The NMDAF and the NMDA are committed to inspiring future dentists by providing leadership, mentoring and networking opportunities, and events to pre-dental students, dental students, residence dentists and new dentists.
Throughout the year this program gives opportunities for training, mentorships, and coordination of clinic observations. Once a year a celebration of dentistry dinner is thrown where students and mentors can come together to celebrate the year and be inspired.
Upcoming events.
Mentoring/Clinic Observations
For the month of March and April the NMDA and NMDAF will be focusing on providing students, residents and new dentists with an opportunity for mentorship and/or clinic observation with dentists.
2021 Program Outline
Mentoring and Volunteering
February 25, 6:00pm, virtual platform
- Michael Sparks, Dr. Michael Haight and Dr. Michael Law
- Mentoring: What It Means to Me
- Ways to Volunteer
- Post-meeting - sign-up for mentoring/shadowing opportunities
What Practice Model is Best for Me?
March 11, 6:00pm, virtual platform
- Kelley Hollingsworth-Ryals
- DSO – Pros and Cons
- Elizabeth Rivers
- Public Health – Pros and Cons
- Omar Pereyra
- Private Practice – Pros and Cons
- Melanie Velasquez, Bank of the West
- How to finance a dental practice
Mentoring/Clinic Observation
April/May
- Match/coordination statewide
Online Auction Fundraising Event
June
Specialists in Dentistry
August 19, 6:00pm, virtual platform
- Endodontist – Dr. David Hadley
- Orthodontist – Dr. Kari Harnick
- Pediatric Dentist – Dr. David Martinez
Mentoring/Clinical Observation
August/September
- Match/coordination statewide
Online Spaghetti Social
September 16, 6:00pm, virtual platform
- Spaghetti-making kits shipped to participants
- Panel: New Dentist Committee members
- Lead conversation about mentoring/networking, Q&A
Educational Workshop
October 21, 6:00 pm, virtual platform
- NDX Ideal Dental Laboratory - Albuquerque
Emerging Leaders Dinner - NMDAF
November 12, 5:30pm, in-person, Sandia Golf Club – Celebration of Dentistry
Service in Dentistry
Leadership Training
December, virtual platform
NMDA, NMDAF
Program Sponsors
Thank you to our prime sponsor!
New Mexico Foundation for Dental Health, Education & Research (dba. NM Dental Association Foundation)
PO Box 16854
Albuquerque, NM 87191
Office: (505) 298-7206
Fax: (505) 554-3836
All Content Copyright © 2021, New Mexico Foundation for Dental Health Research and Education, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.
All donations are tax-deductible.
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The NMDAF is the charitable arm of the NMDA
Emerging Leaders Zoom Webinar
The NMDAF and the NMDA are joining together to provide leadership programming in the New Mexico dental community.
For our second event, we will be hosting a virtual event called “What Practice Model is Best for Me?” Dr. Hollingsworth-Ryals, Dr. Rivers, Dr. Pereyra, and Melanie Velasquez, Vice President Sr. Lead Relationship Manager for Bank of the West, will explore some different practice models: private practice, public health, and DSO.