Kenneth Chance, Sr.
Chance will be the first dentist to serve on the Case board.
As a leader with a distinguished career in the field of endodontics, Kenneth Chance Sr. has received more than 50 honors and citations for his contributions to dentistry, including the Case School of Dental Medicine’s Distinguished Alumni Award and the Paul P. Sherwood Award for Excellence in Endodontics.
In becoming a new member of the Case Board of Trustees, Chance comes full circle in a distinguished career in dentistry that began at Case nearly 25 years ago.
Chance received his B.S. degree from Fordham University in New York City and then earned his doctor of dental surgery degree at Case. He did his postgraduate training at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, General Practice Residency Program, in New York City and at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Dental School in Endodontics, where he served on the faculty for 17 years.
Before joining the faculty at the University of Kentucky’s dental school four years ago, Chance served as dean and professor at the Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry, in Nashville, Tenn.
He also has served in leadership roles as a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee of the National Institutes of Health Research Priority Setting Process, chair of the American Dental Education Association’s Section on Minority Affairs and an elected member-at-large (1999) of the Administrative Board of the Council of Deans of the American Dental Education Association.