“It is sad to report the untimely death of Marjan Askari on September 18, 2024 as she lost her long battle with breast cancer.
Marjan was born in Tehran, Iran on August 2, 1975. She immigrated to the United States at the age of 21 as the devoted wife of Mehrzad Askari. Marjan received her B.A. degree Magna Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts in Political Science and returned to the same school years later to meet the prerequisites for admission to dental school. Her only beloved child and son, Arian, was born in 2001.
Marjan graduated from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 2009 Summa Cum Laude being #1 in her graduating class. As a pre-doctoral student she helped to teach physiology to dental students under the guidance of Dr. Paul Leavis. Marjan was inducted into OKU, the National Dental Honor Society as a fourth year student. She entered a graduate program in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics at the University of Maryland and received her M.S. degree and specialty certificate in 2012.
Upon graduation from Maryland she was appointed clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry in 2012 and held this position until her untimely death. She remained loved and respected by pre-doctoral and graduate students and will sorely be missed in teaching orthodontics to graduate pediatric dental students.
Professionally, she was a member of the Northeastern Society of Orthodontists, the American Association of Orthodontists, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics. Marjan published many articles in the orthodontic literature and is the co-author of the book, “Orthodontic Case Reviews”.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, “her life was gentle and the elements so mixed in her that nature might stand up and say to all the world, this was a woman”
Dr. Stanley A. Alexander Distinguished Teaching Stony Brook University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Stony Brook University
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