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Periodontic/Orthodontic Residency

Department of Periodontics

Standing Faculty

Joseph P. Fiorellini, DMD, DMSc, Professor and Chair
Marjorie K. Jeffcoat, DMD
, Professor
Denis F. Kinane, BDS, PhD
, Morton Amsterdam Dean and Professor
Jonathan Korostoff, DMD, PhD
, Associate Professor
Alan M. Polson, DDS, LDS, MS
, Professor

Directors

Naciye Guzin Uzel, DDS, DMSc
Dr. Uzel is the Clinical Director of postdoctoral periodontics at Penn Dental Medicine, where she is involved with clinical and didactic courses and seminars. Dr. Uzel earned her DDS from Arkana University, Certificate in Microbiology from The Forsyth Institute, DMSc in Oral Biology, and a Certificate in Periodontology from Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Prior to joining Penn Dental Medicine, she was a staff associate at The Forsyth Institute. Her research is focused on the microbiology aspect of periodontal and other oral diseses. Dr. Uzel's laboratory studies species of the complex oral microbiota as well as effects of different treatments by using advanced molecular techniques.

Daniel W.K. Kao, DDS, MS
Dr. Kao is the Director of predoctoral periodontics at Penn Dental Medicine, where he is involved with clinical and didactic courses and seminars. Dr. Kao earned his DDS from Yang Ming University in 1999. Dr. Kao completed his Periodontics postgraduate training at the Department of Periodontology at Penn, where he also received his Masters in Oral Biology. Dr. Kao is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. His research interests include the clinical applications of growth factors (BMP, PDGFs), the relationship of systemic disease and periodontal disease, and dental implant studies.

Academic Support Staff/Associated Faculty

Roberto Abundo, Adjunct Professor
Morton Amsterdam, DDS, DS, Professor Emeritus
Jean Pierre Arnoux, DDS, Clinical Assistant Professor
Harold S. Baumgarten, DMD, Clinical Professor
Robert M. Benedon, DMD, Clinical Associate Professor
Herbert Brilliant, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor
I. Stephen Brown, DDS, Clinical Professor
Bernard Calem, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Gail G. Childers, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
M. Alexandre Cho, DDS, Clinical Assistant Professor
D. Walter Cohen, DDS, Professor Emeritus
Giuseppe Corrente, MD, DDS, Adjunct Professor
Harold DeHaven, DDS, Clinical Professor
Ira Eisenstein, DMD, BA, Clinical Associate Professor
Cyril Evian, BDS, HDD, DMD, Clinical Professor
Howard P. Fraiman, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Peter Gaengler, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Joseph Greenberg, DMD, Clinical Professor
Howard B. Gross, DDS, Clinical Assistant Professor
Stephanie Gross, DDS, Clinical Associate
Uri Hangorsky, DDS, MS, Clinical Professor
David Hazzouri, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Daniel W.K. Kao, DDS, MS, Lecturer
Barry Kayne, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor
Yongkun Kim, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Young Ku, DDS, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor
Daniel Kubikian, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Chern-Hsiung Lai, PhD, DMD, Adjunct Professor
Jay B. Laudenbach, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Kenneth Laudenbach, DDS, Clinical Professor
Ernesto Lee, DMD, Clinical Professor
Barry Paul Levin, DMD, Clinical Associate Professor
Robert Levine, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor
Richard Levitt, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Max Listgarten, DDS, Professor Emeritus
Edward Allen Marcus, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor
Louis Robert Marion, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Oscar Gonzalez Martin, DDS, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Alan Morris, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Jeffrey M. Morton, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Mana Nejadi, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Myron Nevins, DDS, Clinical Professor
Jeffrey Pearlman-Storch, DMD, Clinical Associate Professor
Karl Rose, DDS, Clinical Assistant Professor
Louis Rose, DDS, MD, Clinical Professor
Leslie M. Salkin, DDS, Clinical Professor
Farshid Sanavi, DMD, PhD, Clinical Professor
Mariano Sanz, DDS, MD, Adjunct Professor
Peter Schupbach, PhD, Adjunct Professor
David R. Silver, BA, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Mark Bennett Snyder, DMD, Clinical Associate Professor
Neil Starr, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor
Arthur Steinberg, DMD, Clinical Professor
Haim Tal, DMD, Adjunct Professor
James Torosian, DMD, BA, Clinical Associate Professor
Mehmet Ilhan Uzel, DMD, Clinical Associate Professor
Naciye Guzin Uzel, DDS, DMSc, Lecturer
Elana Walker, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Arnold Weisgold, DDS, Adjunct Professor

Department of Orthodontics

Standing Faculty

Robert L. Vanarsdall, Jr., DDS
Dr. Vanarsdall is Professor and Chair of the Department of Orthodontics. His clinical research has involved orthodontic patients' periodontal condition before, during, and after orthodontic therapy. Periodontal outcome following orthodontic treatment has been ongoing for the past 20 years, involving adverse effects of mechanotherapy, limitations of treatment, soft tissue response, skeletal relationships, frenum considerations, gingival hyperplasia, retention procedures, ectopically positioned teeth, ankylosis, and adult patients with advanced periodontal disease.

