Dr. Lionel Traubman to Speak at School's 125th Commencement

Dr. Traubman

Dr. Lionel "Len" Traubman, a 1963 graduate of the UCSF School of Dentistry, will be the speaker for the School's 125th Commencement on Saturday, June 17 at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco.

Dr. Traubman attended the University of California, Berkeley, before receiving his DDS at UCSF. He completed his Pediatric specialty training and clinical research at Indiana University, earning his Master of Science in Dentistry (MSD), with a double minor, Oral Pathology and Education.

He was a two-term Director of the San Francisco Dental Society, as well as a lecturer in Pediatric Dentistry at UCSF for 15 years. Dr. Traubman was Editor of the California Society of Dentistry for Children and of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. He was a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Dr. Traubman was a contributing author to dental journals and textbooks, and was the 1998 Distinguished Alumnus of the UCSF School of Dentistry. In August, 2000, he retired from his San Francisco practice after having treated children since the early 1960s.

Dr. Traubman was regional alumni President of Alpha Omega International dental fraternity, and he wrote and published The Oreckovsky Family: From Russia to America, depicting his Jewish pioneer ancestors' immigration to Minnesota following the first pogroms of the early 1880s. The book resides in over 100 libraries in North America and Europe.

For 25 years, Dr. Traubman has published and spoken on war and peace from personal experience with Russians and Americans, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, and Jews and Palestinians. In 1982, in response to the threat of global nuclear war, Len and his wife, Libby, were founding members of the Beyond War Movement, now known as Foundation for Global Community. In 1992, they co-founded the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group of San Mateo, based on their earlier experience organizing the Beyond War conference for Israeli and Palestinian citizen-leaders.

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