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Ken Kromash, DDS (he/him/his)

Program Director, Dental Anesthesiology Residency
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Dr. Ken Kromash is the Program Director of the Dental Anesthesiology residency at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, one of only nine such programs in the U.S. He is also Head of the Section of Pain and Anxiety Control in the Department of Dentistry. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine in 1989, he completed a GPR at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Reading, PA, followed by a two-year anesthesia residency at Illinois Masonic, finishing in 1992. He has been on staff there for 33 years, teaching general practice residents local anesthesia and sedation techniques. When CODA approved the Dental Anesthesiology residency in 2019, Dr. Kromash was appointed Program Director. He oversees training of two residents annually in the 36-month program, with a focus on anesthesia for pediatric, special needs, and medically complex patients.

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