Steven M. Roser, DMD, MD
Before coming to Emory in 2004, Dr. Roser was the director of graduate medical education at New York-Presbyterian Hospital as well as director of the division of oral and maxillofacial surgery and associate dean for hospital affairs at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery of Columbia University.
Dr. Roser specializes in palate and maxillofacial surgery. In 2009, he was the first oral surgeon in Atlanta to use virtual surgery planning for free flap reconstruction following ablative surgery for oral cavity cancer.
Dr. Roser has an extensive history of international service that includes being a team leader for the Missions Abroad Program of Healing the Children-Northeast every year since 1992. In this role, he takes surgical teams to countries in Central and South America to provide such services as cleft lip and cleft palate repair. In 2017, he began participating in the Emory Haiti Alliance's summer surgical trips to Haiti's central plateau, the poorest and most medically underserved region in the country. Dr. Roser's first trip to Haiti was in 2010 in the first wave of medical responders following that year's devastating earthquake.
He has received numerous awards recognizing his efforts as an international surgeon, including the Distinguished Service Award of the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in 2019, the Humanitarian Award of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in 2011, a Presidential Citation for Humanitarian Efforts in Ecuador in 2005, and the American Dental Association's Oversees Volunteer Award in 2003.
Dr. Roser currently serves as Executive Director for Emory Continuing Dental Education, the DeLos Hill Chair and Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine and as the George Guttmann Professor Emeritus of Clinical Craniofacial Surgery, Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery and College of Physicians and Surgeons.