Karen Baker, RPh, MS, Pharm

Professor Karen Baker has been on the dental faculty at the University of Iowa for 41 years and occupies a unique role in dental practice and education. She is a clinical pharmacist with a master’s degree in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics and is focused on patient-specific dental drug therapy. She has given well over 1,000 invited programs nationally and internationally and holds memberships in many dental and clinical pharmacology and therapeutics organizations. Her dental education-based pharmacy and drug therapy consultation center is the only one in the United States.

Presentation(s):

• The Impact of Alternative Medicine on Clinical Dentistry: Complementary or Conflicting?

  Friday, November 11, 2022
  7:30 AM – 9:15 AM

• Drug Reactions & Interactions Important in Clinical Dentistry

  Friday, November 11, 2022
  10:00 AM – 11:45 AM

• Minimal Oral Sedation: Current Best Practices

  Friday, November 11, 2022
  1:30 PM – 3:15 PM

• Dental Pain Control During the Opioid Epidemic

  Friday, November 11, 2022
  4:00 PM – 5:45 PM

• Dental Prescribing Predicaments: Controversy or Consensus?

  Saturday, November 12, 2022
  8:00 AM – 11:30 AM

• Drugs & Dentistry: Meeting New Challenges & Avoiding Risk

  Saturday, November 12, 2022
  1:00 PM – 4:30 PM