Faculty
Neal Herman
D.D.S. New York University
NYU College of Dentistry-Clinical Professor of Pediatric Dentistry;
Director of the Advanced Program for International Dentists in Pediatric Dentistry
Course: Issues in International Pediatric Oral Health
Dr. Neal Herman is a pediatric dentist, a Fellow of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Special Care Dentistry. At the present time, he is Clinical Professor and Director of the Advanced Program for International Dentists in Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, New York University College of Dentistry. Additionally, he holds the position of Region II Head Start Oral Health Consultant. He also is Associate Attending Pediatric Dentist at Bellevue Hospital Center , New York City, and is on the Consulting Staff of Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
For the past ten years, through November 2004, Dr. Herman served as Senior Policy Advisor for Institutional, Academic and Professional Affairs, Bureau of Oral Health, New York City Health Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. From 1989 to 1993, prior to coming to New York University, Dr. Herman spent four and one half years full-time with the N.Y.C. Department of Health, Bureau of Dental Health Services, initially as the Deputy Director for Clinical Affairs, and then as the Bureau Director and Assistant Commissioner of Health. From 1981 to 1989, he was Director of Dentistry, the Children's Aid Society of New York City; and from 1977 to 1981, Assistant Professor of Community and Pediatric Dentistry, Fairleigh Dickinson University, School of Dentistry and Director, Paterson Board of Education Dental Health Center in New Jersey. From 1972 - 1993, Dr. Herman had been an attending dentist, clinician and administrator at the Sunset Park Family Health Center of Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, an original federal neighborhood health center founded in 1967. He has also served as a Head Start Program Reviewer for Region II, and, since 1997, as the Pediatric Dentistry Consultant to the NYU/Region II Head Start Technical Assistance Support Center (TASC).
Dr. Herman has lectured extensively and appeared on radio, television and in the print media in the United States and internationally in the areas of hospital, clinical and academic dentistry, pediatric and special patient health care issues, public health policy, quality assurance, community relations, and program development/administration.
Most Recent Publications/Presentations
Chu, K., Herman, N.G., Rosenberg, L., Hittelman, E. – A Comparison of the Caries Rate of Head Start Versus Clinic Patients at the New York University Department of Pediatric Dentistry – Poster Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, Denver, Colorado, May 2002
Chin, G.E., Herman, N.G., Hittelman, E. – Anxiety in the Dental Setting: Are Mother's Perceptions About Their Children Accurate? A Pilot Study - Poster Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, Denver, Colorado, May 2002
Herman, N.G. – Reprint of Ten Oral Health Strategies to Keep Kids Pain-Free and Problem-Free During Childhood – Dental News, Vol. IX No.1: Spring 2002
Herman, N.G. – Radiographic Oddities: Unusual Calcifications in the Dental Pulp – New York State Dental Journal, Vol. 70 No.4: pp28-29, April 2004