Olivia Urquhart is an Instructor in the Department of Preventive & Restorative Sciences. Before joining Penn Dental Medicine in September 2022, she served as the lead data analyst and a clinical practice guideline methodologist in the department of Evidence Synthesis and Translation Research at the American Dental Association’s (ADA) Science & Research Institute. During her tenure at the ADA she authored systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in oral cancer diagnosis, caries management, acute pain management, antibiotics for pulpitis, and dental interventions prior to radiation for head and neck cancer. Olivia earned a master’s degree in public health with a specialization in epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in 2016 and concurrently was a member of the birth defects surveillance research team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
