Overview | Registration | Schedule | Abstracts | Hotel & Travel | Sponsor/Exhibit | Policies | Workshops 2025 AAOM/EAOM Joint Meeting: Practice Management WorkshopThe Nuts and Bolts for a Burgeoning Oral Medicine Career Path and Practice
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Category |
Fee |
Non-member |
$600 |
AAOM member |
$480 |
Resident member |
$150 |
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 establish and maintain a thriving oral medicine practice. Pre-registration with extra fees and completion of the prerecorded didactic portion of this workshop is a prerequisite to attend the hands-on in person session.
Prerecorded didactic portion
Duration: 1 hour
Synopsis: The reciprocal interaction between the specialty of Oral Medicine and other healthcare specialties to serve the evolving patient’s need has contributed to the progressive nature of oral medicine practice. This talk focuses on means to boost and sustain your ever-evolving practice demands.
Speaker: Iquebal Hasan, DDS
Clinical Associate Professor - Oral Medicine, Inaugural associate dean UPIKE
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Duration: 1 hour
Synopsis: Pursuing a career in oral medicine is often faced with challenges not commonly addressed during the years of residency. The complexity of balancing clinical, teaching, and administrative duties while maintaining scholarly productivity and national engagement is a tough mission to achieve. This talk discusses the challenges young oral medicine practitioners may face at the early stages of their careers.
Speaker: Katrina Myers, DDS
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Duration: 1 hour
Synopsis: This talk provides basic understanding to the unique nature of Oral Medicine practice and how it can be successfully integrated within the hospital system.
Speaker: Ken Ikeda, DDS, MPH
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Duration: 1 hour
Synopsis: Due to the unique, and unconventional, nature of the specialty of oral medicine, those joining academia may face several obstacles when it comes to establishing their clinical practices while fulfilling their teaching and administrivia duties.
Speaker: Milda Chmieliauskaite, DMD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Oral Medicine
Director, Oral Medicine Graduate Program
Attending, Oral Medicine Clinical Services, University of Washington
Learning objectives:
Duration: 1 hour
Synopsis: This talk familiarizes attendees with the various models of oral medicine practice and how these models may meet the existing market demand.
Speaker: Ernesta Parisi, DMD
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Duration: 30 minutes
Synopsis: This lecture highlights the building blocks for establishing a private practice in oral medicine and touches on the available opportunities and current challenges to establish and run such a practice.
Speaker: Jaisri Thoppay DDS, MBA, MS
Center for Integrative Oral Health
Learning objectives
Duration: 30 minutes
Synopsis: This session covers the fundamentals of staff management and interprofessional communication in private practice.
Speaker: Jaisri Thoppay DDS, MBA, MS
Center for Integrative Oral Health
Learning objectives
Duration: 30 minutes
Synopsis: In an increasingly digital world, social media and artificial intelligence (AI) offer powerful tools for oral medicine practitioners to enhance patient care, build a strong professional brand, and manage their practices more efficiently. This lecture will explore the integration of these technologies into a modern oral medicine practice.
Speaker: Jaisri Thoppay DDS, MBA, MS
Center for Integrative Oral Health
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Duration: 30 minutes
Synopsis: Participants will gain a foundational understanding of personal financial literacy and its interplay with professional satisfaction and well-being. This session will lay the groundwork for exploring career opportunities and financial strategies tailored to oral medicine professionals. Assignments provided during this session will be used to bridge concepts into practical applications during the live interactive workshop.
Speaker: Joel Napenas, DDS
Associate Professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine, director of the Oral Medicine Residency Program, Medical Director and Chief at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
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In person/Interactive Portion
Synopsis: In this interactive workshop, participants will analyze and discuss their pre-assigned tasks. Topics will extend into traditional advanced income generating and wealth-building strategies, leveraging assets beyond traditional income models, and using real-life investment case studies in real estate and other vehicles. Participants should exit the session with an enlightened framework on how they approach their career, finances and overall life vision.
Speaker: Joel Napenas, DDS
Associate Professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine, director of the Oral Medicine Residency Program, Medical Director and Chief at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
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Synopsis: This closing talk tackles the bigger picture of long-term financial stability and highlight examples for future investments that may sustain financial security.
Panelists: Joel Napenas, Nita Wu, Jaisri Thoppay, Milda Chmieliauskaite, Ken Ikeda, Katrina Myers, Iquebal Hasan
Break: 2:20 PM – 2:30 PM
Credentialling and Establishing Credentials [Interactive and Hands on]
Saturday, May 17
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM
Synopsis: This interactive session highlights the essential elements in insurance credentialing process.
Speaker: Jaisri Thoppay DDS, MBA, MS
Center for Integrative Oral Health
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Synopsis: This hands-on session will walk attendees through the fundamental and practical details related to oral medicine billing and coding.
Speaker: Jaisri Thoppay DDS, MBA, MS
Center for Integrative Oral Health
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Register for this workshop as part of the AAOM/EAOM Joint Annual Meeting.