United States Public Health Service Dental Category USPHS SCIENTIFIC AND TRAINING SYMPOSIUM

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United States Public Health Service Dental
CategoryUSPHS SCIENTIFIC AND TRAINING
SYMPOSIUM

• RADM Chris Halliday
• Chief Dental Officer
• U.S. Public Health Service

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Welcome to Category Day!

• A time to make new friendships and re-establish
  old friendships
• Take this opportunity to meet everyone
• Consider establishing collaborative and
  partnerships
• Share information about your programs
• Take the opportunity to network not only with
  your fellow Commissioned Officers, but just as
  importantly, our guests

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USPHS Dentists

• Today youll have the opportunity to meet
• Colleagues from USPHS clinical, applied public
  health and research programs
• Commissioned Corps leadership
• Representatives from a school of public health
  and from dental schools
• Representatives from organized dentistry State
  and National programs

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USPHS Dentists

• Use this opportunity to ask questions, share
  information and learn
• Changes to dentistry both within the
  Commissioned Corps and to the dental profession
  in general
• Pay and policy issues
• Promotion related issues
• Deployments past, present and future
• Billet restructuring
• COER redesign
• What are the pressing issues for the dental
  category?

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USPHS Dentists

• Thank you for attending this meeting
• To our guests
• To my fellow Commissioned Corps Officers
• Take the knowledge from this meeting to better
  yourselves and to strengthen the Dental Category
• Lets make the most of the time that we have
  together this week!

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THANK YOU!