This series
features university-based key opinion leaders presenting numerous topics on
multiple dates and times. Presentations are available to meet every dental health
care professional’s schedule and interests.
Right
Under (and Up) Our Noses… And Evolving Before Our Eyes, Emerging &
Re-emerging Diseases
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
8PM ET/ 7PM CT/ 5PM PT
This
seminar explores personal health issues such as new and altered diseases of
importance to dental professionals, including bloodborne diseases, and
respiratory and contact diseases.Attention is given to resistant pathogens, biofilm diseases, and
pathogens with pandemic potential, particularly respiratory diseases, relative
to occupational risk, illness prevention, and post-exposure responses. Leave
with a plan for managing today’s microbial challenges using Standard and
Transmission-based precautions, including building air safety control.
At
the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
Recognize
and assess well-known infectious diseases
Be
able to identify and explain current trends in infectious diseases
Be
informed of and prepared for safety challenges
Select
infection control and safety strategies for usual and unusual disease risks
Meet the speaker:
Nancy
Dewhirst, RDH, BSDH graduated from the University of Southern California,
practiced dental hygiene for 20 years, is adjunct dental hygiene faculty at
West Coast University, and is a member of Sigma Phi Alpha. Ms. Dewhirst is
consistently listed as one of the nation’s “Leaders in CE”, presents over 100
interactive workshops and seminars a year, is featured at major U.S. and
Canadian Dental Conferences, and is a licensed California CE Provider. She is
an ANSI/ADA Standards Program member and committee chair, Editor-in-Chief of OSAP’s
Infection Control In Practice, has had many articles published in dental
peer-reviewed journals, and has contributed to dental textbooks and ADA, OSAP,
and State and University guidance documents.
PLEASE NOTE: THE ACDE LECTURE SERIES VIA ZOOM WILL NOT BE RECORDED FOR SELF STUDY. LECTURES ARE ONLY OFFERED LIVE AT THE TIME/ON THE DAY LISTED.
