Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
University of Detroit Mercy
Professor Pamela Zarkowski is currently Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Detroit Mercy. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene, a Masters of Public Health in Dental Public Health, Teaching Certificate in Community Dentistry from the University of Michigan, and a Juris Doctor from Wayne State University. An educator for more than 43 years, she has served in various administrative roles and continues to teach predoctoral, graduate and dental hygiene students. She has held leadership roles in national organizations, provided workshops and continuing education courses and published in the area of professional, legal and ethical issues for oral health and health professionals. She is a past president of the American Dental Education Association, Society for Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine and the American Society for Dental Ethics. Zarkowski is an honorary member of Sigma Phi Alpha, Omicron Kappa Upsilon and an honorary fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine.
In 2011, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Dental Education Association. Most recently, she was honored by the ADEA Gies Foundation as the 2017 recipient of the Gies Award for Achievement – Dental Educator. In 2019, she was named one of Crain's Notable Women in Education Leadership.
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