Mervyn Gornitsky
Associate Professor
Department of Dentistry
Jewish General Hospital
Canada
Biography
Dr Mervyn Gornitsky is Research Director of the Department of Dentistry at the Jewish General Hospital. He is a Professor Emeritus at McGill University, Faculty of Dentistry, and Chief Emeritus of the Department of Dentistry at the Jewish General Hospital. Dr Gornitsky's distinguished careers in academic dentistry and oral and maxillofacial surgery have spanned over 50 years. He was granted a fellowship at the inception of examination by the Royal College of Dentists of Canada in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 1967. He has contributed more than anyone in Canada to the development of departments of dentistry in Canadian hospitals. He was chair of the Hospital Dental Services Committee for Quebec for 15 years and Chair of the Council on Hospital Dental Services for the Canadian Dental Association for six years.
Research Interest
Dr Gornitsky is the principal investigator on a CIHR Operating Grant entitled "Oral Manifestations of Systemic Sclerosis and its Impacts on Quality of Life." This is a Canadian multi-site study involving 180 scleroderma patients and 360 matched controls.
