Fall 2006 - College of Dental Medicine - Columbia University

Alumni NotesIRVING KITTAY ’41 was made an Honorary Fellow bythe American Academy of Craniofacial Pain in July. Dr.Kittay was honored for “contributions to dental educationas demonstrated by his lifetime achievementsand his skill, knowledge and experience in the diagnosisand treatment of Craniofacial Pain andTemporomandibular Joint Disorders.” Dr. Kittay is anadjunct assistant professor in the Division of Oralamd Maxillofacial Surgery at CDM, an assistant clinicalprofessor in the Division of Oral Biology andPathology at Stony Brook University, and a lecturerand assistant attending at Mt. Sinai Medical Center.NORMAN MENKEN ’43 is still practicing dentistrypart time and teaching at the Rose Kennedy Centerof Albert Einstein College of Medicine.ALEXANDER B. SMITH ’43, ORTHO ’61 reportsthat he is now 88 years old.HAROLD BAURMASH ’48, ORTHO ’53, a retiredclinical professor who taught at CDM for 40 years, isstill actively writing and publishing scientific papers,the majority of which have been published in theJournal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.JEANO M. DEMARTIN ORTHO ’58 reports that heretired in 2003.JOEL M. FRIEDMAN ’68 is an elected member of theBoard of the New York State Society of Oral &Maxillofacial Surgeons and an alternate delegate toAAOMS. In addition, he is a governor of NYSDA,representing the Bronx. He was inducted into theInternational Academy for Dental Facial Estheticsand the New York Academy of Dentistry.PAULA K. FRIEDMAN ’74, Associate Dean forAdministration at the Boston University School ofMedicine, was elected to serve as Guest BoardMember on the Board of Trustees of theMassachusetts Dental Society.ALBERT KURPIS ’74 and his daughter, LAURENKURPIS ’89, visited relatives and friends in Europethis summer, spending one day in Gdansk, Poland,with close family friend, Lech Walesa, the formerPolish President and Nobel Peace Prize winner(above). Dr. Kurpis reports that, while just “hangingout” in President Walesa’s backyard, they spent thetime discussing politics and, what else? – “dentistry!”TIMOTHY TURVEY ’74 has been awarded honorarymembership in the Hellenic Association of Oral andMaxillofacial Surgeons. The induction took place inAthens in November 2005 at the 19th AnnualConference of the Hellenic Association of Oral andMaxillofacial Surgery, where he presented several lectures.Dr. Turvey is professor and chairman of theDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at theUniversity of North Carolina School of Dentistry.ROBERT J. EISENBERG ’76 was awarded Fellowship inthe American College of Dentists in October 2005.SYNGCUK KIM ’76, ENDO ’78 was presented withthe Ralph F. Sommer Award by the AmericanAssociation of Endodontists at the Annual Sessionheld in Hawaii in March 2006. He was honored forhis pioneering research on pulpal physiology andmicrocirculation and its profound effect on modernendodontics. Dr. Kim is chairman of theDepartment of Endodontics at the University ofPennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.MICHAEL KURTZ ’77 is coauthor of an updatedchapter on Dental Injuries in a book entitled SportsMedicine:A Comprehensive Approach. In 2005, he wasmade a Fellow of the Academy for Sports Dentistry,which has so honored only 35 other fellows worldwide.22primus2006