Michael A. Kahn, DDS

Michael A. Kahn, DDS

Michael A. Kahn, DDS, is a board-certified, tenured professor and chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and laboratory director of Tufts Oral Pathology Services. He also maintains a university-based consultative oral medicine/oral pathology clinical practice and has conducted intramurally and extramurally funded basic and clinical research.

Dr. Kahn graduated from Emory University's School of Dentistry in 1979. Following several years of military and private practice, he returned to Emory for a 3-year residency training in oral pathology. He then completed a 1-year postdoctoral research fellowship in oral pathology at Temple University's School of Medicine. In 1988, he accepted a junior faculty position at the University of Tennessee-Memphis College of Dentistry. While at Tennessee, Dr. Kahn was a three-time recipient of the UT Health Science Centers Excellence in Teaching award and was selected by his peers to receive the UT College of Dentistry Distinguished Faculty award. In 2002, he accepted a tenured senior faculty position at Tufts and, in 2005, he was awarded the Deans Excellence in Teaching Award for the Basic Sciences.

Dr. Kahn has published more than 75 articles and abstracts in professional journals and is the author of a dental therapeutics book. He has given over 380 invited presentations and continuing education courses and has produced several educational multimedia series on a wide variety of oral and maxillofacial pathology topics.

Dr. Kahn serves on several standing and advisory committees of the American Dental Association and is a member of the American Association of Dental Research and American Dental Education Association. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, a faculty member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon honorary dental society, and, among other appointments, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, for whom he is serving the second of two consecutively elected 3-year terms as national Secretary-Treasurer.