Pitt Dental Medicine

GIVE TODAY. TRANSFORM TOMORROW

Our Pitt Dental Medicine community—alumni, friends, faculty, staff and students—is our legacy. Help us make Pitt Day of Giving 2025 the most successful yet! Will you join us?

Make a gift that is meaningful to you and support our current initiatives that provide for training the next generation of dental professionals, conducting cutting-edge research, and serving patients in need.

The University of Pittsburgh and Pitt Dental Medicine are committed to building for the future. Innovation, discovery, intellectual property, patenting, industry relationships and an entrepreneurial mindset are at the forefront in numerous conversations at present. The University is on the rise and setting records, and so is Pitt Dental Medicine.

The platform provided by the University—together with the intellectual capital at our school—creates an opportunity to make a substantial impact for oral and craniofacial health in entirely new ways. We are built for discovery and together can provide transformative cures, technologies, and solutions to our toughest problems. Your gift to Pitt Dental Medicine supports our students and transforms our school for tomorrow.

Challenges:

⚡Dean Oakley will personally donate a total of $1,000. $500 will go to the fund that raises the most money in the Dental School and $500 will go to the fund with the highest number of donors in the Dental School.

⚡Dean Oakley will personally provide lunch to the dental class, dental hygiene class or Residents/ OCS students that has the highest percentage of donors (out of total number of students in the class) in the Dental School.

⚡Pitt Dental Medicine is hosting a PDoG Dog and Mini-Panther show in Salk Hall on February 25.

⚡It is a battle of the decades. Each donation to any fund can be attributed to a decade of your choosing. The decade with the highest number of donors in Pitt Dental Medicine wins bragging rights for a year.

⚡BOV Challenge: If we reach our goal of 300 total donations the Board of Visitors will donate an additional $12,500. 

⚡Departmental Challenges: Exceed last year to unlock your challenge gift!

• Orthodontics: Last year you had 4 donors, beat that number to unlock a $3,000 gift from Steve Iszkula (DMD '07, ORTHO '10). Unlocked
• Pediatric Dentistry: Last year you had 11 donors, beat that number to unlock a $1,000 gift from Deborah Studen-Pavlovich (DMD '80, PEDO '83). Unlocked
• Endodontics: Last year you had 4 donors, beat that number to unlock a $1,000 gift from Patrick DeMarco (DMD '94, ENDO '97). Unlocked
• The Center for Patients with Special Needs: Last year you had 11 donors, beat that number to unlock a $500 gift from an anonymous donor. Unlocked