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| Admissions | |
Dr. Patricia Meehan, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Recruitment | | The Office of Admissions, under the direction of the Assistant Dean of Admissions and Recruitment, coordinates recruitment activities and manages the application and admissions processes for the following programs: Doctor of Dental Surgery, Dental Hygiene, and Advanced Dental Education The Doctor of Dental Surgery admissions process is administered by the Assistant Dean of Admissions and Recruitment, who chairs the Committee on Dental Recruitment and Admissions. The Dental Recruitment Coordinator, under the direction of the Assistant Dean of Admissions and Recruitment, coordinates recruitment activities, including visits to local universities and colleges. The Office of Admissions responds to inquiries, processes applications, arranges interviews, verifies credentials, and processes admissions decisions for Dental School programs. An orientation program coordinated by the office provides new dental students with a smooth transition to their academic program. Additionally, the Office of Admissions coordinates a seminar for third year dental students to prepare them for the postgraduate application process. | | | Continuing Education | |
Dr. Keith Groves, Director |  | | The Dental School is committed to the lifelong learning of oral health professionals in Maryland and neighboring states of the Mid-Atlantic Region. Continuing Dental Education for dentists and dental hygienists is among the missions of the Dental School, for today’s many and frequent advances in science and technology impose a greater and sustaining need for timely accession of new information. In order to fulfill its commitment to lifelong learning, the Dental School provides courses designed to meet the needs of dental and dental hygiene practitioners. Based upon research in the basic and clinical sciences, the Continuing Dental Education Program offers participants educational courses which reflect contemporary professional knowledge of direct benefit to the practice community. These courses are conducted in clinics, laboratories, and simulation facilities of the Dental School as well as other regional settings of convenience to course participants. In addition, future courses may be offered through such distance learning media as the Internet. | | | | Curriculum and Academic Management | |
Dr. Carroll-Ann Trotman, Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs | | Academic Affairs manages curricular matters, registration, grades, student academic records and academic counseling. The office disseminates textbook lists, course offerings, clerkship offerings and guidelines, class schedules, examination schedules, and the academic calendar through the current students web page. Records concerning counseling, progress reports, referrals, and disposition are maintained and serve as a resource of academic evaluation by the faculty and administration. The Office of Student Affairs works with students throughout their years at the Dental School. Students who experience career, health, legal, employment, housing and other personal problems are counseled or referred, as appropriate, to campus agencies or offices. The associate dean serves as advisor to all student organizations and publications and also assists in the coordination of joint student-faculty programs. | | | | Dean's Faculty Enrichment Program | |
Dr. Warren M. Morganstein, DDS, MPH, Director | | The mission of the Dean’s Faculty Program is to enrich the University of Maryland Dental School through a large cadre of dedicated volunteers who contribute significantly to the school by playing an active and important part in the school’s programs of education, research, service and development. The Office of the Dean’s Faculty Enrichment Program administers the Dean’s Faculty Program. This office provides the expertise and services that develop, sustain and ensure the success of the program.
Specific functions of this office include:
• Marketing the program
• Recruiting, screening and referring candidates
• Developing and administering benefits
• Orienting new volunteer faculty to the policies and practices of the school
• Ensuring volunteer faculty have the knowledge to perform their functions
within the school through oversight and
• Facilitation of department sponsored calibration programs
• Hosting continuing education programs, study clubs and other development activities
• Developing and administering reward and recognition programs
• Serving as an ombudsman for issues and
• Removing barriers for the integration of volunteer faculty in the life of the
School
• Ensuring volunteer faculty are involved in decision making, as appropriate, and are in the communication loop The Office of the Dean's Faculty Enrichment Program functions in a collaborative manner with the department chairs who are responsible for selection, assignment, calibration, performance assessment and integration of the volunteer faculty within their departments. | | | | Finance, Institutional Operations and Planning | |
Dr. David George, Associate Dean of Finance, Clinical Operations and Institutional Planning | | This office has overall responsibility for management and oversight of the financial resources of the Dental School. Additionally, this office coordinates and processes payroll and benefits for School employees; maintains employee time and leave systems; assists administrative supervisors and faculty in the implementation of School, University, and USM personnel policies; and provides administrative support for faculty appointments, promotions and tenure processing, and faculty credentialing. | | | Information Technology | | | The Office of Information Technology (OIT) in partnership with UMB campus Center for Information Technology Services (CITS) provide and support all general administrative, research, academic and clinical computer systems for the Dental School. The mission of the office is to deliver cost effective information services and solutions to students, patients, faculty and staff. | | | | Clinical Operations Board | |
Dr. Louis G. DePaola, Executive Director of Biosafety/Quality | | Dr. Ron Chenette, Director of Clinical Operations | | The Clinical Operations Board has overall responsibility for clinical patient care operations within the Dental School. It consists of dental professionals who are responsible for: - Fostering a patient-centered approach to care within an educational setting
- Coordinating imaging services
- Supplying instruments and equipment through Central Sterilization and Central Materials Services
- Developing and implementing quality assurance
- Safeguarding patient information.
Patient visits to clinics in the Dental School exceed 122,000 annually. Assistance is provided to students and patients who encounter difficulties. Central Materials Services, Central Records Systems, and personnel and financial management associated with the operation of the teaching clinics are additional responsibilities coordinated through this office.
Questions regarding the Dental School clinics may be directed to clinicinfo@dental.umaryland.edu. | | | | |
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