Eric R. Carlson, DMD, MD, EdM, FACS
Dr. Eric R. Carlson is Professor and the Kelly L. Krahwinkel Endowed Chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Knoxville, a position that he has held since 2002. He is a native of Newton, Massachusetts and obtained his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Connecticut College. He obtained his dental degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from the University of Miami. He performed his oral and maxillofacial surgery residency training at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and his fellowship training in oral/head and neck tumor surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. He completed his general surgery training at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. Dr. Carlson is a fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 2018 he received his master’s degree in education at Harvard University, the focus of which was faculty development. In 2024 he was inducted as an associate member of the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators of the American College of Surgeons.
Join the University of Oklahoma Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for our annual Reichmann Lecture Saturday, March 1, 2025.
Register Here
Schedule:
Saturday, March 1, 2025
8:30 - 9:00 AM - Registration & Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50 AM - Odontogenic Cysts – Dr. Eric R. Carlson
9:50 - 10:00 AM - Break
10:00 - 11:00 AM - Odontogenic Cysts – Dr. Eric R. Carlson
11:00 - 11:10 AM - Break
11:10 - 12:00 PM - Complex Odontogenic Tumors – Dr. Eric R. Carlson
12:00 - 1:00 PM - Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 PM - Oklahoma Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Annual Meeting
*Formal invitations will be sent out. Please check your mailboxes. For any additional questions please email Mercedes Hogan (ou-oms@ouhsc.edu) or call (405) 271-4441.
History of the Program:
In 1923 farsighted Oklahoma Dentists established a dental service in the then fledgling Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City. Francis J. Reichmann, a 1923 dental graduate of the University of Michigan, was named the first resident dentist. Dr. Reichmann, then twenty-five years old, was a Purple Heart veteran of the First World War. He had an appointment to the Mayo Foundation in Minnesota, but he elected to be a pioneer in Oklahoma. In the ensuing fifty-two years, Oklahoma provided to be the beneficiary of that decision. Following the Second World War, in which Dr. Reichmann served five years as a field artillery officer, not a dentist, the program became an oral surgery residency. Council on the Dental Education approval came in 1959. Francis Reichmann was Chairman of the Dental School study committee that helped pass the HERO bond issue in the 1960s that built the school’s building as part of the Health Sciences Center campus in Oklahoma City. He is widely acknowledged as being the prime founder of the Dental School, and his bust resides in the halls of the College of Dentistry. Many of us in the practice of Oral Surgery in Oklahoma, the nation, and yes, throughout the world, are indebted to Francis Reichmann, and it is to him that this history is dedicated.
- Robert G. Hirschi, D.D.S., M.S University of Oklahoma Oral Surgery Resident 1946-1947 A Foreword - OU History of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency in Oklahoma.