Association for Dental Education in Europe

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Inclusion or Exclusion - where are we? Understanding the special care in dentistry curriculum 10 years on

In collaboration with the International Association for Disability and Oral Health, and our corporate partners Dentsply Sirona this webinar provides an update on current practice and insights in this increasingly important issue in the undergraduate curriculum, that of the special care dentistry consensus curriculum which this year celebrates 10 years since project inception.

Bringing together experts from practice, education and advocacy from both sides of the Atlantic, along with the winning presentations from the iADH research projects from 2020 the session will provide new insights, enlighten best practices and offer opportunity to engage with the speakers with your core questions.

Date of live presentation

27th November 2020 @ 16:00 Irish time. Open to all.

On Demand

This session will also be recorded and made available at a later date on demand.

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Outlline programme:
16:00 Welcome  Dr Alison Dougal President iADH
16:10 Desigining and implementing a Oral Health Center for People with Disabilities Dr Ron Kosinski NYU Clinical Director of the Oral Health Center for People with Disabilities
16:30 IADH - including research presentations
16:50 From Victims to Heroes to Scroungers: Changes in the public perception of disabled people​. Dr Sasha Scambler, Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology, Kings College London
17:20 Open Forum Question and Answer Session
17:30 Meeting Close

Speaker Profiles

Dr Alison Dougal
President Internation Association for Disability and Oral Health, Academic Consultant in Special Care Dentistry, Dublin Dental University Hospital

Dr Alison Dougal is an academic consultant at Dublin Dental University Dental Hospital and is a Special Care Dentist with responsibility for medically complex patients and people with disabilities. She teaches Clinical Special Care Dentistry...Read More

Dr Ron Kosinski
Clinical Director of the Oral Health Center for People with Disabilities

Dr Ron Kosinski comes from Long Island where he was the Chief and Program director at the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York. Dr Kosinski left the Childrens Medical Center in 2014 and moved...Read More

Dr Sasha Scambler
Reader in Medical Sociology, Kings College London 

Dr Sasha Scambler is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at King’s College London. She has a special interest in health, focusing on long term conditions, disability, inequality in all its various forms and social theory. She is an editor of the...Read More