Dr. Kowolik, Executive Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Global Engagement, planned to visit TUMS for the second time to follow up the collaboration between the two universities.

On July 31st, 2016 Dr. Kowolik and Dr. Chu met with Dr. Bayat, Dean and Dr. Khami, Vice-Dean for International Affairs of School of Dentistry, Dr. Nekoofar, director of International Relations, Accreditation and Ranking of the University, and Ms. Tania Azadi, Accreditation Senior Officer of TUMS to follow up the accreditation activities. At the beginning of the session, Ms. Azadi provided the attendees with information about School of Dentistry and different programs that were running in the school as well as the statistics of international programs and students. Then she gave an introduction to the CODA which stands for The Commission on Dental Accreditation and performs the accreditation of dental schools and programs including advanced dental education programs and allied dental education programs and also explained the necessity of running of this program in TUMS. Dr. Kowolik and Dr. Chu provided the audience with the details of this program and how it works and also the standards that must be met for getting accredited by CODA. Indiana University delegations also provided TUMS officials with their suggestions and recommendations. 

Right after the meeting, Dr. Chu visited a few departments of the School and Dr. Kowolik had another meeting with Dr. Khami and Dr. Bonabi to follow up an unfinished joint project.

On the same day, Indiana University delegations visited Research Center for Biomedical and Robotics at Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex. They met with Dr. Ahmadian the Dean of Research Center and were amazed by the latest technologies in the research center.

Dr. Kowolik and Dr. Chu visited Children Medical Center Hospital and met with Dr. Nima Rezaei, Vice-Dean for International Affairs of School of Medicine on 1st of August. He accompanied the Guests to visit the Center and also introduced Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN) to them for further cooperation. The visitors also got to know the different cultural activities performed by this center for the patients. 

Later the delegation paid a visit to TUMS Core Facilities Laboratory. Dr. Lotfi, Vice-Dean for International Affairs of School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine gave thorough explanation about the center and its activities to the guests. 

In their final visit, Dr. Kowolik and Dr. Chu spent two hours in Dental Research Center. Dr. Akhoondi, Dean, Dr. Etemedmoghadam, Vice-Dean for International Affairs, Dr. Shahabi, Vice-Dean for Research of the Research Center welcomed to the gusts and introduced the center activities and different labs.

In the conclusion meeting, both parties expressed their hopes for future collaboration in joint programs and research projects. 

Related Links:

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Indiana University-School of Dentistry NewsLetter August 2016