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Prabha Krishnan Heads Slate of Officers
Prabha Krishnan Heads Slate of Officers
Being Installed at Annual House Meeting
The New York State Dental Association will welcome its 2024-2025 officers when the Association hosts the annual meeting of its House of Delegates May 31-June 2 at Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona. Slated to be installed at the meeting are President Prabha Krishnan, President-Elect Maurice Edwards, Vice President Amarilis Jacobo, Secretary-Treasurer Paul Leary and Speaker of the House William Karp.
Prabha Krishnan, D.D.S., a periodontist in private practice in Forest Hills, is a past president of Queens County Dental Society, former chair of the NYSDA Council on Governmental Affairs and immediate past chair of the ADA Council on Communications. She has served on NYSDA councils, was a member of the Empire Dental Political Action Committee and the New York State Dental Foundation. In 2015, she became the first woman to sit on the NYSDA Board of Trustees.
While working full time in her practice, Dr. Krishnan also holds the position of attending and chief of periodontics at Flushing Hospital Medical Center. And she is a member of the Indian Dental Association Board of Trustees.
Maurice Edwards
Maurice Edwards, D.M.D., an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who practices in New York City, has been active at all three levels of organized dentistry, as well as in the American and New York State societies of oral and maxillofacial surgeons and the New York Society of Forensic Dentistry. He is a past president of the New York County Dental Society and former chair of the NYSDA Council on Membership and Communications. A graduate of the ADA Institute for Diversity in Leadership, he served for four years as a member of the ADA Council on Diversity and Inclusion.
Dr. Edwards holds faculty positions in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at NYU College of Dentistry and at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai West Medical Center’s Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Sections in the Department of Otolaryngology. Dr. Edwards is recipient of the NYSDA New Dentist Leadership Award, presented to honor his time spent with the Dental ID Unit at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City searching for and identifying the remains of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
Amarilis Jacobo
Amarilis Jacobo, D.D.S., a native of the Dominican Republican and graduate of La Universidad Central del Este School of Dentistry and NYU School of Dentistry, treats patients at her offices in Harlem and in the Bronx. Active in organized dentistry for the last 30 years, Dr. Jacobo has held many leadership positions with Bronx County Dental Society, been a delegate or alternate delegate to the NYSDA and ADA houses, served on the NYSDA Council on Ethics, Empire Dental Political Action Committee and Committee on Dental Medicaid, and sits on the NYSDA Board of Trustees.
Dr. Jacobo is a founder of the Dominican Dental Association, a past president of the National Hispanic Dental Association, and currently cochairs the Pierre Fauchard Academy, New York State Section. She is a graduate of the ADA Institute for Diversity in Leadership. In 2016, she established a scholarship award to be given to students in the Bronx, and in 2017, she opened a free dental clinic in the Dominican Republic, which she named after her father.
Paul Leary
Paul Leary, D.M.D., entered the Navy while in his first year at Temple University School of Dentistry. He completed three years of active-duty service upon graduation before entering private practice in Smithtown, Suffolk County. He remained in the Naval Reserve for 14 years and practiced dentistry for 35 years.
A leader at all three levels of organized dentistry, Dr. Leary served most recently as ADA Trustee from the Second District, New York State. He previously chaired the ADA Compensation Committee and the Commission for Continuing Education Program Review and CE Accreditation. He has been a delegate or alternate delegate to the ADA House since 2004, is a member of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, the American and International College of Dentists and is a former member of the Military Board of Surgeons. At the local level, Dr. Leary is one of several Suffolk County members who for the past 13 years have presented an ethics course to fourth-year students at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine.
William Karp
William Karp, D.D.S., is a general practice dentist who has maintained his private practice in the Syracuse area since 1983. He is also an attending at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Health Center, where he helps to educate dental residents.
Active at all levels of organized dentistry, Dr. Karp is a past president of the Fifth District Dental Society, as well as its parliamentarian since 2009. He has been a delegate to the ADA House and a member of the ADA Council on Communications, both a NYSDA Governor and Trustee and delegate to the NYSDA Houses.
