Kim Syngcuk

Dr. Syngcuk Kim is the Louis I. Grossman Professor at the Department of Endodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.  He is also Associate Dean for Global Affairs and Associate Dean for Advanced Dental Education for the School of Dental Medicine. He earned his undergraduate and his Dental Degrees from Columbia University in New York.  Dr. Kim also earned his Ph.D. in Circulatory Physiology at the Medical School of Columbia University, in New York. Dr. Kim is well known and respected for his research in dental pulp physiology and microcirculation. He received the “Louis I. Grossman Award” for outstanding research from the AAE in 1992. Dr Kim joined the Dental School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 as Chairman of the Department of Endodontics and brought the Endo Department into the “New Age” of the Microscope establishing the Microscope Training Center at the School. This Center is the first University-based Microscope-training program in the world that teaches MicroEndodontics and Endodontic Microsurgery.  Since its inception, over thousand leaders in endodontic education and clinical practitioners from the USA, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia have been trained at the Center. In 2010 Dr. Kim was appointed Associate Dean of Global Affairs at the School of Dental Medicine. Extensive speaking engagements take Dr. Kim to universities, conferences, study clubs and professional associations all over the world.  In addition to more than two hundred articles in peer reviewed journals Dr. Kim is the primary author of the book titled “Microsurgery in Endodontics”.