DUBAI--Boston University Executive Vice President Joseph Mercurio and Dean ad interim Jeffrey Hutter of BU's Goldman School of Dental Medicine attended the grand opening of the Boston University Institute of Dental Research and Education Dubai and Boston University Dental Health Center at Dubai Healthcare City in Dubai on Feb. 26.
Also attending were Saeed Al Muntafiq, Executive Chairman of Tatweer, Ahmad Sharaf, Senior Vice President Energy and Healthcare of Tatweer, and Dr. Muhadditha Al-Hashimi, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Healthcare City.
The Institute will focus on furthering dental research in the region and on training graduate dentists in the dental specialties. The training programs will be developed and overseen by faculty of the Boston University School of Dental Medicine.
The Dental Health Center will provide comprehensive and prevention-oriented dental services to residents of the region as well as to the many visitors to Dubai. The Institute is in the process of submitting an application for accreditation from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the United Arab Emirates.
Dubai Healthcare City is a medical free zone within the Emirate of Dubai in the UAE. Dubai Healthcare City has been developed with the goal of becoming a world-class academic medical community which will be developed around the Harvard Medical School Dubai Center, Boston University Institute for Dental Research and Education, and a major university hospital.
The campus will also contain a wellness center offering integrative medicine, private clinics and branches of several international medical and pharmaceutical corporations that will be available in the medical community.
"The Goldman School of Dental Medicine is very proud to be in partnership with Dubai Health Care City to provide world class oral health care and education in the region. We at Boston University take our responsibility as educators and researchers in the global community very seriously," said Dean ad interim Hutter.
The Boston University Dental Health Center Dubai will begin seeing patients immediately after this grand opening, and the first class of residents will begin their graduate training program in July.
Executive Vice President Joseph Mercurio extended congratulations on behalf of President Bob Brown adding, "Boston University is focused on the pursuit of excellence in its core mission of teaching, research and service. Under Dr. Brown's leadership, the University has added a strategic goal--the creation of new opportunities for students from around the world to experience a BU education."
"The collaboration with such a renowned world-class American medical and academic institution will further consolidate our position as a regional health-care hub," said Dr. Muhadditha Al Hashimi, CEO of Dubai Healthcare City. "This strengthens our status as a center for quality and excellence in the Middle East, offering health-care services and advanced health-related educational programs in addition to scientific research."
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