Presidents of the AAOMP

S. Miles Standish
President, 1972-1973
   

©American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1978

Miles Standish, born in Campells burg, Indiana, July 6, 1923, received his D.D.S. from Indiana University in 1946. He taught par--time in Diagnosis, Periodontics and Oral Pathology at Indiana (1947-57), receiving his M.S. in Oral Pathology in 1956. In 1958 he began teaching Oral Pathology on a full-time basis. He became Associate Professor (1962), Director of Animal Research Quarters, Professor and Chairman of Clinical Oral Pathology and Assistant Dean. He was promoted to Associate Dean (1974) and became Chairman of the Department of Oral Diagnosis/Oral Medicine. He also was Adjunct Professor of Oral Diagnosis/Oral Medicine at the University of Louisville.

Secretary of the American Academy of Oral Pathology (1964-70) and President of the American Board of Oral Pathology (1979), he was also President of the Delaware County Dental Society and Chairman of the Clinical Cancer Training Committee of the National Cancer Institute. A Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve Corps, he has been Commanding Officer of the Naval Reserve Company, 9-8.

Miles is co-author of Maxillofacial Prosthesis, 1972, Oral Diagnosis/Oral Medicine, 1978, and Outline of Forensic Dentistry, 1982. Other publications include Lateral periodontal cysts, J Perio, 1958; Experimental carcinogenesis in duct-ligated submaxillary gland of the rat, Am J Pathol, 1960; Focal osteoporotic bone marrow defects of the jaws, J Oral Surg Anesth Hosp Dent, 1961; Striated muscle regeneration after chemical injury, Arch Pathol, 1964; and Regenerative changes in rat tongue muscle following crushing injury, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol, 1970.

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.