Winter 2012 - College of Dental Medicine - Columbia University

alumni notes
Donald Olsen ’57 lives in DeLand, Florida with his wife of
57 years, Ruth. Dr. Olsen keeps busy playing the cello in
two orchestras and enjoying his 13 grandchildren.
Robert Tauber ’62 is the 2012 recipient of the Ninth
District Dental Association's highest award, the D. Austin
Sniffen Medal of Honor. Dr. Tauber, an assistant clinical
professor in the Section of Adult Dentistry at CDM,
was joined at the August ceremony by friends and
Columbia classmates.
(RIGHT, l. to r.) NYSDA Past President Michael Breault;
Interim Dean Ronnie Myers ’79, Peds ’80; Assistant
Professor, Operative Dentistry, Mark Tenner ’62; Past
President, CT Dental Association, George Lacovara
’62; Dr. Tauber; Director, AEGD Program, Philip
Terman ’62; and Chair, Section of Adult Dentistry,
Richard Lichtenthal ’62.
Joel Friedman ’68:
2013 NYSDA President
Joel Friedman ‘68 is President-Elect of the New York State
Dental Association, one of the largest state constituencies
of the ADA, representing more than 13,000 of the state’s
dentists, and will become the association’s president in 2013.
Dr. Friedman has also served as president of the New York State
Dental Society of Anesthesiology and the Bronx County Dental
Society. He has been an active member of the New York State
Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, holding a number
of positions, including membership on the Board of Trustees,
Vice President,Treasurer, Secretary, and President. An associate
clinical professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at CDM since
1994, Dr. Friedman is currently a full-time associate professor of
Clinical Surgery at NYPH-Weill Cornell Medical School. From
1976 to1992, he was also Director of OMFS at Jacobi Medical
Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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