General Information
Course: | 03-2412-22016 |
Provider: | San Diego County Dental Society |
Speaker: | Drs. Austin Davies and Allan Dovigi |
Type/Category: | Live lecture/Core |
Credits: | 3 – Lecture |
Course: | 03-2412-22016 |
Provider: | San Diego County Dental Society |
Speaker: | Drs. Austin Davies and Allan Dovigi |
Type/Category: | Live lecture/Core |
Credits: | 3 – Lecture |
Continental breakfast provided during check-in and light refreshments during breaks. (For special dietary requirements please contact our Media & Continuing Education Coordinator, Fernanda Parra, admin@sdcds.org or 619-275-7188)
SDCDS is requiring all attendees to be vaccinated or provide a negative COVID-19 test (performed within the 72 hrs. prior to the event) to attend. Please bring either your paper vaccination card (photo will suffice), the digital COVID-19 vaccine record from the state or your negative test records to be checked during check-in.
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This talk gives an oral cancer update and discussion on triaging clinical pathology. The presentation will introduce the provider to the clinical pathway when faced with a clinically detectable lesion. From formulating a description to attempting low level invention, the attendee should feel comfortable with current knowledge on oral malignancies and triaging pathology after this presentation.
Dr. Austin Davies graduated from the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in 2013. After graduation, he went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a three-year residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and completed the program in 2016, receiving his certificate and Masters. Dr. Davies then joined Dr. Allan Dovigi to be a part of Oral Pathology Diagnostic Services. He currently works in private practice, serves as lab director, and lectures to study clubs, dental organizations, and surgery residents throughout the Western United States. Dr. Davies is a fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, and is a Board-Certified pathologist and Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships: None disclosed
Diplomate American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. Dr. Dovigi graduated from the University of Toronto with my DDS and practiced general dentistry for 19 years in Canada. He complete his residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at the University of North Carolina. Upon graduation he started Arizona Oral Pathology providing surgical pathology services and was hired as full time faculty at Midwestern University’s College of Dental Medicine. Dr. Dovigi merged Arizona Oral Pathology with Oral Pathology Diagnostic Services based in 2010. In 2012 Allan retired from academia at Midwestern University to become laboratory director at OPDS in San Diego. In 2017 Dr. Davies became laboratory director. Dr. Dovigi has recently joined Stemson Therapeutics as director of histology & pathology and continues to deliver surgical pathology services part time for OPDS.
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships: None disclosed
SDCDS is an ADA CERP Recognized provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. SDCDS designates this activity for up to three (3) continuing education credits.