Celebrating the Past‌Building the Future The Dental College of Georgia State of the College March 2, 2016 Carol A Lefebvre, DDS, MS
The Dental College of Georgia
2015
Looking Back … 2015
New
Students
►Current freshman class 90 brilliant students (3.63 average GPA) • Largest group of out-of-state students accepted…so far • 26 different undergrad degrees • More than half (62) reside in dental health professional shortage areas
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2
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3 81 2
Looking Back … 2015
Student
Indebtedness TOTAL DENTAL SCHOOL ACADEMIC EXPENSES
1st Year (2015-2016)
In-State
Tuition
$ 27,900
$ 68,610
GRU Fees
3,330
3,330
Books/ Educational Costs
2,840
2,840
Dental Kit
5,070
5,070
Insurance
2,171
1,881
$ 41,311
$ 81,731
Total
Out-of-State
*National average 2015 educational debt (ADEA data): Students with debt: $255,567 All students: $223,984
$296,938
Out-of-State
In-State
$147,668
CLASS OF 2019
Looking Back … 2015
New
Leaders
►Leadership Chairman, Oral Biology - Andrew Yeudall Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Advanced Education - Search ongoing Chairman, Pediatric Dentistry - Search ongoing
Looking Back … 2015
New ► Hires in 2015 Andrew Shoemaker Monica Chana Gayathri Konchady Megan Todd
Kenneth Jones Ahmed Zaher Courtney Babb Balasudha Baladhandayutham Veerinder Pannu
Solafah Trabzouni (not pictured) Mark Brunner (not pictured)
Faculty
Looking Back … 2015
New
Staff
Dawn Gantt – Dean’s Office Coordinator Millie Huff – Communications Coordinator Leonard Simmons – Patient Services, Director David Melvin – Ambulatory Surgical Center, Director
Looking Back … 2015
Student
Recognition
Inaugural SPEA Golden Tofflemire Award:
Dr. Brittany Bonds
ASDA Council of Advocacy Chair:
Abby Halpern
White Coat Ceremony ►
Looking Back … 2015
Student
Recognition
Dental Trade Alliance Grant ($22,000)
• Varun Iyer, Dahliah Lavine, Diane Tran and Zach Dubin
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kate Ciarrocca
Class of 2017 has a 100% first time pass rate on the National Board Dental Exam Part 1!
Looking Back … 2015
Student ► Student
Recognition
Organization Awards
AU Chapter of American Association of Public Health - Ahoy Award for Best New Student Organization
SPEA – “Most Improved Chapter” • Doubled number of events
• Doubled number of participants
Looking Back … 2015
Resident
Recognition
Inaugural Connie L. Drisko Resident Award for Professionalism
• Dr. Lisa Selem (Endodontics)
AAP Educator’s Scholarship ($25,000)
• Dr. Ahmed El-Awady (Periodontics)
Hamilton B.G. Robinson Award
• Dr. Jose Morales (Orthodontics)
Looking Back … 2015
Faculty
Recognition
2015 DCG Outstanding Faculty Member – Dr. Solon Kao
2015 DCG Teaching Excellence Award – Dr. Jan Mitchell
Looking Back … 2015
Faculty AEGD/GPR Resident Room named for Dr. Jane Martone
$35,000 raised
Recognition
Looking Back … 2015
Faculty
Recognition
American Board of Orthodontics, Chair – Dr. Eladio DeLeon
Phi Kappa Phi Inductees - Drs. Carole Hanes, Christiano Susin and Frank Tay
GDA Award of Merit – Dr. Carole Hanes
AAP Teaching Fellow ($50,000) – Dr. Roger Arce PFA Excellence in Dental Education – Dr. Kurt Metzler PFA Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award – Dr. Ralph Pruette
Looking Back … 2015
Staff
Recognition
Sherry Barnett Customer Service Award Keesha Wilson Employee of the Month (new program) Recipients: Beatrice Frazier Randal Otis Corliss Norman-Williamson DeVona Eastman Linda Rucker
Looking Back … 2015
Community
Costa Layman Health Fair
GMOM – Perry, GA
• Treated 1,959 patients • Performed 10,565 procedures • $1,422,867 value of donated care
Oral Cancer Walk – 2nd Annual
Service
Looking Back … 2015
Community
Give Kids a Smile
• Dental care for 125 children
Blood Bank Competition with MCG
• “Bleed for your Team”
Service
Looking Back … 2015
Georgia
Outreach
Clinic Outreach New HRSA Workforce Grant $500,000/year for 3 years – Dr. Carole Hanes HRSA support to date - $4.2 million Re-established clinic site in Savannah and expanded faculty and student involvement in Albany For 2015-16: • 18,000 procedures completed • 23 active clinic sites • Throughout 16 counties in Georgia
Looking Back … 2015
Global
Outreach
International Programs The DCG has affiliations with schools or clinics in China, France and Italy
An MOU for an exchange program with a dental school in Ecuador is in the works … stay tuned!
