MANHASSET, NEW YORK, JUNE 10, 2019 Gloria B. Gertzman, Ph.D., D.M.D., F.A.G.D., C.C.H.P., of Flemington, New Jersey has been celebrated as a Woman of the Month for June 2019 by P.O.W.E.R. (Professional Organization of Women of Excellence Recognized) for her outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of dentistry. Each month we feature women to represent their professions and industries due to their expertise and success in their chosen specialty.
ABOUT GLORIA B. GERTZMAN, Ph.D., D.M.D., F.A.G.D., C.C.H.P.
With almost four decades of experience, Dr. Gloria B. Gertzman brings professionalism and respect to general dentistry. Since 2016, Dr. Gertzman has been a consultant for dental practices in risk management and for dentists opening new dental practices. In addition, she has been inserting comprehensive care dental practices into urgent care medical facilities. In this capacity, Dr. Gertzman meets with the owners of the urgent care facilities, architects, building contractors and town offices to ensure all aspects of the dental facility are in compliance with local, state and federal laws.
Previously, from 1980 through 1992, Dr. Gertzman served as a Clinical Professor of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, teaching clinical and didactic treatment planning, radiology and oral facial genetics to pre-doctoral and post doctoral students and dentists.
From 1992 through 1994, Dr. Gertzman was the Dental Director of Soundview Health Center, in the Bronx, New York. While there, she started, practiced in and managed the dental department. Dr. Gertzman then served as Dental Director of Bridgeport Community Health Center in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where she started a dental department and then opened a satellite dental department in Stratford Community Health Center in Stratford, Connecticut. She practiced in and managed both dental departments.
From 2003 through 2005, Dr. Gertzman was the Dental Director for Building Services 32BJ Health Fund of New York City. During this time, she directed a staff of 80 people. She then served as Dental Director for a family dental practice in New Jersey from 2005 through 2007.
In 2007, Dr. Gertzman opened her own private practice of family dentistry in Pennington, New Jersey. She had 1800 patients of record at this practice through 2012. From 2012 through 2016, Dr. Gertzman served as Dental Director for Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, New Jersey.
Dr. Gertzman is a Certified Correctional Health Provider through the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. She earned her B.A. in Education and Psychology from Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, her M.A. in Genetic Counseling and her Ph.D. in Human Genetics from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and her D.M.D. from University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Dr. Gertzman holds licenses to practice dentistry in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
For her dedication and talent, Gloria was awarded a Fellowship from the Academy of General Dentistry in 1988. In recognition of her compassion and selflessness, she was honored with the American Dental Association Award for Recognition for Service in a Foreign Country, when she volunteered to provide dental care to residents of a kibbutz in Israel in 1980. Dr. Gertzman has 14 publications to her name and received a patent for a nipple for a baby with cleft palate in 1986.
In the mid 1980’s, Dr. Gertzman joined the organization Doctors Without Borders and traveled with other healthcare professionals to South America, where they treated people in an underserved area for a wide variety of oral facial disorders.