Chun-Hsi Chung, BDS, DMD, MS
Dr. Chung is Associate Professor of Orthodontics-Clinician Educator. His primary research interests include craniofacial growth and development, relationship between transverse dentofacial dimension and vertical facial morphology, and orthodontic miniscrew for anchorage. Dr. Chung teaches Orthodontics clinically and didactically for the pre-doctoral dental students and the post-doctoral orthodontic residents. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics and a full member of the Angle Society of Orthodontists. Dr. Chung has numerous publications in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, European Journal of Orthodontics, Angle Orthodontist, Journal of Clinical Orthodontics, The International Journal of Adult Orthodontics and Orthognathic Surgery, Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology, and Calcified Tissue International.

Solomon Katz, MA, PhD
Dr. Katz is Professor of Orthodontics. He serves as director for the W.M. Krogman Center for Research in Child Growth and Development, which is affiliated with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hospital for Children in Wilmington. He has delivered presentations for the ID, the American Public Health Association, the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy Research, the CPC National Immunization Conference, and many local and state agencies dealing with health care for children. Dr. Katz is an officer and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics and teaches biostatistics in the Division of Advanced Dental Education. He also teaches within with Department of Orthodontics courses on child somatic and craniofacial growth and development at both predoctoral and postdoctoral levels.

Antonino G. Secchi, DMD, MS
Dr. Secchi is Assistant Professor of Orthodontics-Clinician Educator. Dr. Secchi is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Los Andes, Chile. Dr. Secchi received his DDS from the University of Valparaiso, Chile, a Certificate in Advanced in Occlusion from the University of Chile, his DMD, Certificate in Orthodontics and a Master of Science in Oral Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a graduate of the AEO Roth/Williams Center and a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics. At the University of Pennsylvania he has developed and implemented courses on Functional Occlusion in Orthodontics and Straight Wire Appliance System for post-doctoral orthodontic residents. He also provides didactic and clinical instruction for the pre-doctoral students and the Division of Advanced Dental Education. Dr. Secchi's research interests include the relationship between orthodontics and functional occlusion, self-ligating appliances and treatment mechanics, and the application of 3-D photography on facial analysis. He received the 2005 David C. Hamilton Orthodontic Research Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Orthodontists (PAO), a 2006 Orthodontic Faculty Development Fellowship Award from the American Association of Orthodontists Foundation (AAOF) and the Subtelny, Baker, Eastman Teaching Fellowship Award from the AAOF. In addition, he maintains an active orthodontic practice at the Dental Care Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

Academic Support Staff/Associated Faculty

James Barrer, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Frank R. Batastini, MBA, DMD, Lecturer
Paul J. Batastini, DDS, Clinical Professor
Paul F. Batastini, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Meryl A. Baurmash, DDS, Clinical Associate
Alan Borislow, DDS, Adjunct Associate Professor
Normand Boucher, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor
John Cacovean, BS, Instructor
Daniel Casullo, DMD, Adjunct Associate Professor
Elisabetta Cavalcanti-Adam, DDS, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Karl Cederquist, DDS, Clinical Associate
Daniel H.D. Chen, DMD, Clinical Associate
Hye Ran Choo, DMD, MS, Clinical Associate
Guy Coby, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Stefano Cortella, DDS, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Vincent Cullen, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Patrick T. Cuozzo, DDS, Clinical Associate
Salvatore DeRicco, DDS, Clinical Associate
Catherine M. Foote, DMD, Clinical Associate
Francis Forwood, DMD, Clinical Associate Professor
Cathleen George, DMD, Clinical Associate
Peter Greco, DMD, Clinical Associate Professor
Douglas S. Harte, DMD, Clinical Associate
Maria Karpov, DMD, MS, Clinical Associate
Mark Kazmierski, DMD, MS, Lecturer
Jung Kook Kim, DDS, MS, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor
Soo-Jin Kim, DDS, MS, PhD, Lecturer
Samuel B. King, DDS, Instructor
Harvey Levitt, DDS, Adjunct Associate Professor
Kevin Patrick Lucas, DDS, Clinical Assistant Professor
Arnold Malerman, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor
Rosario Mayro, DMD, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor
Vincent Mongiovi, DMD, Clinical Associate
David Musich, DDS, MS, Clinical Professor
Serban Nicolaescu, DMD, Clinical Associate
J. Henry O' Hern Jr., DDS, Clinical Professor
Robert Anthony Penna, DMD, Clinical Associate
Joyce Perih, DDS, MS, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Michael Perillo, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Robert Perlot, DMD, MS, Clinical Associate
Andre Ruest, DMD, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Jerome Sklaroff, DDS, MS, Clinical Professor
Ryan Tamburino, DMD, Clinical Associate
Douglas White, DMD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Warne White, DDS, Adjunct Associate Professor
Leslie A. Will, DMD, Adjunct Associate Professor


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Certifying Authority: School of Dental Medicine
Last Update:
27 September, 2005
27 September, 2005