Program Director, Residency, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Roser is a Professor of Surgery and the residency program director in the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Surgery at the Emory School of Medicine. He is also Chief of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Service at Grady memorial Hospital. Dr. Roser received his dental and medical degrees from Harvard. Following the completion of residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA in 1973, he joined the faculty at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA. From 1979-1981 he was Chair of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine. In 1981 he was appointed Division Director or Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Columbia University College of Dentistry and Director of the Presbyterian Hospital Dental Service in New York. During his twenty three years at Columbia, he was appointed as the Georg Guttman Professor of Craniofacial Surgery and he developed a combined MD oral and maxillofacial surgery residency training program. In 2001 he was appointed as Director of Graduate Medical Education for the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital. In 2004, he left NY to join the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine as Chief of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He received the Delos Hill Chair in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2016. He is currently the residency program director for Emory Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery training program which has twenty one residents enrolled in four year and six year OMS/MD training tracks. The program provides coverage for the Emory affiliated hospitals including Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Grady Memorial Hospital, Egleston Children’s Hospital and the Atlanta VA Medical Center. He also serves on the Emory School of Medicine’s Admissions Committee, the Curriculum Committee, he is Chair of the Department of Surgery Global Surgery Committee and is the lead for the Emory Global Perioperative Health Alliance. In addition to his interest in education, starting in 1991, Dr. Roser has organized international surgical outreach programs performing surgical repair of cleft lip/palate deformities primarily in Latin America. He is currently the Chair of the Committee on Global Surgery for the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and on the Permanent Council for the G4 Alliance. He received the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the American Association of Oral and maxillofacial Surgeons 2011, the Humanitarian Award for Relief Efforts in Haiti, Fraternal Order of Police, Surgeon’s Lodge #3, May 2010, the Maislin Award for Achievements in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, New York College of Dentistry, May 2010, the Donald Osbon Educator of the Year Award, American Association of Oral and maxillofacial Surgeons presented at the 2017 AAOMS Annual Meeting, the Distinguished Service Award from the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2018 and the Humanitarian Award from the American College of Surgeons in 2022.
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