Thursday , September 19th

PUB CE NIGHT

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Lucky Lab in NW Portland

Speaker: David Carsten, D.D.S.
Topic: “Caffeine and Cannabis, Why Should We Care”

CE Hours: 2

Saturday, September 21st

CANTWELL CE LECTURE (A)

8:00am to 4:00pm OHSU School of Dentistry Room 3A003A/B

Speaker: David Carsten, D.D.S.
Topic: “ACE and Behavior”
Speaker: Sara Gordon, D.D.S.
Topic:“The Collaboration and Melding of Medicine and Dentistry”
Speaker: Stacey Condren, M.D. Endocrinology
Topic:“Hormones, Receptors, and Oral Disease”
Speaker: Sara Gordon, D.D.S.

Topic: 'What is That Odd Bump?'
Speaker: David Carsten, D.D.S.
Topic: “The Impact of Cannabis on Life, the Universe, and Everything”

Speaker: Sara Gordon, D.D.S.
Topic: “Personal Modifications, Piercings, and Pathology”

CE Hours Above Lecture A: 7

“Caffeine & Cannabis”

Pharmacology, history, use and abuse of cannabis and caffeine.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the pharmacology and chemistry of caffeine and cannabis
• Understand the physolocy of caffeine and cannabis
• Understand the use and abuse potential of caffeine and cannabis

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“ACE and Behavior”

Adverse childhood experience studies and their impact on health, dentistry and treatment.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the impact of early life abuse on health
• Understand the behavioral response to abuse
• Recognize behaviors and understand approaches to dental treatment that can be successful

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'The Collaboration and Melding of Medicine and Dentistry”

Is the oral cavity “connected” to the body or is it really part of the body?

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how oral health fits into the World Health Organization definition of health.
• Explain how an interprofessional approach can result in better health outcomes for our patients.
• Describe the implications of the changing perception of dentistry, and changes in technology, for the future of the dental profession.
• Explain how this could affect dental education, reimbursement, and licensure in the future.

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“Hormones, Receptor, and Oral Disease”

Common and rare endocrine conditions and their oral manifestations

Learning Objectives:

• Appreciate some of the oral manifestations of diabetes
• Recognize oral manifestations of common thyroid diseases
• Understand the pathophysiology of hyperparathyroidism and the impact on oral health

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'What is That Odd Bump?'

Evidence-based diagnosis of unusual changes to the oral and maxillofacial tissues.

• Describe an orderly approach to diagnose a difficult unknown oral or maxillofacial lesion.
• Discuss dentistry's role in the early diagnosis of oral cancer.
• Access and apply the ADA evidence-based guideline on evaluating potentially malignant oral lesions.
• Describe the basics of performing and submitting biopsies? to an oral path service.

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“The Impact of Cannabis on Life, the Universe, and Everything”

The impact of cannabis on patients, healthcare, and society.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the physiologic impact of THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids
• Understand the implications for healthcare of cannabis use
• Understand the societal and behavioral impact of cannabis use

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“Personal Modifications, Piercings, and Pathology'

Caring for patients with piercings, tattoos, scarification, tongue splitting, and more.

• Describe the range of body modifications that our patients may choose to undertake?.
• Discuss the risks and long-term consequences of body modifications, particularly orofacial piercings?.
• Talk to patients in a non-combative manner about body modifications.?
• Describe some medically-associated uses of tattoos and potential problems arising from them.

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More Course Details Coming Soon!

 

Dr. Carsten is a native of the Pacific northwest graduating from Washington State University with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and a DDS from the University of Washington School of Dentistry.  He started practice in 1984 and was 13 years as faculty at Oregon Health Sciences University teaching predoctoral students, 5 years at the University of Southern California, and currently teaches in the GPR program at OHSU. Dr. Carsten is a Master in the Academy of General Dentistry, a Fellow in the American College of Dentists, a Fellow in the Academy of Dentistry International, a Fellow of the Pierre Fauchard Society, and a member of the Pacific Coast Society of Prosthodontics. He is a lecturer and published author on diverse topics and also is the recipient of the Award of Distinction in continuing education from the Academy of Dentistry International.  He has held various leadership positions in the local and state dental associations, amongst them president of the Clark County Dental Society twice and a member of the Pacific Northwest Dental Conference Leadership Committee.  He has also been a national delegate for the Academy of General Dentistry and a state delegate for the Washington State Dental Association.  He currently is a member of the ADA steering committee for the DLOSCE. He is the primary lecturer for the COORS study club for health care professionals.

Dr Sara Gordon is a Professor of Oral Medicine and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington, School of Dentistry.  She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada in both Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, and a Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland.  She is a past president of the Canadian Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Oral Medicine. Educated in Canada, she practiced general dentistry for 8 years in Nova Scotia before completing a 4-year oral pathology specialty program and Master of Science in pathology at the University of Western Ontario. She has taught oral medicine and general, systemic, and oral pathology in the USA since 1997.  She is a site consultant for oral pathology, for the American Dental Association’s Commission on Dental Accreditation. She has taught more than 120 continuing education courses, and authored or co-authored about 100 journal articles, textbook chapters, posters and abstracts.  

 

 

Stacey Condren, M.D., M.M, F.A.C.E.

Dr. Condren graduated from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1998. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at UCLA San Fernando Valley Program. Dr. Condren completed a fellowship in Endocrinology at the Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston.

Dr. Condren believes in educating patients and helping them achieve their individual goals.

Outside of work, Dr. Condren enjoys playing the clarinet, running, and skiing. She is married and has two children.

Oregon Health & Science University is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. 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.