Special Care in Dentistry's Editorial Board

Sidney Epstein, DDS o f t h e International Association for Dental Re-

Dr. Esptein is a graduate o f the College of Phy-
sicians 8( Surgeons School o f Dentistry (1937).
H e i s presently associate professor o f clinical
pharmacology at t h e College of Physicians Ct
Surgeons and University o f t h e Pacific; clinical
professor, Stanford University School of M e d -
icine; chief, department o f dentistry, Mount
Zion Hospital and Medical Center (1955 to 1971),
senior dentist (1971 to present); director o f t h e
dental department at t h e Jewish H o m e f o r t h e
Aged; coordinator o f the geriatric program a n d
curricula at the University of California at Sari
Francisco School o f Dentistry; and clinical pro-
tessor, department of public and health and
hygiene at UCSF School o f Dentistry.
D r . Epstein has been on t h e editorial boards
of the Journal of Dental Anesthesiology, Dental
Abstracts, and the American Association of
HosFital Dental Chiefs. H e i s a book reviewer
and editorial reviewer f o r the Journal of the
American Dental Association. H e was editor for
the geriatric section of Special Care in Dentistry
since its inception. D r . Epstein has written ap-
proximately 70 scientific papers. H e i s a con-
sultant to Stedman's Medical Dictionary and is
co-editor of Clinical Geriatric Dentistry. H e is a
past-president of the American Association of
Dental Editors.
D r . Epsrein is a fellow of t h e American As-
s o c i a t i o n f o r t h e A d v a n c e m e n t o f Science,
American College o f Dentists, and the Inter-
national College of Dentists. H e i s a m e m b e r
search, t h e American Dental Association a n d
affiliates, Sigma X I (Stanford), Alpha Omega
Fraternity, American Society o f Gerontology, and
is on t h e Board of Directors, F r o m m Institute.
D r . Epstein i s a past president, San Francisco
Dental Society; past director, California State
Dental Association; past president, American
Society f o r Geriatric Dentistry; and past ptesi-
dent, Western Association of Hospital D e n -
tists. H e i s on t h e Board o f Directors o f t h e
H o m e w o o d Terrace, Childcare agency, and t h e
Jewish Family Services and Childcare Agency.
H e was also a consultant to t h e 1981 W h i t e
House Conference on Aging.
Henry L. Kanar, DDS, MS
D r . Kanar is associate professor of dentistry,
department o f pediatric dentistry, University o f
Michigan. H e has clinical appointments with
t h e department o f hospital dentistry and M o t t s
Children's Hospital. H e i s also a m e m b e r o f t h e
Cleft Palate Team, consultant to the General
Practice Residency Program, m e m b e r of t h e
Dental School Admissions Committee, the
Emergency a n d Resuscitation Committee, a n d
chairman o f t h e Special Patient Committee.
D r . Kanar's p r e v i o u s experience i n c l u d e s
b e i n g on t h e dental staff of Wayne C o u n t y

