June 5, 2003

The UAB School of Dentistry will hold its annual Honors Convocation and Hooding Ceremony for 54 graduating dentistry students of the class of 2003 on Saturday, June 7 at the Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center, 1200 10th Ave. S. Malcolm Portera, Ph.D., chancellor of the University of Alabama System, will be the honored speaker. Portera has been chancellor of the UA System since 2002. The UA System includes doctoral research universities in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and Huntsville, as well as the UAB Health System.

UAB School of Dentistry, Class of 2003:

• More than 10 percent of the graduating class will enter public health dentistry after graduation.
  
  
• The rigorous four-year professional dentistry degree program consists of two years of basic sciences and pre-clinical dentistry classes and another two years of patient-based rotations in at least five dentistry specialties and a comprehensive-patient-care-based program where the students follow certain patients through a system of comprehensive care.
  
  
• Students and faculty from the School of Dentistry are the leading provider of care to Medicaid patients in Alabama.