ASDOH - CCU Director, Assistant Professor, General Dentist

About This Role

Directing the Comprehensive Care Unit (CCU) and serving as an Assistant Professor and General Dentist is the core of this position at A.T. Still University's Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health (ATSU-ASDOH). This role involves promoting professionalism and humanistic education while advancing the mission of ASDOH through patient care, teaching, scholarship, and service. You will provide leadership, supervision, instruction, assessment, and mentorship to predoctoral dental students in comprehensive general dentistry.

Responsibilities

• Promote evidence-based practice, professionalism, ethical decision-making, and effective patient communication while overseeing comprehensive, patient-centered care and clinical operations within the assigned CCU
• Collaborate with faculty, staff, and specialty disciplines to support comprehensive treatment planning, continuity of care, quality assurance, patient safety, infection control, and regulatory compliance
• Provide direct clinical supervision, instruction, assessment, and mentorship to predoctoral dental students in comprehensive general dentistry in clinical, preclinical, laboratory, and classroom settings
• Facilitate competency development in diagnosis, treatment planning, restorative and prosthodontic dentistry, digital dentistry technologies and workflows, and other areas of comprehensive patient care
• Evaluate and document student performance and progression toward clinical competency
• Provide timely feedback, mentorship, and individualized educational guidance
• Support faculty calibration and consistency in clinical assessment
• Provide leadership and oversight of assigned CCU operations, including faculty and staff supervision as delegated, patient flow and management, coordination with other clinical areas, and appropriate documentation within the electronic health record
• Participate in school, university, and professional committees, governance and accreditation activities, faculty development, and community outreach initiatives
• Engage in scholarly and professional activities consistent with faculty rank, expertise, and workload
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• DDS or DMD from an institution accredited by CODA, or completion of an advanced education program accredited by CODA
• Eligibility for Arizona dental licensure required
• Comprehensive knowledge of general dentistry, patient-centered care, clinical education, digital dentistry, and applicable standards of quality, safety, compliance, and accreditation
• Strong clinical, teaching, leadership, communication, organizational, digital dentistry, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, exercise sound clinical judgment, mentor and evaluate students, lead faculty and staff, and effectively manage multiple priorities in a dynamic academic clinical environment