Clinical Assistant Professor (Pediatrics)
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Title Clinical Assistant Professor (Pediatrics)
Campus San Francisco
Department Department of Pediatric Dentistry
Posting Number F01095
Full or Part Time Part Time
Open Date 08/17/2026
Close Date
Open Until Filled Yes
Days Per Week 3
Weeks Per Year 40
Position Description
Primary Purpose and Essential Functions PRIMARY PURPOSES:
Reporting to the Chair of Pediatric Dentistry, the Clinical Assistant
Professor will provide clinical and didactic instruction within the Department
of Pediatric Dentistry at Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. The faculty
members will support the department's educational, clinical, service, and
outreach missions through excellence in teaching, patient care, mentorship,
and professional engagement. Responsibilities include clinical supervision and
instruction of predoctoral dental students in pediatric dentistry and special
care dentistry across outpatient, hospital, ambulatory surgery center (ASC),
and community-based settings.
University of the Pacific recognizes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are
foundational to the success of our students, faculty, staff, and patients. The
University values individuals who demonstrate a commitment to fostering an
inclusive learning and healthcare environment and who support equitable access
to educational and clinical opportunities.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
The faculty members will participate as part of an interdisciplinary
healthcare team and contribute to the education of predoctoral and
postdoctoral dental learners, as well as other healthcare professionals when
appropriate.
Emphasis will be placed on the care of children and adolescents, including
patients with special healthcare needs, neurodivergent individuals, and
medically complex populations. The faculty members will support the
department's commitment to improving access to care, advancing inclusive and
neuro-affirming clinical practices, and preparing students to provide
compassionate, evidence-based care to diverse patient populations.
1. Clinical Teaching and Patient Care:
Supervise and mentor predoctoral dental students in Pediatric Dentistry
clinical settings.
Provide instruction in diagnosis, treatment planning, and delivery of
comprehensive oral healthcare for infants, children, adolescents, and
patients with special healthcare needs.
Provide clinical instruction in behavior guidance, preventive dentistry,
restorative dentistry, trauma management, sedation, hospital dentistry,
and comprehensive oral healthcare for children and adolescents.
Promote patient-centered, family-centered, and neuro-affirming approaches
to care for children with developmental, behavioral, medical,
intellectual, and physical disabilities.
Model and promote evidence-based clinical decision-making,
professionalism, patient safety, and quality improvement principles.
Support clinical operations while fostering student growth in efficiency,
communication,
critical thinking, and clinical judgment.
Assisting students in developing competencies is necessary to care for
medically complex and special healthcare needs populations across a
variety of healthcare settings.
Participate in patient care and educational activities within affiliated
community clinics, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, operating rooms,
and outreach programs assigned.
Collaborate with faculty, staff, and interdisciplinary healthcare
providers to ensure highquality patient care and educational experiences.
Perform all duties as assigned by the department chair, which may include
additional courses, clinical duties, assisting with administrative tasks,
supporting project management, and contributing to department operations
as needed.
Have the flexibility to travel to the Sacramento campus when required,
supporting cross campus initiatives and collaboration.
2. Didactic Education:
Deliver lectures, seminars, case-based discussions, and small-group
learning experiences within the predoctoral curriculum.
Assist with curriculum development, assessment, calibration, and
continuous quality improvement of educational programs.
Participate in student evaluation, remediation, mentoring, and academic
advising as requested.
Support the integration of contemporary concepts in pediatric dentistry,
special care dentistry, neuro-affirming care, interprofessional
collaboration, healthcare accessibility, and evidence-based practice into
didactic and clinical education.
3. Service and Institutional Engagement
Attend departmental meetings, faculty meetings, calibration sessions, and
school-wide events.
Serve on departmental, school, and university committees as assigned.
Participate in admissions activities, outreach initiatives, continuing
education programs, alumni engagement, and other efforts that advance the
mission of the School and University.
Support interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives and collaborative
healthcare programs involving students, faculty, and healthcare providers
across disciplines.
Participate in community outreach initiatives that improve access to oral
healthcare for underserved pediatric populations and individuals with
special healthcare needs.
Contribute to a collegial, collaborative, and inclusive academic
environment.
4. Scholarship & Professional Development:
Maintain professional competence through continuing education and lifelong
learning.
Participate in scholarly activities appropriate to faculty rank and
appointment, including presentations, publications, educational
innovation, quality improvement initiatives, or clinical research.
Support the advancement of pediatric dentistry through professional
service, leadership, and engagement with organized dentistry and related
healthcare organizations.