USA/ICD grant ($3,750) – lead by Dr. Frank Tay
Looking Back … 2015
Engagement Employee Engagement … at all levels Social Events • • • •
Residents Welcome Dinner Fall Frolic Spring Fling Ice Cream Social (new)
Focus on Customer Service • • • •
Staff Retreat Faculty Retreat Resident Retreat (new) Leadership Retreat
Looking Back … 2015
Engagement Employee Engagement and Appreciation
• Cookies & Cocoa • Grits & Gratitude • Employee of the Month Program • Committee MVPs • Sherry Barnett Customer Service Award
Looking Back … 2015
Dental Associates
Renovation of Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) nearly complete • ASC Director hired
GA Board of Dentistry – Faculty License • Proposal to rotate students in Faculty Practice • Format of offer letters will change
Looking Back … 2015
Clinical
Growth
Student, Resident, and Faculty Clinics FY15 vs. FY16, July–June
Patient Visits: 5% Increase Collections: 4% Increase
Production: 6% Increase
Looking Back … 2015
Clinical
Growth 5-Year Gross Income Trend
Dental Associates 5-Year Expense Trend
$12,000,000
$10,000,000
$8,000,000
$6,000,000
$4,000,000
$2,000,000
$0 FY11
FY12
FY13
FY14
FY15
Looking Back … 2015
Improving ►Clinical Reorganization Update Dental assistants (completed) Dental schedulers (completed) Date represents a 3-year time period
Efficiencies 262% increase # of cancelled appointments filled w/ 193% another appt. decrease in lost patients 249% increase # of managed recalls
175% increase in rescheduling of patients who cancelled 125% decrease in failed appointments
507% increase # of documented patient notes
Looking Back … 2015
Improving
Efficiencies
►Lean Project Update Insurance & Collections (completed) • New position added • AxiUm best practices training implemented • Increased cross-training of personnel
Looking Back … 2015
Improving
Efficiencies
►Lean Project Update Patient Flow (in progress) • Partnered with Hull College of Business • Average wait time = 3 minutes • Standing in lines leads to dissatisfaction • Late arrival is cause of most delays • Improve signage
Looking Back … 2015
Research Extramural Grant & Contract Support
FY14
FY15
$1,800,000
$1,543,691 $1,410,970
$1,600,000
$1,409,211
$1,400,000 $1,200,000 $1,000,000
$800,000 $600,000
$894,719 $798,145
$468,874
$400,000 $200,000
$87,000
$-
Industry
NIH
$12,000
Foundations/Agencies
Other Federal/State
Looking Back … 2015
Research ►Clinical Research Faculty Development Program • Five faculty engaged in program: o o o o o
Dr. Alan Furness (completed) Dr. Maria Paranhos Dr. Andreina Sananez (completed) Dr. Lisiane Ferreira-Susin Dr. Nancy Young
• To complete the program, the research project must be submitted to the Institutional Review Board and approved
Looking Back … 2015
Research
Recognition
Balint Orban Memorial Award – Dr. Ahmed ElAwady (Periodontics) Winner in basic science category DCG-AU Section AADR Student Research Group of the AADR established Junior Faculty Research Awards • Dr. Alan Furness • Dr. Mark Peacock • Dr. Adreina Sananez Dean’s Seminar Series established
Looking Back … 2015
Research
Recognition
David Pashley Lectureship established • David H. Pashley, DMD, PhD – Inaugural speaker o Emeritus Regents’ Professor Department of Oral Biology o “Dentin Bonding is a Type of in situ Tissue Engineering”
