Seminars & eLearning

This course focuses upon essential risk management strategies, empowering dentists with the skills and resources to address key factors that optimize patient outcomes and mitigate potential liabilities. Through evaluation of actual TDIC cases, Shaping a Safe Future: Optimizing Care with Patient Education and Team Training explores the importance of establishing protocols to enhance patient safety. It also provides best practices for obtaining current health histories, insights on essential staff roles and training, and steps for responding to office emergencies.  

Learning Objectives: 

• Understand the significance of establishing and adhering to protocols and the importance of staff training in medical emergencies.
• Recognize your role in providing patient education to achieve optimal levels of care and patient compliance.
• Incorporate controls and procedures to reduce the potential for errors in documentation and increase patient safety.

Speakers: 

Arthur Curley, Esq.

Mr. Curley is a senior trial attorney in California.  After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with honors in 1970, he obtained his J.D. in 1974 from the UC College of Law, San Francisco.  He is currently an Assistant Professor of Dental Jurisprudence at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco and an Adjunct Faculty Professor at the University of California, San Francisco.  As a trial attorney, he has been defending doctors for over 49 years and has presented risk management courses throughout the United States and Canada. He is an associate of the American Board of Trial Advocates.  Mr. Curley has published several articles on risk management and authored chapters in numerous textbooks on oral surgery, endodontics and periodontics.

Cynthia K. Brattesani, DDS

Dr. Brattesani earned her degree in 1989 from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry.  She has served as president of the San Francisco Dental Society, as a council chair of the ADA and as a member of several committees, task forces and delegations.  In 1994, she served as a Woman's Spokesperson for the ADA. In 2015, she was honored with the prestigious UCSF Alumni 150th Anniversary Award. This recognition was granted to only 150 alumni throughout the healthcare campus at UCSF.  During this COVID pandemic, CDA media selected Dr. Brattesani to represent dentistry on TV and radio and was quoted in several newspaper articles. She has also been inducted in the Class of 2022 Top 100 World Doctor-to-Doctor—a preeminent peer to peer global organization.

At an early stage of her career, she became a fellow of the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists and the Pierre Fauchard Academy.  Dr. Brattesani lectures internationally on technology in the dental office focusing on improving the patient positive experience. She also lectures to dental students at the UCSF and UOP Schools of Dentistry on the challenges and benefits of the dental profession.  She maintains a busy general private practice in San Francisco.