School of Dental Medicine

Tania Markarian-Skowronski, DDS, MSM (DEN ‘97, MGT '19) received the Special Recognition Award. The award is given to an individual who has made a significant impact within the community, the profession or our institution. Markarian-Skowronski is recognized for excelling as both a clinician and educ...

The School of Dental Medicine Class of 2023 received their diplomas in the beautiful Silver Hall of The Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple-Tifereth Israel on Saturday, May 20. "You have not only witnessed a global pandemic and formed within yourselves the ability to adapt ...

The Expanded Function Dental Auxiliary (EFDA) program graduation ceremony was held on Wednesday, May 10, in Samson Pavilion. Approximately 175 attendees gathered to support the 33 graduates of the EFDA Class of 2023. In addition to celebrating the graduates, sev...

At Case Western Reserve University, our students excel in research, academics, athletics and in the community. This week, we will celebrate the accomplishments of about 2,500 graduates. It would be impossible to comprehensively describe all of their contributions, but we caught up with a graduatin...

Nearly two decades ago, Karla Coburn gave up a career in dentistry to pursue her dream of becoming an educator. As that mid-career pivot demonstrated, her desire to lead and care for students comes from deep within. “Teaching is my true passion,” said Coburn, “and my goal is to offer the best learn...

The School of Dental Medicine is grateful to Kari A. Cunningham, DMD (DEN ‘10 ‘12), who is concluding her term as President of the CWRU School of Dental Medicine Alumni Association Board of Directors on June 30. During her term, Dr. Cunningham negotiated the challenges of the pandemic, mastering t...

The Delta Dental Foundation provided a grant allowing five School of Dental Medicine students—Erin Madar, Gina DeLeonibus, Rhea Pate, Laura Smith and Derek Fickes—to attend the Special Care Dentistry Association (SCDA) 35th Annual Meeting in Special Care Dentistry in Dallas, Texas, April 27 through ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship for an AI Speaker Series event featuring Tarek Elshebiny (DEN '16), assistant professor at the School of Dental Medicine. Elshebiny will present “Orthodontics, Dentistry and AI” Thu...

Mark Hans, DDS, MSD, and CWRU Professor and Chair of the Orthodontics Department, delivered the 2023 John Valentine Mershon Award Lecture at the AAO 2023 Annual Session in Chicago. The presentation, Two Score and Two Years-Lessons Learned, drew upon 42 years of clinical experience and more than 30...

Thomas Van Dyke, DDS, PhD, a Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine alum, will deliver the address for this year's diploma ceremony. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Science from Case Western Reserve (CWR '69), Van Dyke went on to receive his Doctorate of Dental...