Looking Back … 2015
FOSTER
Program
Goal: Leverage strengths of current faculty in a collaborative manner to assist inexperienced/new faculty in the process of preparing for P&T • • • • •
Reduce individual effort Save time Establish camaraderie Help train less experienced participants Include students
Fostoberfest – October, 2015 Foster Child – Dr. Jan Mitchell
Faculty Opportunity Strategies Towards Effective Research
Looking Back … 2015
Educational
Initiatives
Curriculum Reform • Mapping project complete • Departmental curriculum reviews complete • Chairs charged with ensuring all courses have: o
Defined student learning outcomes
o
Defined assessments
Looking Back … 2015
Advancement Thomas P. Hinman Dental Society • $200,000 scholarships Zumax Medical Co. Ltd. • 2 Portable Dental Microscopes • 10 Table Microscopes • $142,764 Value Funds raised for FY’15 and to date • FY’15 = $1,208,667 FY’16 YTD = $677,272
Looking Back … 2015
Advancement Classy Gift • Class of 2015 raised $10,000 for the DCG student crisis fund
Looking Back … 2015
Giving
AU Day of Service
IGRU Campaign
Back
• $26,476 raised • 57% giving rate for DCG • 51% increase in donations over FY’14
• 160% increase in number of donors
Looking Back … 2015
Engagement Alumni Engagement • Distinguished Alumnus o
Dr. Richard Weinman (DMD ‘76)
• 2015 Jag20 Honorees o
Dr. Rhoda J. Sword (DMD, 2003)
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Dr. Kara G. Moore (DMD, 2005)
o
Dr. Alison H. Buchanan (DMD, 2005)
2016
Moving Forward … 2016
Student ►
Recognition
Omicron Kappa Upsilon (OKU) Inductees:
Alumni Members: (elected from the top 20% of the senior class) Alex M. Culberson Natalie Echols Evans Mariesa L. Manente Dexter W. Mattox Michelle J. Paterson James Nathan Raley Molly Hawkins Ruiz Jennifer M. Ryan Marielle Youmans Faculty Members: Dr. Allison Buchanan (Oral Health and Diagnostic Sciences) Honorary Member: Dr. Michael Davenport (General Dentistry Faculty) Life Members: Drs. S. Jeffrey Crews (1978), William McClendon (1980), Dale Miles (1984), and Derek Miles (1984) and Tom McDonald (1983)
Moving Forward … 2016
Struggling
Student Initiative
Established Task Force Identify seminal courses students must pass to progress Courses must contain meaningful in-course remediation Improve transition from junior to senior year
Improve psychomotor abilities – Simodont – Dr. Rick Callan
Moving Forward … 2016
Research DMD with Distinction in Research Scientific Writing Assistance Program developed Clinical Research Faculty Development Program: – Dr. Cristiano Susin
Moving Forward … 2016
Improve
Clinical Efficiencies
Establish online payment portal system Update TouchNet payment system Implement advanced Cisco phone system Implement AxiUm Easy Market module Investigate methods for wait management
Moving Forward … 2016
Strategic
Planning
►Making a New Plan Align with Transition Forward and Academic/Research plans Developed mission, vision and values statements Leadership Retreat-DCG Deans and Chairs collaborated on content in three areas of the DCG Strategic Plan: Education, Clinical Services and Research.
• Led by Dr. Kevin Frazier, Vice Dean
Life is like riding a bicycle
.
To keep your balance, you must
keep moving.
~Albert Einstein