Skip to main content
2024 AAOMS 106th Annual Meeting Main banner
Icon Legend
This session is not in your schedule.
This session is in your schedule. Click again to remove it.
Presentation Icons
Ticketed <br><i>This session/event requires a ticket.</i>
Ticketed
This session/event requires a ticket.
In-person only<br><i>This session is offered in-person only.</i>
In-person only
This session is offered in-person only.
On-demand<br><i>On-demand session available beginning Sept. 9.</i>
On-demand
On-demand session available beginning Sept. 9.
Recorded<br><i>This session will be recorded and available beginning Sept. 30.</i>
Recorded
This session will be recorded and available beginning Sept. 30.
Sold Out<br><i>This ticketed session/event is sold out.</i>
Sold Out
This ticketed session/event is sold out.
2024 Oral Abstract Award
2024 Oral Abstract Award
Poster Icons
Poster Winner
Poster Winner
Back

Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD

Chief, emeritus
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD, FACS

Leonard B. Kaban is the Walter C. Guralnick Distinguished Professor and Chief, Emeritus of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is the author or co-author of 5 books and over 360 original papers on such topics as hemifacial microsomia, jaw tumors in children, temporomandibular joint ankylosis, vascular anomalies, reconstructive surgery and facial trauma in children.

Dr. Kaban received his Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude) from Queens College of the City University of NY in 1965, his DMD (cum laude) from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) in 1969, his MD degree from Harvard Medical School in 1973 and completed the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) Residency Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1974. After training, Kaban joined the staff of the then Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital as the first full time pediatric oral and maxillofacial surgeon. In 1985, he accepted the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He returned to Boston in January 1994 as the Walter C. Guralnick Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Harvard and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He stepped down as Chair, in 2015, after serving for 22 years.

He has received the Research Recognition Award (1992) and the Daniel B. Osborn Award for Outstanding Educators (2004) from the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. In 2007, he received the Norman Rowe Medal and delivered the Norman Rowe address to the British and American Associations of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery joint meeting in Scotland. In October 2011, Dr. Kaban received the Norton M. Ross Award for Excellence in Clinical Research from the American Dental Association. In October 2017, Dr. Kaban received the American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons Clinical Research Award recognizing his innovative and significant contributions to the field over the past 40 years. Also, in 2017, the Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD Chair in Pediatric Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery was established at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Presentation(s):