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Alharbi provides patient care in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery resident dental center, the Student Oral Surgery center, and Faculty Practice.

She will focus on clinical teaching predoctoral students in the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Garcia and UFCD leadership believed that the college had a responsibility to provide care not just for their patients, but for the entire community.

Congratulations to the six University of Florida College of Dentistry faculty members who received promotions or were approved for tenure.

"I cover my face in gratitude to our first responders, and ask that everyone in our community join me." - Dean A Isabel Garcia, DDS, MPH

All UF College of Dentistry centers are providing emergency care only. The college has also launched a teledentistry service for patients.

Heft was a professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and director of the Claude D. Pepper Center for Oral Health in Aging.

Congratulations to Mary Ellen Davey, Donald Cohen, Brian Y. Cooper, David Culp and Ann Progulske-Fox.

Hamrick earned his dental and medical degrees, completed the OMFS residency program and a general surgery internship - all at the University of Florida.