The Morton Amsterdam Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and Professor in the Department of Preventive & Restorative Sciences, Dr. Mark S. Wolff holds a DDS (1981) and PhD in Oral Biology and Pathology (1997) from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. Prior to Penn Dental Medicine, he held leadership positions with Stony Brook University and NYU. Dr Wolff has been a lifelong advocate for individuals with disabilities through the lifespan, and he started his dental career as a private practitioner, creating a family practice that focused on the medically compromised and patients with disabilities of all ages. He has published more than 100 papers, text chapters and edited multiple textbooks and is an experienced principal investigator for extramurally funded research.