Dean, Dental College of Georgia
Associate Professor, General Dentistry
706-721-2117
nayoung@augusta.edu
Dr. Nancy Young, first joined the faculty of The Dental College of Georgia as an educator in 2012 as an Assistant Professor at the DCG. She was promoted to Assistant Dean for Student Affairs in 2018. She has served the DCG in a variety of roles, including leading the DCG Student Affairs Committee, and as a member of the AU Student Affairs Committee, the DCG Student Academic Review Committee, the DCG Faculty Senate and the Board of Directors for the AU Dental Associates.
In 2022, she was named Dean of the college. Dr. Young has worked extensively with other faculty on numerous research projects and publications and is the course director for several courses. She has mentored dozens of dental students.
Along with being an alumna of the DCG (DMD, 2006), Dr. Young also holds a Master of Education degree from the University of Georgia (MED, 2018) and a Bachelor of Science in health and physical education from East Tennessee State University (BS, 1998). In 2017, she was named an International College of Dentists Outstanding Faculty Member.
Dr. Young is a member of the Georgia Dental Association and the Hinman Dental Society and an American College of Dentists Fellow and International College of Dentists Fellow, and she received the American College of Dentists Faculty Professionalism Award and the DCG ASDA Advocate Award in 2022, among other awards over the years. Some of those awards include the DCG American Student Dental Association Advocate Award, the International College of Dentists Outstanding Faculty Member and the DCG Outstanding Faculty Member.
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