State of the college presentation

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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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

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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)

o

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