WCM-Q Periodontics Training Event on October 25 & 26

Press release

Published October 16th, 2019 - 10:39 GMT

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

Highlights

Dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants are invited to attend a two-day periodontics training course at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) on October 25 and 26, 2019.

The course, which runs from 12.50pm to 6pm on the Friday and 9am till 5pm on the Saturday, will explain how to implement the new worldwide periodontal and implant classification system, how to assess and screen patients with periodontal disease, and how to co-ordinate and execute a successful treatment plan. The event, which features didactic lectures and practical lab sessions, will also discuss issues related to diabetic patients with periodontal disease.

The main speaker at the event, which is being coordinated by WCM-Q’s Division of Continuing Professional Development, is Specialist Periodontist Hatem Algraffee.

For more information and to register for the Periodontics in Practice event visit www.qatar-weill.cornell.edu/cpd

Background Information

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar is a partnership between Cornell University and Qatar Foundation. It offers a comprehensive six-year medical program leading to the Cornell University M.D. degree with teaching by Cornell and Weill Cornell faculty and by physicians at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Aspetar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, the Primary Health Care Corporation, the Feto Maternal Center, and Sidra Medicine, who hold Weill Cornell appointments. Through its biomedical research program, WCM-Q is building a sustainable research community in Qatar while advancing basic science and clinical research. Through its medical college, WCM-Q seeks to provide the finest education possible for medical students, to improve health care both now and for future generations, and to provide high quality health care to the Qatari population.