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Syngcuk Kim, DDS, PhD, MD (Hon) Chair and Louis I. Grossman Professor of Endodontics Contact Information Robert Schattner Center University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine 240 South 40th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6030 Phone: 215-898-4616 Fax: 215-573-2148 Email: syngcuk@pobox.upenn.edu

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Dr. Kim is the Louis I. Grossman Professor and chairman of the Department of Endodontics at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He earned his dental degree and certificate in Endodontics from the School of Dental and Oral Surgery at Columbia University in New York. Dr. Kim also received his Ph.D. degree in circulatory physiology from the Department of Physiology at the Medical School, Columbia University. In 2002 he received an Honorary Medical Doctor degree from the University of Graz, Austria.

Dr. Kim is well known and respected for his research in dental pulp physiology and microcirculation and the AAE has awarded him the Louis I. Grossman Award for outstanding research and the Ralph F. Sommer Award as principal author of "publications of significance in the science and art of endodontics." He is also the 1991 recipient of the Endodontic and Pulp Biology Research Awards from the IADR. When he joined the Dental School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 as chairman of the Department of Endodontics, Dr. Kim not only brought the department into the "New Age" of the Microscope but also established the Microscope Training Center at the School. For this new field in endodontics he developed a series of endodontic instruments for endodontic microsurgery, specifically the KiS ultrasonic tips and a complete microsurgical instrument set. Since its inception, leaders in endodontic education and clinical practitioners from the USA, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia have been trained at the Center.

Extensive speaking engagements take Dr. Kim to universities, conferences, study clubs and professional associations in the US and abroad. In addition to over sixty articles in peer review journals, Dr. Kim is also an editorial board member of the International Journal and the Journal of Endodontics, as well as the Journal of Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Biololgy. He served as Guest Editor in the Dental Clinics of North America series, published in July 1997 and 2004 and he is co-author of Endodontology, a Color Atlas of Dental Medicine, Thieme Co., Germany 2000. In addition, he is the primary author of the "Color Atlas of Microsurgery in Endodontics" published in 2000 by the Saunders Co. 

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