James B. Fine

James B. Fine, DMD, is the Senior Academic Dean for Postgraduate, Graduate and Continuing Education programs; former Associate Dean of Postdoctoral Education, Professor of Clinical Dentistry with tenure of title at Columbia University’s College of Dental Medicine, and Attending Dental Surgeon on the Presbyterian Hospital Dental Service. He has been on the faculty of the College of Dental Medicine for over thirty years. He has participated extensively in the educational program, teaching dental students and postdoctoral students.  
 
Dr. Fine is the elected chairman of the college’s Curriculum Committee and the chairman of the Postdoctoral Education Committee. Over the years he has redesigned parts of the predoctoral and the postdoctoral curriculums in Periodontics. 

He has authored or co-authored numerous articles, chapters and abstracts in the periodontal literature. In addition, he has presented at invited lectures and seminars. Dr. Fine maintains a clinical practice limited to Periodontics and Implantology at the Columbia University Medical Center faculty practice in Northern Manhattan and Midtown Manhattan.