As health care professionals, how do we balance career objectives for appropriate altruism and for essential, enlightened self-interest?  Career and personal objectives should be the first we consider but are often the last.  These classifications of objectives should not take opposing positions as concerns our career development.

• Using a matrix, participants will identify their own career and personal objectives to be used in guiding their career path.
• Participants will discuss in open forum, their objectives, and the matching of the objectives with Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
• Participants will create, using their own matrix, a basis for career-path decision-making.

Jeffery L. Hicks, DDS 

Biography: Dr. Hicks has served in a variety of roles for the University of Texas Health San Antonio School of Dentistry. He has been: Interim Associate Dean for Advanced Education, predoctoral laboratory and clinical faculty, postdoctoral didactic and clinical faculty, and director of both the Advanced Education Program in General Dentistry and the Advanced Education in General Practice Residency programs. He has also served as Chair of the Department of Hospital Dentistry at the UT Health University Hospital. As director of the Postdoctoral General Dentistry Division and of both the Advanced General Dentistry clinic at the Dental School and of the Hospital Dentistry Clinic at University Hospital, he created new clinical care opportunities, managed clinics, budgets and faculty and associated personnel. Dr. Hicks has served as Chair of the Commission on Dental Accreditation, and is currently, or has been, appointed to the U.S. HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration's Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry, Member at Large of the American Dental Education Association's Council of Sections, ADEA's Policy and Research Advisory and Legislative Advisory committees, the American Dental Association's Council on Scientific Affairs, President of the Special Care Dentistry Association, and the Executive Board of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Hicks lately has concentrated on obtaining federal training grants for his Institution. To date, he has secured over $38 million in state and federal funding.

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