Jerry L. Halpern DDS

Dr. Jerry Halpern is a Clinical Associate Professor of Dental Medicine at the Touro College of Dental Medicine (TCDM). He is a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon, and also serves on the faculty of New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he teaches clinical oral and maxillofacial surgery. Dr. Halpern is also an Assistant Attending Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where for more than 23 years, he has operated, and cared for the special oral and dental needs of cancer patients, and taught fellows in the center’s maxillofacial prosthetics and dental oncology programs. He is also currently a forensic odontologist for the office of the chief medical examiner of New York City and is part of the Medical Examiner Special Operation Team; for this work, Dr. Halpern has been recognized by the city, state, and House of Representatives.

Over the course of his career, Dr. Halpern has received numerous awards and has published and presented on topics ranging from oral cancer reconstruction to dental forensic identification. For almost a decade, he has dedicated his time to helping the children of Fundación MIR in La Romana, Dominican Republic. This humanitarian outreach program developed into the World of Smiles non-profit organization of which he is president. In 2018, Dr. Halpern was the recipient of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) Humanitarian Award for Fellows and Members for his outreach efforts in the Dominican Republic. In 2010, Dr. Halpern received the AAOMS Presidential Achievement Award, which honors AAOMS fellows and members who have made significant long-term contributions to the specialty. Dr. Halpern has also been recognized for helping identify victims of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in 2001, for which he received a Congressional Certificate of Recognition. He is licensed to practice in the state of New York.