Penn Dental Student National ASDA President

Penn Dental Student National ASDA President

March 9, 2018

Third-year student Roopali Kulkarni has been elected national president of the American Student Dental Association, previously serving as District 3 trustee to the national ASDA Board
Two Students Awarded Preventive Dentistry Scholarships

Two Students Awarded Preventive Dentistry Scholarships

March 5, 2018

Yassmin Parsaei (D’18) and Katherine Jie Shi (D’19) are among the 2018 ADEA/GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Preventive Dentistry Scholarship recipients.

Dr. Uri Hangorsky Named Department of Periodontics Interim Chair

Dr. Uri Hangorsky Named Department of Periodontics Interim Chair

January 31, 2018

Dr. Hangorsky has been part of the School’s periodontics faculty since 1980. He will remain in the Interim Chair role until the search is complete for a permanent Chair.
$1.53M Grant Expanding Pediatric Dentistry Training

$1.53M Grant Expanding Pediatric Dentistry Training

January 25, 2018

Awarded to the School’s Divisions of Pediatric Dentistry and Community Oral Health, the program is designed to enhance dental students’ course work and clinical experiences with young children.
Penn Dental Celebrates State-of-the-Art Renovation of its Main Clinic

Penn Dental Celebrates State-of-the-Art Renovation of its Main Clinic

January 12, 2018

The School officially celebrated the opening of its new Robert I. Schattner Clinic with a ribbon cutting and open house tours of the state-of-the-art facility.
Altering Bone Marrow Can ‘Train’ Innate Immune System for Future Challenges

Altering Bone Marrow Can ‘Train’ Innate Immune System for Future Challenges

January 11, 2018

A recent study from the lab of Dr. George Hajishengallis showed how the innate immune system can be trained to “remember” past threats/respond to future challenges.
Bringing Together Clinical Topics on Oral Cancer

Bringing Together Clinical Topics on Oral Cancer

January 8, 2018

Drs. Eric Stoopler and Thomas Sollecito, Dept. of Oral Medicine, helped to compile clinically relevant updates on the topic of oral cancer as editors of the January 2018 issue of Dental Clinics of North America.