Touro M. Graber
T. M. Graber, a 1940 graduate of the Washington University School of Dentistry, received his M.S.D. in 1946 and his Ph.D. in 1950 from the Northwestern University School of Dentistry. From 1946 to 1958 Graber taught orthodontics at Northwestern. He co-founded the school’s Cleft Lip and Palate Institute in 1947 and served as its director of research from 1947 to 1958. In 1964 Graber founded the Kenilworth Dental Research Foundation. From 1969 to 1982 he served as professor and head of the Orthodontic Section at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago.
From 1985 to 2000 Graber served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Orthodontics, which under his term was renamed the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. A prolific author, Graber has written 20 books and over 160 scientific articles. He is a recipient of the Albert H. Ketcham Award of the American Association of Orthodontists and the Jarabak International Teacher’s Award.
Graber is still active, serving as clinical professor of Orthodontics at the University of Illinois, editor-in-chief of the World Journal of Orthodontics, and director of the Kenilworth Dental Research Foundation.