This week, the Academic Affairs Subcommittee of the UConn Health Board of Directors approved the recommendations for promotion to senior rank and the recommendations for the award of academic tenure for 13 faculty members in the School of Dental Medicine.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very proud of these colleagues who have been recognized for their excellence in scholarship, teaching, patient care and service,\u201d said Dr. Steven Lepowsky, dean of the School of Dental Medicine. \u201cThey, along with their achievements, represent the best of UConn and UConn Dental.\u201d<\/p>\n
Award of Academic Tenure<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Tannin Schmidt\u2014 Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n Promotions to Senior Rank<\/strong><\/p>\n Professor (with Continuing Tenure)<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. I-Ping Chen\u2014Endodontology Professor (In-Residence)<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Easwar Natarajan\u2014Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences Professor (Clinical)<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Ajay Dhingra\u2014Prosthodontics<\/p>\n Associate Professor (In-Residence)<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Namita Khandelwal\u2014Periodontology Associate Professor (Clinical)<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Jorge Rabat\u2014Pediatric Dentistry 13 faculty members received promotion to senior rank and academic tenure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":183050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2166],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2177],"class_list":["post-202548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sdm"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 15:53:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202548"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202623,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202548\/revisions\/202623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/183050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202548"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=202548"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=202548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDr. Changchun Liu\u2014Biomedical Engineering
\nDr. Flavio Uribe\u2014Orthodontics<\/p>\n
\nDr. Madhur Upadhyay\u2014Orthodontics<\/p>\n
\nDr. Aniuska Tobin\u2014Endodontology
\nDr. Foteini Touloumi\u2014Prosthodontics<\/p>\n
\nDr. Sree Raghavendra\u2014General Dentistry
\nDr. Gary Schulman\u2014Pediatric Dentistry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"