Dr. Sean McLaren Named EIOH’s New Chief Quality, Compliance and Safety Officer

Sean McLaren, D.D.S., M.B.A. (GPR ’03, Pedo ’06, MS ’19, MBA ’22) has been named Eastman Institute for Oral Health’s Chief Quality, Compliance and Safety officer and the director of the Business office of High quality Improvement and Compliance. He succeeds David Levy, D.M.D. (Pedo ’77, MS ‘81), who will transition to a element-time college posture and control special tasks.

“Dr. Levy’s management and one of a kind skillset and expertise in both academia, private practice and public wellbeing permitted us to develop the office environment substantially over the past 11 decades he served in this function,” claimed EIOH Director Eli Eliav, D.M.D., PhD. “Dr. McLaren has the interpersonal and communications skills that will productively continue on what Dr. Levy has set up, and build upon the collaborations in the course of the professional medical middle and the university.”

Dr. McLaren has served as chair, EIOH Pediatric Dentistry Residency Method due to the fact 2015. Cynthia Wong D.M.D., M.S. (Pedo ’13, MS ‘15) will provide as interim chair though continuing her job as the department’s residency software director. She has been proficiently taking care of resident education and learning, resident research and compliance with CODA and College requirements considering that 2017.

“With Dr. Wong’s working experience and achievements as application director, I’m assured the changeover to interim chair will be seamless,” Dr. Eliav additional.

Dr. McLaren was selected for the position just after a nationwide research simply because of his verified means to present strategic leadership whilst overseeing scientific features, and his depth of comprehending of EIOH and URMC. In his new role, he will be responsible for overseeing many facets of clinical capabilities, including good quality management and compliance, possibility administration, environmental wellness and security, infection regulate, data management, as perfectly as other non-clinical features.
 

The position also carries the title of Health care Director, in compliance with New York Point out polices. He will operate closely with URMC leadership, symbolizing EIOH on many URMC committees. In addition, he’ll manage and coordinate investigation protocol reviews and assure that mission-crucial medical, investigate and instructional opportunities are mirrored in ongoing EIOH coverage reviews.

Dr. McLaren is a Rochester indigenous. He graduated from McQuaid Jesuit, Canisius Faculty, earned his dental diploma at SUNY Buffalo, and then earned two submit-doctoral certificates at EIOH, specializing in healthcare facility-dependent and pediatric dentistry. In addition to treating individuals at Clinton Crossings, Sawgrass Surgical Center, he treats medically compromised individuals in the running home at Powerful Memorial Clinic and Golisano Children’s Healthcare facility. By EIOH, he pioneered Teledentistry services in New York, ensuing in considerable improvements in access to procedure for small children residing in rural parts. Because then, he was integral in setting up and chairing EIOH’s Teledentistry Division. All through the last 5 several years, Dr. McLaren has served as principal or co-investigator for 3 multi-million federal grants supporting resident and school training, and avoiding extreme tooth decay amid kids in underserved communities.

Drs. McLaren and Wong start off their new roles July 1. 

Eastman Institute for Oral Wellness at the College of Rochester Healthcare Center ranks as a person of the preeminent graduate dentistry academic establishments in the planet. With nearly 400 college and employees, EIOH solutions manifest at many locations, education 150 innovative graduate dentists/college students in 10 CODA-accredited plans. For extra than 100 yrs, EIOH has been a chief in supplying oral well being care providers during the region, improving obtain for several underserved populations, teaching dentists at the graduate degree, and conducting entire world-course essential, clinical and translational scientific research. EIOH persistently ranks in the best 10 NIH/NIDCR funded dental institutions.