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Active
Teaching Staff
Joseph
Abbadessa, DDS
Mouner
Amer, DDS
Genrietta
Arakelova, DDS
John
Atlas, DDS
Mark
Castanza, DDS
Michael
Costa, DMD
Jeremiah
D’Anna, DDS
Michael
DAnna, DDS
Patricia
Dibos, DMD
Giorgio
DiVincenzo, DMD
Michael
Donato, DMD
Michelle
Flanigan, DDS
Vincent
Frazzetto,
DDS
Michelle
Giumenta,
DDS
Panigiotis
Glavas,
DDS
Deborah
Gries, DMD
Melanie
Kapetanakos, DDS
Sukhijit
Kaur,
DDS
Minah
Kim, DMD
Peter
Koys, DDS
Peter
Kullman, DDS
John
Lavinio, DDS
Charles
Leo, DDS
Anthony
LoPresti, DDS
Christopher
Madison, DDS
Joel
Manley, DDS
Phyllis
Merlino, DDS
Rebecca
Orlich, DDS
Jeanine
Pistilli, DDS
Robert
Seminara, DDS
Mark
Severino, DDS
Dmitry
Shapiro, DDS
Mark
Stein, DDS
General
Dentistry Residency Program
DISTINGUISHED
FACULTY
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The department of dentistry's Special Care Section owes much to Associate Director, Steven
Ratner, DDS
Dr. Ratner is director of the Special Care Program and has been acknowledged for his
leadership in this field.
In 1985, Dr. Ratner was awarded a fellowship in the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped. The fellowship
committee expressed its recognition of the clinical protocols he provided in treating the mentally and physically
disabled. In 1990, SIUH presented to him the Dr. William P. Lavori Award for Professional
Excellence. He was the award's first recipient, so named for the department's director
emeritus. Dr. Ratner's dental education was completed at the New York University College of
Dentistry. His academic interests include a teaching appointment at the Columbia University
School of Dentistry.
His professional memberships coincide with his special interests and include the Academy of Geriatric Dentistry, the
Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped and the American Analgesia Society. Dr. Ratner has been awarded fellowships
in the New York Academy of General Dentistry and the American College of Dentists.
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Associate Director David C. Hoffman, DDS, Director of
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
Dr. Hoffman directs program development for the department and heads up the cleft lip and palate program. He is an
oral and maxillofacial surgeon credited with major cranio facial reconstructions.
Dr. Hoffman has participated in a national study to test a new prosthetic TM joint that is
sized by computer to duplicate the patient's own joint. He has become a nationally recognized
lecturer in TM arthroscopy and treatment. Dr. Hoffman holds a patent on a prosthetic TM joint.
Dr. Hoffman is a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the American Cleft Lip and
Palate Association and the National Council for International Health, among others. He is certified by the American
Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and serves on the faculty of the University of Medicine
and Dentistry of New Jersey, and Downstate Medical Center.
A 1978 graduate of Staten Island University Hospital's General Dentistry program, Dr. Hoffman's residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery was completed at the University of Texas Health Science Center's Parkland Memorial, Dallas, and John Peter Smith Hospitals, Ft. Worth.
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Meryl Efron, DDS, Associate Director of Dentistry,
counts among her duties the responsibilities of Director of Performance
Improvement.
Dr. Efron, herself a product of SIUH's general dentistry residency program, is a 1983
graduate of the NYU College of Dentistry where she received the Pierre Fauchard Award and
NYU Alumna Club Key Pin.
In addition to responsibilities as an associate director of dentistry, she is the
department's director of performance improvement, assistant director of the dental
residency program and director of the dental assistant training program. She is a past
president of the Richmond County Dental Society. In 2007, she was honored by the
society with its highest award — the Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Efron has received fellowships from the
Academy of General Dentistry, the American College of Dentists, and
International College of Dentists.
Dr. Efron has extensive ties to the local community serving as chairperson of the
University Hospice annual fundraiser and a member of the Hospice's Advisory Board. She
also serves as a member of the board of directors of Project Hospitality, and the Staten
Island Historical Society. She is a partner in the Dental Associates of Richmond and was
honored with the department's Alfonso Fressola Humanitarian Award in 2000.
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Program Director of the Pediatric Dentistry Residency Program, Steven Schwartz,
DDS
Dr. Schwartz maintained a private pediatric dentistry practice for over 30 years. He is a Diplomate of the
American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. He is the author
of numerous clinical and practice management articles and popular lecturer and consultant.
His teaching career spans over three decades with faculty positions at New York University College of Dentistry,
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Staten Island University Hospital.
He has been actively involved in organized dentistry. He is a past president of the Richmond County Dental
Society and the New York Association of Pediatric Dentists.
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