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Oral and Craniofacial Sciences-Graduate Program Review
                                              December 18 and 19, 2003

External Review Committee
Martha Somerman, D.D.S.,,Ph.D.
Chair, Review Committee
Dean, School of Dentistry
University of Washington
David J. Mooney, Ph.D.
Professor, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering,
and Biologic & Materials Sciences
School of Dentistry
University of Michigan
Charles F. Shuler, D.M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology
School of Dentistry
University of Southern California
Sotirios Tetradis, D.D.S. , Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology,
Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
Center for the Health Sciences

                          
       


Thursday, December 18, 2003 – Room C343A

8:00 am    Van pick up at Stanyan Park Hotel

8:30 am    Welcome and overview of review process. 
                Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dorothy Bainton
                Graduate Division: Dean Clifford Attkisson, Associate Dean Pat Calarco, Assistant Deans, Karen Nelson and Chris Desjarlais; Director of                     Institutional Research, Ashish Sahni, School of Dentistry: Dean Charles Bertolami, Dean for Research John Greenspan  

9:00 am        The Graduate Program:  Its Organization and Leadership
                     Dean Bertolami, Dean for Research Greenspan; Steering Committee:  Chair, Grayson Marshall, Diane Barber, Caroline Damsky  Pam Den                      Besten, Rik Derynck, Dan Fried, Sunil Kapila, Joel Palefsky, Jane Weintraub,

9:45 am        Break

10:00  am    The Graduate Program:  Its Admission Process, Selectivity, Student Support
                    Charles Alexander, Art Miller, Herve Sroussi (student representative) ,Steering Committee, and Deans Bertolami and Greenspan
                       

10:45 am    The Graduate Program:  Core Curriculum and Research Training
                   Steering Committee

11:30 am    OCS Student Organization Presentation.   Diana Zeiger, Silvia Foppiano, Megan Pugach

11:50 am    Break
   
Noon        Lunch with prequalifying and masters candidate students 
                 Prequalifying:  Guive Balooch, Megan Pugach, Diana Zeiger, Thuan Le, Rob Jones, Wenge Ma, James Strother
                 Masters students: Edward Chan (Endodontics); Phyllis Kawada (Pediatric Dentistry); Nancy Kwon (Pediatric Dentistry); Paul Rim                                 (Orthodontics); Andrew Harner (Orthodontics)

1:30 pm    Executive Session
       
2:30 pm    Meeting with post-qualifying students:  Herve Sroussi, Silvia Foppiano, Piamkamon Vacharotayangul, Anastasios Karydis, Xiadong Shen,   Cindy Huang, Qin Han, Hua Zhou, Keh-Weei Tzung

3:30 pm    Break

4:00 pm    Discussion with Senior Program Faculty (Have been at UCSF > 5 years) 
                 Randy Kramer, Susan Fisher, Dan Ramos, John Featherstone, Sally Marshall, Tony DeFranco, John Rubenstein, Arnold Kahn
5:00 pm    Transportation back to hotel

6:30 pm    Van pick-up.  Working dinner with Review Committee and Dean Attkisson, in the Chancellor’s Conference Room, S118.


Friday, December 19, 2003 – Room C343A

7:30 am    Van pick up at Stanyan Park Hotel

8:00 am    Breakfast at UCSF.  Meeting with recent graduates of the program.
                Robert Gear, Darren Machule,  Brian Schmidt

9:00 am    Future Plans for the Graduate Program .  School of Dentistry Dean, Charles Bertolami, Steering Committee
       
9:45 am    Meeting with new faculty (Hired in the last 5 years) 
                 Dusko Ilic, Richard Jordan, Stefan Habelitz, Peter Loomer

10:45 am   Break

11:00 am    Meeting with postdoctoral scholars from selected labs
                  Markus Hardt, Sunita Ho, Darren Machule, Amy Sillman

Noon        Lunch.  Discussion of the results of the anonymous student survey with Ashish Sahni, Director of Office of Institutional Research. 

1:00 pm    Executive Session

2:00 pm    Debriefing with Dean Attkisson

3:00 pm    Debriefing with Dean Charles Bertolami, Grayson Marshall, Caroline Damsky

4:00 pm    Adjournment




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