Professor and residency program director
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Roser is the Delos Hill Chair of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Professor of Surgery and the residency program director in the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Surgery at the Emory School of Medicine. He is also Chief of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Service at Grady Memorial Hospital. Dr. Roser received his dental and medical degrees from Harvard. Following the completion of residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA in 1973, he joined the faculty at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA. From 1979-1981 he was Chair of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine. In 1981 he was appointed Division Director or Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Columbia University College of Dentistry and Director of the Presbyterian Hospital Dental Service in New York. During his twenty three years at Columbia, he was appointed as the Georg Guttman Professor of Craniofacial Surgery and he developed a combined MD oral and maxillofacial surgery residency training program. In 2001 he was appointed as Director of Graduate Medical Education for the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital. In 2004, he left New York to join the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine as Chief of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He received the Delos Hill Chair in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2016. He is currently the residency program director for Emory Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery training program which has twenty one residents enrolled in four year and six year OMS/MD training tracks. He currently the Chair of the Department of Surgery Global Surgery Committee at Emory, is the lead for the Emory Global Perioperative Health Alliance and on the Advisory Board for the School of Medicine’s Office of Global Health and Equity. In addition to his interest in education, starting in 1991, Dr. Roser has organized international surgical outreach programs performing surgical repair of cleft lip/palate deformities primarily in Latin America. He is currently the Chair of the Committee on Global Surgery for the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and on the Permanent Council for the G4 Alliance, is the co-chair of the Education Subcommittee for Office for Global Surgery/Operation Giving Back of the American College of Surgeons and the co-chair of the Finance Committee for the Association of Academic Global Surgery. He received the Humanitarian Award from the Fraternal Order of Police, Surgeon’s Lodge #3 for Relief Efforts in Haiti following the devastating earthquake in January 2010, the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in 2011, the Donald Osbon Educator of the Year Award, American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in 2017, the Distinguished Service Award for his work in global surgery from the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2018 and the Humanitarian Award from the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in 2021.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
1:20 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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XES - Panel Discussion and Open Forum
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
2:50 PM - 3:50 PM EDT
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GP1a - Perioperative Management of the Geriatric Patient
Thursday, September 18, 2025
8:35 AM - 9:10 AM EDT
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SOF2 - American College of Surgeons Update
Friday, September 19, 2025
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM EDT
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SSOD44 - Global Surgery: Unveiling the Urgency and Empowering the Future
On-demand
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