone to injury, J Oral Surg, 1956; Osteogenesis imperfecta and odontogenesis imperfecta, J Pediatrics, 1960; and Classification of cysts of the jaws, Amer J Ortho Oral Surg, 1945.
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.