Philip K. Josephs, a student at Columbia University’s College of Dental Medicine and the Mailman School of Public Health, is a leader of various student organizations at both the local and the national level.  His leadership and scholarship has been recognized with awards by a variety of organizations including the National Hispanic Health Foundation’s Scholarship, the National Dental Association Foundation’s Scholarship, the American Dental Education Association’s Listerine Preventive Dentistry Scholarship, the Mailman School of Public Health’s Dannheiser Scholarship and others.

During this past academic year Philip was President of the Student National Dental Association (SNDA).  He is also an elected member of the American Student Dental Education Association.  Philip is the founder and director of Columbia University’s Symposium in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; a directed effort to recruit undergraduate minority students into the dental profession.