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Strategic Plan for Dentistry at URMC

Goals Position Eastman Dental Center as a high-quality, multidisciplinary oral health care provider in addition to its community service role, “Excellence Without Exception.” Educate dental academic leaders with translational research strengths. Develop and strengthen basic and translational research in dental caries and biofilms, pain  and arthritis, developmental and systems biology, genomics and proteomics,  salivary physiology and microbiology, and health services research.    Develop a comprehensive research and treatment center for pain and arthritis. Strengthen and improve the integration of basic, translational, and clinical research.

Dentistry at the University of Rochester is unique among academic health centers in the United States:  despite the absence of an undergraduate dental school, we have internationally recognized dental residency programs, vibrant oral biology research that is in the top tier of NIH rankings, and robust clinical services in all dental specialties with a strong community orientation.  

Endowment resources of the Eastman Dental Center Foundation, a diverse patient population, world renowned educational programs, and extensive basic, translational, and clinical research in oral health coupled with the recently funded NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award, affords an outstanding opportunity for URMC Dentistry to build on its position as a leading institution for the training of future leaders in academic dentistry and for developing translational research related to oral health. Furthermore, this can be done while ensuring that George Eastman’s original intent in establishing the Eastman Dental Center – that of serving the community – is preserved.  

Dentistry’s strategic plan calls for enhancing funding from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research by focusing on five translational research areas, enriching educational offerings to promote academic leadership in translational research, and becoming the preferred clinical provider for complex oral health needs and community service.