Open Sessions
Friday, March 8
exhibit hall open 8:30am to 5:30pm
Repeated Presentations (afternoon) Metrics and Functions of Practice Management
Mahesh Nagarajan is the Alumni Chair of Financial Modeling and Stochastic Optimization and an Associate Professor in the Operations and Logistics Division at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. His areas of expertise include supply chain management, applied game theory, inventory management and mathematical modeling of business processes.
Mahesh Nagarajan, PhD (U.S.C.)
Friday, 8:30am–11:00am
Friday Open Sessions
VCC - Room 206
Repeated from Thursday, 1:30pm–4:00pm VCC - Room 206 Learning Pattern: Practice Excellence Practice Management, Finance/Practice Transition
Understanding the business metrics of running a Dentist Practice, interpret and evaluate a practice based on these metrics. Participants will also receive information on improving the business aspects of a practice with an integrated view of various business functions on how to do this. Sponsored by UBC Sauder School of Business Executive Education
CE Approved BC CL AB Y
Social Media Awareness for the Dental Professional
Jesse Miller, a noted international speaker presenting and consulting to schools, non-profit groups and companies since 2007. Jesse is in high demand as a keynote speaker on the topics of Social Media Awareness, Internet Safety and Online Content Evaluation. During the 2011/2012 school year, his awareness programs for schools in BC reached over 225,000 student participants.
Jesse Miller
Friday, 8:30am–11:00am VCC - Room 121/122
Repeated from Thursday, 8:30am–11:00am VCC - Room 121/122 Learning Pattern: Practice Excellence Technology, Communication
This session will focus on social media use within the dental profession and how the workplace is being reshaped by mobile technology. Session topics will focus on how dental offices engage with clients online, brand management and social media use between co-workers and outside sales representatives.
CE Approved BC PM AB Y
The Role of Dentist in a Sleepy World
Fernanda Almeida is an assistant professor at the UBC, Vancouver. She also sees patients in a private practice restricted to the treatment of sleep disordered breathing. Dr. Almeida is the chair of the steering committee for the Oral Appliance Network for Global Effectiveness. This is a group of international expert researchers from 9 countries compiling long-term data on oral appliance therapy.
Fernanda Almeida, DDS, MSc, PhD
Friday, 8:30am–11:00am VCC - Room 303/304
Repeated from Thursday, 8:30am–11:00am VCC - Room 305 Learning Pattern: Personal Development General Medicine CE Approved BC CL AB Y
Speaker Host: Dr. David Monaghan
This session will describe the use a variety of oral appliances in patients with snoring and sleep apnea. Participants will also receive clinical and research information on initial examination, records collection, adjustment, titration, side effects, compliance and long-term follow up.
Repeated Presentations (afternoon) Endodontics: Shared Science – Shared Success Jeffrey Linden, DMD, MMSc
Friday, 1:30pm–4:00pm VCC - Room 110
Repeated from Thursday, 1:30pm–4:00pm VCC - Room 119/120 Learning Pattern: Clinical Excellence Endodontics CE Approved BC CL AB Y
Jeffrey Linden received his MMSc in Oral Biology from Harvard in 1980. He has been an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Columbia School of Dental and Oral Surgery and an Attending Endodontist at St.Barnabus Hospital at Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Linden maintains a private practice limited to Endodontics and Microscopic Surgery in Manhattan, lecturing frequently on clinical endodontic techniques. Speaker Host: Dr. Brian Henry
Dr. Linden will guide us through a simple yet sophisticated approach: Biologically Optimal Preparations using “Controlled Memory” Niti, Biomechemical irrigation with apical negative pressure to deliver abundant irrigation and disinfection from orifice to apex; and optimal obturation. Co-sponsored by Clinical Research Dental Supplies & Services
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