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Susan Calderbank, DMD, Named Director of Patient Care for the LECOM Erie Fourth-Year Dental Clinic
Susan Calderbank, DMD
Named Director of Patient Care for the LECOM Erie Fourth-Year Dental Clinic
Dr. Susan Calderbank has been named the Director of Patient Care for the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM Erie) Fourth-Year Dental Clinic.
Dr. Calderbank is a 1977 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. She comes to LECOM from private practice in Greenville, Pennsylvania.
In addition to being a staff dentist at Presbyterian Shadyside Dental Center at Montefiore Hospital since 2014, Dr. Calderbank also has served as an attending dentist at the University of Pittsburgh Dental GPR Residency Program.
Since 1977, she has been affiliated with UPMC Horizon as a Medical Associate; and she is a team member with the UPMC Health Systems First Survivorship Team for Head and Neck Cancer Patients.
For thirteen years, Dr. Calderbank served on the Pennsylvania State Dental Board, and she was the first woman ever to chair the Board. Indeed, Dr. Calderbank has served on a host of estimable committees and since 2010, she has been an Expert Witness for the Pennsylvania State Board of Dental Examiners. She was also the Pennsylvania State Board Representative to the American Association of Dental Examiners, and the Pennsylvania State Board Liaison to the Northeast Regional Board of Dental Examiners.
Dr. Calderbank holds fellowships in the Pierre Fauchard Society, the International College of Dentists, and the American College of Dentists.
In April of 2003, Dr. Calderbank received the Pennsylvania Dental Association Special Public Service Award in recognition of her commitment to raising awareness of the Oral Complications of Cancer Therapies. This honor came as only the second time that the Award was presented, and the first time in more than 100 years.
Dr. Calderbank also is a speaker for the prestigious American Dental Association Seminar Series and she was a speaker at the 2020 CDCA Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a designated consultant to the American Dental Association Speaker Series Program.
