Faculty Dedicated to Student Success

The Pacific Dental Helix Curriculum is our unique model that integrates content across disciplines, emphasizing active learning and the development of critical thinking. Hallmarks of the Helix model are active classrooms, small-group case-based learning, and prudent use of technology to extend learning beyond the traditional lecture hall. Our expert faculty bring decades of extensive, real-world experience in professional clinical practice. Our dental clinic teams provide students with an experience of modern, comprehensive patient care that they will encounter in private practice.

I am currently a part-time instructor at the Dugoni School. The Tuesdays and Thursdays I teach each week are easily the most enjoyable days of my work week. It’s a great pleasure to be in the clinic with personable, bright, motivated and ethically grounded students. They represent the future of our great profession! To have the opportunity to personally mentor some of them as they navigate their individual career paths is especially rewarding.

Dr. Mark Stevenson

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Endodontics Board-Certified Endodontist

I am passionate about teaching critical thinking, and I teach integrated content to first-year and second-year dental students. The Dugoni School family has great teams, smart students, charismatic leaders and passionate educators who come together quickly and easily to accomplish their goals. The humanistic culture is like an invisible cloak that envelops the Dugoni School family and helps us be cohesive and effective.

Dr. Parvati Iyer Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Sciences and Course Director — Integrated Clinical Sciences II Department of Diagnostic Sciences