Awards

Paul Glassman, D.D.S., M.A., M.B.A.

Myron Allukian Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions in Community Dental Programs 2014 Recipient

Dr. Glassman devoted his early career to providing oral health care to people with complex medical, physical, psychological, and social conditions. He directed a hospital-based general practice residency program in San Francisco for two decades before joining the faculty at the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry (Pacific) in 1989 and founding Pacific’s Advanced Education Program in General Dentistry. In the 1990s he founded the Pacific Center for Special Care, a research and policy center dedicated to improving the oral health of the underserved. Under his direction, the center has received over $20 million in grants and contracts to carry out demonstration projects and develop policy papers that are influencing the development of oral health care systems in California and across the nation. Dr. Glassman has also served on many national and state boards and panels, including the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Committee on Oral Health Access to Services, which produced the IOM report, Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations, and DentaQuest Institute’s board of directors.