Aukhil appointed chair in periodontology

Ikramuddin Aukhil, B.D.S., M.S., has been appointed chair of the department of periodontology. Aukhil comes to UF from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry, where he served as professor of periodontology and director of UNC’s predoctoral program in periodontology.

The college’s search committee selected Aukhil based on his clinical and administrative ability and the opportunity to create new collaborations between clinician-scientists and the college’s internationally respected molecular and cell biologists. Aukhil assumes the chair from Herbert Towle, D.D.S., who has stepped down to serve as director of the periodontics residency program.