Featured Webinar Hosted by: Texas A & M College of Dentistry Speaker: Simmi Patel, DDS October 01, 2026, 8 PM ET | 7 PM CT | 5 PM PT 1.50 credit hours. Tuition: $ 59.00
What’s Going on in Your Neighborhood Community Health Center?
Speaker: Simmi Patel, DDS
Featured Webinar Hosted by: Texas A & M College of Dentistry
October 01, 2026, 8 PM ET | 7 PM CT | 5 PM PT
1.50 credit hours. Tuition: $ 59.00
Join us in this unique webinar series, where the Association for Continuing Dental Education (ACDE) and its 35 member dental schools unite to bring you live webinars featuring university-based key opinion leaders.
Discover the ACDE difference: excellence in dental education is more than a goal; it's a shared commitment.
Enhance your practice, grow your career, and help shape the future of dental education through the ACDE Live Webinar Series.
Webinar Course Description: Community Health Centers are often overlooked yet offer a range of valuable resources for patients. This course will detail how Community Health Centers support people with day-to-day needs and challenges. Dental providers will learn how to expand access to care for patients with chronic conditions who lack funds or insurance for medical care, mental health services, or tax preparation. Community Health Centers are becoming more mainstream, yet many providers are unaware of the services available under one roof or how interprofessional collaboration supports person-centered, holistic care. This course will provide the healthcare team with information to help patients who may be struggling with unmet needs. Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to: - Apply and interpret assessments to address patient concerns that are not dental-related but affect their daily living.
- Explain how interprofessional collaboration occurs within a community health center.
- Develop a list of resources to deliver patient-centered care.
Speaker Bio: Simmi Patel, DDS Dr. Patel has 25 years of experience providing dental care to patients, many of whom come from vulnerable and at-risk communities. Specifically, she has delivered care at most of the shelters in the Dallas metroplex and has served patients who are homeless, victims of domestic violence, victims of sexual trafficking, recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, and inmates. Additionally, she teaches 3rd- and 4th-year dental students at Texas A&M College of Dentistry extramural sites: the Dr. M.C. Cooper and Now-Forward clinics. |
ACDE Webinar Partnership
Purpose
The ACDE unites individuals from college and university-based continuing dental education programs, fostering a collective mission to create leadership opportunities, encourage collaboration, and support the development of university-based continuing dental education professionals. Our primary goal is to promote the highest standards of continuing dental education.
Mission
Dedicated to leadership, collaboration, and professional development, ACDE strives to be the beacon for university-based continuing dental education professionals. Our mission is to elevate the quality of continuing dental education and set the stage for excellence in oral health care.
Vision
ACDE envisions itself as the foremost advocate and the benchmark for high-quality, evidence-based continuing dental education. Our vision is to promote excellence in oral health care through innovative, exceptional programming.
Values
Lifelong Learning: Dedication to ongoing education for our members and the wider professional dental communities we serve.
- Excellence: Ensuring top-notch planning, organization, and presentation of high-quality, innovative educational programs.
- Professionalism: Fostering a culture of support, networking, mentoring, and respect for diversity in all interactions.
- Integrity: Upholding honest, cooperative working relationships and evidence-based programming that remains non-commercial.
Please note that the ACDE webinars are open to everyone; however, no discounts are available because they are a collaboration with the ACDE member schools, and the fee is advertised the same across all member schools.
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