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2025 Arkansas Oral Health Summit: Oral Health & Whole Body Health
Program Information
The 2025 Arkansas Oral Health Summit offers a chance for health care professionals to reframe the mouth as part of the body as a whole. This one-day summit will provide education on a variety of topics that center around the oral cavity and its role in whole body health, including measles, syphilis, chronic disease, appropriate antibiotic prescribing and stewardship, and state oral health indicators. Attendees will learn from subject matter experts ways to ensure oral health is incorporated into patient care for improved detection, treatment, and management of disease.
For a full agenda: Oral Health Summit 2025
This activity meets on October 24, 2025.
Target Audience
This activity is appropriate for the following audiences:
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physicians
- Physician Associates/Assistants
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Dentists
- Pharmacists
- Registered Dietitians
- Other members of the care team
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to do the following:
- Identify the interconnection of oral health and systemic health for improved patient care and outcomes.
How to Register
- Create an account on the Weitzman Education Platform if you do not have one already. Reference How do I create an account? if needed.
- Select the Register button above to register for all conference sessions, regardless of your attendance.
- Then, in the table above, select the links for each session you attended.
- Within each activity, select the Continue tab above to complete the session evaluation. You will need to complete a session evaluation for each session you would like to claim credit for.
- After completing session evaluations and claiming credit for each session you attended, you can download an overall conference certificate appropriate to your credentials.
AMA Designation Statement
Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. designates this Live activity for a maximum of 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Weitzman Institute Disclosure Statement
It is the policy of the Weitzman Institute to ensure that Continuing Education (CE) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners' and the public, the Weitzman Institute requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.
Faculty participating in a Weitzman Institute-sponsored activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationship(s) with ineligible companies.
Dr. Karen Ashley is the Director of Education for the Weitzman Institute. She oversees all educational programming accredited by the Moses/Weitzman Health System.
Planners & Presenters
- Rachel Sizemore, DDS, MHSA; Director, Arkansas Department of Health Office of Oral Health
- Kerry Krell, MPH, MCHES; Section Chief, Arkansas Department of Health Office of Oral Health
- Caleb Stanton, Executive Director; Arkansas Oral Health Coalition
- Lori Arnette, BSN, RN; ADH Community Health Nurse Specialist
- Donna Bailey, RDH; Arkansas Dental Hygienists Association Volunteer Coordinator
- Amber King, Coordinator of Health Programs, Special Olympics Arkansas
- Jacqueline McEuen, MSN, BS, BSN, RN; Little Rock School District, Director of Health Services
- Mallory Jayroe, M.S., CHES, DrPH(c); Section Chief, Arkansas Department of Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- Mark Anderson, DDS; Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Lyon College School of Dental Medicine
- Cassandra Lautredou, MD, MPH; Medical Director, Arkansas Department of Health Outbreak Prevention and Response
- Heather Mercer, Executive Director; Arkansas Immunization Action Coalition
- Bridget Fitzhugh, MSDH, RDH, FADHA; Chair & Program Director, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Health Professions: Department of Dental Hygiene
- Sarah Fitzhugh, PharmD, MPH; Antibiotic Stewardship Pharmacist, Arkansas Department of Health
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Arkansas Oral Health Coalition and Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc./Weitzman Institute. Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credential Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
By completing this activity, you provide Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. the permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board(s).
Please note that continuing education credit requirements differ by state, jurisdiction, and licensing agency. It is your responsibility to confirm if your licensing/credentialing agency will accept the credits offered by this activity.
Available Credit
- 5.50 AAPA Category I CMEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Academy of PAs (AAPA) credit to physician assistants at its activities. Participants should only claim commensurate credit with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 5.50 ACE/ASWBThrough Joint Accreditation Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) credit to social workers at its activities.
- 5.50 ACPEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) credit to pharmacists at its activities.
- 5.50 ADA CERPThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
- 5.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
- 5.50 ANCCThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) nursing credit to nurses at its activities.
- 5.50 APAThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Psychological Association (APA) credit to psychologists at its activities.
- 5.50 CDRThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide CDR credits to registered dieticians at its activities.
- 5.50 Participation Hour(s)You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
How to Register
- Create an account on the Weitzman Education Platform if you do not have one already. Reference How do I create an account? if needed.
- Select the Register button above to register for all conference sessions, regardless of your attendance.
- Then, in the table above, select the links for each breakout round you attended.
- Within each activity, select the Continue tab above to complete the session evaluation. You will need to complete a session evaluation for each session you would like to claim credit for.
- After completing session evaluations and claiming credit for each session you attended, you can download an overall conference certificate appropriate to your credentials.
For a visual guide: How do I register, complete the session evaluations, and claim credits for a conference?
You must claim credit and download your certificate by the activity expiration date. For compliance reasons, the Weitzman Institute cannot modify this deadline. If you need any technical support, submit a ticket to our Support Center.