Lisa Simon MD DMD is a physician and dentist at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Harvard Medical School. She has been involved in the implementation of innovative medical-dental integration projects embedded in community health centers, Harvard’s dental clinic, and the hospital inpatient setting, and has developed oral health curricula for medical providers at all phases of training and practice. She has published about the separation of dentistry and medicine in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Dental Association and Health Affairs, and was the recipient of the 2019 David Whiston Leadership Award from the ADA and was named the 2020 “Woman to Watch” by the Lucy Hobbs Taylor Award for women in dentistry. She is currently a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care and a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Please join us for PDM alum Dr. Anne Koch's (D'77, GD '93) talk on entrepreneurship in dentistry, feminism, and her book It Never Goes Away: Gender Transition at a Mature Age.
Register here: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/7313588
Submit your question for Dr. Koch. All submissions are anonymous.
“It Never Goes Away is a riveting story about the gender transition journey of Dr. Anne Koch, a leading practitioner and educator in dental medicine. Her gentle but necessarily didactic story succeeds in unmasking the stigma faced so long by transgender people. The book “shines light” on one of the biggest problems in transgender medicine—that there is no continuity of care by many healthcare providers, with an exception of a few large gender centers and institutions. It Never Goes Away will become a core reading in educational programs at schools of medicine in the United States and Canada.”
-- Lisa McBride ― Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, TCU and UNTHS School of Medicine
ZOOM link will be sent separately.
Dr. Anne L. Koch received both her DMD and Certificate in Endodontics from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the founder and past Director of the Postdoctoral Program in Endodontics and Microsurgery at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Following her clinical and academic career, Dr. Koch formed her own successful technology and development company, Real World Endo, of which she was CEO and President. Dr. Koch is the holder of multiple patents and the author of more than one hundred and fifty articles in her specialty field. Dr. Koch has also presented more than one thousand lectures worldwide.
In addition to her clinical specialty, Dr. Koch is a strong advocate for professional women and presents at many medical and dental schools. Among her various presentations is, “The Entrepreneurial Woman Doctor” and she has gifted a large seminar / lecture room at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. Additionally, she has endowed a five-year program dedicated to Diversity and Inclusion issues at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Koch maintains a faculty position at Penn (Department of Endodontics) as well as serving as a Senior Fellow with Penn Medicine. She also is a member of the Board of Advisors for the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and maintains an adjunct faculty position at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Koch is an active member of numerous professional societies and organizations.
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He will speak about the interplay of dentistry in all areas of life from the clinical to the sociopolitical!
His podcast Dentistry Uncensored is the most popular podcast available
for dental professionals. Dr. Farran has interviewed over 1000 people involved in dentistry from CEOs of the world’s largest dental companies to dentists fresh out of school. Within his archive of shows is a treasure-trove of dental history in the making. He is also an engaging interviewer turning even the most seemingly unrelatable topic, to this librarian at least, into an engaging and enjoyable listen. One might think he missed his calling as the next Larry King, but after pondering his talent as a podcast host I realized he is merely retooling the gift all good dentists have, excellent chairside manner. In addition to interviewing well-known personalities, Dr. Farran is a notable person himself as Incisal Edge magazine ranked him among the 32 most influential people in dentistry.
Submit your question for Dr. Farran. All submissions are anonymous.
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WARHOL: What did you have for breakfast?
A toad in the hole. My mom made it.
WARHOL: Do you dream? (What’s the last one you remember?)
Yes, but I forget a lot of them very quickly after waking up. I have a lot of falling and underwater dreams. The last dream I remember clearly was a few days ago, I dreamt about being alone in this big, old Victorian house I used to go to get babysat by our older neighbor when I was 5 or 6. I remember being afraid of the house, and the dream was a little scary. Maybe some sub-conscious anxiety being released or something.
WARHOL: Do you keep a diary?
I keep notebooks. They mention events in my life sometimes, but it’s not systematic enough to be called a daily diary or even a diary at all, really.
WARHOL: How were you discovered?
I was researching internships and saw the Penn Libraries’ Internship Program webpage, and I e-mailed Laurel and was invited for an interview.
