Michigan Clinical Research Symposium,
Inaugural Symposium 2008
Clinical Research to Clinical Practice:
Managing Challenges at the Cutting Edge
September Thursday 11 - Saturday 13, 2008
Welcome!
The focus of the inaugural symposium for the Michigan Clinical Research Symposium series is the transition of clinical research to clinical practice. What are the innovations in dental medicine at the cutting edge currently? What are thought leaders doing behind the scenes to advance evidence–based dentistry methods and materials? What breakthroughs in the way dentistry is practiced are anticipated around the bend? How will innovations be translated from the laboratory to the clinical research arena to the dental practice? Most importantly, what will innovations mean to practicing clinicians and the future of dentistry?
The questions posed above are just a few issues to be addressed in this symposium. Several sub–topics will be covered, including dental/facial esthetics, oral systemic health, tissue engineering/regeneration, cancer, and genetics.
This meeting will be co–sponsored by Delta Dental and the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. It is an ideal amalgamation of clinical and patient–oriented research with a focus on the future of what is to come in the oral health field. Dental continuing education credit will be provided, and it will be an excellent opportunity for those in various walks of oral health care, including academicians and private practitioners. Students in the graduate and undergraduate training programs in clinical research and specialty training will also be invited to provide poster presentations as a part of a pre–symposium. The pre–symposium will also include brief presentations by experts in various specialty oral health areas.
