ACDE Webinar Series: Right Under (and Up) Our Noses...And Evolving Before Our Eyes, Emerging & Re-Emerging Diseases

Date: 

Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 8:00pm to 10:00pm

Location: 

Via Zoom

Nancy Dewhirst from Rutgers School of Dental Medicine Continuing Dental Education explores personal health issues such as new and altered diseases of importance to dental professionals, including bloodborne diseases, and respiratory and contact diseases. Attention is given to resistant pathogens, biofilm diseases, and pathogens with pandemic potential, particularly respiratory diseases, relative to occupational risk, illness prevention, and post-exposure responses. Leave with a plan for managing today’s microbial challenges using Standard and Transmission-based precautions, including building air safety control.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize and assess well-known infectious diseases
  • Be able to identify and explain current trends in infectious diseases
  • Be informed of and prepared for safety challenges
  • Select infection control and safety strategies for usual and unusual disease risks

Tuition: $69/2 ADA CERP Credit Hours

Format: Live Virtual Lecture (w/ Q&A)

Contact: Email Caitlin Laughlin 

Register

Cancellation 7 days before the course will be eligible for full refund. No refund will be made within 7 days of the course initiation date.

Harvard School of Dental Medicine 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. The Harvard School of Dental Medicine designated this activity for 2 continuing education credit.