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ADEA Holds a Men of Color in the Health Professions Summit to
Increase Academic Participation of Underrepresented Groups. Read more
On Aug. 24, President Biden and the Department of Education (ED) announced a series of steps to assist persons with student debt, collectively called the student loan debt relief plan. Following is a summary of the key parts of the student loan debt relief plan. Read more
Mark your calendar for March 19-22, 2022, for Lifting as We Rise—the 2022 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition—in Philadelphia, PA. Read more
Though diversity and inclusion are important topics in dental education, making them a priority on campuses and within the curricula remains a challenge for many dental schools and allied dental programs. Read more
For decades, dental schools and allied dental programs have strived to integrate knowledge from other disciplines into their curricula and advocated for the inclusion of oral health into other health professions’ curricula. A lack of time and competing priorities remain significant hurdles, but there are promising signs of progress. Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on legislation and regulations on the federal and state levels. Some of those changes are relevant to dentistry and dental education, including expansion of telehealth in some states, dentists and dental students becoming COVID-19 vaccinators, and changes in some states’ dental licensure portability and requirements. Read more
In December 2020, states were finally getting access to a vaccine for COVID-19. But the vaccine needed to be administered quickly and safely, making the massive rollout an “all hands on deck” scenario. To help, some states began to allow dentists to administer the vaccine, and many dentists signed up. Read more
In December 2020, states were finally getting access to a vaccine for COVID-19. But the vaccine needed to be administered quickly and safely, making the massive rollout an “all hands on deck” scenario. To help, some states began to allow dentists to administer the vaccine, and many dentists signed up. Read more
What’s ahead for 2021? We sat down (virtually) with ADEA President and CEO, Karen P. West, D.M.D., M.P.H., and Chair of the ADEA Board of Directors Ryan Quock, D.D.S., to get their thoughts on the big issues and opportunities on the horizon for ADEA and dental education. Read more
This summer, the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Henry Schein, Inc., a health care products and services distributor, joined forces to embark on a massive undertaking. Read more
When the COVID-19 arrived in the United States in early 2020, burning a path down the East and West Coasts and eventually across the rest of the country, it quickly became an “all-hands-on-deck” scenario at many U.S. hospitals. Emergency rooms were flooded in some areas. Read more