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Program and networking opportunities are back in Banff for February 7-9, 2025
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The countdown is on! Join us from Feb 7 to 9, 2025, at the Rimrock Resort Hotel Banff, for a weekend featuring the latest in oral health care. Everyone will find value in the courses and lectures available for dentists, hygienists, assistants and the front desk team.
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Keynote: Dr. Stanley Malamed
Dentist anesthesiologist
Dr. Malamed, DDS is a dentist anesthesiologist and emeritus professor of dentistry at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry. Dr. Malamed graduated from the New York University College of Dentistry in 1969. Then completed a residency in anesthesiology at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in the Bronx, New York before serving for two years as a captain in the US Army Dental Corps at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. In 1973, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry (now the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC). Dr. Malamed retired from full-time teaching at the university in 2013.
He is a diplomate of the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology, and a recipient of the Heidebrink Award (1996) from the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology, the Horace Wells Award from the International Federation of Dental Anesthesia Societies, 1997 (IFDAS), and the Leonard M. Monheim Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists (2015).
Dr. Malamed has authored more than 170 scientific papers and 17 chapters in various medical and dental journals and textbooks in the areas of physical evaluation, emergency medicine, local anesthesia, sedation and general anesthesia.
In addition, he is the author of three widely used textbooks, published by CV Mosby: Handbook of Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office (8th edition 2022); Handbook of Local Anesthesia (7th edition 2020); and Sedation – A Guide to Patient Management (6th edition 2017) and two interactive DVDs: Emergency Medicine (3rd edition, 2018) and Malamed’s Local Anesthetic Technique DVD (2004) (edition 2 - 2012). The textbooks have been translated into 22 foreign-language editions.
In his spare time, Dr. Malamed is an avid runner, exercise enthusiast, and he admits an addiction to the New York Times crossword puzzle, which he has done daily since his freshman year in dental school.
Andrew Reid
Registered nurse
Reid, BScN, MEd, is a registered nurse and simulation consultant with Alberta Health Services, working mainly with the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.
Previously, he worked as a staff nurse in the emergency department at U of A Hospital, and as a medical technician in the Canadian Forces.
Dr. Antonella Trache
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
Dr. Trache, DDS, BSc, CertOMS, CD, is currently the discipline lead for oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Alberta.
She retired from the Canadian Armed Forces after a 21-year career where she accumulated a vast array of memorable and valuable experiences from both professional and personal perspectives. Dr. Trache was the first female oral and maxillofacial surgeon in the Royal Canadian Dental Corps. The highlight of her military career consisted of the two tours of duty in Afghanistan, as the maxillofacial trauma surgeon at the Role Three Multinational Hospital at Kandahar Air Base.
Since leaving the military, she has been involved with the School of Dentistry as an associate clinical professor on a part-time basis before joining the faculty full-time. She is actively involved with the general practice residency (GPR) program, where she mentors the four GPR residents in clinic-based dentoalveolar surgery. Dr. Trache is also a clinical instructor with continuing dental education in the intravenous sedation program and the Alberta implant residency program. She presented lectures and workshops on maxillofacial trauma topics to various military and civilian organizations, and study clubs throughout the country.
Additionally, Dr. Trache is a member of several School of Dentistry and Alberta Dental Association committees. When not at the school, she maintains a private practice in Edmonton at Contours Oral Surgery.
Cody Dingreville
Infection prevention and control assessor
Dingreville, CMDRT, graduated from medical device reprocessing technology in 2004 and holds Canadian Standards Association certification as a certified medical device reprocessing technician (CMDRT).
With 19 years of medical device reprocessing technology experience, including over 10 years of progressive leadership, he has supported medical device reprocessing departments in tertiary, regional and rural facilities as well as dental offices.
Having completed over $60 million in medical device reprocessing department design and construction projects, Dingreville has become a leader in sterilization and now sits as a member of the Canadian Standards Association Certifying Exam Scheme Committee.
In more recent years he has been conducting community based medical clinic infection, prevention and control medical device reprocssing reviews, gained further experience in an infection prevention control role, and regularly presents and hosts multiple provincial medical device reprocssing conferences.
Leveraging his wealth of experience Dingreville led the development of this course.
Darla Carter
Registered dental assistant
Carter, RDA, has been working in the dental field for over 20 years.
Carter has been involved with continuing educational programs focused on sedation, neuromodulators, and most recently dental implants. Her interest in helping others learn and find value in the dental assisting profession, drive her to discover new and exciting ways to provide educational excellence to all.
Dr. Gregory Austin
Periodontist
Dr. Austin, DDS MSc FRCD(C), graduated from the University of Western Ontario and has spent over 35 years as a periodontist in the Canadian Armed Forces, as both a civilian and a serving military member of the Royal Canadian Dental Corps.
Over his long career he has provided hundreds of both one and two drug IV sedation procedures. In addition to his periodontics specialty certificate from the United States Army, he holds a master of science in oral biology from the edical College of Georgia. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada (RCDC) and a past councillor for periodontics at the RCDC.
Austin is currently semi-retired but clinically instructs part-time in under-graduate periodontics, and is involved part-time in the post graduate periodontics program at the University of Alberta.
Dr. Melissa Shotell
Orthodontist
Dr. Shotell, DMD, MS, is a board-certified orthodontist and practices in a multi-specialty practice in Sonora, California, focusing on the interplay of orthodontics and restorative treatment.
After completing dental school Dr. Shotell practiced as a restorative dentist for several years, then returned to school to complete a certificate and master’s degree in orthodontics from Loma Linda University.
Dr. Shotell considers education to be her passion presents nationally and internationally on dental technology, is part-time clinical faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas orthodontics department, and teaches in the CE department for the University of Alberta. She is also a reviewer for the Journal of Aligner Orthodontics. Dr. Shotell is also the co-founder and chief clinical officer of Plus Orthodontics. Dr. Shotell shares tips and tricks on orthodontics and clear aligners on social media as alignerbee.
Dr. Randy Crowell
General dentist
Dr. Crowell, BSc, DDS, a general dentist, is proud of the thriving family practice he has developed over the past 29 years in Edmonton’s west end.
His commitment to client comfort and gentle dentistry has been his pride and joy. Dr. Crowell is committed to providing quality dental care to his new, current, and emergency patients.
Dr. Crowell obtained his degree in dentistry from the University of Alberta.
He lives in west Edmonton and is married with three daughters; and enjoys summer and winter sports with his family.
Rimrock Resort Hotel Banff
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