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  • Dental student and faculty research recognized by AADOCR/IADR

    Penn Dental Medicine students and faculty research was in the spotlight at the recent 2024 IADR/AADOCR/CADR General Session & Exhibition in March.

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  • Two Penn Dental Medicine students elected to national leadership posts in ASDA

    The American Student Dental Association inaugurated its 2024-2025 executive committee and board of trustees with Parker Norman and Samarth Setru in key national leadership positions.

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  • Menty Bayleyen receives Fulbright International Education Administrators Award

    The senior associate director of admissions at Penn Dental Medicine will participate in a two-week seminar abroad to learn about other countries’ higher education systems.

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  • Dean Mark Wolff honored with Woods System of Care Distinguished Service Award

    Among Wolff’s achievements is a partnership with Woods Services to establish the Penn Dental Medicine at Woods Mikey Faulkner Dental Care Center. Wolff was also acknowledged by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the Pennsylvania Senate for his role in establishing the Woods Care Center.

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  • Penn Dental Medicine expands community care with new site in West Philadelphia

    Penn Dental Medicine has expanded its community care locations, opening a new site in West Philadelphia within the PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar.

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  • Penn Dental Medicine joins with the WHO to address oral health in Africa

    Penn Dental’s Center for Integrative Global Oral Health and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa brought together oral health educators, chief dental officers, and representatives from Ministries of Health from throughout Africa at the Exploring Global Strategies To Promote Oral Health In The WHO African Region conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

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  • Penn Dental Medicine expanding care for cancer patients

    Penn Dental Medicine has launched a new outreach effort to serve cancer patients undergoing treatment who may not have a dental care home.

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  • Edward Lin receives award at Harvard Dental School

    Yi Te (Edward) Lin, 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 Global Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry hosted by Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine.

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  • Periodontics resident takes top spot in research competition

    Kantapon (Tony) Rattanaprukskul took top honors for his research as the first place winner of the Balint Orban Memorial Competition, held as part of the recent 109 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Periodontology.

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  • Dennis Sourvanos receives ADA Foundation Crest and Oral-B Promising Researcher Award

    The NIDCR postdoctoral trainee at Penn Dental Medicine is the recipient of the American Dental Association Foundation 2023 Crest and Oral-B Promising Researcher Award in support of his multidisciplinary, translational preclinical research, which has developed new investigative avenues in Photobiomodulation light therapy.

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