William C.
Shafer
President, 1956-1957
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1956
William Shafer, born in Toledo, Ohio, on November 16, 1923, received his D.D.S. from Ohio State University in 1947 and his M.S. from the University of Rochester in 1949. He was an Eastman Fellow in Dentistry and a National Institutes of Health Re search Fellow at the University of Rochester. In 1950 he became an Instructor in Oral Histopathology at Indiana University School of Dentistry, and became Professor in 1959 and Distinguished Professor in 1971.
Bill Shafer was Secretary of the American Board of Oral Pathology (1961--67) and its President in 1970. He was ADA representative to the American Registry of Pathology (1978-- 86) and a member of the Board of Directors of AFIP. He developed the advanced oral pathology residency program at Indiana University from which many distinguished oral path ologists have graduated.
Principal author of Shafer, Hine and Levy's Textbook of Oral Pathology, 1958, his publications in the periodical literature include Verruciform xanthoma, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1971; Verrucous carcinoma, Internat Dent J, 1972; Oral carcinoma in situ, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1975; Erythroplakia of the oral cavity, Cancer, 1975; and Leukoplakia revisited: a clinicopathologic study of 3286 oral leukoplakias, Cancer, 1975.
He retired in 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.