Laurel Graham

Laurel is primarily responsible for the development and management of the Dental Library. She preaches every day, 9-5, from her home pulpit on Fridays; the necessity of vetting all evidence after searching properly a variety of sources to answer one's well-developed clinical, as well as any other type of, question, in addition to her everyday role of ring leader at the Dental Circus Library. Each year she officates the Lecture Circus: an academic exercise in interdisciplinary discourse and discovery!

Laurel's wide range of experience includes both operational and research expertise, including evidence-based dentistry research, teaching, and systematic reviews. She came to Penn from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry in Chicago, where she worked as Senior Evidence-based Dentistry Manager. Laurel has co-authored systematic reviews specifically related to dental medicine. She earned her BA and MLS at SUNY Buffalo, and a Master of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.