Elias S. Khalifah
Elias S. Khalifah was born in 1904 in Beirut, Lebanon and received his D.D.S. from the American University in Beirut in 1926. Dr. Khalifah came to the United States in 1936 to study at the Northwestern University Dental School, where he received his M.S.D. in 1937. In 1941 he joined the faculty of the Washington University School of Dentistry as associate professor of Dental History, which he taught for over twenty years. Khalifah served as editor of the Washington University Dental Journal from 1945 to 1954 and as editor of the Journal of the Missouri State Dental Association from 1956 until his death from cancer in 1963.