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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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  • New master’s in oral, population health accepting first cohort this fall

    The full-time online program covers a diversity of disciplines in creating, synthesizing, and disseminating evidence to inform clinical practice and policies at all levels of the health care system.

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  • Beverley Crawford receives NDAF/Colgate-Palmolive Faculty Recognition Award

    The professor of clinical restorative dentistry and director of Student Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives has been recognized for her service to students and academics as the 2023 recipient of the National Dental Association Foundation (NDAF)/Colgate-Palmolive Faculty Recognition Award.

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  • Dean Mark Wolff named 2023 DentaQuest Health Equity Hero

    Penn Dental Medicine’s Morton Amsterdam Dean has been recognized for his leadership in improving access to oral health care for individuals with disabilities.

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  • Yu Zhang recognized by the International Association for Dental Research for research, innovation

    The professor in the Department of Preventive & Restorative Sciences, has been awarded the 2023 IADR DMG Peyton-Skinner Award for his outstanding contributions to innovation in dental materials.

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  • Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry presents annual symposium

    Current research at the interface of dental medicine and engineering was in the spotlight as the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry, the collaborative center between Penn Dental Medicine and Penn Engineering, presented its 2nd Annual Symposium: Dentists, Scientists & Engineers Transforming Oral Health.

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  • CiPD, Penn Health-Tech award 2023 IDEA Prize

    The Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD) and Penn Health-Tech have awarded their second annual IDEA (Innovation in Dental Medicine and Engineering to Advance Oral Health) Prize to Kyle Vining, assistant professor of preventive and restorative sciences at Penn Dental Medicine, who also has a joint appointment at Penn Engineering, and Michael Mitchell, associate professor of bioengineering at Penn Engineering.

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