Spot It, Solve It: Practical Management of Oral Lesions

Dr. Seena Patel is an orofacial pain and oral medicine dentist in Phoenix, AZ. She loves dentistry and began her journey at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health. There, she found her passion for public health, research, and oral diseases, and then completed a 2-year residency in orofacial pain and oral medicine at the University of Southern California. She is a Diplomate of both the American Board of Orofacial Pain and the American Board of Oral Medicine. She maintains her practice at Southwest Orofacial Group in Phoenix, AZ. She also serves as the Director of Oral Medicine and is a Professor at the Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health. She has also volunteered on the National Board of Dental Education Test Construction Committee, served on the ADA Commission on Continuing Education Provider Recognition, is the chair on the AzDA Council on Education, and is a peer reviewer for several dental journals. She believes that knowledge should be shared and loves speaking at medical and dental conferences.

Ann Eshenaur Spolarich is an internationally recognized author and speaker on pharmacology and the care of medically complex patients. She has presented more than 1,100 invited lectures and has over 125 professional publications. She is Professor, Course Director of Pharmacology, and Associate Dean for Research at the Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health (ASDOH), A.T. Still University, where she also teaches part-time in the Special Care Clinic. Ann is also a faculty member in the NYU Langone AEGD residency program at ASDOH. She serves as director of the Still Research Institute Center for Oral Health Research. Ann was awarded fellowship status in special care dental hygiene in 2016 and received the Education award in 2021, both by the Special Care Dentistry Association. She is president of the Arizona Section of the AADOCR, and past president and current councilor of the IADR Oral Health Research Group. She received the IADR Oral Health Group Research Award in 2021. Her research interests include identifying best practices for caring for individuals with disabilities and medical complexities, including those with cancer, biomarkers for oral cancer detection, and clinical testing of drugs and devices used in dentistry.