ASDOH dean to be featured at institute of medicine workshop in Washington, D.C.
Posted: February 9, 2009MESA, Ariz. (2-9-09) – Jack Dillenberg, D.D.S., M.P.H., dean of A.T. Still University’s Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health (ATSU-ASDOH), is scheduled to be a featured speaker at an Institute of Medicine workshop entitled “Sufficiency in the U.S. Oral Health Workforce in the Coming Decade” in Washington, D.C., on February 9-11.
According to Tracy Harris, D.P.M., M.P.H., senior program officer for the Institute of Medicine, the workshop will give attendees the opportunity to hear from and examine a variety of perspectives of how the oral healthcare workforce affects access to oral healthcare services. “We are pleased that Dr. Dillenberg will discuss how the education and training of this workforce contributes to existing challenges,” she said.
Registration for the workshop is already closed, having reached its capacity of approximately 200 attendees. The workshop is open to the public, and attendees include a mixture of healthcare professionals, policy makers, and educators.