Tentative Program Agenda

Thursday, May 15, 2008
         

10:00 –

 7:00PM

   Registration / Hospitality Desk Venetian Foyer
      Please register at Hospitality Desk upon checking in
at hotel to receive meeting materials		  
         
9:00 - 11:30AM   DPBRN Executive Committee Meeting (Invitation Only) Willard
         
12:00 - 3:00PM   Combined meeting of the DPBRN Steering Committee and Willard
      DPBRN Regional Coordination Group (Invitation Only)  
         
3:30 - 4:30PM   Meeting of all presenters and Breakout Session Facilitators (Invitation Only) Venetian II, III, IV, V
         
6:00 - 7:00PM   DPBRN Reception / Poster Viewing Venetian I & VI
      This is an opportunity to meet your DPBRN colleagues and to view DPBRN posters
that have been presented in recent local, regional, national, and international meetings,
or which will be presented soon in upcoming meetings.		  
         
7:00 - 9:00PM   "Dinner and Learn" Session Venetian II, III, IV, V
      Listen to presentations about DPBRN while you share buffet dining with your DPBRN
colleagues, followed by a question and answer session about these presentations or plans
for the Friday and Saturday sessions.		  
         
      7:15 - 8:00PM  
      Welcome and Introductions
DPBRN: A Win-Win for All Involved
Dr. Gregg Gilbert, DPBRN Network Chair		  
         
      8:00 - 8:30PM  
      Dental PBRNs: View From the U.S. National
Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
Dr. Donald DeNucci, Program Specialist, NIDCR, Bethesda, Maryland		  
         

Friday, May 16, 2008
         
7:00 - 5:30PM   Registration / Hospitality Desk Windsor Foyer
         
7:00 - 8:00AM   Continental Breakfast Windsor Foyer
         
8:00 - 12:00PM   Characteristics of the DPBRN Regions Windsor DE
         
      8:00 - 8:15AM  
      Overview of DPBRN Regions
Dr. Gregg Gilbert, DPBRN Network Chair		  
         
      8:15 - 8:30AM  
      Characteristics of the HealthPartners Dental Care System
 and How They Affect Dental Care
Dr. Craig Amundson, HealthPartners, and DPBRN Practitioner-investigator
Minneapolis, Minnesota		  
         
      8:30 - 8:45AM  
      Characteristics of the Permanente Dental Associates (PDA)
Dental Care System and How They Affect Dental Care
 Dr. John Snyder, Dental Director and DPBRN Practitioner-investigator, PDA
Portland, Oregon		  
         
      8:45 - 9:00AM  
      Characteristics of the Scandinavian Dental Care System and
 How They Affect Dental Care
Dr. Ola-Johan Basmo, Director, Public Dental Service
Hedmark, Norway		  
         
      9:00 - 9:15AM  
      Characteristics of Private Practice Dental Care Systems in
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, and Mississippi and
How They Affect Dental Care
Dr. Martha Wallace, DPBRN Executive Committee Member and
DPBRN Practitioner-investigator
Birmingham, Alabama		  
         
      9:15 - 9:45AM  
      Panel Discussion and Question / Answer Session About
Differences in Dental Care Systems in the DPBRN Regions
 Panelists and audience members will discuss and answer questions about how
characteristics of the different dental care systems in DPBRN affect DPBRN studies
and whether these characteristics might affect how findings are used to improve
clinical practice.		  
         
      9:45 - 10:00AM  
      Refreshment Break  
         
      A Focus on DPBRN Study 1  
         
      10:00 - 10:15AM  
      Overview of DPBRN Study 1: Assessment of Caries Diagnosis and
Caries Treatment Among DPBRN Practitioner-investigators
Dr. Paul Benjamin, DPBRN Executive Committee Member and
DPBRN Practitioner-investigator, Miami, FL

All practitioner-investigators attending this meeting should have received in advance of the meeting their own Study 1 results and a summary of results for the network at large. All practitioner-investigators should have reviewed these in advance of the meeting and come prepared to discuss them.

  
         
      Breakout Sessions with Facilitators  
         
      10:15 - 12:00 Noon Venetian Ballroom
      Please discuss how Study 1 results might influence your clinical practice
and why there are regional differences		  
         
12:00 - 1:00PM   Buffet Luncheon Windsor C
         
1:00 - 2:45PM   A Focus on DPBRN Study 2 and Related Evidence Windsor DE
         
      1:00 - 1:30PM  
      Preliminary Results from DPBRN Study 2: Reasons for Placing Restorations on Previously Unrestored Permanent Tooth Surfaces  
      Dr. Craig Ajmo, DPBRN Practitioner-investigator
Dunedin, Florida		  
         
      Dr. Ajmo will also present these results at the annual meeting of the International Association for Dental Research held in Toronto, Canada, in July 2008.  
         
