Meet Our Faculty
Jaleh Pourhamidi DMD, MDSc
Associate Professor of Dental Medicine
Program Director, Advanced Education in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics/MBA
Special Assistant to VP of Academic Affairs
Dr. Jaleh Pourhamidi completed her undergraduate training at University of California, San Diego in 1995. She attended University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine for her DMD degree (1999) as well as her Certificate in Orthodontics and Masters of Dental Sciences (2002). Dr. Pourhamidi is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics.
Dr. Pourhamidi has received numerous awards such as the American Association of Orthodontists Faculty Development Award, the Hinman Scholarship Award (three-time recipient), the Colgate Palmolive Award, the W. Arthur George Student Research Award, the American Dental Association Dentsply Research Award, the American Association of Dental Research Student Research Fellowship Award, and the American Association for Dental Research Student Award. She was most recently named as one of "American's Top Dentists" by the Consumers' Research Council of America, a distinction awarded to a select few based on education, years in practice, affiliation with professional associations and board certification.
Dr. Pourhamidi has given a number of educational presentations throughout the country on topics such as dental school admissions, psychosocial outcomes in patients with various craniofacial anomalies, treatment and management of cleft lip and palate, and her molecular biology research involving a common periodontal disease bacteria.
Dr. Pourhamidi's current national involvements include serving as the Chair for the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Section in Orthodontics, a reviewer for the American Dental Association's (ADA) CE Online Editorial Board, a member of the ADEA Postdoctoral Application Support Service (PASS) Task Force, and the Consultant to the ADA's Council on Dental Practice. She has also served as the 85th Annual ADEA Section Planning Committee Reviewer (2007-2008), a member of the ADEA House of Delegates (2007-2008), and the ADEA Section in Orthodontics Chair Elect (2006-2007).
Additionally, Dr. Pourhamidi currently holds membership in many national and international organizations including the American Association of Orthodontists, American Dental Educators Association, College of Diplomates of the American Board of Orthodontics, the Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists, the International Academy of Advanced Interdisciplinary Dentistry, the North American Craniofacial Conference, American Dental Association, and the International Association of Dental Research.
In her spare time, Dr. Pourhamidi enjoys hiking, running, reading, riding her road bike and various volunteer work.
David T. Grove DMD, MS,
MSEd, MSc
Associate Professor of Dental Medicine
Dr. David T. Grove received a doctorate degree in dentistry from the University of Louisville, a master of science from St. Louis University, a master of education from the University of Southern California and a master of science in advanced dentistry from Donau University in Austria. He practiced orthodontics for 33 years and was a Major in the US Army as an orthodontist in Germany for 3 years.
He was clinic director in the Department of Orthodontics and faculty in the TMD Department at the University of California San Francisco for over 2 years, and was on the faculty of the University of Nevada Medical School as director of a TMD clinic in Reno Nevada. He was also faculty of the University of Nevada School of Dental Medicine Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial orthopedics.
He has lectured across the United States and Europe. He is a member of many professional and educational organizations in the US and Europe.
Donald Linck DDS, MSc
Clinical Professor of Dental Medicine
Dr. Donald Linck II, a board certified orthodontist, received his Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree from the University of California in San Francisco. He practiced general dentistry in the U.S. Navy (as a lieutenant) and Berkeley, California, prior to earning his specialty certification in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics from Columbia University, New York, in 1968. Since then he has maintained a full time, exclusive orthodontic practice in Pleasant Hill, California. He also maintains satellite offices in Hercules and Concord, both in California.
Dr. Linck is exceedingly passionate about continuing one’s professional education as evident by one of his latest accomplishments, receiving his Master of Science Degree from the University of Donau in Krems, Austria; the topic for his master's thesis was distraction osteogenesis.
Dr. Linck's commitment to his profession and to clinical excellence has gained him considerable respect among his peers both nationally and internationally. He is often called upon to lecture around the world on such subjects in dental sciences and orthodontics as TMJ dysfunction, orthognathic surgery and distraction osteogenesis, just to name a few.
In addition to being a professor at the University of Southern Nevada College of Dental Medicine, he is currently on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry and University of Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, and on staff at Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Plastic Surgery, Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland, John Muir Hospital, Walnut Creek, and Mt. Diablo Hospital, Concord.
His other professional affiliations include The American Association of Orthodontists, The California State Society of Orthodontists, The Foundation for Advanced Continuing Education, The American Dental Association, as well as a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics and a Charter Member of the College of Diplomates of the American Board of Orthodontists.
