Featured Speaker: Susan Somerset, DMD, Pharm D, MS, University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine

Susan Somerset DMD, Pharm D, MS is an assistant professor at the CU School of Dental Medicine where she is the course director for Adults with Special Health Care Needs, co-director for Treatment of the Medically Complex Dental Patient, and co-director for the Senior & Special Care Dental Clinic. Susan graduated from Temple Dental School 2011 (magna cum laude) and completed a GPR at Christiana Care Medical Center in Wilmington, Delaware.  She obtained a master’s degree in biomedical sciences from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine where she worked with patients with multiple sclerosis on a grant from the Department of Defense. She also holds a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. She has extensive interdisciplinary experience in health care. She works with the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention. She has worked in multiple hospital critical care units in the Philadelphia and Baltimore regions and has worked in drug information and global safety for pharmaceutical industry. Her experience in dentistry includes working in private practice, FQHCs and hospital dentistry. She has been caring for patients with special healthcare needs and those who are medically complex for over 12 years and has experience treating patients from 2 years old to 86 years young in an operating room setting.   She is grateful to be able to be a part of the education of future dental professionals at the CU school of Dental Medicine. She lectures nationally on topics of pharmacology, sedation, anticoagulation, safe opioid prescribing, alternative to opioids and special care dentistry and has a consultant appointment with the US Navy Department of Periodontology.