Long before that, I was George (age 8) in the Oakwood Summer Theatre production of Stuart Little. I stole the show.
WARHOL: What was your first job?
A summer day-camp counselor when I was 15. The first summer I had a group of 6-7 year olds and it was very easy; the next summer I had 10-12, and it was horrible.
WARHOL: Are you a good cook?
Grilled cheese, fish/shrimp tacos, reubens…that’s about it.
WARHOL: Is there anything you regret not doing?
I’m very FOMO about almost everything (I relate to the Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken” a lot). Two regrets I have been thinking about recently are that I never learned to skateboard, and I didn’t play more sports when I was younger (even though I recall hating most of them at the time). Who knows?
WARHOL: Do you dance at home?
I do not dance. Some people find it sad, but they would be sadder if they saw me dance. DISCLAIMER: The extremely rare occasions that it’s happened have generally occurred in the early morning hours at a poorly lit establishment where adult beverages are sold.
WARHOL: What are you reading right now?
Re-reading The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon because my friend was also re-reading and because I needed something humorous to try and escape a little. Although, I am growing more inclined to thinking the surreal and absurd qualities of Pynchon’s fiction are strangely suited to the uncanny reality in which we now find ourselves.
WARHOL: What’s your favorite movie?
Too Hard. A great movie I saw recently was We the Animals, an experimental coming-of-age movie that came out last year, I think. It’s heavy but also heart-warming.
WARHOL: Do you have a dream role?
When I was little, I always liked the villains, and I would have said Captain Hook (I played my VHS tape of the Robin Williams/Dustin Hoffman 1990 movie so many times it stopped working and my mom had to get a new copy). So, I will have to honor that tradition and keep the same answer.
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First talk of a new speaker series from the Dental Library!
If you’ve ever fretted over how to cite a text or awaited in trepidation the results of a plagiarism checker, chances are you cannot even begin to imagine the blatant disregard a relative few in academia have for the facts or for giving credit where credit is due.
It’s the honesty, integrity, and incredulity of the majority in academia and/or the scientific research community that has allowed the brazen to profit and even become tenured. The very idea these fraudsters are rewarded with lucrative grants and positions is galling in and of itself, but it far more sickening to realize that their crimes become part of the scientific record.
And up until recently there was little recourse for the plagiarized or the defrauded, that’s until Retraction Watch coalesced a movement to out these scholarly scofflaws.
“The seamier side of academia, lying, cheating and occasionally stealing, this is the world revealed by a blog which, by all rights, should be dry and boring, like its name, ‘Retraction Watch.'” — Fred Barbash in the Washington Post.
Article on Retraction Watch in the NYT:
Science, Now Under Scrutiny Itself
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ANDY WARHOL: What did you have for breakfast?
Carly Schanock: I usually just have a cinnamon raisin bagel, but today I splurged and had a cookies and cream vegan donut and non-vegan hot chocolate.
WARHOL: Do you dream? (What’s the last one you remember?)
Carly Schanock: I do sometimes. I have a reoccurring dream in black and white about Star Wars—or at least the lightsabers—and zombies. But my most recent one was about ordering Papa John’s pizza but I sent the pizza to my parent’s house in WI, and couldn’t find the phone number to call and cancel it. Eventually I did but it was only an extension number, so it didn’t work and then the construction outside my apartment woke me up.... The next day I ended up ordering Papa John's but made sure to send it to my address in Philadelphia
WARHOL: Do you keep a diary?
Carly Schanock: No, but I did until at least middle school. I actually found one of them when I last went home. But it’s a secret what I wrote.
WARHOL: How were you discovered?
Carly Schanock: My parents probably took a pregnancy test or went to the doctor, who told them. Before coming to Philadelphia, I went to DePaul University in Chicago and there I received a BA in History, with a concentration in Public History. I lived there for 5 years before starting my Masters of Library and Information Science at Drexel University in 2017.
WARHOL: What was your first job?
Carly Schanock: McDonald’s. I started at 15 because my parents wanted me to develop a strong work ethic when I was young and learn how to interact with a diverse group of people.
