Check-In: 8:00 AM
Refunds available until August 22nd

Continental breakfast provided during check-in and lunch.
(For special dietary requirements please contact our Media & Continuing Education Coordinator, Meg Hamrick, admin@sdcds.org or 619-275-7188)

Course Description:

“This one day lecture presentation is designed to bring the health care practitioner up to speed on current HPV-oral cavity related topics, help describe and correctly triage lesions found during your head and neck examination, and provide insight to what you find clinically and how it relates to what the pathologists sees under the microscope.”

– Useful for dentists and staff to discover possible cancerous and precancerous lesions
– Useful for specialists on when a referral occurs how to triage the lesion

This lecture consists of a review and update of oral cancer and the relationship to the Human Papilloma Virus. The attendees will understand what to look for in an oral examination. When a lesion is found, the attendee will understand the protocol on how to treat or refer a lesion. Clinical pathologic correlations (what the clinician sees & what the pathologists sees, and how they relate) will be illustrated by select pathology topics and case examples.

Course Objectives:
After attending this symposium the attendee should understand:

1. The relationship and rationale for possible auxiliary testing of HPV in the oral cavity and oropharynx.
2. What to look for in a head and neck exam and how to triage a lesion found
3. Basic clinicopathologic correlation for diseases commonly seen in practice such as: desquamative, submucosal, and pediatric pathology.

Dr. Austin Davies:

Dr. 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. In 2016, Dr. Davies joined Dr. Eversole and Dr. Dovigi to be a part of Oral Pathology Diagnostic Services and also sees patients for the practice at their clinical site, located here in San Diego. Dr. Davies is member of the San Diego Dental Society, 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.

Dr. Allan Dovigi, DDS, MS

Dr. Dovigi graduated from the University of Toronto with his DDS in 1984. He practiced general dentistry for 20 years in a small Northern Ontario community in Canada. In 2003 he seized the opportunity to sell his practice and start his residency in Oral Pathology at the University of North Carolina and graduated in 2006 with his MS. Upon graduation he moved to Phoenix Arizona and started a biopsy service (Arizona Oral Pathology) and became full time faculty at Midwestern University’s new College of Dental Medicine as Associate Professor of Oral Pathology. In October of 2010 he merged his biopsy service with Oral Pathology Diagnostic Services based in San Diego California and now with Dr. Eversole and Dr. Davies provides service to Arizona, California and a number of neighboring states. Dr. Dovigi is currently the Laboratory Director.

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