Student Research Day

Career Resiliency--How to grow when things don’t go as you planned

The talk will cover the importance of career resiliency in dentistry. The real education in dentistry happens after graduation when you get out into the “real world” and continue to grow and develop your skills. Opportunities come along that you may never have envisioned and being receptive to them puts you in control of how you leverage your dental education and continue to learn. I will provide examples from my professional career and personal journey from student to academics to dental industry, building in time for patient care along the way. Specifically, I’ll share case studies where I learned about what it means to be a dual career couple, the critical role of “real science” in getting products to the market and defending advertising claims in a competitive marketplace and the importance of influencing and collaborating across different stakeholder groups and cultures (with examples of the ADA Seal and Asia Chief Dental Officers).