Department Chair - Endodontics - School of Dentistry

Administrative Position Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership to advance excellence in education, research, and patient care in alignment with the VCU School of Dentistry mission.
• Oversee faculty and staff recruitment, development, mentorship, and evaluation, including promotion and tenure processes.
• Foster a supportive and high-functioning departmental culture.
• Guide departmental planning and resource allocation.
• Implement innovative initiatives that enhance clinical services and research productivity while ensuring efficient coordination of departmental operations.
• Serve as a primary liaison for departmental priorities within the School and University, representing the department’s unique expertise across disciplines.

Teaching

• Provide clinical and classroom teaching and supervision in both the predoctoral and postdoctoral endodontic clinics.
• Supervise and mentor residents in research related to their postdoctoral program.
• Absorb and assist in the preparation of postdoctoral dental students for specialty board examinations.
• Teach in an integrated curriculum system that includes baccalaureate, graduate, and professional education.
• Foster transformative learning that is informed by interdisciplinary and translational research, scholarship, and creative expression.

Research

• The incumbent is expected to participate and mentor postdoctoral students in research.

Clinical

• Provide teaching and leadership roles in dentistry clinics, seeing patients, working with students, and working collaboratively with other faculty and staff to promote best business practices, and increase clinic productivity.
• Participation in the Faculty Private Practice requires demonstrated ability to build a practice.
• Provides clinical services to affiliated agencies as per faculty compensation plan.

Service

• Serve on and represent the department on departmental, school and other university committees as necessary, and in their professional field, as well as participate in national activities sponsored by the American Association of Endodontics and other professional organizations.

Required Qualifications

• DDS or DMD Degree Eligible for a dental license in Virginia.
• Certification of completion of Advanced Education in Endodontics.
• Experience in dental education, resident program administration, or other leadership experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work in and foster an environment of respect, professionalism, and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from all backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to and participate in a humanistic environment of learning.
• Demonstrated ability to incorporate adult learning theory, evidence-based oral health care, innovation in student learning, and critical thinking, or acquire and develop such ability.
• For tenure-eligible positions at the Assistant Professor rank, an established research agenda and a clear potential for external funding, as well as potential for scholarship or creative expression to complement and expand existing expertise in the department.
• For tenure-eligible positions at the Associate Professor or Professor rank, a well-developed scholarly/research portfolio with evidence of multi-disciplinary applications and external funding appropriate to complement and expand existing expertise in the department.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree or PhD.
• Board certification in Endodontics.
• National service in the American Association of Endodontists.
• Prior experience teaching endodontics within a predoctoral curriculum (didactic and clinical).
• Private practice experience.