Dr. Malamed was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, graduating from the New York University College of Dentistry in 1969. He then completed a dental internship and residency in anesthesiology at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in the Bronx, New York before serving 2 years in the U.S. Army Dental Corps at Ft. Knox, KY. In 1973, Dr. Malamed joined the faculty of the Ostrow School of Dentistry of U.S.C., in Los Angeles, where today he is professor of anesthesia & medicine. Dr. Malamed is a diplomate of the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology, as well as a recipient of the Heidebrink Award (1996) from the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology and the Horace Wells Award from the International Federation of Dental Anesthesia Societies, in 1997.