Golden Triad 2023

Check-in opens at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast

7:30 - 8:30 am - Check-in/Breakfast/Welcome

8:30 - 10 am - Jim Lewis Lecture

10:00 - 10:15 am - Break

10:15 - 12 pm - Jim Lewis Lecture

12:00 - 1 pm - Lunch

1:00 - 2:45 pm - Jim Lewis Lecture

2:45 - 3:00 pm - Break

3:00-4:00 pm -Jim Lewis Lecture

Total CE hours offered: 6.0 hours

*Continuing education credits issued for participation in the CE activity may not apply toward license renewal in all states. It is the responsibility of each participant to verify the requirements of his/her state licensing board(s).

The Guilford County Dental Society is an North Carolina Dental Board Recognized Continuing Education Provider.

This continuing education activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the ADA Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP) through efforts by the Guilford County Dental Society (Golden Triad Seminar).

The Guilford County Dental Society is excited to offer you a unique educational opportunity with Dr, James (Jim) M. Lewis. Dr. Lewis earned his dental degree from the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Dentistry in 1985. He maintained a general dentistry practice in Madison, Alabama from 1986 – 2017; and currently is a forensic dental educator and consultant.

Dr. Lewis completed a Fellowship in Forensic Odontology from the Center for Education and Research in Forensics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2001.

As a forensic dentist, he assisted in victim identification in New York following the World Trade Center attack; and since 2003, has served as a consultant to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences (ADFS) and volunteer to the Alabama Office of Emergency Preparedness in relation to its mass disaster response group. In 2017, he became the dental consultant to the Knox County Regional Forensic Center in Tennessee and an Assistant Professor and Director of Forensic Dentistry in the Department of General Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, Tennessee where he oversees a Fellowship in Forensic Dentistry and a Master of Science in Forensic Dentistry.

Dr. Lewis is a Fellow of the Odontology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS); and, a Member of the American Society of Forensic Odontology (ASFO) where he has served on its Board of Governors and as President of the organization in 2012. Dr. Lewis became board certified by the American Board of Forensic Odontology (ABFO) in 2008. As a Diplomate of the ABFO, he has served as member and Chair of the Dental Age Assessment Committee, the Certification and Examination Committee, the Bitemark Evidence and Patterned Injury Committee, and ABFO President in 2020. He recently completed a six-year appointed to the Odontology Subcommittee, Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Dr. Lewis has authored several forensic peer reviewed articles and textbook chapters; and, co-edited the textbook, Forensic Dentistry: Principles and Practice.

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