Multidisciplinary Treatment Planning in Recognizing & Resolving Ethical Issues

Thursday, January 25, 2024
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Course Code: 315TL

Dentists face professional and ethical dilemmas daily. Along with dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants participate in the resolution of these dilemmas as part of the dental team. This course will focus on the recognition of treatment planning shortcomings with the corresponding potential for risk management issues. By using actual clinical cases that involve multi-disciplinary treatment planning approaches, this course will encourage audience participation (dentists, hygienists, assistants) in order to demonstrate how to recognize ethical dilemmas and how these concerns were actually addressed with the subsequent clinical treatment. Certain legal as well as risk management ramifications of the treatment avoided as well as the treatment rendered will also be discussed.

After this course, attendees will be able to:

Understand how the dental team can work together to recognize ethical dilemmas guided by the ADA Ethical Principles
Recognize how the dental team addresses patients' concerns about treatment to resolve ethical dilemmas
Utilize interdisciplinary treatment planning to help limit ethical issues and treatment problems
Examine ways to render subsequent clinical treatment that can mitigate risk problems and legal concerns
Determine how to strengthen the dental team’s risk management skills

Presenters

Julie Connolly, DDS is a Board-Certified Periodontist in New York, NY. She is the Director of the Ethics Coursework at Columbia College of Dental Medicine (CDM). She lectures Regionally and Locally on Dental Ethics and Periodontics. Dr. Connolly is currently an Assistant Professor in Periodontics at Columbia CDM. She is a Fellow and Past-President of the New York Academy of Dentistry. Dr. Connolly is also a Fellow and Chair-Elect of the NY Section of the American College of Dentists (ACD). She will become Regent of Regency 1 of the ACD in October 2022. She is a member of the Council on Ethics for the New York State Dental Association. Dr. Connolly represents the ACD in the Kellogg Leadership Program at Northwestern University and is also the SPEA Faculty Advisor at Columbia.

Vincent Dunn, Esq, JD has over 25 years of diverse trial experience in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He concentrates his practice on healthcare professionals and institutions in civil, criminal, and administrative matters. He routinely appears in the state and federal courts, before Boards of Professional License Registration, and at regulatory and credentialing hearings and investigations. He lectures widely on risk management, regulatory compliance, administrative procedure, and professional licensing issues.

Howard Hill, DDS maintains a full-time restorative practice in Georgetown, MA.

Roger Wise, DDS is a faculty member of the department of periodontics at Harvard University School of Dental Medicine.

Presented by the American College of Dentists New England Section.

Recommended Audience: Assistant, Dentist, Hygienist, Office