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Continuing Education in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Books on oral and maxillofacial surgery

The Annual Daniel M. Laskin Lectureship is designed to provide attendees with the latest methods and research in the field of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. This year’s guest lecturer will be Edward Ellis, III, DDS, MS Professor and Chair, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He will be presenting an informative session on complex 3D planning and sequencing in orthognathic surgery. This is a free event, open to all faculty, residents, students, and practitioners.

Course Description

The Annual Daniel M. Laskin Lectureship was established in 2009 by Dr. Michael Miloro, Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, to honor a giant in the field of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dr. Daniel M. Laskin, who served as the Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Illinois from 1973-1983.  This Lectureship is intended to bring an internationally known surgeon, with significant expertise, to the University of Illinois at Chicago in order to expose the UIC community and other health care providers in the city of Chicago to current, state-of-the-art principles and technological advances in patient assessment, diagnosis, and management in a particular area of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Schedule

12:30-1:30 Registration

1:30-2:30 Complex 3D Planning and Sequencing in Orthognathic Surgery

2:30-3:00 Break, Refreshments

3:00-4:00 Orthodontic Considerations in Orthognathic Surgery

 

CE Credit

3.0 hours of CE credits from UIC College of Dentistry

Intended Audience

This course is designed for health care sciences faculty, residents, and students; private practice dentists, physicians, and specialists.

Learning Objectives

  • Assess craniofacial and dentoskeletal deformities.
  • Understand the orthodontic and surgical considerations with dentofacial deformities.
  • Describe basic and advanced concepts in orthognathic surgery.
  • Develop criteria for specific sequencing in orthognathic surgery procedures.
  • Diagnose, treatment plan, and surgically manage patients with dentoskeletal deformities, including cleft lip and palate, and craniofacial syndromes.
  • Develop a comprehensive treatment plan for the patient with facial deformities that includes the use of current technology.
  • Identify indications, apply surgical techniques and manage complications for the orthognathic surgical patient.
  • Describe the standards used in the assessment and treatment of dentoskeletal deformities.
  • Recognize, differentiate and treat oral and maxillofacial pathological conditions.

Training Methods

Illustrated lectures, case presentations, discussion and audience response system.

Edward Ellis

This Year’s Guest Lecturer

Edward Ellis, III, DDS, MS

Professor and Chair, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Dr. Ellis is Chair and Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, having joined the faculty at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2010. He came from The University of Michigan where he went to dental school and trained in oral and maxillofacial surgery prior to joining their OMS faculty. For the past 22 years, he was the director of the UT Southwestern/Parkland OMS residency in Dallas.

Dr. Ellis’ clinical interests are in maxillofacial traumatology, dentofacial deformities, and dental implantology. In addition to supervising the residents, he maintains an intramural practice. His research interest in the 1980s was in stability of surgical correction of dentofacial deformities by orthognathic surgery. In the 1990s, his research has involved the functional aspects of orthognathic surgery. Since moving to Texas, he has also performed clinical investigations into the outcomes after treatment of facial fractures by various techniques. He has authored over 100 scientific articles and two books. In 1997 he received the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) Research Recognition Award for his research endeavors.

Dr. Ellis is active nationally and internationally in the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery. He is the past President of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He has been on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for several years. He is also on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The Spanish Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The Journal of Craniomaxillofacial Trauma, The Chinese Journal of Practical Stomatology, and Archives of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He was on the editorial board of the British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. In addition, Dr. Ellis has served on several committees of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. In 2004, he was elected to Fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

 

 

Location

Molecular Biology Research Building at the University of Illinois

900 S. Ashland (entrance to building is on Marshfield side of street), Auditorium 1st Floor

Chicago, IL 60607

Parking available in the Parking Structure located on the corner of Taylor St. and Paulina St.

 

RSVP

RSVP by June 8, 2018: to mlimon@uic.edu or phone 312-996-1052 or fax 312-996-5987

 

About the Daniel M. Laskin Lectureship and Fund

Dr. Daniel M. Laskin, MS Oral Surgery ’52, who served as Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) from 1973 to 1983 and is an internationally known clinician, researcher, lecturer, and author.  Through his teaching, his research, and his editorship of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dr. Laskin has always stood for doing the absolute best for the patient. He is the man in oral surgery education, unquestionably, and we can help memorialize his legacy of education and research.

Dr. Laskin is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon and educator who has contributed to his field for over fifty years. He has excelled as an educator, a researcher and a clinician. He has served as AAOMS president, as well as the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and still serves as the editor of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He has been a major contributor to the dental literature with over 900 contributions to the field of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He has co-authored 16 textbooks and monographs.

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Maria G. Limon, Assistant to the Head
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (MC 835)
UIC College of Dentistry
801 South Paulina Street, Room 119D
Chicago, IL 60612-7211
(312) 996-1052
Fax (312) 996-5987