ASDOH’s Dean Advisory Board meeting and Oral Health Summit occupy Dean Dillenberg’s week

ASDOH and PDS work on design for the proposed Dillenberg Center for Health Innovation and Technology.

Pacific Dental Services (PDS) hosted the ASDOH Dean Advisory Board in Irvine, Calif.Â Board members included dental industry senior executives along with dental plan owners and Dean Dillenberg along with Dean elect, Dr. Robert Trombly. They met to discuss the Dean’s transition along with ideas as to how to grow ASDOH’s “brand” in dental education. The board unanimously supported and offered assistance in the development for the Center for Health Innovation and Technology.

Shatiqua Jamerson, oral health coordinator TPCA, welcomes Dr. Jack Dillenberg to the Tri-State Oral Health Summit.

Mid-week, Dr. Dillenberg traveled to Nashville, Tenn. to deliver the opening keynote address at the Fourth Tri-State Oral Health Summit. His remarks focused on the future of dentistry and attributes needed to be a successful dentist in the years to come in the emerging health care system.

"Leadership requires courage - for a turtle to go forward, he has to stick his neck out!" Dr. Jack Dillenberg