BIO-STATEMENT
Cyril Meyerowitz, DDS, MS
Professor and Chair, Eastman Department of Dentistry
Director, Eastman Dental Center
Dr. Cyril Meyerowitz is Director of the Eastman Dental Center and Professor & Chair of Dentistry at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He received his dental degree from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa in 1973 and completed a 2-year Postdoctoral General Dentistry Program and an MS in Oral Biology in 1979 at the University of Rochester.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry and a Fellow of the American College of Dentists. He has served as a Commissioner on the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) of the American Dental Association (ADA) and Chair of the Commission’s Postdoctoral General Dentistry Review Committee.
He is currently Chair of CODA’s Documentation Committee and sits on the Council of Dental Education and Licensure of the ADA chairing Committee A.
He has been a member of the American Dental Education Association’s Commission for Change and Innovation in Dental Education since 2005.
His clinical and research interests have focused on cariology, salivary dysfunction, hospital dentistry, treatment of medically compromised patients and dental education. He has published and lectured extensively in these areas.