Back to Listings Academic Professional Track (Non-Tenure): Clinical Assistant / Clinical Associate Professor in Small Animal Dentistry Small Animal Clinical Sciences Location College Station, TX Open Date 9/1/2026 Position ID 188367 Description The Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS), Texas A&M University, invites applications for a full-time,
11-month/year, clinical non-tenure track faculty position at the rank of assistant or associate professor in Small Animal Dentistry with an anticipated start date in Fall 2026 or Spring 2027. The dentistry service currently has one board-certified dentist and is staffed with three highly skilled dental technicians. The successful candidate will devote approximately 65-75% of their time to clinical instruction and
patient care in the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH) on the Dentistry service. The remaining time will be devoted to classroom and laboratory teaching (10-15%), research and other scholarly activities (5-10%), and academic citizenship (10%), including the establishment of a dentistry residency program. Clinical responsibilities will include primary management of cases, instruction of veterinary students,
providing internal dentistry consultations, consulting with referring veterinarians, creating anesthetic protocols and assisting in monitoring healthy patients, and managing dental cases admitted through the emergency department. Applicants must be committed to a team-centered atmosphere and possess excellent communication skills with animal caregivers, faculty colleagues, veterinary students, house officers,
graduate students, technicians, and staff. In addition, faculty members are expected to commit to holding themselves and colleagues accountable to the VMBS Code of Professional Conduct. The dentistry service is supported by a 24-hour ICU for critical and complex cases, on-site cardiology for advanced case management, support from anesthesia and soft tissue surgery services with fully equipped sterile operating rooms,
in-house oncology and radiation therapy, on-site Siemens 40-slice helical CT scanner and Siemens 3T MRI, and an on-site pathologist with advanced expertise in oral pathology. The dental suite is equipped with Cone Beam CT, a piezotome surgical unit, and a mini-plating kit. Construction has begun on the new state-of-the-art 135,000 square foot hospital, with plans for opening in August 2027, including a modern,
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