Ivor Robert Horton Kramer (1923–2016) oral pathologist, dean and director of studies at the institute of dental surgery/Eastman Dental Hospital
摘要
Ivor Kramer was a distinguished oral pathologist with a very unusual beginning. He carried out microbiological research with Sir Alexander Fleming. Coming from a dental family he too became a dentist, studying at the Royal Dental Hospital as London was bombed during World War II. After his studies on the effects of penicillin on microorganisms and a developing interest in oral pathology, Kramer was appointed to the newly opened Institute of Dental Surgery at the Eastman Dental Hospital. With credentials as an outstanding researcher and teacher he eventually became professor of dental surgery and dean. Knowing his fame, postgraduates came from around the world to be trained by him. With many important pathological papers to his name, the World Health Organization asked him to co-edit the first and second editions of its Histological Typing Odontogenic Tumours, Jaw Cysts and Allied Lesions.