Takako Tanaka, DDS, FDS, RCSEd
Director of Postdoctoral Oral Medicine Program,Professor of Clinical Oral Medicine
Department of Oral Medicine
Professional Biography
Dr. Tanaka is a Professor of Clinical Oral Medicine and the Program Director of the Postgraduate Oral Medicine Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Tanaka completed her residency and fellowship in Oral Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in 2006. She is board-certified by the American Board of Oral Medicine and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Her clinical expertise includes oral mucosal diseases, oral cancer, and orofacial pain disorders. In addition to her clinical and didactic teaching in Oral Medicine, Dr. Tanaka provides consultation services and delivers continuing education lectures at dental societies both nationally and internationally. She is currently accepting new patients at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine in Philadelphia and Penn Medicine at Radnor.