      1:30 - 2:00PM  
      Strength of the Current Evidence About Caries Prevention and Treatment  
      Dr. James Bader, DPBRN Consultant, will discuss how strong the current evidence in the literature is regarding caries diagnosis (dental explorer usage, DiagnoDent, air drying, magnification), prevention (fluoride usage), and treatment (when to intervene surgically on proximal lesions).  
         
      2:00 - 2:45PM  
      Panel Discussion and Question / Answer Session About Study 2 Results and Strength of the Current Evidence  
      Panelists and audience members discuss and answer questions about whether there is a lack of evidence in the literature and/or whether there is a gap in practitioners' awareness of that evidence and/or willingness to act on that evidence.  
         
2:45 - 3:00PM   Refreshment Break  
         
3:00 - 4:45PM   Breakout Sessions with Facilitators Venetian Ballroom
      In your breakout session groups, you will discuss Study 2 results and strength of evidence on preventive dentistry and restorative treatment  
         
4:45 - 5:30PM   Meeting of Breakout Session Facilitators to Prepare Reports for the Following Day Windsor DE
         
7:00 - 9:00PM   Dinner Windsor ABC
         

Saturday, May 17, 2008
         
7:00 - 5:30PM   Registration / Hospitality Desk Windsor Foyer
         
7:00 - 8:00AM   Continental Breakfast Venetian Ballroom
      (Breakout Session Facilitators meet over breakfast at one table with their group
of four facilitators to discuss their combined reports)		  
         
8:00 - 9:30AM   Breakout Session Facilitators Report on Their Sessions and Audience Discussion Windsor DE
      The Facilitators for the breakout sessions will present their findings. Each of the 16 breakout session groups has one Facilitator. One Facilitator will present on behalf of a group of four Facilitators, for a total of four presentations during this time slot. After these reports, there will be an audience discussion and question and answer session.  
         
9:30 - 12:00Noon   DPBRN Activities: A Look to the Future  
         
      9:30 - 10:00AM  
      Update on the Status of Ongoing and Planned Studies
Dr. Gregg Gilbert, DPBRN Network Chair
Several DPBRN studies have just started in your DPBRN region or will begin there soon. Hear about them here.		  
         
      10:00 - 10:15AM  
      Refreshment Break  
         
      10:15 - 10:45AM  
      Levels of Evidence and the Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT)
Dr. Dale Williams, Principal Investigator of the DPBRN Coordinating Center, and
Dr. Martha Wallace, DPBRN Executive Committee Member and DPBRN Practitioner-investigator, Birmingham, Alabama.

Dr. Williams is a biostatistician who has been involved with many RCTs. Dr. Wallace directed an RCT in the early part of her career when she was a faculty member at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, and will provide a practitioner-investigator's perspective on RCTs. They will discuss the fact that study design typically determines the scientific strength of a study, including one study design: the RCT. The NIDCR PBRN Monitoring Committee has requested that DPBRN begin doing RCTs.

  
         
      10:45 - 11:15AM  
      An RCT Example: The Envisioned "SEAL-DPBRN" Study  
      Dr. Vibeke Qvist, Principal Investigator of an RCT called "SEAL-DPBRN" that is being considered by the DPBRN Executive Committee. She will discuss this possible study and the realities of doing RCTs in busy clinical practices.  
         
      11:15 - 12:00 Noon  
      Panel Discussion and Question / Answer Session About Planned Studies and Randomized Clinical Trials  
      Panelists and audience members discuss and answer questions about ongoing, upcoming, and envisioned DPBRN studies, including the notion of doing RCTs in DPBRN practices.  
         
12:15 - 1:15PM   Buffet Luncheon Venetian Ballroom
         
1:15 - 2:00PM   Putting it all into Practice Windsor DE
         
      1:15 - 1:30PM  
      DPBRN Success Depends on Demonstrating That We Are Translating Research Into Daily Clinical Practice and Making a Difference
Dr. Dan Pihlstrom, DPBRN Executive Committee Member and DPBRN Practitioner-investigator, Permanente Dental Associates, Portland, Oregon.

Dr. Pihlstrom will discuss ideas about how DPBRN should demonstrate that all our efforts are actually making a difference in clinical practice and the population's oral health.

 
         
      1:30 - 1:45PM  
      Engaging Other Practitioners in Your Community: Local, State, Regional, National and International Presentations
Dr. Pat Foy, DPBRN Executive Committee Member and DPBRN Practitioner-investigator, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dr. Foy will discuss how DPBRN is making a concerted effort to disseminate its activities, putting practitioner-investigators at the forefront of many of these activities, and how this might help us change dentistry in the future.

  
         
      1:45 - 2:00PM  
      Panel Discussion and Question / Answer Session About Putting It Into Practice  
      Panelists and audience members discuss and answer questions about how best to put it all into practice.  
         
2:00 - 2:15PM   Meeting Wrap-up  
      Dr. Gregg Gilbert, DPBRN Network Chair  
      Closing comments: (1) Meeting Evaluation Forms that you need to complete and return before you leave; (2) ideas for future annual regional and network-wide meetings; (3) the process to use to get certain travel expenses reimbursed.