Dr. Cuozzo has been an orthodontist in New Jersey for 33 years. He prepared for his career through studies at Georgetown University (biology major, philosophy minor) and degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (DDS) and Loyola University / Chicago Graduate School of Dentistry
(MS, Oral Biology; Certificate of Specialty in Orthodontics). He also was a lieutenant in the Navy serving aboard the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65). He and his wife Diane have five grown children and four grandchildren.
In 1977 he studied in Switzerland with the late Dr. Francis Schaeffer and in 1979
embarked upon an original study of Neanderthal fossil specimens with the aid of
the late Dr. Wilton M. Krogman, noted anthropologist and professor at the University
of Pennsylvania. Dr. Cuozzo's paleontology studies have been conducted at the
laboratories in the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, the British Museum in England under
Christopher Stringer, the University of Liege in Belgium, the Rockefeller Museum
in Jerusalem, the Museum of Prehistory in East Berlin, the Smithsonian Institution
in Washington, D.C., the Field Museum in Chicago, the Peabody Museum at Harvard
University, and the paleontology collection of Southern Methodist University.
He has also studied the Paleolithic caves in Southern France. Part of his work
has included taking the first cephalometric (orthodontic) radiographs in history
of the Neanderthal fossils (1979-1991).
He also has served as an adjunct professor of biology at the former King's College
(Briarcliff Manor, NY). He has taught seminars and courses on the growth and development
of ancient man, the fossil record, cave research, and the philosophical basis
of evolution. He has lectured at numerous churches, colleges, and organizations.
Dr. Cuozzo has conducted paleontology tours of the American Museum of Natural
History in New York City for the last four years.
Also see his Web site at: www.jackcuozzo.com.
