Dr. Donoff’s professional career has centered on Harvard’s Faculty of Medicine and the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, where he was Chairman and Chief of Service from 1983-1992. He began as an intern in 1967, and has served in the Department since that time.
In 1991 Dr. Donoff was named Dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, a post which he continues to hold.
Dr. Donoff served twelve years on the Board of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation and is currently on the Board of the Friends of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. He is the editor of the MGH Manual of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the Massachusetts Dental Society Journal.
Dr. Donoff has received numerous honors during his academic career, including the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Research Recognition Award, the William J. Gies Foundation Award for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Distinguished Alumni and Faculty Awards from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Clinical / Academic / Research interests Dr. Donoff has made major contributions in research to the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery with interests in wound healing, bone graft survival, sensory nerve repair and oral cancer. He is dedicated to improving dental education and serves on the ADEA Advisory Committee on Education and Research. He has published over eighty papers, authored textbooks, and lectured worldwide.
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