COURSE TITLE

"Bioethics for Today - DENTISTS DURING THE NAZI REGIME: DR. SUESS, PRISONER DENTISTS & THE SS"

(The Nassau County Dental Society Designates this Activity for 2 CEU)

DATE/TIME

Monday, March 16, 2026
7:00pm-9:00pm

LOCATION

IN-PERSON
NCDS Headquarters
377 Oak Street, Suite 204, Garden City, NY 11530

COURSE DESCRIPTION/ EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

The role of the medical profession in committing crimes against humanity during the Nazi regime has been studied extensively.  Still, it is difficult to comprehend how a profession of healers morphed into executioners and researchers who abused and tortured people to promote the pseudoscience of “racial hygiene.”  The history of the dental profession in Europe during the Third Reich has received little attention, although it is quite significant.  The importance of learning this history today should be a high priority in dental education to reinforce the importance of ethical decision making in the care of each individual patient.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the history and fate of world renown dentist researchers at the University of Vienna who were purged from the faculty after the Nazi regime annexed Austria in 1938.
2. Describe what happened to dentists who escaped from Europe to the United States and the prejudice they experienced by the dental profession.
3. Describe the fate of dentists who became prisoners in concentration camps.
4. Understand the role of Nazi dentists in academic institutions and concentration camps in committing crimes against humanity.
5. Understand the role of dental gold and how it influenced Germany’s war machine.
6. Consider how it was possible for healers of the medical and dental professions to became killers?
7. Analyze how a political ideology that dictated public health policy could influence the healing professions.
8. Answer the question - is it possible for this to happen again?
9. Utilize the knowledge of the history of dentists during the Third Reich to reinforce the importance of ethics and humanity in dentistry and society today.

Lecture, PowerPoint presentation and Q&A

SPEAKER

Howard Israel, DDS

Dr. Howard A. Israel is an academic oral & maxillofacial surgeon known nationally and internationally for clinical research, as an educator in his specialty and on bioethical issues related to the history of Nazi doctors. He is author of over 80 peer reviewed publications in the medical literature and has delivered national and international presentations on the Nazi origins of Pernkopf’s anatomy atlas, emphasizing bioethical relevance today.  Recently retired from clinical practice, he currently lives in Colorado. He remains active as a lecturer and serves on the Holocaust Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Steering Committee at the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities.  Dr. Israel is the author of Nazi Anatomy Lessons – A Dissection of Evil, published by Vallentine Mitchell Books, 2026.

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