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Our Section Status is Official!

American The ASDE Section of the American College


Society of Dentists was chartered with an effective
date of January 1, 2011. ASDE is now
for officially the 51st Section of the ACD.

Dental For ceremonial purposes, ASDE will be


presented the Section charter in Las Vegas
Ethics on Monday, October 10, 2011, as part of the
ACD Fellows Forum.
A Special Section of the
American College of Dentists

Mission Statement
The American Society for Dental Ethics
exists to support ethics as an integral value
for the dental health care professions. The New Chair of Ethics in Dentistry
members of the Society are dedicated to the
ongoing study of ethical issues and Creighton University's president, the Rev.
education to promote professional John P. Schlegel, S.J., has appointed Dr.
responsibility and conduct, thereby Gary H. Westerman as the inaugural chair
enhancing oral health care for those we holder of the Dr. Philip Maschka Chair for
serve. Ethics in Dentistry. This is the first ever
endowed chair in the world specifically
Core Values of ASDE dedicated to the advancement of the
Leadership discipline of dental ethics.
Community
Education Dr. Westerman is the Chair of the
Collegiality Department of Community and Preventive
Scholarship Dentistry and an ACD Fellow. His research
Service involves dental behavioral science topics in
Professional integrity collaboration with Creighton University's
Counseling and Psychological Services and
Officers dental laser technology in the area of dental
President: Phyllis Beemsterboer caries inhibition. Dr. Westerman can be
President Elect: Al Rosenblum reached at garywesterman@creighton.edu.
Treasurer: Larry Jenson
Past President: Marilyn Lantz
Members at Large: Toni Roucka, Successful Workshop Held at ADEAs
William Leffler and Pam Zarkowski Annual Session
ACD Liaison: Larry Garetto
Editors for Issues in Dental Ethics: The ASDE sponsored workshop in March
Jim Rule and Dave Ozar 2011 was titled Classroom Assessment of
Executive Director: Anika Ball Ethical Reasoning presented by ASDE
members Drs. Mickey Bebeau and Marilyn
Check our website at Lantz. The sold out workshop kept the
www.societyfordentalethics.org crowd interested and engaged for the whole
three hours. Great job, Mickey and Marilyn!

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Kennedy Institute Bioethics Course ASDE/ACD Business Meeting
Starting Soon
We held our annual business meeting on
Each year the Kennedy Institute offers an Sunday March 13, 2011 immediately after
Intensive Bioethics Course (IBC); this year, the ASDE Workshop. Please check the web
the 2011 IBC will be the 37th course. The site to review the minutes.
IBC is designed to address challenging
topics in health care ethics. It provides the
opportunity for participants from different
disciplines to come together to explore the
theoretical framework and practical issues
of bioethics with a distinguished faculty.
Lectures and panel discussions are paired
with small group sessions, allowing in-depth
exploration of issues and personal
interactions. The Course begins on June 6 The Student Professionalism and Ethics
and runs until June 10, 2011. Information Association: A New Professional
and registration materials may be found at Organization in Dentistry
http://kennedyinstitute.georgetown.edu/prog
rams/ibc.cfm. Online registration is The professional aspect of dentistry will be
possible. substantially enhanced as a result of action
by a small but dedicated group of students
The Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy who met over the weekend of May 7-8,
Institute of Ethics is one of the world's 2011 at the Herman Ostrow University of
premier institutes for research in bioethics. Southern California School of Dentistry.
Situated on the historic campus of The ten students, with sponsorship from
Georgetown University, the Institute brings their own universities and local American
together leading scholars and the world's College of Dentists sections came together
most extensive bioethics library. to formally initiate the creation of a new
national organization focused on ethics and
The Kennedy Institute's Bioethics Research professionalism development. This
Library is home to an unparalleled collection organization is the offspring of the Student
of bioethics literature. Established in 1973, Professionalism and Ethics Club (SPEC)
the Library contains books, journals, originally founded at USC in 2007 by a truly
articles, reports, court decisions, visionary group of students and faculty. The
audiovisuals, and other types of materials formation of SPEC chapters has been
on a range of bioethics issues from encouraged and supported by the American
professional ethics to end-of-life to genetics Society for Dental Ethics, American College
to environmental and public health issues. of Dentists and American Student Dental
Association as a venue for students to come
The Library has a strong collection of together to discuss ethics and
materials on dental ethics. The collection professionalism issues that they face locally
may be accessed online at and that the profession faces more globally.
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu; full-text is
made available when possible. The new organization will be known as the
Student Professionalism and Ethics
Association (SPEA). The change of name is
indicative of the goal to develop a national
support structure that will enable local
chapters at dental schools to become even
more vibrantly active because of their