Minimum Qualifications Knowledge of:
Contemporary principles and practices of pediatric dentistry, including
prevention, diagnosis, treatment planning, restorative care, behavior
guidance, and management of dental trauma.
Evidence-based approaches to the care of infants, children, adolescents,
and patients with special health care needs.
Principles of child development, communication, behavior guidance, and
patient- and family centered care.
Current standards for infection prevention, patient safety, medical
emergency management, and appropriate use of sedation and pain control in
pediatric dental practice.
Clinical teaching and supervision of dental students, including assessment
of student performance and provision of constructive feedback.
Professional, ethical, and regulatory standards applicable to the practice
and teaching of dentistry in an academic clinical environment.
Principles of culturally responsive, inclusive, and neuro-affirming care
for diverse pediatric patient populations.
Experience:
Minimum of one year experience providing care to children and adolescents,
including patients with special healthcare needs.
Education:
DDS or DMD degrees from a CODA- accredited dental school.
Completion of a CODA- accredited Pediatric Dentistry residency program.
Licensure and Certification:
Current dental license California.
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Working Conditions:
Three-day-per-week faculty appointment during a forty-week academic year.
Occasional evening or weekend attendance at university, departmental,
alumni, community, or continuing education events may be required.
Local travel to affiliated clinical sites, hospitals, community clinics,
outreach programs, or ambulatory surgery centers may be required.
Occasional travel to professional meetings, conferences, or educational
programs may be required.
Preferred Qualifications Ability to:
Demonstrated expertise in pediatric dentistry.
Ability to effectively teach, mentor, and evaluate dental students in both
clinical and didactic settings.
Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, neuro-affirming
care, and patient centered care.
Demonstrated interest in advancing access to care and innovative models of
pediatric oral healthcare delivery.
Experience:
Previous academic teaching experience in a dental school or residency
program.
Experience providing care in hospital, operating room, sedation, or
ambulatory surgery center environments.
Experience providing care for patients with special healthcare needs,
developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, or complex medical
conditions.
Experience in community-based dentistry, interdisciplinary healthcare
delivery, or special care dentistry.
Experience in interprofessional education, community outreach, or
collaborative healthcare delivery models.
License:
Board Certified or Board Eligible by the American Board of Pediatric
Dentistry.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification preferred.
Other:
Experience and sensitivity in working with people of diverse backgrounds
and cultures.
Demonstrated experience in advancing social justice, equity, and inclusion
in a university setting.
Ability to engage and integrate culturally responsive practices and
knowledge in their work.
Physical Requirements The physical demands described here are representative but not definitive of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Clinical duties may require standing, bending, reaching, and maintaining
clinical working positions for extended periods.
May be required to assist with patient transfers and positioning,
including patients with physical disabilities.
Frequent use of computers, keyboards, telephones, and other office
equipment.
Ability to sit or stand for prolonged periods while teaching in classroom,
laboratory, or clinical environments.
Clinical care for patients with complex medical, physical, behavioral, or
intellectual disabilities may require flexibility in positioning and
ergonomic accommodations.
GENERAL: Faculty should have sufficient motor function to execute movements
essential to
providing oral health care to patients.
SPECIFIC: Must possess the motor skills to perform palpation, percussion,
auscultation and
other diagnostic maneuvers, basic laboratory tests, dental preparations, and
diagnostic procedures in a timely manner. Such actions require coordination of
gross and fine muscular movements, equilibrium, and functional uses of the
senses of touch and vision. Must be able to perform basic life support
including CPR, transfer and position patients with disabilities, physically
restrain children who lack motor control, position and reposition himself or
herself around the patient and
chair in sitting and standing positions for prolonged periods of time. Must be
able to operate controls, use high-speed or low-speed dental handpieces for
tooth preparation procedures, and use hand instrumentation, including
scalpels, for surgical procedures. All of these skills must be performed
within reasonable time frame.
Hiring Range $98,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year. We consider factors such as, but not limited to, scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's qualifications, internal equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer.
Special Instructions For in-person roles: This is an in-person role, and the successful candidate must be willing to relocate within California, preferably within 25 miles of the (City) Pacific campus.
For online roles: While this is an online position, Pacific's three
campuses are within California and its faculty and staff are mostly California
residents. For administrative purposes, California residents are preferred.
Out of state hires must be approved either by the Provost and Executive Vice
President for Academic Affairs (for academic hires) or by the Chief
Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for Finance and Operations.
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Required Documents
Curriculum Vitae
Cover Letter/Letter of Application
Dental State License
Hepatitis B Vaccination or HBV Test/Titer or Declination Form
CPR/BLS Certification
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