The Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine has selected a new dean. Kenneth B. Chance, DDS, a professor and the chief of endodontics at the University of Kentucky, will succeed Jerry Goldberg, DDS, as dean. Dr. Goldberg served 17 years as dean.
Dr. Chance has been a member of the Case Western Reserve Board of Trustees since 2005, according to the university.
Dr. Chance earned his undergraduate degree at Fordham University and earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery at Case Western Reserve. He completed a general practice residency at Jamaica Hospital in Jamaica, New York, followed by an endodontic postgraduate residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey, which is now part of Rutgers University.
In 1997, Dr. Chance became dean of the dental school at Meharry Medical College in Nashville. He eventually went on to the University of Kentucky.
