Leora Walter DDS

Dr. Leora Walter is a prosthodontist from NYC. She completed her prosthodontics residency at New York Hospital Queens after a general practice residency at Long Island College Hospital, Lutheran Medical Center. She graduated from Columbia University College of Dental Medicine with numerous honors including a National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholarship, International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Program Scholarship, Quintessence Award for Research Achievement, and the American Academy of Implant Dentistry Award. Dr. Walter received her bachelor of arts degree in English from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.

Dr. Walter lectures on topics relating to prosthodontics and her area of research is on systemic diseases and their effects on the oral cavity. She received a scholarship through the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs where she traveled to Ethiopia teaching clinicians how to recognize oral manifestations of HIV. Dr. Walter's NIH grant brought her to Lima, Peru where she conducted head and neck cancer research. She recently published an article Trends in Head and Neck Cancers in Peru between 1987 and 2008: Experience from a Large Public Cancer Hospital in Lima and her article The Epidemiology and Risk Factors of Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection among Healthy Males and Females in Lima, Peru is in submission. She is currently working on a project relating to the lateralization of head and neck cancers.