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Penn’s SNDA Chapter Hosts Annual Black History Month Celebration

Philadelphia – In recognition of Black History Month, Penn Dental Medicine’s Student National Dental Association (SNDA) Chapter hosted its annual Black History Month Celebration. This year’s celebration focused on empowering women in dentistry and honoring black history and culture at Penn Dental Medicine. Historically, SNDA was created to further both the academic and social environment […]

Takeaways on New Acute Dental Pain Management Guideline

Menty Bayleyen Receives Fulbright International Education Administrators Award

Penn Dental Medicine Collaborates with NASEM on Oral Health Education Workshop

Dean Mark Wolff Honored with Woods System of Care Distinguished Service Award

Philadelphia- Penn Dental Medicine’s Morton Amsterdam Dean, Dr. Mark S. Wolff, has been awarded the Woods System of Care Distinguished Service Award, presented in appreciation and recognition of outstanding leadership, nationally and globally, in providing high-quality dental care to persons with disabilities. A longstanding advocate for providing comprehensive dental care to individuals with physical, intellectual, […]

Dr. Sunday Akintoye on Minimizing Complications of Oropharyngeal Cancer in African Americans

Dr. Sunday Akintoye, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI)’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD), shares insights on his efforts to enhance health equity, the significant role played by previous Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE) grants in advancing his professional journey, and the profound significance of Black History Month. Read more […]

Penn Dental Medicine Student Empowers African Oral Health Initiatives

Philadelphia – John Button (D’26), a second-year student at Penn Dental Medicine, participated in the conference “Evidence to Policy: Accelerating the Implementation of the Regional and Global Strategies on Oral Health in the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Region,” hosted by Penn Dental Medicine’s Center for Integrative Global Oral Health (CIGOH) in collaboration with the […]

Penn Dental Medicine Expands Community Care with New Site in West Philadelphia 

Penn Dental Medicine Joins with the WHO to Address Oral Health in Africa

Penn Dental Medicine Expanding Care for Cancer Patients

Penn Dental Medicine Joins Global Discussion on Climate Change at COP28

Dr. Edward Lin Receives Award for Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry

Philadelphia — Dr. Yi Te (Edward) Lin (GD’ 24), a third-year periodontal resident and lab member at Penn Engineering and Applied Sciences‘ Electrical and Systems Engineering Department, received the first-place Scientific Poster Award for Student Excellence at the prestigious Global Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry hosted by Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine. This […]

George Hajishengallis, Michel Koo Named Highly Cited Researchers

Dr. Dennis Sourvanos Receives ADA Foundation Crest and Oral-B Promising Researcher Award

Philadelphia — Dr. Dennis Sourvanos (GD23, DScD’23), an NIDCR postdoctoral trainee at Penn Dental Medicine, is the recipient of the American Dental Association (ADA) Foundation 2023 Crest and Oral-B Promising Researcher Award. This supports Dr. Sourvanos’ multidisciplinary, translational preclinical research, which has developed new investigative avenues in Photobiomodulation light therapy. Dr. Sourvanos’s translational research model […]

Three Sisters Sharing Penn Dental Education

Philadelphia- Joanna Haddad (D’24), Mira-Belle Haddad (D’25), and Anna-Maria Haddad (D’27) have made history by being one of the very few groups of three or more siblings to be enrolled at Penn Dental Medicine in the DMD program at the same time. Born and raised in Liban-Nord, Lebanon, Joanna, Mira-Belle, and Anna-Maria are all in […]

Dr. Michael Glick Named Fields-Rayant Endowed Professor of Integrative Global Oral Health

Dean Wolff, Julian Fisher to Participate in Nov. 8 World Health Organization Webinar

Study Finds a Combined Treatment that Could Take a Bite Out of Tooth Decay

Dean Mark Wolff Inducted into International College of Dentists USA Section