Allen named to Woodruff Health Sciences Center Board

Emory alumnus J. David Allen, assistant clinical professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, has been appointed by the Emory Board of Trustees to serve on the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Board. The Woodruff Board oversees the broad workings of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, which includes Emory's medical, nursing and public health schools, the Yerkes Primate Research Center, and the Emory System of Health Care, including Emory Hospital, Crawford Long Hospital and The Emory Clinic. The board selected Allen, who practices oral surgery in the greater Atlanta area, to serve as the liaison between Emory's medical school and Egleston Children's Hospital, one of Emory's most longstanding affiliations for patient care, teaching and research. In this role, Allen will represent Emory on the Egleston Children's Hospital Board of Trustees. Allen also is a trustee of Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital.

"I am extremely pleased to be given the opportunity to serve the Woodruff Health Sciences Center as a board member," said Allen, "and it is a special privilege to be able to work closely with the administration and healthcare providers at Egleston Children's Hospital, an institution that I and all Atlantans admire greatly."

An alumnus of both the College and the former School of Dentistry, Allen has a long history of service to the University. Earlier this year he was awarded the Emory Medal for meritorious service by the Association of Emory Alumni. He serves as a member of the University Board of Trustees and has served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Visitors and the founding Board of Governors of the Association of Emory Alumni, the Board of Directors for the dental school and as president of the Emory Dental Alumni Association. He and his wife Beverly Dew Allen, also an Emory College graduate, have a long history of gifts to the University, including the establishment of the William Heath Allen Endowment for continuing dental education, and the Ina Allen Dental Clinic at Wesley Woods Geriatric Center, named after Allen's father and mother respectively. Allen most recently became a major contributor to the Robert Strickland Scholarship Fund in the business school.

-- Sylvia Wrobel