Seminars & eLearning

This course focuses upon essential risk management strategies, empowering dentists with the skills and resources to address key factors that optimize patient outcomes and mitigate potential liabilities. Through evaluation of actual TDIC cases, Shaping a Safe Future: Optimizing Care with Patient Education and Team Training explores the importance of establishing protocols to enhance patient safety. It also provides best practices for obtaining current health histories, insights on essential staff roles and training, and steps for responding to office emergencies. 

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you’ll be able to:

1. Understand the significance of establishing and adhering to protocols and the importance of staff training in medical emergencies.
2. Recognize your role in providing patient education to achieve optimal levels of care and patient compliance.
3. Incorporate controls and procedures to reduce the potential for errors in documentation and increase patient safety.

Arthur Curley, Esq.

Mr. Curley is a senior trial attorney in California.  After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with honors in 1970, he obtained his J.D. in 1974 from the UC College of Law, San Francisco.  He is currently an Assistant Professor of Dental Jurisprudence at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco and an Adjunct Faculty Professor at the University of California, San Francisco.  As a trial attorney, he has been defending doctors for over 49 years and has presented risk management courses throughout the United States and Canada. He is an associate of the American Board of Trial Advocates.  Mr. Curley has published several articles on risk management and authored chapters in numerous text books on oral surgery, endodontics and periodontics.

Viren Patel, DDS

Dr. Viren Patel received his Dental Degree from the University of London in England and is also a Licentiate in Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was an active member of the British Dental Association during his UK practice years.

He moved to California in 1992 and has been active in the dental community ever since. Dr. Patel has volunteered at the local, state and national level in organized dentistry and has served on numerous comittees including serving as President of SDDS in 2015.

Dr. Patel currently serves as President of the Sacramento District Dental Foundation and on the Board of Directors of the California Dental association and is a delegate to the American Dental Association House of Delegates. He maintains a private practice in Folsom, CA and serves as faculty at California Northstate University, College of Dental Medicine.