I interned previously at the Historical Medical Library at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and worked for Drexel’s Metadata Research Center as both a project manager for their LEADS-4-NDP program and a research assistant for a project with CHOP.
I started at the University of Pennsylvania as an intern in September 2018, during my second to last quarter in graduate school. I graduate in March 2019 and will be the youngest in my family to receive a master’s degree.
WARHOL: Are you a good cook?
Carly Schanock: I’m not bad, but I prefer baking and only have about 5 recipes I regularly make. Food tastes better when someone else makes it and I just pay for it.
WARHOL: Is there anything you regret not doing?
Carly Schanock: I regret not doing track and field in high school. I feel like I would’ve been great at hurdles and I think it would have been fun to have tennis in the fall and track and field in the spring. Also, I’m not very coordinated and maybe that would’ve helped. I also wished I had kept up with German, as I would love to live in Germany some day.
WARHOL: Do you dance at home?
Carly Schanock: Not well. Here at Penn I have done various things in my role, such as community engagement to promote library services, including a dental and Halloween themed escape room in October 2018, write blog posts, and create posters, most recently for Black History Month. I’ve also done research about patents and scholarly communications. I manage two websites, the digital yearbook and a crowdsourced translation project, and am in the processes of creating a scholarly communication libguide. I created and manage our Twitter and Instagram accounts. I’ve been trained to perform searches using Pubmed and MESH terms. I am also trained on circulation
WARHOL: What are you reading right now?
Carly Schanock: The Flight of the Romanovs by John Curtis Perry. My last two books were on the Romanovs as well.
WARHOL: What’s your favorite movie?
Carly Schanock:I don’t have a favorite. But my top 5 (in no particular order) are 1) Stardust, 2) The Mummy (1999), 3) Speed, 4) The Goonies, and 5) National Treasure. My favorite franchise is probably Star Wars
WARHOL: Do you have a dream role?
Carly Schanock: In terms of acting, I think it’d be fun to have a walk on role as maybe a bookstore owner or worker or a librarian. In terms of a job, my dream job is to be a fact checker for movies. Outside of my internship, I am interested in history, especially the Romanovs, archival work, data management, museums, libraries, and injecting creativity into my work.
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Charles Root Turner was dean of PDM from 1917-1940-- the first PDM graduate to accomplish this. He graduated from Penn in 1898 and received the highest grade from the Pennsylvania State Board of Dental Examiners (at the time). He then went on to graduate with his M.D. from the University College of Medicine at Richmond, VA in 1899. Upon graduation, he first became a demonstrator and then became head of prosthetic dentistry and orthodontia[1]. In 1902, he came to Penn after taking over from Charles J. Essig as chair of mechanical dentistry and metallurgy. In 1917, he became dean. While dean, he approved the establishment of the School of Dental Hygiene at Penn. During his time at Penn, a four-year course of instruction was introduced into the curriculum. He was known for promoting research, reorganizing and establishing departments, and held numerous positions in dental organizations and honorary doctorates. During his career, he also contributed special chapters to numerous works. Turner revised and enlarged the third edition of the American Textbook of Prosthetic Dentistry, later writing three subsequent editions. It was hailed as an epoch-making work because, for the first time, dental prosthesis was treated as a biomechanical method[2]. Turner brought a biological approach to mechanical phases of dentistry[3]. Upon being bestowed the title of Emeritus Dean, Charles Root Turner became the longest serving dean in the dental school’s history.
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Please watch for an announcement regarding another bioinformatics courses in the near future.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)[1] is part of the United States National Library of Medicine; NCBI’s tools aid in the understanding of molecular biology and genetics of human disorders.
Visit https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/analyze/ to view NCBI tools.
See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/?term to access NCBI databases.
If you have any further questions please contact Subin George at sgeo@pobox.upenn.edu or Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez, PhD, Research and Knowledge Management Liaison Librarian, at dmanuel@pobox.upenn.edu.
