The Academic Affairs Subcommittee of the UConn Health Board of Directors recently approved the recommendations for promotions for four faculty members in the School of Dental Medicine.<\/p>\n
Dr. Eliane Dutra, Department of Orthodontics<\/strong> \u201cPromotion to senior rank, as well as the granting of academic tenure, is a significant achievement that reflects a faculty member’s outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, patient care, service and outreach,\u201d said Dr. Steven Lepowsky, dean of the School of Dental Medicine. \u201cCongratulations to Drs. Dutra, Ruiz, Sobue, and Tamayol on this important milestone.\u201d<\/p>\n Faculty eligible for promotion are nominated by their respective department chair and undergo a rigorous review process that involves the School of Dental Medicine\u2019s Senior Appointments and Promotions Committee, along with approvals by the Dean\u2019s Advisory Committee, Dean Lepowsky, and the Provost. The Board of Directors give the final approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four faculty members received promotions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":234530,"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-234526","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":"2026-05-07 18:09:18","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\/234526","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=234526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234533,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234526\/revisions\/234533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/234530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234526"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=234526"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=234526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPromoted to Associate Professor with Tenure<\/em>
\nDr. Steve Ruiz, Department of General Dentistry<\/strong>
\nPromoted to Clinical Associate Professor<\/em>
\nDr. Takanori Sobue, Department of Periodontics<\/strong>
\nPromoted to Professor<\/em>
\nDr. Ali Tamayol, Department of Biomedical Engineering<\/strong>
\nPromoted to Professor with continuing Tenure<\/em><\/p>\n