Ronald Redden, DDS, a professor at the Houston-based University of Texas Health School of Dentistry and former president of the Texas Dental Society of Anesthesiology, died Sept. 23 of cancer.
Dr. Redden earned his dental degree in 1980 from the former Baylor College of Dentistry, now the Texas A&M College of Dentistry. He practiced dentistry in Denton, Texas, while teaching pharmacology at Texas Woman's University before joining the residency program at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, now Virginia Commonwealth University.
He later became an adjunct professor of anesthesiology at the University of Texas Health School of Dentistry and served as head of the university's anesthesiology section in its department of oral surgery. He was a staff anesthesiologist at Houston-based LBJ General Hospital for 18 years and founded Anesthesia Alternatives, a dental anesthesiology practice in Kingwood, Texas.
Dr. Redden's work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, textbooks chapters and teaching manuals. In addition to leading the Texas Dental Society of Anesthesiology from 1998 until 2000, he was an examiner for the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology and director of the American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists.