A listing of upcoming special events and programs at Penn Dental Medicine. Sort by areas of interest, including alumni events, continuing education programs, student events, our research seminar series, and those events specific to our academic departments.
**IMPORTANT UPDATE REGARDING COVID-19**
In an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Penn Dental Medicine has suspended all large in-person events in accordance with the University’s policies. For up to date information about our exclusively virtual continuing education courses, please view opportunities here»
We also invite you to visit our website at www.dental.upenn.edu/coronavirus to stay abreast of the rapidly changing advisories for oral health providers. We will use this space to provide resources and content of value to our alumni, students, faculty/staff, and patients.
For questions, please contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at 215-898-8951 or alumni@dental.upenn.edu.
Michael Glick, DMD is Professor, Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Dr. Glick has authored more than 300 journal publications, book chapters and editorials, and has edited and co-edited 10 text books. He has received numerous awards for his entrepreneurship, community and professional activities, clinical acumen, teaching excellence and writings.
Dr. Alessandro Devigus received his degree from Zurich University, Switzerland, in 1987. Since 1990 he has worked in his own private practice with a focus on CAD CAM and Digital Dentistry. He is also a CEREC Instructor at the Zurich Dental School. Dr. Devigus is an active member of the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (EAED), founder of the Swiss Society of Computerized Dentistry, Neue Gruppe member, and ITI fellow and speaker. Dr. Devigus is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Esthetic Dentistry, author of various publications and an international lecturer.
Habib Benzian, DDS MScDPH PhD, is Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, College of Dentistry, New York University, and Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Quality Improvement & Evidence-based Dentistry. Following an accomplished career as oral surgeon, Dr Benzian has been at the forefront of global advocacy to end the neglect of oral health. As expert in international (dental) public health, health policy, NCDs, and school health, he works at the intersection of academic research, policy and practice. He is senior adviser to the WHO, UNICEF, governments, and donor agencies and supported major national, regional and global health policy processes. He co-developed the awarded Fit for School Approach which combines essential school health, sanitation and hygiene improvements and oral health, currently reaching every day more than 20 million children in Southeast Asia. Dr Benzian was co-editor-in-chief for the Oral Health Atlas, a unique publication mapping the state of oral health worldwide, providing substantial resources for policy and international advocacy. As a member of the Lancet Commission on Oral Health he leads the working group on Global Governance & Advocacy.
Dr. David C. Hatcher received his D.D.S. degree from the University of Washington. Subsequently he completed two years active duty in the U.S. Public Health Service and a one year general practice residency program at the University of Vermont Medical Center. Dr. Hatcher entered the graduate program in radiology at the University of Toronto and was granted a specialty degree in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology in 1982 and a M.Sc. in 1983. His thesis topic was the radiology of temporomandibular disorders. Presently Dr. Hatcher is in private practice in Sacramento, California and has faculty appointments as Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco, University of California Los Angeles, University of California Davis and University of the Pacific. Dr. Hatcher is active in research related to TMD, 3 dimensional geometric morphometrics and applications of artificial intelligence to image analysis and airway.
