2023 AAOM Schedule | Day 1 | Wednesday, May 3

Pre-Conference Workshop - Building Your Oral Medicine Clinic: Keys for a Thriving Practice

Moderator: Dr. David Ojeda

This workshop will provide comprehensive sessions with experts in building oral medicine practice. Experts will share practical guidance and in-depth details to help early and mid-career practitioners established and maintain a thriving oral medicine practice.  Pre-registration with extra fees is required to attend this session. 

The number of attendees is limited to 40.

Oral Medicine Clinical Practice

Moderator: Dr. David Ojeda

This talk provides a basic understanding of the unique nature of Oral Medicine practice.

Learning objectives:

1. Understand the various practice models currently existing and the prerequisite for successful practice.
2. Recognize the barriers to establishing/sustaining oral medicine practice.
3. Review the specific skillsets and personnel required to operate a successful practice.

Oral Medicine Financial & Business Perspectives I: Credentialling

Moderator: Dr. David Ojeda

This talk highlights the essential elements of insurance credentialing.

Learning objectives:

1. Familiarize with different credentialing options (i.e., hospital, academic, and private practice).
2. Gain knowledge about the processes of dental and medical insurance credentialing.
3. Learn about the current and future credentialing possibilities.

Oral Medicine Financial & Business Perspectives II: Coding & Billing: The Current Status and Future Possibilities

Moderator: Dr. David Ojeda

This lecture takes you through the basic practical details related to oral medicine coding and billing.

Learning objectives:

1. Understand nuts and bolts of oral medicine coding and billing.
2. Acknowledge the methods for practice sustainability.
3. Recognize the coding and billing black holes.

Oral Medicine Marketplace: Present and Future

Moderator: Dr. David Ojeda

This part of the workshop focuses on means to boost and maintain the visibility and sustainability of your practice.

Learning objectives:

1. Recognize the imperativeness of branding.
2. Learn the appropriate methods for professional advertisement and marketing.
3. Familiarize with current and future means to maintain visibility.

Financial Literacy, Stability, and Wellbeing

Moderator: Dr. David Ojeda

This closing tackles the bigger picture of long-term financial stability and highlights examples of future investments that may sustain financial security.

        
Learning objectives:

1. Understand why financial well-being is crucial to your overall well-being.
2. Learn the most important factors that affect finances and lifestyle.
3. Build passive investments & financial security from the “Ground Up”!!

Sol Silverman Memorial Lecture: Masking and Other Approaches to Reducing Transmission of Respiratory Pathogens: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Faculty: Arthur L. Reingold, MD
Moderators: Piri Veluppillai, Lina Mejia, and Piam Vacharotayangul

In the year 2000, Professor Reingold published a paper that questioned whether infectious diseases were really in our rearview mirror, as many believed, or were a continuing threat that required ongoing study and preparedness. He also pointed out the accumulating evidence that infection and the response to it were important in the causation and pathogenesis of many “chronic diseases”, such as cancers of the cervix, liver and stomach, so the age-old distinction between” infectious" and “chronic” diseases was no longer operative. Twenty years and many “emerging” and “re-emerging “ infectious diseases later, SARS-CoV-2 caused a global pandemic that demonstrated the many challenges to responding to such events, even in wealthy countries like the U.S., as well as the speed with which new vaccines and therapeutic agents can now be developed and deployed. Dr Reingold will make the case that epidemiology and biostatistics remain central to the study, prevention, and control of infectious (and other) diseases, in partnership with laboratory research and clinical sciences.

Learning objectives:

1. Understand historic perspectives of infectious disease outbreaks in the US and the world
2. Appreciate the significance of sciences and politics in vaccine development and distribution
3. Understand the process of disease surveillance, detection of outbreak, and its response