OAE CALIBRATION

O. Ross Beirne, DMD, PhD

Dr. O. Ross Beirne is currently Professor Emeritus of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the

University of Washington. He served as Chair of the Department from 1999 to 2010. He is a

Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the National Dental Board

of Anesthesiology and a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the

American Dental Society of Anesthesiology, and the American Association for Dental Research. He

is a founding member of the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology. Honors include election to

Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley; Omicron Kappa Upsilon, Harvard School of

Dental Medicine; and the American College of Dentists. He is the recipient of the 2008

AAOMS/ADEA Gies Award for distinguished achievements in oral surgery, the 2009 Otago

Community Trust Visiting Professorship, University of Otago, New Zealand, the 2013 University of

Washington Bruce Rothwell Lifetime Teaching Award, the 2014 American Dental Society of

Anesthesiology’s Heidbrink Award, the 2016 AAOMS Daniel Laskin Outstanding Predoctoral

Educator Award and the Sir Thomas K. Sidey Visiting Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand.

He is past chair of the Osseointegration Foundation-Academy of Osseointegration’s Committee on

Research and the OMS Foundation Committee on Research. Dr. Beirne is an Associate Editor for the

Journal of the American Dental Association and a frequent reviewer for the Journal of Oral and

Maxillofacial Surgery and the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He also

devotes considerable time to teaching at the predoctoral, resident, and postdoctoral levels.

Lecture Objectives:

The Washington State Dental Quality Assurance Committee (DQAC) has made significant changes

in the state’s Dental General Anesthesia Permit regulations including mandating an On-Site

Anesthesia Evaluation every 5 years. The Commission has approved the Washington State Society

of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons as one of the organizations that can administer the On-Site

Inspection. It is essential that all WSSOMS office evaluations meet the same standard.

This course will do the following:

1. Review the standards for the AAOMS Office Anesthesia Evaluation.

2. Calibrate the “WSSOMS Office Inspectors” to assure all office inspections meet AAOMS and

DQAC equipment, records, emergence protocols, regular staff practice drills of emergency protocols,

availability of emergency medications, monitoring, and patient discharge requirements.

3. Prepare the WSSOMS membership for their upcoming office inspection.

4. Review the additional state requirements for General Anesthesia Permit holders