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The full title Die Arzney Buchlein wider allerlei kranckeyten und gebrechen der tzeen translates to “booklet of remedies against all sorts of diseases and infirmities of the teeth.” A mere 44 pages long, Die Zene Arzney is the first printed work specifically on dentistry. And as if that isn’t grand enough, it also bears on its title page the first dental woodcut depicting a timeless self-explanatory image, a tooth extraction.[1]
The goal of this project is to translate this book into English. And to review the text that is thought to be unchanged from one edition to the next. Just as recently as 1924, researchers were unaware of some editions, new transcribers may discover new text and meaning.
To facilitate the translation process, we have posted a link to a translation of the 1541 edition: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dencos/acf8385.0029.001/13:5?didno=ACF8385.0029.001;page=root;rgn=full+text;size=100;view=image
The book is divided into the following 13 sections:
The edition we have uploaded for translation was printed in 1532 by Gustav Budjuhn. Preceding the original text of Die Zene Arzney is a new forward added by Budjuhn.
The University of Pennsylvania special collections holds the oldest edition of Die Zene Arznei, published in 1530. It is on display for a limited time each year in the Leon Levy Dental Medicine Library of the University of Pennsylvania.
To aid you in your work are some papers about the different editions of the book and its artwork:
This paper outlines some of the differences between the editions.
Weinberger, B. W. (1924). Dental Literature: Its Origin and Development. Journal of Dental Research, 6(4), 305–388. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220345240060040201
Proskaur, Curt.. “The Two Earliest Dentistry Woodcuts.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1, (1), 1946, 71–86. JSTOR,
Searchable version[2]
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.087091024
A complete Fraktur (old German cursive script) chart
https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/fraktur
To visit the project site, follow this link http://pennds.org/oldestdentalbook/
Citations
[1] •Friedländer, Max J.: Der Holzschnitt. Berlin 1926
[2] Budjuhn, G. (1921). Die Zene Arznei: 1530 : Faksimiledruck mit einer quellenkritischen Untersuchung über die Geschichte des ältesten zahnheilkundlichen Druckes. Berlin: H. Meusser. 1532
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Robert Levy passed away on November 7 at the age of 87. He and his family will be remembered for all that they contributed to the University of Pennsylvania, particularly to the Dental School. His contributions to the Dental School include, but are not limited to, the establishment of Leon Levy Dental Library, and the Levy Center for Oral Health Research. Other locations named on campus for the Levy family are the Robert P. Levy Tennis Pavilion and Blanche P. Levy Park. The family made possible the Paley Professorship for the Dean of the School of Design. Medical schools and facilities across the Philadelphia area also have benefited from the generosity of the Levy family.
Robert Levy, like his father, was a University of Pennsylvania alumnus. Like his father, he continued his involvement with UPenn far past graduation and throughout his life. And as his father before him, he received the 2003 Alumni Award of Merit. A member of Penn’s Tennis and Athletics Halls of Fame, he mentored Penn students through athletics. He coached the women’s tennis team, amongst other activities. Robert Levy joined University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees in 1971 and became a member of the Student Life Committee. Robert and his father were veterans; he served during the Korean War in the US Army Reserve Medical Corps.
Outside of Penn, Robert Levy held positions as director of the Breeders’ Cup and director at Fasig-Tipton, as operator of the Atlantic City Race Course, chair of DRT Industries, and founded the Philadelphia Little Quakers football program. He received numerous awards and inductions into halls of fame due to his commitment to, and achievement in, sports.
His father, Dr. Leon Levy, was a 1915 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Dental Medicine— the first class to graduate from the Evans Institute (yearbook photo can be seen on the left). He was also granted honorary degrees from three universities including the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Levy is considered by Milton B. Asbell, the author of the book A Century of Dentistry: A History of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine 1878-1978, to be “our greatest benefactor since Thomas W Evans.”
In addition to his career as a dentist, he also served as a naval lieutenant in the Dental Corp. during WWI and then as a consultant in radio for the Office of War Information during WWII. He was a senior director of the CBS Board of Directors for nearly 50 years, a director of the CBS Foundation and was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame in 1992. Dr. Levy was also known for his love of horses and was the director of the Thoroughbred Racing Association of North America, a role his son later took over.
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