SP-25 - Educator Forum: Inspiring Students and Practicing Endodontists to Become Educators

Friday, April 29, 2022

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM PST

Location: 126

CE: 1.25

Speaker(s)

Yaara Y. Berdan, D.D.S.

Co-Chair, Department of Endodontics and Periodontics
Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC
Calabasas, California

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Susan Paurazas, DDS, MS, MHSA

Clinical Professor, Program Director, Graduate Endodontics
University of Detroit Mercy
Rochester Hills, Michigan

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Langston Smith, DMD, MS

Past Department Chairman of Endodontics and Predoctoral Director
Howard University
Silver Spring, Maryland

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Session Host(s)

Isabel Mello, DDS, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Disclosure: Disclosure information not submitted.

Endodontic educators will participate in an interactive lecture session discussing the challenges of recruiting faculty to teach in pre-doctoral and graduate Endodontic programs.

Learning Objectives:

Identify strategies and supportive programs to develop an interest in academia in Endodontic residents
Identify ways to facilitate the process of being an Endodontic educator
Identify barriers to becoming an Endodontic educator and ways to address the barriers.