Dr. Elliot Hersh is Professor of Oral Surgery/Pharmacology and Director of the Division of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Penn Dental Medicine. He runs a very active clinical research program that plays a key role in developing and carrying out clinical protocols. His analgesic research team was instrumental in the granting of FDA approval to a number of analgesic and anesthetic agents and his studies of analgesic agents have been published in numerous peer review journals. He is also chairman of IRB #3, of the University's Committee on Studies Involving Human Beings. In March 2007, he was been recognized for his outstanding contributions to the dental field as the recipient of a 2007 International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Distinguished Scientist Award in the area of Pharmacology/Therapeutics/Toxicology Research.
