Columbia Alumni Medalists 2011 - Margot Jaffe '80,  '81, '85DM
Channel: Columbia Alumni
Date: 07/01/2013

Columbia Alumni Medalist, Margot Jaffe '80,'81,'85DM. Hear her story. #columbia. Margot Jaffe, DDS ’80DM, ’81DM (Pediatric
Dentistry), ’85DM (Orthodontics) has been an active and engaged alumna: president of the College of Dental Medicine Alumni
Association from 2008 to the present and a member of the Admissions Committee for over 15 years. She also served on the Dean’s Advisory Council and was a member of the Capital Campaign Fundraising Committee. Dr. Jaffe organized her 25th and 30th year class reunions and has been a mentor to dental students, providing “shadowing” experience in a private practice setting. Her professional accomplishments are no less impressive: In 1982 Dr. Jaffe completed a fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in 2009 from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management Leadership Institute, and was a fellow at the Kennedy Center for Disabled Children. She has a full-time private practice, specializing in
pediatric dentistry and orthodontics, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and Upper West Side. She has been an assistant clinical professor of pediatric dentistry for over 25 years, teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate dental students, and has served as an NYPD Honorary Police Surgeon. She and her husband Al Goldman are proud parents of Keith, who is also pursuing dental studies.