Students visited from schools throughout San Francisco, San Jose, Stockton, Santa Rosa, and Sacramento and many other areas in the region. All were excited to come to the dental school to learn more about careers in oral health.
Competency and humanism: these sea changes in dental education both started at Pacific and have been nurtured here for more than 40 years. Today, they are standard operating requirements in every dental school in the United States.
A healthy mouth contributes to a healthy life, and that’s one message we all should reinforce.
Behind Pacific’s unique culture, there are extraordinary students. Behind every admitted DDS student there is the Office of Student Services. Student Services has created its own humanistic brand that mentors, encourages and inspires the next generation of dentists and dental students.
Dan O’Neill ’81 is not your typical dentist. While his contemporaries may be looking at taking things a little easier, he’s with the military in Afghanistan.
The introductory ceramics and sculpture classes taught by Visual Arts Professor Trent Burkett are popular general education courses on the Stockton campus. One reason they fill up so fast is they are highly coveted by predental students, who typically make up half of the students in the class.
Ai Streacker’s passions and hobbies have taken him far and wide in life. But the passion with perhaps the greatest impact is teaching.