The University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry named Chalmers Rieger Wood III, D.D.S., to direct its new clinical operation in Tulsa.

The expansion of the College of Dentistry’s educational programs and clinical services in Tulsa was approved in October by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

The new dental clinic will be housed within the OU Health Physicians Schusterman Center Clinic building on the OU-Tulsa campus, with construction of a 5,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art dental clinic beginning soon.

An OU College of Dentistry faculty member since 2006, Wood was named clinical assistant professor in 2014 and currently serves as a group practice director in the Division of Comprehensive Care. Wood also served on the college’s COVID-19 Task Force, COVID-19 Re-engagement Committee, and workgroups engaged in the planning for the dental program expansion in Tulsa.

Wood earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree at the OU College of Dentistry in 1981. That same year, he established a private dental practice in Tulsa, which he still owns and operates to this day. Wood also completed the Advanced Education in General Education residency program at the College of Dentistry in 2015.

“I am very grateful to have been selected to lead the expansion of the College of Dentistry in Tulsa,” said Wood. “As a native of Tulsa, it is especially gratifying to bring the high-quality dental services we provide at the College to northeastern Oklahoma.”