THE ART OF DENTISTRY - School of Dental Medicine - Case ...

MESSAGE
FROM THE DEAN
Dear Friends,
I have been spending significant time and effort working with many of my academic and administrative colleagues as we spearhead
the effort to envision and create the strategic plan for the university. The plan involves both comprehensive plans for the university
and each of the schools. This process requires steering committees from both the university and schools to continuously share information
to identify common goals and strategies so that the work of various components has alignment. This is critical in order for the
institution to clearly identify what it is and what it wants to become, in order to formulate a realistic yet innovative plan as to how it
will get there.
One of the reasons I felt so comfortable with handling the
university’s strategic plan is that approximately ten years ago,
the dental school faculty and staff created an outstanding
strategic plan that, with occasional updates, we have carefully
followed. This plan and its execution has allowed the School of
Dental Medicine to flourish. We see this in many tangible ways,
from the superiority and increased number of our dental school
applicants, to the quality of our faculty, research, curriculum
and support from alumni. The school enjoys stability while
leading the way in dental education through our many
innovations on the teaching and research fronts.
With all these successes, the School of Dental Medicine has not
been resting on our laurels. We are currently revising the strategic
plan for the school. Through this process we will create a new set
of priorities and goals that will take us through the next five-
to seven-year timeframe. We continue to evaluate each aspect
of our new curriculum and envision how it should look in the
future. We consider how our research program should grow and
how the clinical experience of our students will evolve over this
time period.
We also want to think about and plan for how best to engage
our alumni, students, applicants and the rest of the university.
We must consider the best administrative structure to accomplish
this while being mindful of how we will meet our financial
obligations as the external environment will change. Avishai
Sadan, D.M.D., chairman of the Department of Comprehensive
Care, is chairing the steering committee. He can be reached at
avishai.sadan@case.edu.
Members:
Sami Chogle J. Martin Palomo
Yiping Han Leena Palomo
Roma Jasinevicius John Smolik
Marius Laniauskas Kristin Victoroff
I enthusiastically encourage you to contact Avishai or anyone on
the committee to share your thoughts on what you believe to be
our priorities or how we should envision ourselves going forward.
Jerold S. Goldberg, D.D.S. ’70
Dean, School of Dental Medicine
Interim Provost, Case Western Reserve University
jerold.goldberg@case.edu
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