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General Hospital; director of the dental de-
partment of the Plymouth State Home; and
program director for dentistry at the Institute
for the Study of Mental Retardation and Re-
lated Disabilities at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Kanar received his undergraduate edu-
cation from the University of Detroit and grad-
uated from the University of Detroit Dental
School i n 1957. He received a master’s of sci-
ence in pedodontics from the University of
Michigan in 1971. His master’s thesis won the
Student Thesis Award of the Academy of Pe-
diatric Dentistry that year. Dr. Kanar i s a mem-
ber of Omicron Kappa Upsilon and a fellow
and past board member and president of the
Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped.
H. Asuman Kiyak, PhD
Dr. Kiyak received a master’s degree and doc-
tor of philosophy degree in social psychology
from Wayne State University in 1978. Her dis-
sertation focused on person-environment in-
teractions in older adults who move to nursing
homes. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psy-
chology and classics from the University of
Michigan .
In 1977, Dr. Kiyak joined the faculty of the
University of Washington, where she i s cur-
rently associate professor in the department of
oral and maxillofacial surgery in the School of
Dentistry, and adjunct associate professor i n
the departments of Psychology and Architec-
ture. She directs the Program i n Geriatric Den-
tistry and serves on the policy boards of the
Institute on Aging and the Geriatric Education
Center at the University of Washington.
Dr. Kiyak’s research interests range from
dental behaviors and health service utilization
by older persons, to the psychological impact
of major dental procedures such as osseoin-
tegrated implants and orthognathic surgery.
Within the field of gerontology, Dr. Kiyak has
conducted research and published in the areas
of life events and coping behavior, attiiudes,
and Alzheimer’s disease. She has obtained
grants from the National Institute of Dental Re-
search, the National institute on Aging, and the
American Fund for Dental Health. She has
served on study sections for the National In-
stitutes of Health and NIDR, as well as review-
ing grants for the AFDH and National Institute
of Mental Health.
Dr. Kiyak is currently on the Programs Ad-
visory Committee for NIDR. In addition, she
serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Ceron-
tology, Journal of Cerodontology, American
Journal of Orthodontics, and the Journal of the
American Dental Association. Her professional
memberships include the American Society for
Geriatric Dentistry, American Psychological As-
sociation, the Gerontological Sotiety of Amer-
ica, I n t e r n a t i o n a l Association f o r Dental
Research, and the Environmental Design Re-
search Association.
Roseann Mulligan, DDS
Dr. Mulligan is currently assistant professor in
the School of Dentistry, and chairman of the
section of geriatric and special patient dentistry
at the University of Southern California. She
holds a faculty position with the Pacific Geria-
tric Center in the University of Southern Cali-
fornia School of Medicine and i s a Fellow of
the U C W U S C Long-term Care Gerontology
Center.
Dr. Mulligan received her dental degree from
UCLA and her General Practice Residency cer-
tificate from Rancho Los Amigos Rehabilitation
Hospital. Before going to USC, Dr. Mulligan
was the General Practice Residency Program
Director at Rancho Los Amigos Rehabilitation
Hospital and on the dental faculties of UCLA,
Cerritos College, and West LA College. She ex-
pects to receive her master’s degree in ger-
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 ontology from USC in May.
Dr. Mulligan i s on the executive board of the
Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped as
well as being secretary of that organization and
the editor of its newsletter. She has been a
member of the editorial review board of Spe-
cial Care in Dentistry since its inception. Other
journalistic experience includes being editor of
the American Association of Women Dentists’
Chronicle, for which she received two jour-
nalism awards from the International College
of Dentistry.
Dr. Mulligan holds memberships i n a num-
ber of other professional organizations inside
and outside of dentistry, including the Ameri-
can Dental Association, the International As-
sociation of Dental Researchers, the American
Society of Geriatric Dentistry, and the Ceron-
tologic Society of America.
She is principal investigator of an NIH grant
examining “Diabetes Risk Assessment in the El-
derly Dental Patient” and has published sci-
entific papers in the fields of special patients
and geriatrics.
Louis F. Rose, DDS, MD
Dr. Rose received his dental degree from Tem-
ple University School of Dentistry and his grad-
uate training in periodontics at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. He
received his medical degree from the Medical
College of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Rose i s professor of medicine and sur-
gery, and chief of dental medicine at the Med-
ical College of Pennsylvania and professor of
periodontics at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Dental Medicine. He i s also a Diplo-
mate of the American Academy of Periodon-
tology, a Fellow of the American Association of
Hospital Dentists, a member of the College of
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Physicians of Philadelphia, is chairman of the
Board of juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Phila-
delphia chapter, and i s in private practice, per-
iodontics, in Philadelphia.
Dr. Rose i s a nationally and internationally
invited lecturer i n the areas of periodontics,
medicine, and dentistry and has published nu-
merous articles and textbooks on these sub-
jects, including the internationally acclaimed
textbook, Internal Medicine for Dentistry.
Stephen T. Sonis, DMD, DMSc
Dr. Sonis i s currently the chief of the dental
service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in
Boston. Dr. Sonis received his DMD from Tufts
University, a DMSc at Harvard University, and
did his postdoctoral training in tumor immu-
nology, from 1976 to 1977 at Oxford University
i n England.
I n addition to his position at Brigham and
Women’s Hospital, Dr. Sonis i s associate pro-
fessor of oral medicine and oral pathology at
the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He also
holds hospital appointments at the Dana Far-
ber Cancer Institute, Children’s Hospital Med-
ical Center, New England Deaconess Hospital,
and i s a consultant i n dental surgery at Beth
Israel Hospital. Dr. Sonis is a member of nu-
merous dental and research associations, in-
cluding the American Association of Hospital
Dentists. His research interests include oral
medicine, immunology, and hospital-based
dental practice. He has written extensively i n
these areas. He has authored and edited four
major texts on the fields of oral medicine, hos-
pital dental practice, and oral oncology.