2023 ADEA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Workshop

Registration fees for this conference are based on individual membership.

You must be a current ADEA member to qualify for the member registration rate.

If you are not a current ADEA member, the nonmember rate will apply. (Join or renew your ADEA membership at adea.org/join.)

Registration includes all materials, hosted meals, refreshment breaks and the reception. Lodging and travel costs are at the registrant’s expense.

Guest Policy

Guest registration is not available for this event.

Cancellations

If you are unable to attend, please submit a written cancellation message to Shalonda King, ADEA Senior Manager, Meetings Registration, at KingS@adea.org by Tuesday, Sept. 26.

ADEA will issue a refund—minus an individual $75 processing fee—after the meeting’s conclusion. Cancellation requests received after Sept. 26 are not eligible for a refund or credit. Refunds or credits will not be given for failure to attend, late arrival, unattended events or early departure.

Notice

ADEA may take photos, screen shots, and video-recordings at this event. By registering for this event, you give ADEA, and its and media partners, permission to use any photos, screen shots, and videos taken during the event (live or virtual) in which you appear, as well as any written comments you submit on evaluation forms, in chat-box, or on social media to be recorded or used for ADEA's promotional purposes.

In response to member requests to share the rich content found in chats, ADEA may download chat-box posts and share this unedited content with conference attendees for their individual informational purposes.

The American Dental Education Association 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. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at CCEPR.ada.org.

The American Dental Education Association designates this activity for 6.75 continuing education credits.

All speakers agree that neither they nor members of their immediate family have any financial relationships with commercial entities that may be relevant to their presentation.

Workshop Overview

The ADEA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Workshop provides dental education administrators, faculty, staff, residents, fellows and students with tools and strategies to promote and understand the important role that access, diversity, inclusion, belonging, equity and well-being play in promoting a humanistic environment within academic dentistry and society.

The ADEA DEIB Workshop is a one-day networking and learning symposium organized to help participants understand the scope of the diversity-related Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) standards and to assist them in developing mission-driven inclusion and belonging initiatives for their institutions. The small group workshop format affords participants the opportunity to engage in quality discussions, participate in collaborative planning activities and exchange ideas with other participants and presenters.

Consistent with the above CODA standards, the 2023 ADEA DEIB Workshop will focus on cultivating a psychologically safe and inclusive environment in both academic dentistry and patient care and will explore how employing structural competencies can enhance institutional efforts to cultivate a humanistic learning environment. While cultural awareness and respect for groups that differ from us are important, psychological safety impacts various aspects of the interactions among students, faculty, staff, residents and fellows.

In this regard, campus policies, practices and strategies must support environments that encourage questioning, interpersonal risk-taking and innovation, all without the fear of reprisal. Programming that infuses structural competency with actionable steps creates an atmosphere in which students, faculty, staff, residents and fellows recognize, analyze and intervene in the structural factors that impact them and their patients.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the 2023 ADEA DEIB Workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe implicit and explicit biases that produce systemic and structural inequities.
• Identify various forms of psychological safety.
• Recognize and employ power and privilege to create psychological safety.
• Develop and use empathy as a gateway to psychological safety.
• Create strategies for cultivating psychologically safe environments. 

For registration questions, please contact:

Registration Team
meetings@adea.org