Seq #176 Saturday, 11 March 2006
9:00 AM-10:30 AM Dolphin Hotel No. Hemis A-4, Symposium - Group/Division Sponsored
[AADR] Emerging Technology—Toward an Integrated Approach for Health Promotion

Sponsored by: Nutrition, ILSI North America, Forsyth Institute
Description: This symposium is designed to provide specialists and bench researchers with an understanding of the impact of technology on health promotion. The symposia will also appeal to health providers and educators. This symposium will provide attendees with a provocative overview of what the future may hold for technologies in oral healthcare and how these technologies should be integrated for a holistic approach to health promotion. Devices, biologics, diagnostics, and drug therapies will be among the technologies discussed. Attendees will hear different perspectives on how evolving science and technologies affect practice, behavior, and policy. The clinical perspective will highlight how new technologies impact the clinician in everyday practice from embracing new technologies to the impact on clinician–patient interactions. The speaker from industry will share insights on the role—and responsibility—industry has in getting new technologies developed and adopted. This will include industry’s role in providing health information to professionals and consumers that ultimately affects behavior change. The insurance perspective will discuss how reimbursement fits into the adoption of new technologies. The speaker will also address the conundrum of prevention v. treatment from the insurance industry perspective. The final speaker will make powerful suggestions on how to change the oral health education system for the better. The program is financially supported by ILSI North America
 
  9:00 AM Shaping the Future - What the State-of-the-Science Could Become
H.C. SLAVKIN, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Albania
  9:15 AM The Impact of Technology on Practice: A Clinician’s Perspective
D. MEYER, American Dental Association -, Chicago, IL, USA
  9:30 AM Embracing Technology—Industry’s Role
P. DESJARDINS, Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, Madison, NJ, USA
  9:45 AM Reimbursement Schemes and the Prevention Conundrum
J. JACOBSON, Delta Dental Plan of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  10:00 AM Creating the Ideal Oral Health Education System
D. DEPAOLA, Forsyth Institute, Boston, MA, USA
  10:15 AM Discussion

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