11th International Dental Ethics and Law Society CongressAugust 4-6, 2016 Chicago, Illinois USA

PROFESSIONALISM: INDEPENDENCE IN GLOBAL ORAL HEALTH

THE JOURNEY OF DENTISTRY AS A PROFESSION has been shaped by three themes; understanding each and their inter-connections/integrations are crucial. The independence of professional ethics and professionalism (and what particulars determine the range of dentistry’s self-governance where it is a profession) requires identifying global world characteristics. The centrality of professional ethics and professionalism requires effective formation methods of professional ethics and professionalism for new dentists and continuing formation in practice for both avoiding misconduct and enhancing professionalism’s ideals. The mission and conduct at the organizational level require the examination of dentistry’s professional schools, societies, and other institutions (patterns that seem to justify competing rather than collaborating should be challenged).

The 150th Anniversary of the ADA’s Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct is an opportunity to explore dentistry’s journey as it strives for new horizons. Dentistry (with sciences, states, and businesses), seeks to understand the nature of dental diseases and oral health, and their indepen-dence, interdependence, and partnerships guide profession-alism, professional behavior, and cognition. Normative and applied ethics, furthermore, seek to understand the system of abstract moral principles that tend to either dictate or propose

how people should behave. Do neuroscience and high-technology, for example, provide insight into normative and applied ethics and their roles in nurturing the future of professional ethics? In what ways do they help and/or hinder better understandings about which human actions and judgments are right, and which are wrong? Are the missions of professions, commercialism, and statecraft compatible enough to discuss the good ends to which their independent and joint decisions (increasingly influ-enced by the mechanics of neuroscience and high-technology) require and/or demand? What legal concepts are challenged and how should law shape this journey?

Clinicians and researchers across disciplines who are interested in these questions are invited to participate in this IDEALS Congress August 4-6 at the American Dental Association in Chicago, Illinois.

150th Anniversary

ADA Principles of Ethics and Code

of Professional Conduct

INVITED PRESENTATIONS: David Ozar and David Chambers

CURRENT SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS: ACD, ACLM, AGD, ADA, ASDE

TOPICS COVERED: The ethical and legal notions of professionalism and independence in the dental setting.

VENUE: American Dental Association, 211 E Chicago Avenue and Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel, 909 N Michigan Avenuehttps://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/IDEALS

Set on the Lake Michigan waterfront, the ADA and Westin are part of the magnificent mile with its historically diverse architectural styles. Westin rooms are convenient to the ADA and multiple other hotels in the heart of America’s professional and business intersections.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts (250 words) for 20 minute presentations and/or posters due April 1, 2016 to: ideals2016@gmail.com

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