American Dental Education Association

U.S.-based nonprofit organization The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is a non-profit organization that works to further the education of dental professionals and the advancement of academic dental programs in Canada and the United States. Founded in 1923 as the American Association of Dental Schools, ADEA is based in Washington, D.C. The ADEA membership includes: all 76 U.S. and Canadian dental schools, over 800 allied and advanced dental education programs sixty-six corporations working in oral health education. over 20,000 faculty, staff, deans, program directors and students Description History Nancy Goorey became the first female president of ADEA in 1977. In 2006, ADEA instituted open membership, which increased the number of ADEA member institutions . ADEA sections ADEA has 38 sections: academic affairs, anatomical sciences, behavioral science, biochemistry, nutrition, and microbiology, business and financial administration, cariology, clinic administration, community and preventative dentistry, comprehensive care and general dentistry, continuing education, dental anatomy and occlusion, dental assisting education, dental hygiene education, dental informatics, d