Shelly Abramowicz, DMD, MPH, FACS

Background

Shelly Abramowicz obtained her dental degree and her MPH in 2002 from the University of Pittsburgh, and completed her oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at the University of Florida in 2008. After completing her training, she joined Boston Children's Hospital as a full time attending surgeon and became a faculty member of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

In 2009, Abramowicz received a three-year Faculty Educator Development Award from the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the American Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation. The award funded her investigation of temporomandibular joints in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. In 2016, she received a research support grant from the American Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation. She was a first place poster winner at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, and awarded the first Elaine A. Stuebner Scholarship by the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Most recently, she was awarded the Osteo Science Foundation Research Grant.

Abramowicz provides care to children with oral and maxillofacial surgery concerns at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Emory Clinic.

Her clinical and research specialties include pediatric oral and maxillofacial surgery, TMJ dysfunction in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, orthognathic surgery, maxillofacial trauma, benign maxillofacial pathology, and impacted teeth.

Titles & Roles

• Professor, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Surgery

  Emory University School of Medicine
• Professor, Department of Pediatrics

  Emory University School of Medicine
• Associate Chief, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Service

  Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Education & Training

Education

• Residency, Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery, 2008

  University of Florida
• Dental School, , 2002

  University of Pittsburgh

Board Certifications

• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

  American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2012

Professional Memberships

• American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
• American Cleft Palate Association
• American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
• Georgia Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
• American Academy of Craniomaxillofacial Surgeons

Awards

• Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2002
• Quintessence Award for Achievement in Research, University of Pittsburgh, 2002
• Outstanding Achievement in Public Health Dentistry, University of Pittsburgh, 2002
• Physician Customer Service Key Award, Shands Hospital, University of Florida, 2005
• Faculty Educator Development Award, American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons & the American Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation, 2009
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation Research Grant, 2016
• First Place Poster Award, 98th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, 2016
• First Recipient, Elaine A. Stuebner Scholarship, American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, 2016
• Osteo Science Foundation Research Grant, 2018

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