The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry has appointed Elsbeth Kalenderian, DDS, MPH, PhD, as the new chair of the department of preventive and restorative dental sciences.
Dr. Kalenderian is the associate professor and chair of the department of oral health policy and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in Boston. She is also the chief of quality for the Harvard Dental Clinic. She will assume her new role in San Francisco on June 27.
Dr. Kalenderian currently is the principle investigator on four grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including two projects focusing on the development and implementation of the DDS, a novel dental diagnostic interface terminology (previously called the EZCodes) and projects focused on patient safety and quality metrics, according to UCSF.