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linkage through the national organization. Volunteers Needed
The ten students from dental schools across
the United States who formed the Steering Jim Rule, Associate Editor would like to
Committee worked over the course of an have some volunteers to help with
intense weekend to formally establish the manuscripts that have already been
vision and core values they have for SPEA reviewed and accepted in the Issues in
National, create an organizational structure Dental Ethics section of the Journal of the
and draft an initial strategic plan to establish American College of Dentists. These
chapters in every US Dental School. Their manuscripts require substantial changes but
vision is to promote and support a students have good content and/or would be of value
lifelong commitment to ethical and to our membership. They may require
professional behavior in order to benefit the writing help, reorganization, condensation,
patients we serve. grammar clarification, proper reference
citations, or combinations of the above.
The schools represented by the ten
students were the Dugoni University of the Anyone volunteering for this responsibility
Pacific, Indiana University, Midwestern should expect that his or her services would
University (Glendale, AZ), USC, UCLA and be needed perhaps once or twice a year.
Virginia Commonwealth. The Steering The volunteer would receive the manuscript
Committee is in the process of planning the along with the anonymous comments of the
first national SPEA meeting that will be held three reviewers, and the letter to the author
October 9-10 in conjunction with the 2011 written by the Associate Editor. The
ACD National Meeting in Las Vegas. ASDE volunteer would work directly with the
and ACD representatives, Anika Ball, author and should be prepared to offer
Lawrence Garetto and Alvin Rosenblum, specific suggestions, including rewriting as
were privileged to be included as indicated, as well as communicating with
observers/advisors to the steering the Associate Editor as needed.
committee for their inaugural meeting.
Given what we experienced in our This would be a wonderful way to help our
observation of these students in action, the upcoming authors, junior faculty and future
future of the profession is truly bright! leaders in ethics.

Please consider volunteering!


Respond to our Executive Director, Anika
Ball at aball@lllu.edu

New Book Available

Joe Graskemper is the author of a new Meeting Announcement


book Professional Responsibility in
Dentistry: A Practical Guide to Law and Ethics across the Curriculum 13th
Ethics from publisher Wiley Blackwell. International Conference will be held in St.
It covers many aspects for the new and the Louis, Missouri November 3-5, 2011. The
not so new dentists in the field of dental law, title is - Professional Ethics: Responsible
ethics, professionalism, risk management, Practice in the Professions.
and practice management by applying true The Society encourages submissions on all
cases to make it interesting. issues regarding ethics across the
The book is available at www.amazon.com curriculum and selects a theme each year to
Congratulations, Joe! encourage a focus for the conference. This
year's theme concerns the recommendation

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from Ethics Teaching in Higher Education 2011 Ozar-Hasagawa Winners!
(1980) that colleges and universities ought
to prepare future professionals to
Roberto Amato from Schulich School of
understand the types of moral issues they
Medicine & Dentistry University of Western
are likely to confront in their chosen
Ontario, Canada. Paper Entitled: Ethics
vocations, introduce them to the moral
Case Analysis: Writing off Co-payments
ideals of the profession, and assist them in
Advisor: Dr. Barry Schwartz
understanding the relationship between
their professional work and that of the
Sapna Lohiya, from University of California,
broader values and needs of the society."
Los Angeles, USA
The goal of this years conference is to
Paper Entitled: Domestic Violence Dilemma
promote continued dialogue about ethics
in the Dental Clinic
education in higher education, especially in
Advisor : Dr. Sanjay Mallya
terms of preparing students to become
responsible professionals. Sessions may
The students who won received a check for
address foundational issues, case studies,
$500.00 and a one year membership in
pedagogical demonstrations, assessment
ASDE. Papers are posted on the ASDE
techniques, and related topics.
website www.societyfordentalethics.org
Submissions (papers or abstracts) should
be formatted for blind review and sent by
September 15, 2011 to the Secretary-
Treasurer of the Society, Donna Werner
mailto:DWerner@stlcc.edu

The 9th International Congress on Dental


Law and Ethics will be October 2011 in
Belgium. Topics for the sessions include;
Health care insurance, Liability insurance,
Patient rights, the legal aspects of dental
expert investigation (civil and criminal law),
and ethics.

See website for more info on this


conference!

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