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As ADEA approached its 100th anniversary, we turned our attention to the next 100 years by launching the New Thinking for the New Century (NTNC) initiative in 2021.


The goal of this initiative was to identify solutions to some of the chronic and emerging challenges facing dental education, while supporting the development of the next generation of leaders for dental education.


The desired outcomes for this effort included:

  • Increase member engagement and build community by bringing ADEA members together to identify up to three critical issues facing dental education, make collective sense of them, and work together to solve these shared challenges.
  • Develop the next generation of leaders for dental education through tapping the creative minds of progressive and contemporary thinking dental educators who can set the future in motion.
  • Develop plans and recommendations to address the specific issues facing dental education identified in the process.


ADEA NTNC Subcommittee Reports

The NTNC Steering Committee engaged ADEA's membership to identify the critical challenges facing the future of dental education.

Based on the input from the ADEA membership, the NTNC Steering Committee identified these three domains for the Initiative to explore and address through Subcommittees:

☛ Faculty and staff recruitment,
☛ Leadership development and succession planning and
☛ Preparing students for the future of collaborative practice.


Through their work in this initiative, the Subcommittees developed problem statements that clearly defined the problems to be addressed in their domain and provided their recommended actional solutions to these problems in the subcommittee reports.


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ADEA NTNC Steering Committee (2021-23)


The ADEA NTNC Steering Committee is composed of the following members.
Dr. Nader Nadershahi  University of Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry (Chair)
Dr. Todd Ester  University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Dr. Andrea Esteves  University of British Columbia Faculty of Dentistry and President of Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry
Dr. Janet Guthmiller  University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry
Dr. Joyce Hudson   Ivy Tech Community College - Anderson Campus
Dr. Nadeem Karimbux  Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Afsheen Lakhani  Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Fotinos Panagakos  Pacific Northwest University School of Dental Medicine

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ADEA NTNC Subcommittees (2022-23)


The ADEA NTNC Faculty and Staff Recruitment Subcommittee was composed of the following members.
Prof. Lisa Bilich  Eastern Washington University
Dr. Paul Covello  Geisinger Medical Center
Mr. Jaerae Dell  University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Dr. Ethel Harris  Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry
Dr. Lorie Holt   University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Dentistry
Dr. Shirley Kang  Western University of Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine
Mr. Dustin Mueller  Medical University of South Carolina James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine
Ms. Karen Raposa  Hu-Friedy Group
Dr. Jillian Wallen  Creighton University School of Dentistry
Co-chairs of Subcommittee:   Dr. Todd Ester and Dr. Joyce Hudson


The ADEA NTNC Leadership Development and Succession Planning Subcommittee was composed of the following members.

Dr. Mert Aksu  University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry
Mr. Michael Chen  Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Ms. Suasan Ferrante  A-dec
Dr. Eileen Hoskin  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Kathy Marshall  Howard University College of Dentistry
Dr. Janet Sell  Ozarks Technical Community College
Dr. Dharini van der Hoeven  University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston
Ms. Jia Xin Li  McGill University Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences
Dr. Shayla Yoachim  University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry
Co-chairs of Subcommittee:   Dr. Janet Guthmiller, Dr. Afsheen Lakhani and Dr. Fotinos Panagakos


The ADEA NTNC Preparing Students for the Future of Collaborative Practice Subcommittee was composed of the following members.

Prof. Brenda Armstrong  Dixie State University
Dr. Yaara Berdan  Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC
Dr. Russ Bergman  Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Dr. Carter Bruett  University of Utah School of Dentistry
Dr. Keith Da Silva  University of Saskatchewan College of Dentistry
Ms. Meghna Dara  University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston
Dr. Rhonda Everett  Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
Dr. Alexander Lee  Western University of Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine
Dr. Frank Licari  Roseman Univ of Health Sciences CODM
Ms. Lauren Melson  Heartland Dental
Co-chairs of Subcommittee:   Dr. Andrea Esteves and Dr. Nadeem Karimbux