Morris Minton Lectureship set for Oct. 8

Texas A&M School of Dentistry offers a robust series of continuing education programs throughout the year with the annual Morris Minton Lectureship slated for October.

This year’s event is 3 to 5 p.m. Oct. 8 in room 605 of the Administration and Education Building, and the speaker is Dr. Kathleen Nichols.

Nichols, who serves as part-time clinical faculty at the University of Texas School of Dentistry – Houston in the Department of General Practice and Dental Public Health and as clinical assistant professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, will give a presentation titled “Navigating the Inherent Ethical Minefield Associated with Dentists’ Use of Social Media.”

Nichols practiced dentistry for 37 years in Lubbock and has become a leading voice on the topic of ethics in dentistry. She earned her fellowship in the Academy of General Dentistry and serves on the Texas Dental Association Council on Ethics and Judicial Affairs, as well as the American Dental Association Council of Ethics, Bylaws and Judicial Affairs where she is chair of the subcommittee on Ethics and Continuing Education. 

Nichols also received fellowships in the prestigious American College of Dentists, International College of Dentists and the Pierre Fauchard Academy.

She has presented continuing education classes at ADA SmileCon in 2022 and 2023 and is scheduled to present at SmileCon 2024. Nichols presented the program, “Blurring the Lines: The Social Media Induced Complexity of the 21st Century Dentist-Patient Relationship” to the Louisville School of Dentistry SPEA Chapter, as well as the Michigan Dental Association Women in Dentistry meeting and the South Plains District Dental Society.  Nichols was also interviewed for the ADA Dental Dilemmas Podcast.

She has been published in The Journal of the American Dental Association and Journal of the American College of Dentists.

Register online for the Morris Minton Lectureship. Cost is $25 for dentists and $15 for dental hygienists. Participants will receive two hours in continuing education credits. For more information, email Rosa Vargas, rosa.vargas@tamu.edu.