Department News

Recent Recruit Dr. Patricia Corby Expanding Opportunities to Leverage Science in the Clinic

The Placebo Cure: The Role Placebos Play in Drug Testing

Oral Surgery Department Presents TMJ Symposium, Honors Dr. Peter Quinn

Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine’s Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery brought together approximately 150 clinicians from throughout the country for TMJ Disease in the Growing Patient, December 8-9, while also honoring one of the School’s most highly respected leaders in the field with the creation of the Peter D. Quinn Lectureship Fund. The program...

Penn Oral Medicine Active in World Workshop on Oral Medicine

Philadelphia — Current and former faculty and residents from Penn Dental Medicine’s Department of Oral Medicine played key roles in the 7th World Workshop of Oral Medicine held in Gothenburg, Sweden, September 24-26, 2018. Convened every four years, the World Workshop of Oral Medicine is an international conference of invited oral medicine experts who gather...

Dr. Thomas P. Sollecito One Health Fellowship to Support Study across Disciplines

The fellowship will support programming within the Dept. of Oral Medicine for veterinary dentists or oral medicine fellows with an interest in veterinary oral medicine.

Dr. Eric Stoopler Promoted to Professor of Oral Medicine

Dr. Stoopler has been a member of the School’s Oral Medicine faculty since 2002 and presently also serves as Director of the School’s Oral Medicine Residency Program.

Penn Dental Medicine 2018 Teaching Awards

Penn Dental Medicine faculty/staff members were honored for excellence in teaching by the School’s graduating class of DMD students with the 2018 teaching awards

Dr. Eric Stoopler Named President of the American Academy of Oral Medicine

Dr. Stoopler was installed to this leadership post at the recent AAOM Annual Meeting and will serve through May 2019.

Students Build Oral Cancer Awareness, Raise $20K

April is National Oral Cancer Awareness Month and Penn Dental Medicine students once organized the Philadelphia Oral Cancer Walk and 5k. This was the 10th year for the event.

Pennsylvania Dental Association Recognizes Dr. Thomas Sollecito

Dr. Thomas P. Sollecito, Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral Medicine, will receive the 2018 PDA Recognition Award.