Posted on June 4, 2004 at 10:05 a.m.

WHAT:

The UAB School of Dentistry will hold its annual Honors Convocation and Hooding Ceremony for 56 graduating dentistry students of the class of 2004.

WHEN:

2 P.M. SATURDAY, JUNE 5

WHERE:

Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center,
1200 10th Ave. S.

WHO:

Eli Capilouto, DMD, ScD, MPH

Dr. Eli Capilouto is currently the Acting Provost at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the former dean and professor at the UAB School of Public Health. A native Alabamian, he received his bachelors and dental degrees, and masters degree in epidemiology from schools within the University of Alabama System. In 1991, he received his doctorate in health policy and management from the Harvard University School of Public Health.

Class of 2004:

 

• 36% of the graduating class for 2004 is female.
  
• 13% of the graduating class will enter the Armed Forces.
  
• 6% of the graduating class will enter Public Health Dentistry after graduation.
  
• Approximately 1/3 of the graduating class will pursue advanced dental training.
  
• 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.
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