Tomlinson appointed associate dean for finance and administration at UF College of Dentistry

Kenneth A. Tomlinson, B.S.B.A., has been appointed associate dean for finance and administration at the UF College of Dentistry.

Initiated by Dean Teresa Dolan, D.M.D., M.P.H., and approved by university Provost David Colburn, Ph.D., the new position recognizes the college’s unprecedented financial expansion over the past 10 years. Tomlinson has served as the college’s director of medical/health administration since 1983.

Under the leadership of three deans, Tomlinson has been instrumental in guiding the college through enormous growth. When he arrived in 1983, college revenues from state, clinics, tuition, research and development totaled a modest $10.6 million, increasing to $22.9 million by 1993. The period of most dramatic growth occurred between 1993 and 2003, when college revenues, boosted by growing clinical and research enterprises, expanded to $43 million.

“As the College of Dentistry’s operations have increased dramatically in terms of both size and complexity, I believe the college will be well served by having an associate dean for finance and administration,” said Dolan. “Ken brings great experience to the problem, and I am very pleased he has agreed to assume the new position.”

Tomlinson earned his bachelor’s degree in banking and finance from the UF College of Business Administration in 1970. He is known nationally as a leader in dental education finance and administration, and has served as chairman and councilor of the section on business and financial administration of the American Dental Association, financial consultant to the Commission on Dental Accreditation, and on the scholarship screening committee to the American Dental Association and Minority Dental Student Scholarship Program.