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Leo Sreebny

by Legacy News

Seattle, WashingtonUSA

Died April 8, 2020

Age 98

Obituary

Leo M. Sreebny died April 5, 2020 from complications of COVID-19 at age 98… In 1957, they moved to Seattle with their two young sons, where Leo established a new Department of Oral Pathology (later Department of Oral Biology) at the University of Washington Dental School. In 1967, he established a Center for Research in Oral Biology and served as its director. In 1975 Dr. Sreebny left the UW and went to the School of Dental Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he served as Dean until 1979, and then as professor until his retirement in 2005.

Published in The Seattle Times

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“Dr. Leo was just one of my very favorite Professors at UW Dental School.”

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