Thank you for supporting the College of Dental Medicine. Since its inception 100 years ago, the college has remained committed to educating the world's future leaders in dentistry. Your contributions arecritical to our continued ability to stay at the forefront of advancing practice, education, and scientific research.
To achieve our ambitious goals, we rely on the generosity of alumni, foundations, community and corporate partners, faculty, and friends. Your donations toour annual fund support a number of strategic priorities including increasingthe financial aid for students, continually innovating the curriculum, and providing patient-centric care in state-of-the art facilities.
Whether you area graduategiving back to the school that helped you become the professional you are today, a grateful patient, or a friend who understands the importance of supporting scientific discovery, education, and care, your gift is truly an investment in our future.
Welcome to the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, a private dental school established at Columbia University in 1916, with roots dating back to 1852. Leveraging our position within a world-class academic medical center at an Ivy League university, we advance dentistrys practice, teaching, and scientific research.
One of our founders, William J. Gies, PhD, asserted that because oral health is inextricably linked to overall health, dental medicine is best taught within an academic medical setting. His words transformed our field, and their full expression is one of the colleges defining features today. In our classrooms, DDS students spend their pre-clinical years studying alongside medical students. In our clinical settings, scientific research and new technologies enhance care. In our laboratories, we advance the frontiers of science, often with students working under the mentorship of renowned research faculty.