Seymour J. Kreshover

Seymour Kreshover led the NIDR intramural program before becoming director in 1966. Kreshover introduced developmental biology, facial anomalies, and oral medicine into both intramural and extramural programs, and brought timely attention to autoimmune and allergic disease, pain and anesthesiology, and social science and behavioral research. Kreshover launched the National Caries Program, furthering the Institute's initial public health mission, and retired in 1975.