Featured Speaker: Robert Rada, DDS, MBA

This webinar will illustrate a variety of short cases describing some difficult situations and ending with positive experiences in caring for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We will discuss liability issues due to adverse outcomes and the impact of inclusive bias that still remains. The second half will showcase community organization engagement and encouraging dental students to care for this population through community outreach activities.

Dr. Rada is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at the University of Illinois College of Dentistry. He also maintains a private practice in LaGrange Illinois focusing on patients with special needs.  Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages are cared for in his practice. Advanced behavior management, anesthesia care and hospital dentistry are all part of his practice. Dr. Rada has facilitated many live patient courses to assist dentists and dental students in their learning to care for dental patients with special needs. He teaches in the Group Practice Clinics and currently has dental students rotate through his private practice and directs the Special Care Dentistry Track at UIC.