John S. Greenspan has been Professor of Oral Biology and Oral Pathology in the School of Dentistry, UCSF since 1976. He serves as the Leland A. and Gladys K. Barber Professor and Dean for Research of the School of Dentistry. He was Chairman of the Department of Stomatology from 1988 until this year. He is also a Professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine and is former Chairman of both the UCSF Academic Senate and the UC Systemwide Health Sciences Committee. He is Director of the Oral AIDS Center and of the UCSF California AIDS Research Center, Director of the UCSF AIDS Specimen Bank and is an Associate Director of the UCSF AIDS Research Institute.

In 1995, Professor Greenspan was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. He was Chairman of the Dentistry Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1992-93, President of the American Association for Dental Research in 1988-89, President of the IADR Experimental Pathology Group in 1983-84, member of the Council on Dental Research of the American Dental Association 1987-90, and President of the International Association for Dental Research in 1996-97.

He was the Kreshover Lecturer at the NIDR in 1989, and he was awarded the honorary degree of ScD by Georgetown University in 1990 and the Fellowship in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons in England in 1998. He was a Burroughs-Wellcome Professor of the (United Kingdom) Royal Society of Medicine for 1996-97. In 1993 he received the Research in Oral Biology Award from the IADR.

His research interests include the oral aspects of AIDS and the role of viruses in oral epithelial and salivary gland lesions. He has published close to 300 papers and four books on oral aspects of AIDS, oral pathology, and immunopathology. He received the BSc with First Class Honors in Anatomy from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (University of London) in 1959, the BDS in 1963 and the PhD in Experimental Pathology from the Royal Dental Hospital School of Dental

Surgery (University of London) in 1967.