2022 Catalog: General Courses
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DE0602: IHS Monthly CDE Call: Oral Health Promotion/Disease Prevention: Best Practices for 55 Year-Olds [Recorded webinar]
This one-hour webinar will provide an overview of the Fiscal Year 2021 IHS Oral Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Funding Initiative, with different funded programs providing a summary of their projects focusing on increasing access to care, addressing edentulism, and addressing untreated decay in 55 year-old American Indian/Alaska Native elders.
Upon completion of this webinar, participants should be able to:
1. Describe the prevalence of dental disease in AI/AN elders from a national perspective;
2. List best practices to improve access to care in AI/AN elders; and
3. List best practices to reduce dental disease in AI/AN elders.
Nathan Mork — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at nathan.mork@ihs.gov.
Timothy Ricks — Director, Office of Public Health and Area Dental Officer For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at tim.ricks@ihs.gov.
MARY ANN GONZALEZ — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at mgonzalez@cthp.org.
Patricia Hubley — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at patricia.hubley@ihs.gov.
Morgan Mergen — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at Morgan.Mergen@ihs.gov.
Anthony Likes — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at anthony.likes@cherokee.org.
Lauren Dennis — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at Lauren.dennis@ihs.gov.
Kari Strang-Kimsey, RDH, BS, MBA — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at Kari.Strang@ihs.gov.
It is the policy of the Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, that faculty/planners disclose any financial or other relationships with commercial companies whose products may be discussed in the educational activity. The Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, also requires that faculty disclose any unlabeled or investigative use of pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Images that have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes are prohibited.
None of the faculty/planners for this activity has a conflict of interest, and there is no use of unlabeled or investigative pharmaceutical products or medical devices. No images have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes.The educational objectives, content, and selection of educational methods and instructors are conducted independent of any commercial entity.
The IHS Division of Oral Health is an accredited sponsor of continuing education under the American Dental Association Continuing Education Recognition Program (CERP). ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the IHS at IHS CDE Coordinator or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at CCEPR.ada.org
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Tuition must be paid in full 8 weeks prior to the start date of any course. Request for refunds must be received in writing at least two weeks before the course begins. For each refund request, there will be an administrative charge of $100. No refunds will be made to registrants who fail to attend a course. If IHS CDE program cancels a course, then 100% of the tuition will be refunded.