Speaker: Katherine A. Panikian, JD, CPCU, ARM
Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Time: 5:00 pm Registration | 5:30 pm Dinner | 6:30 – 8:30 pm Lecture
CE: 2
Audience: Dentists
Event Overview
This course will teach, by examining actual dentist professional liability claims, how risk management is a vital tool in reducing your malpractice exposures. We will examine claims involving failure to meet the standard of care, failure to keep appropriate records, and failure to obtain informed consent. By learning risk management best practices, you are doing your best to reduce the risk of litigation and to establish a more defensible position should litigation occur.
Course Objectives
Learn what constitutes the standard of care and how to meet it in your dental practice
Develop a plan for responding to respond to negative outcomes such as a paresthesia injury, swallowing a foreign body, or a failed implant
Learn how good recordkeeping helps you provide appropriate care and helps you defend your care in the event of a claim
Learn what constitutes proper informed consent and informed refusal
Understand why thorough and timely documentation is so crucial to risk management
Develop methods for communicating effectively with patients, staff, and specialists
Understand how risk management principles can make patient care safer
Speaker Bio
Katherine A. Panikian, JD, CPCU, ARM. Ms. Panikian is the Risk Manager and Chief Risk Officer at Eastern Dentists Insurance Company (EDIC). She has been in the risk management and insurance field for over a decade. Prior to joining EDIC, Ms. Panikian was the Risk Manager for the Municipality of Anchorage and the Editor of The John Liner Letter, a prominent risk management publication. Ms. Panikian is a licensed attorney in Massachusetts and Maryland and has achieved the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) certification and Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation from The Institutes. She graduated from William and Mary School of Law in 2006.
Katherine A. Panikian, JD, CPCU, ARM has provided a disclosure of a financial and/or commercial support with the following companies: Eastern Dentists Insurance Company (EDIC).
For more information contact Christine Schmitt at MDS. (508) 449-6008 or [email protected]