Dental school community to present at 2025 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition

UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry faculty, staff, and students are preparing presentations for the 2025 ADEA Annual Session and Exhibition. The conference, “Be Inspired, Empower Tomorrow,” will be hosted March 8-11 in National Harbor, Md.

The list of School of Dentistry-represented presentations are as follows:

Saturday, March 8

• Tulsi Patel, RDH, MHA; Shalizeh Patel, DDS, MEd; Anita Joy-Thomas, BDS, PhD; Juliana Barros, DDS, MS; and John Valenza, DDS
  Inspiring Students Today to Advocate for Patients Tomorrow
• Ana Candia Solari Neumann, DDS, MPH, PhD; Anita Joy-Thomas, BDS, PhD; and Rosalia Rey, DDS
  Assessment of dental faculties attitudes, awareness, and barriers toward tobacco cessation and lung cancer screening.
• Courtney Routh, RDH, MSDH
  Cultivating Competence: The Impact of Emotional Intelligence in Dental Education
• Gargi Mukherji, DDS
  Making Use of ADEA Data for Performance Improvement

Sunday, March 9

• Ryan Quock, DDS
  Be Inspired, Empower Your Tomorrow – A Workshop for Developing Faculty
• Vuvi Nguyen, MS, PhD; Tulsi Patel, RDH, MHA; and Raha Naderi, RDH, MEd
  Harnessing the Power of Play to Enhance Learning Outcomes in Dental Education
• Anita Joy-Thomas, BDS, PhD
  ‘Burnished’ or ‘Burned Out’ – Inspiring Strategies for Thriving Amidst Professional Challenges
• Erin Potts, DDS; and Michelle Thompson, DDS
  Creative Tools Utilizing 3D Technology
• Khairunisa Hashmani, RDH, EdD; and Hannah Medrano, BSDH, RDH
  The Impact of Microlearning and Self-regulated Learning – Inspiring Today’s Learners!
• Jessica Vu, fourth-year dental student; Anita Joy-Thomas, BDS, PhD; Lubna Fawad, DDS; Shalizeh Patel, DDS, MEd; Tulsi Patel, RDH, MHA; and Ana Candia Solari Neumann, DDS, MPH, PhD
  HPV Vaccine Awareness and Perspectives Among Students and Faculty at UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry
• John Valenza, DDS; Shawn Adibi, DDS, MEd; Griselda (Grace) Avila, MEd; Felicia Tucker-Lively, PhD, MPH; Karen Novak, DDS, MS, PhD; and Lauren Moran
  The UTSD Many F.A.C.E.S. Program – Supporting a Positive Climate
• Robert Spears, PhD, MS
  Inspiring Non-Dentists Leaders to empower the Future of Dentistry
• Brett Chiquet, DDS, PhD
  ADEA EMERGING LEADERS SYMPOSIUM Presentation: Faculty perception of humanism

Monday, March 10

• Michelle Thompson, DDS
  Empowering Dental Education: Integrating AI Digital Dentistry Technology into the Curriculum
• Lisa Cain, PhD; Harold Henson, RDH, PhD; Ana Candia Solari Neumann, DDS, MPH, PhD; and Nathanael Salako, BDS, MSc
  University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Dentistry Faculty Loan Repayment Program
• Ryan Vahdani, DDS, MHA; Shawn Adibi, DDS, MEd; Elizabeth Hamilton, DDS; Lorena Millan, DDS; Bonita Wynkoop, RDH, DDS; Michael Chan, DDS; Chelsea Guy-Frank, MD; Debra Stewart, DDS; and Cindy Farach-Carson, PhD
  Introducing Oral Health Risk Assessment Value Index as an Assessment Tool
• Khairunisa Hashmani, RDH, EdD; and Theresa Dufrene, RDH, MSDH
  Simulation-Based Faculty Calibration: Empowering Educators
• Ryan Quock, DDS
  ADEA CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SYMPOSIUM: Envision Tomorrow, Empower Tomorrow, Transform Tomorrow
• Lisa Cain, PhD
  ADEA CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SYMPOSIUM: Women in Dental Education: Maximizing the Power of Your Voice

Tuesday, March 11

• Lisa Cain, PhD
  ADEA Section on Women in Leadership Members’ Forum
• Priyanshi Ritwik, BDS, MS; Loren Matrone, fourth-year dental student; and Elizabeth Hunter, DDS
  Z to A: Feedforward to Coach and Empower Gen Z Learners
• Lisa Cain, PhD
  Empowering Leaders: Embracing Vulnerability and Authentic Branding

For a full list of presentations and event schedule, visit the official 2025 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition website.