Carl J.
Witkop
President, 1974-1975
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Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. Used with permission.
Photo: circa 1975
Carl Witkop was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on December 27, 1920. After graduating from Michigan State College, he received his D.D.S. (1949) and his M.S. (1954) from the University of Michigan. He was a captain in the U.S. Army (1942--46), received the Silver Star Medal. He was a dental intern at the USPHS Hospital in Seattle in 1949. Oral Pathologist at the NIDR (1950-1956), had a Teaching Fellow at the University of Michigan Medical School (1951--54), he also served on the Michigan State Board of Medical Examiners (1951-1954). He was Chief of the Human Genetics Section of NIDR and Director of the Brandywine (Maryland) Project (1956-1963). He also directed the Haliwa Project in North Carolina, was dental consultant assigned to the Atom Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima, Japan, the Dental Division of the Institute de Nutricion de Central America y Panama and the International Committee for Nutrition for National Development of Paraguay. He was Instructor at Georgetown University Medical School. Carl became Professor and Chairman of Human and Oral Genetics at the School of Dentistry, University of Minnesota in 1966. He also became Professor of Dermatology. In 1980 he was Visiting Professor at the Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital, University of London, England. He was President of the American Board of Pathology in 1985.
Carl received the Merit Award of the Brittle Bone Society and was Professor of the Year at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry.
Editor of Genetics and Dental Health, 1962, Carl's periodical publications include hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis, I. Oral manifestations and hereditary transmission. AMA Arch Path, 1960; Medical and dental findings in the Brandywine isolate, Alabama J Med Sci, 1966; hypoplastic enamel, onycholysis and hypohidrosis inherited as a dominant trait, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Path, 1976; hereditary mucoepithelial dysplasia, Am J Human Genetics, 1979; and auditory brainstem anomalies in human albinos, Science, 1980.
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.