Associate Professor or Professor

Job Summary

The College of Dentistry seeks to recruit an experienced faculty member to provide leadership in the Division of Orthodontics. This position is essential to support the College’s Strategic Plan and advance the mission of excellence in education, research, service, and patient care. Leadership in this area is necessary to maintain accreditation standards, ensure high-quality orthodontic education and care, and sustain clinical operations that contribute to the College’s financial health.

Under the supervision of the Chair of the Department of Oral Health Science, this individual will provide leadership and oversight for the Division of Orthodontics, including management of predoctoral and postdoctoral curricula, faculty mentoring, and program evaluation. The individual will also engage in scholarly and creative activities that result in publications, presentations, and contributions to the discipline.

Patient care responsibilities will include supervision and delivery of orthodontic services in both predoctoral and graduate clinics, ensuring continuity of care, quality assurance, and compliance with university and clinical standards. Clinical activities will also contribute to the College’s revenue generation through patient care income, supporting both educational and operational needs.

Service commitments will include participation in college and university committees, engagement in community outreach, and collaboration with other divisions to enhance interdisciplinary education and patient care.

This position is also critical to faculty development and succession planning within the Division of Orthodontics. The selected individual will mentor junior faculty, foster leadership growth, and help ensure the long-term stability and continuity of academic and clinical programs through thoughtful planning and professional development initiatives.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

1. Provide oversight and guidance of all post- and pre-doctoral curriculum of the Division of Orthodontics (hereafter referred to as “the Division”) in collaboration with the graduate and predoctoral program directors
2. Provide oversight and guidance of the Orthodontic graduate program curriculum in collaboration with the graduate program director
3. Develop, implement, and monitor outcomes of the College’s Competency Assessment in conjunction with orthodontic clinical course directors
4. Provide leadership to the Division
5. Evaluate, mentor and coach the faculty of the Division and establish a constructive working relationship with them
6. Assign academic and administrative duties to faculty and staff (or see that such assignments are made by a designee)
7. Provide leadership in the recruitment, hiring and coaching of divisional faculty and staff (after defining the needs of the Division in concert with the faculty and administration)
8. Provide oversight in the preparation and management of the Division budget
9. Serve as a liaison between the Administration and the Division
10. Ensure that the Division is represented on various College committees
11. Secure funding for research and publish results
12. Present scholarship and research results at state, national, and international meetings

Qualifications

This position requires a dental degree (DMD or DDS) from a program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation and must have completed a residency or graduate program in Orthodontics. Board certification is required. Applicants who received their training outside the United States may be considered if they hold credentials equivalent to those required above. Licensure or eligibility for licensure to practice dentistry in the Commonwealth of Kentucky is required. A successful track record in academic orthodontics is required.

Distribution of Effort

Instruction: 30%
Administration: 20%
Research, Scholarship, and other Creative Activities: 25%
Patient Care/Service: 20%
Personal/Professional Development: 5%
Total 100%

Appointment/Promotion Criteria:
Special Title Series – Academic Dental Educator

Assistant Professor

N/A – Rank of Associate or Above

Associate Professor

• Excellent service as assistant professor at UKCD (or its equivalent elsewhere) with record of excellent teaching, clinical service and research activity appropriate for the individual’s designated DOE.• Evidence of advancement of skills/knowledge in the field as recognized by peers, programs, certification or advanced degree(s). * (*Orthodontics)• Continuing excellent and high-quality contributions to the teaching of dental students, residents, graduate students, and other trainees. Recognition of excellence which may be available from formal peer evaluations, student evaluations, or teaching awards. Publication of important and original clinical research appropriate for the research allocation described on the individual’s DOE. Impact and value of teaching and research should be recognized beyond the local level, as demonstrated by invitations to speak in other hospitals, other dental schools, programs of professional societies and/or continuing dental education courses.• Publication of clinical observations, reviews, and/or original clinical research appropriate for the allocations described on the individual’s DOE in peer- reviewed journals.• Emerging reputation within his or her field and recognition as an authority in specialty both inside and outside the UK dental community; leadership role in dental health system which may include teaching or research engagement activities with the communities outside the University; and active membership in professional societies.

Professor

• Excellent service as associate professor at UKCD (or its equivalent elsewhere) with important accomplishments in teaching, clinical service and research activity appropriate for the individual’s designated DOE.
• Evidence of advancement of skills/knowledge in the field as recognized by peers, programs, certification or advanced degree(s). * (*Orthodontics)
• Recognition as an excellent educator for dental students, residents, graduate students, and other trainees. Continued publication of important and original clinical research appropriate for the research allocation described on the individual’s DOE. Impact of excellent teaching and research should be apparent locally and nationally, and may be demonstrated by invitations to speak to specialty societies and national continuing dental education courses and by invitations to serve as visiting professor or named lecturer. Impact may also be recognized by success or stature of trainees as determined by subsequent chief of service or peers.
• Continuing publications in peer-reviewed journals of clinical observations, reviews, and/or original clinical research appropriate for the allocations described on the individual’s DOE. Publications of comprehensive clinical reviews, or textbooks and chapters that are recognized as exhibiting important influence on the practice of dentistry nationally.
• National and international reputation within his or her field as evidenced by memberships in study sections, advisory groups, prestigious professional societies, etc., and awards, prizes, and other notable academic achievements. Recognition for superior accomplishments in a clinical specialty and leadership role in dental health system. This may include engagement with communities outside the University.

* In a discipline that aligns with the needs of the Department or College. (*Orthodontics)

These guidelines are to be used in conjunction with the definitions and examples of scholarship and excellence, and the Statements of Evidence provided in the College of Dentistry Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure procedures.