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Dr. Lieblich graduated from Rutgers University (Highest Honors, 1977) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (1981). He completed his residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Kings County/Downstate Medical Center in New York. In 1984 he assumed a full-time position on the faculty of the University of Connecticut until 1988. Currently, he is in private practice in Avon, CT and maintains a part-time teaching appointment at the university as a clinical professor. At the University of Connecticut he lectures to the medical and dental students on head and neck anatomy (with special focus on the temporomandibular joint and the anatomy of orthognathic surgery) and also to the various postgraduate residency programs. He is on the medical staff at Hartford Hospital, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, St. Francis Hospital, John Dempsey Hospital (University of Connecticut Health Center) and Charlotte Hungerford Hospital (head, section of oral and maxillofacial surgery).

Dr. Lieblich has been a contributor to over 19 textbooks and published over 45 peer reviewed papers and abstracts. He is an invited speaker at conferences throughout the United States and has presented his research at international scientific meetings with focuses on ambulatory anesthesia, dental implants, dentoalveolar surgery and periapical surgery. Previously he has served as president of the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology and following a 6-year term as a member of the examination committee of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (chair of the medicine and anesthesia sections) he was elected to an eight year term of the ABOMS board of directors (President 2009-2010). Dr. Lieblich is on the editorial board of the journals Anesthesia Progress; Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine Oral Pathology ("Triple O") and the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He regularly reviews articles for the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and General Dentistry. Dr. Lieblich serves on many local, state and national committees in his specialty and currently is a member of the American Dental Association's Commission on Accreditation (oral and maxillofacial surgery) and the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Parameters of Care Committee (chair, Dentoalveolar surgery section).