Chief of Dental Service
Vice President of Medical and Dental Board
NYC Health + Hospitals/Sea View

Treating Complex Dental Needs

Family dentist and civic leader Dr. Mohammad Khalid has been Chief of Dental Service at Sea View since 2014 and has been in private practice on Staten Island for 41 years. He takes great pride in the expansive dental services the rehabilitation center and home provides its patients, from fillings to surgery and dentures, and is proud that patients and their families appreciate the thorough care offered at Sea View.

Dr. Khalid started out in medicine following his parents’ dream, and came to view his profession as a “God-given gift.” “Growing up in Pakistan it was every parent’s dream that their children would become a doctor and help people in their medical needs,” he says. “I became a doctor in 1971and I am so happy that I listened to my parents. This is the most noble profession on Earth — helping other human beings.”

Dr. Khalid earned his Bachelor of Dental Surgery, and did a General Dentistry Rotating Internship, at Khyber Medical College in Peshawar, Pakistan. He completed his Doctor of Dental Surgery at the New York University foreign dental program.

In addition to his professional commitments, Dr. Khalid is deeply engaged in his communities. He is a member of Community Board 2 and president of the Pakistani Civic Association of Staten Island; previously served as a member of the New York City Charter Review Commission and Civilian Complaint Review Board, and participated in many other civic, cultural, business and dental organizations. Dr. Khalid takes pride in working for H+H and the agency plays a large role in his family as well. His wife is an H+H pediatrician and his attorney daughter is an H+H compliance officer.

He counts as a “great accomplishment” his appointment as dental chief at Sea View, which is “is very challenging” with patient needs “more complex and compromising than patients in private practice.” He has worked closely with Sea View colleagues on infection prevention, educating the nursing staff in proper daily oral hygiene to prevent pneumonia – a strategy that keeps Sea View’s pneumonia rate low.

Dr. Khalid says he considers it his “moral and ethical duty to help … and provide the highest care that you can. To me that’s the best part of being a doctor every day.”

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