Dr Kolnick attended dental school at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. After graduating cum laude in 1977, he was awarded the University Scholarship for Overseas Postgraduate Study. In 1982, he graduated from the postdoctoral endodontic program at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Dr Kolnick entered into private practice limited to endodontics in 1982 with his teacher and mentor, Dr Marvin Firdman in White Plains, NY. There he helped expand the practice to Mt Kisco, NY and develop the first microendodontic practice in Westchester County.
Dr Kolnick has been committed to endodontic education, first as an Associate Clinical Professor in Endodontics at Columbia University and then as an Attending at Westchester Medical Center and Associate Clinical Professor in Endodontics at New York Medical College. He has lectured extensively on a local, national and international level and has published numerous articles on endodontics. In 2006, he formed the Advanced Endodontic Study Club of NY to foster the study, advancement and interchange of knowledge, for general dentists, in the art and science of endodontics.
Out of the office he enjoys music, movies and theatre, and keeps fit with tennis, skiing, golf and SCUBA.
Dr Kolnick, his wife and two sons reside in Chappaqua, NY.
Publications:
Apex locators and ultrasonics add precision to contemporary practice of endodontics. Kolnick J. R., Dentist, July/August 1990
Locating the elusive apex. Kolnick J. R., Journal of New York State Academy of General Dentistry, March 1989
Oral Candidosis - report of a case implicating Candida Parapsilosis as a pathogen, Kolnick J. R., Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Vol. 50 pp411-415, November 1980
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